- The Adventures Of SPIN AND MARTY -
And The Triple-R Ranch
- Where Or Where Was The Triple-R Located? -
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- The Adventures Of SPIN AND MARTY - And The Triple-R Ranch - Where Or Where Was The Triple-R Located? - |
SITE MAP The Four Ranches Golden Oak Ranch [2] [3] [4] [5] Triple-R Set Locations Walker Ranch [2] Iverson Movie Ranch [2] [3] Unknown Ranch The Fifth Ranch where and how the story began. Read The Scripts Episode 13 Episode 19 Weather On The Set First Year MMC Series |
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Finding the Triple-R ranch was a thirty year quest. When I started I thought it would require, at most, a few telephone calls to the Disney archives and then wrapped up "neat and pretty" as a mouse use to say. Just goes to show, "the best laid schemes of mice and men..." So precisely where is, or was, the Disney Triple-R Ranch? Out west of course but weren't all the western flicks made in Arizona or Nevada or someplace like that? |
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Life After The 3R Links Early Filmology David Stollery Tim Considine B.G. Norman George Ferrante |
Those of us who watched the series every weekday found tiny clues such as vehicle license plates. Another clue comes from the post card Freddie reads at the campfire in episode 7. Most viewers are so busy reading what Freddie's mother wrote they don't notice the street address. I'll save you the trouble of doing a web search, there's no such town as Placerita, California. Just a prop name, not a real place. Or was it? |
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Walt Disney enjoyed placing hidden complements to his staff in his creations, all of which are hidden in plain sight. Take for example the opening credits from FOLLOW ME BOYS (Disney,1966). Very thoughtful of Walt to credit the entire town of Hickory, population 4,951. The only problem is, like Placerita there was no town of Hickory. The town scenes were all filmed on a back lot set constructed at the Burbank studios for the film. So who were the 4,951 folks comprising the population of Hickory? Perhaps the total number of employees at the Disney Studios in 1966? And the connection to Placerita on the post card? Turns out the Triple-R set was located in Placerita Canyon. |
Those of us who saw, and remembered, the short appetite wetting plug for the upcoming Spin and Marty series surely would have known where the Triple-R ranch was. But it was buried deep in the middle of several other Newsreel items and only aired once. |
| In the end there really was only one set for the Triple-R ranch itself with the barns, bunkhouse, chow hall, and other buildings so familiar to Spin and Marty fans. However, as large as the 3-R set may have been it wasn't big enough. Three other locations were required to complete filming of the series. Click on the images below for details panoramic views and details of each ranch. |
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