Work continues on “The Marble Palace”, and while there’s nothing massively substantive to post yet, I wanted to at least provide a little tidbit, updating Fire Station №23’s filmography, which was recently compiled in this topic.
*= Fire Station №23 has a “cameo appearance” in this production.
** = Fire Station №23 has a major role in this production.
** = Interior Only.
*** = Interior & Exterior.
•The Los Angeles Fire Department (1912) (Believed to be permanently lost)
•Foot Patrol (1947-1950) (Exact date of recording/broadcast unknown)**
•Little Shop of Horrors (1960)**
•Firehouse (1973)****
•The Blue Knight (1973)***
•Adam-12: “Suspect Number One” (1974)**
•Special Delivery (1976)**
•The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: “The Lady on Thursday at Ten”*
•White Mama (1980)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Presidential Fever” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Film at Eleven” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Up in Arms” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Your Kind, My Kind, Humankind” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Rites of Spring - Part 1” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Rites of Spring - Part 2” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Jungle Madness - Part 1” (1981)**
•True Confessions (1981)**
•Darkroom: “Uncle George” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Chipped Beef” (1981)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Zen and the Art of Law Enforcement” (1982)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Young, The Beautiful and the Deranged” (1982)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Shooter” (1982)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Invasion of the Third World Body Snatchers” (1982)**
•Hammett (1982)*****
•Honeyboy (1982)***
•Hill Street Blues: “Heat Rash” (1982)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Moon Over Uranus” (1983)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Life in the Minors” (1983)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Spotlight on Rico” (1983)**
•Ghostbusters (1984)****
•“Ghostbusters” - Ray Parker Jr. (1984)*** (Fire Station №23 footage is from the movie)
•Hill Street Blues: “The Long Law of the Arm” (1984)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Russians Are Coming” (1984)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Parting is Such Sweep Sorrow” (1984)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Fowl Play” (1984)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Bangladesh Slowly” (1984)**
•T. J. Hooker: “A Kind of Rage” (1984)**
•Simon & Simon: “Almost Foolproof” (1985)**
•Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)***
•Knight Rider (1985) (Promotional video only)*****
•Hill Street Blues: “Seoul on Ice” (1985)**
•Hill Street Blues: “You’re in Alice’s” (1985)**
•The A-Team: “The Road to Hope” (1985)*****
•Hill Street Blues: “Oh, You Kid” (1985)**
•Hill Street Blues: “An Oy for an Oy” (1985)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Virgin and the Turkey” (1985)***
•Hill Street Blues: “Two Easy Pieces” (1986)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Say it as It Plays” (1986)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Scales of Justice” (1986)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Larry of Arabia” (1986)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Jagga the Hunk” (1986)**
•Police Academy III: Back In Training (1986)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Best Defense” (1986)**
•Big Trouble in Little China (1986)****
•Hill Street Blues: “Der Roachenkavalier” (1987)**
•Hill Street Blues: “Days of Swine and Roses” (1987)**
•“Where The Streets Have No Name” - U2 (1987) (Extended music video version)**
•Hill Street Blues: “The Runner Falls on His Kisser” (1987)**
•Hill Street Blues: “A Pound of Flesh” (1987)**
•Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)**
•The Wild Pair (1987)*****
•The Night Before (1988)**
•Ghostbusters II (1989)****
•“Call it Love”: - Poco (1989)****
•Flatliners (1990)****
•Rainbow Drive (1990)*****
•A Quiet Little Neighborhood, a Perfect Little Murder (1990)*****
•Predator 2 (1990)**
•Knight Rider 2000 (1991) (Reuse of footage from 1985 promo)***
•The Killing Mind (1991)*****
•Life Stinks (1991)***
