![]() ![]() Pictured below is that same 1980 aerial view with an overlay of the current street layout on top of it. Universal Park is denoted with a pink arrow. A 1980 view of the site from Historic Aerials is pictured below. By February of 1996, all of the units in the building had been vacated and Universal Park was demolished shortly thereafter. The guy seems to have had a new girlfriend in every single show!Ī much clearer view of the Universal Park signage was visible in “Diamonds Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend.”Īccording to a 1996 Daily News article, when the final location was chosen for the new Universal City Red Line Station, Universal Park homeowners “sought condemnation” for the building in order to “avoid living” directly across from an MTA parking lot. In the episode, the site was again home to another of Michael’s flames. Thanks to Knight Rider Online, I learned that the Season 2 episode titled “Diamonds Aren’t a Girl’s Best Friend” was also filmed at the Universal Park building. From there, it was not hard to discern that the Charles in Charge “house” was formerly located at 10711 Bluffside Drive in Studio City.Ī view of the NBCUniversal building, the Sheraton Universal and the Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City were also visible in the background of “KITTnap.”Ī matching view taken from the Universal City Red Line Station parking lot is pictured below. In the episode, a street sign reading “10700 Bluffside Drive” was visible.Īs was a very blurry image of the building’s name, Universal Park. In “KITTnap”, the Charles in Charge “house” was the apartment building where Karen Forester (Janine Turner), Michael Knight’s (David Hasselhoff) latest flame, lived. Regardless, I cannot tell you how heartbroken I was to learn that the complex had been demolished, especially after wondering about its location for so long. I find it very odd that producers chose to use the location to represent what was supposed to be the Pembroke and Powell’s large, upscale residence. In my defense, though, the images of the building were shown very, very briefly each week and because Charles in Charge aired in the pre-DVR days, it was tough to do much pausing. As you can see, the structure is very obviously an apartment/condominium building. ![]() And now that I really look at them, I am surprised it never occurred to me that the place was not a house. ![]() The establishing shots pictured below were used in the beginning of the opening credits throughout the series’ five-year run. On Charles in Charge, the “home” where college student Charles (Scott Baio) worked as a live-in babysitter for first the Pembroke family and then the Powell family was said to be located at 10 Barrington Court in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Come to find out, though, the location was not actually a home at all, but a condominium complex. The thread also mentioned that the house had been used in the Season 4 episode of Knight Rider titled “KITTnap.” It was thanks to that episode that I found the home’s exact former address. I quickly came across an IMDB thread in which it was said that the Pembroke/Powell residence was formerly located on an unnamed side street across from Universal Studios, but was demolished years ago to make way for the parking lot of the Universal City Red Line Station. I had actually always wondered about the location, but had yet to do any research on it, so I sat right down to start. ![]() In November, a fellow stalker named Fatri posted a comment on my site asking if I had any information on the Pembroke/Powell house from the 1980’s television series Charles in Charge. ![]()
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