The ranch was used to film the episodes of
Spin and Marty, a popular segment of
The Mickey Mouse Club and parts of
Zorro. The first movie shot at the ranch was
Toby Tyler. Most of the exterior scenes in
Old Yeller were filmed here. The Bolton Estate scenes and several others from Disney's
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit was shot here. The town featured in
Roots: The Next Generations was also built on the Golden Oak Ranch. Other films and television shows that were shot on this location include: •
The Apple Dumpling Gang •
Mame •
The Muppets • ''
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End'' • ''
Pete's Dragon'' •
Behind the Candelabra •
Treasure of Matecumbe •
The Cat from Outer Space •
The Muppet Movie •
The A-Team •
The Electric Horseman •
Little House on the Prairie •
Buffy the Vampire Slayer •
Fire Down Below (1997 film) •
Joe Dirt •
Parks and Recreation •
The Majestic •
Desperate Housewives (
season 8, episode 6) •
Role Models •
Holes •
Camp Nowhere •
The Country Bears •
The Dukes of Hazzard •
The Office •
Ten Days in the Valley The ranch has also been used for filming
Colonel Sanders commercials for
Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the
music video for
Jordin Sparks' song,
Battlefield. A covered bridge spans the man-made stream featured in
Follow Me, Boys!, episodes of
Bonanza,
The Greatest American Hero, various episode of multiple
Star Trek series and was used for parts of the music video of
Amaranth by
Nightwish. The exterior house featured in the original 1961 film
The Parent Trap was also shot on the ranch, as was the Peabody farm from the
Universal film
Back to the Future. It was also used for the filming of three of the five Herbie films, including two scenes at the lake in
The Love Bug and
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, along with
Alonzo Hawk's
dream sequence in
Herbie Rides Again. In 1985,
Big Top Pee-wee was filmed here and part of
Short Circuit was filmed here as well. According to
Phil Abraham, parts of "The Hobo Code" (a first-season episode of
Mad Men) were filmed here (specifically, the scenes of
Don Draper's childhood). The rural farmhouse set on the ranch (known as "Olivia's House") played the part of Margaret Sterling's hippie commune in the fourth episode of Season 7 of
Mad Men. It is also the setting of
Dwight Schrute's farm on several episodes of
The Office, and has also been used for the exterior downtown scenes of
WandaVision. The official video of
Ed Sheeran's song
Overpass Graffiti was filmed there. The music video for
HelloGoodbye's song "
Here (In Your Arms)" was also filmed there. ==References==