The Twilight Zone - You Drive (1964) - Filming Locations
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Historical Production & Location Reference
| Episode Title: | You Drive (1964) |
| TV Series: | The Twilight Zone (Season 5) |
| Studio Origin: | Cayuga Productions / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Director: | John Brahm |
- Carlson Park Neighborhood: The residential blocks directly adjacent to the historic MGM backlots were heavily utilized for Oliver Pope’s paranoid neighborhood walks.
- Culver City Police Station (Defunct): Featured in the episode's haunting climax as the final destination of the conscience-stricken 1956 Ford Fairlane.
Production & Preservation Note: Filmed in the winter of 1963, this classic episode stands as an exceptional mid-century time capsule of the Carlson Park residential tract. By venturing right outside the MGM studio gates, director John Brahm captured an authentic slice of 1960s suburban Americana. While the historic Culver City police station on Culver Blvd has since been lost to modern civic redevelopment, the surrounding neighborhood residential architecture remains beautifully intact and recognizable, with mature, towering street trees providing the primary visual bridge between the vintage black-and-white framing and today's streetscape.
The Plot
A man driving his car hits and kills a boy on a bike. The man panics and drives away, but his car has a conscience and ends up taking him to the police station!
The Filming Locations
Where was the classic episode You Drive of the TV series The Twilight Zone filmed?
This episode of The Twilight Zone filmed in the neighborhood around Carlson Park in Culver City, California.
The Twilight Zone production crew ventured out into the residential neighborhood adjacent to MGM Studios (which is where the series was filmed). Most of the action takes place here and around the neighborhood's Carlson Park.
The Culver City police station in the old City Hall building on the corner of Culver Blvd and Duquesne Avenue makes an appearance at the end of the episode.
In this Quick Preview filming locations then and now video, you'll see that aside from there being larger trees lining the streets, the houses seen in the episode remain today and are basically unchanged since the 1960s.
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