History Main / RebuiltSet

*** "The Masque of Mandragora" introduced a Victorian-style "secondary control room" based around wooden panelling and copper metalwork, which managed to be totally {{Steampunk}} a good twenty years before the first stirrings of the movement. This tied into the "HammerHorror" theme of the period. It was used for the whole of that season, but was unfortunately damaged beyond repair in storage afterwards, leading to a return to the old set.

* For the final seasons of LazyTown, the town set was rebuilt to make the buildings more straight instead of curved.
* The Clansman pub from ''StillGame'' was real. However it closed after the filming of the first series and a replica interior was built. The exterior continued to be used until the building was demolished a few years later. Again, a replica was built for exterior shots, in the same studio lot where soap drama ''RiverCity'' is filmed.
* ''PeeWeesPlayhouse'': The playhouse set was rebuilt when the show moved from New York to Los Angeles. It was the same set, but ''subtly'' different in many ways. The show acknowledged the changes in the beginning of Series 3 with a specially-filmed opening: Pee-Wee bursts through the door as normal, but finds everything draped in plastic sheets! [[PaintingTheFourthWall The theme tune starts and immediately winds down]], and he says, "I completely forgot! We're redecorating the playhouse!"

* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' filmmakers were smart. After ''Order of the Phoenix'', the Ministry of Magic set was taken apart and put into storage so that they could easily put it back together again for ''Deathly Hallows Part 1''.
** Some places originally shot on location were later reproduced as sets at Leavesden Studios. For example, Privet Drive was a real street on the first movie, but a backlot reproduction was used from the second movie onwards. The hospital wing was Oxford Divinity School in the first movie, but it became a set in the second film. Amusingly, Oxford Divinity School later appeared as a different room in the fourth movie. In a weird example, Snape's classroom was filmed in the Lacock Abbey sacristy in the first film, but later his classroom became a set which did not even remotely look like the same room. It appears they took the Snape's office set from the second movie and revamped it into his classroom for the fifth movie (the classroom does not appear onscreen between the first and fifth movies).

** The ''Chamber of Secrets'' set was not saved after the filming of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets''. When the Chamber had to reappear in ''Hallows: Part 2'', they filmed the actors in front of a green screen and recreated the Chamber as a CGI set rather than rebuilding it for real. This makes a certain amount of sense, seeing how the Chamber was a ''very'' large set and the scene featuring it in ''Hallows'' was pretty brief.

* The ''Film/HarryPotter'' filmmakers were GenreSavvy. After ''Order of the Phoenix'', the Ministry of Magic set was taken apart and put into storage so that they could easily put it back together again for ''Deathly Hallows Part 1''.

** Similar to the ''[[TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact 2010]]'' example, the CGI spiders in the second film were created by a visual effect house which had closed down by the time the last film was in production. Since the spiders were due to reappear and the original CGI models were lost, they had to be recreated using footage from the second film as reference.

* Scenes originally shot on location during the first ''BackToTheFuture'' film were recreated on studio sets for the sequels, including the Lyon Estates Bilboard in 1955 in ''Part II'' and the interior of Doc's mansion in ''Part III''. They also had to rebuild the 1955 Courthouse Square sets for ''Part II'', although only one side of the Square was needed for the sequel.

* When ''Series/TheGoodies'' moved from TheBBC to {{ITV}} their new set was an almost identical copy of the original.

*** The beginning of the revived series introduced the "coral" console room that lasted for the whole of the Davies era. The Moffat seasons, however, have seen three different console room sets in four seasons, with new ones introduced in "The Eleventh Hour", "The Snowmen", and "Deep Breath".

*** The iconic original Peter Brachacki design from "An Unearthly Child" remained more or less the same (with some simplifications and replacements) for most of the original 1963-89 series. An attempt to replace it in "The Time Monster" was so unpopular with the cast and crew that the old one was brought back in the next story.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", the entrance of Foreman's Yard (which was a set in 1963) is reconstructed on location. "Foreman" is misspelt as "Forman", but otherwise it's a good match for the original.

** For the one-off docudrama ''Series/AnAdventureInSpaceAndTime'', the 1963 version of the TARDIS set [[http://doctorwho.livejournal.com/8825687.html was recreated,]] along with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E1AnUnearthlyChild Foreman's Yard]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks the Dalek city]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS2E2TheDalekInvasionOfEarth World's End]], [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E2TheTenthPlanet Antarctica...]]

** For the one-off docudrama ''An Adventure in Space and Time'', the 1963 version of the TARDIS set [[http://doctorwho.livejournal.com/8825687.html was recreated.]]

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", the entrance of Foreman's Yard (which was a set in 1963) is reconstructed on location. "Foreman" is misspelt as "Forman", but otherwise it's a good match for the original.

* For ''Series/StargateSG1'', the sets from the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie of the missile silo used as Stargate Command and the Abydonian gate room were rebuilt. The producers did find the gate prop used in the film, but it had decayed and was only good for getting a mold to work off of.

* The original sets from ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}'' were kept in storage for many years in case of a sequel movie, revival, or in case ''Series/{{Crusade}}'' got picked up by another network. Wouldn't ya know, shortly after they finally got rid of some of the sets due to storage costs, they get greenlighted for direct-to-DVD sequels?

* For ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', the sets from the ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' movie of the missile silo used as Stargate Command and the Abydonian gate room were rebuilt. The producers did find the gate prop used in the film, but it had decayed and was only good for getting a mold to work off of.

* After a fire at their warehouse, almost every Aardman Animation model was destroyed, forcing them to remake pretty much every character and set used in ''WallaceAndGromit'' before making ''A Matter of Loaf and Death''.

* The sitcom ''EightSimpleRules'' once did a ActorAllusion involving John Ritter's character, where he had a nightmare that he was in an episode of ''ThreesCompany'', complete with a rebuilt version of the apartment set from that show.