•V.I. Warshawski (1991)*****
•Femme Fatale (1991)*****
•Pyrates (1991)*****
•Breaking the Silence (1992)****
•The Mask (1994)*****
•Mother/The Haunted Heart (1994)*****
•Alien Nation: Dark Horizon (1994)*** (Although the shot’s filmed so flush with the angle of the street you can barely make out Fire Station №23 if you don’t know what to look for)
•Profiler: “Ring of Fire” (1996)****
•Set It Off (1996)*****
•Profiler: “Night Dreams” (1996)***
•Lost Highway (1997)****
•Suicide Kings (1997)****
•Buffy the Vampire Slayer: “Faith, Hope & Trick” (1998)****
•FlashPoint (1998)*****
•Million Dollar Hotel (2000)**
•National Security (2003)*****
•Land of Plenty (2004)*****
•R(e)Evolution (2005) (A self-funded proof of concept that has never been fully released)*****
•Third Watch: “The Nights of Camelot” Retrospective featurette (2008)****
•CSI: NY: “Taxi” (2008)*****
•NCIS: “Stakeout” (2008)**
•“Lloro Por Ti” - Enrique Iglesias (2008)****
•Days of Wrath (2008) (Never released)*****
•“Lloro Por Ti” Remix - Enrique Iglesias, Wisin & Yandel (2008)****
•“Dublab VisionVersion: Remind Me” - Erlend Øye (2008)*****
•The Soloist (2009)**
•Body Heat (2010)*****
•Grey’s Anatomy: “Can’t Fight Biology” (2010)***
•Grey’s Anatomy: “Something’s Gotta Give” (2010)**
•Grey’s Anatomy: Start Me Up (2011)**
•“Stone Rollin’” - Raphael Saadiq (2011)***
•Grey’s Anatomy: I Will Survive (2011)**
•Grey’s Anatomy: Unaccompanied Minor (2011)**
•“Where Them Girls At” - David Guetta (2011)**
•R(e)EVOLUTION: Hero Story (2012)** (A cut-down version of the self-funded proof of concept from 2008) (2012)*****
•R(e)EVOLUTION: The Fireman’S Roundtable scene (2012)****
•White Frog (2012)***
•Grey’s Anatomy: Support System (2012)**
•Grey’s Anatomy: “Remember the Time” (2012)***
•Grey’s Anatomy: Second Opinion (2012)**
•Young Turks (2013) (Featuring vintage photos and video from 1981)*****
•Halifax: Ghostbusters (2018) (Featuring vintage photos and video from 1981)**** (Fire Station №23 footage is from the movie)
•Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles (2016) (Featuring vintage stock footage recorded circa 1950s)**
•Cleaning’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (2019) (Featuring photos available online)***
•Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)****
•Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Firehouse (2021)*****
•Ghostbusters: Afterlife - Summoning The Spirit (2021)****
And because a handful of instances have now cropped up, here’s a filmography of productions that have built replica sections of Fire Station №23:
•Big Trouble in Little China (1986) (Replica of the hose tower in the apparatus room, for the shot of a hidden firepole leading into the San Fransisco sewers)
•Ghostbusters II (1989) (The Firehouse darkroom, and adjoining laboratory, with inspiration for the design drawn from the original fire station)
•Coca-Cola Classic: Ghostbusters II Sweepstakes (1989) (Replica apparatus room loosely based on the original fire station)
•Flatliners (1990) (A replica portion of the dormitory, possibly because the production were unable to use Fire Station №23 for additional filming/reshoots, with inspiration for the design drawn from the original fire station)
•Mother/The Haunted Heart (1994) (Replica of the Chief’s bathroom for an electrocution effects shot, featuring pyrotechnic sparks, loosely based on the original fire station)
•Profiler (1996 - 1998) (Replica of the Chief’s penthouse, for repeated filming across multiple series. The set was a very loose replica of the original fire station, with the exception of the elevator car… Which was pretty spot-on)
•Grey’s Anatomy (2010 - 2012) (Replica of the Chief’s penthouse, for repeated filming across multiple series. Heavy inspiration from the original fire station, but loosely laid out)
•Ghostbusters: Answer The Call (2016) (Replica apparatus room closely based on the original fire station)
•Intuit QuickBooks (2019) (Replica apparatus room, featuring Janine’s desk, Peter’s office, and the staircase. A very closely achieved effort)
•Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) (Closely achieved replica apparatus room, replica basement, a lose replica of the dormitory space, with inspiration drawn to depict the previously-unseen top floor of the Firehouse)
If anyone knows of any appearances that aren’t on this list, I’m all ears.
