Issue link: http://digital.copcomm.com/i/610353
Above, left and right: Two views of Gortimer's internationally inspired living and dining room, with the kitchen in the background. Below: A design development study by Assistant Art Director Jerry Ortega of the crawl space. The drawing, done for the pilot, was elevated and modeled in SketchUp and finished in Photoshop ® . Bottom, left and right: A frame capture and a set photograph from an action sequence in the pilot, showing the collapsing crawl space, built and flooded on site. The location served many purposes: the front porch, guest bedroom, kitchen and backyard became Gortimer's house, while the dining and living rooms were dressed to be the home of a mysterious and blind neighbor, Miss Hudspith (played by the wonderful Fionnula Flanagan), who is plagued by the incessant croaking of a frog. The house's master bedroom was given a fanciful makeover as the bedroom of Mel, Gortimer's close friend and resident genius scavenger. A local mini-mart got a mini- face-lift. A neighboring home was enlisted for the exterior of Miss Hudspith's house. ("An old lady in an old house, sitting on top of ultimate doom.") There was one serious set piece missing from this seemingly normal equation. The script called for a climactic action sequence in which Gortimer crawls under Miss Hudspith's house to capture the frog of doom. The crawl space he is in quickly floods