A Guide to the AS&J Set

I watched Alias Smith and Jones in the 1970s and was innocently unaware that our heroes spent week after week riding up and down the same half dozen roads, getting on trains and and alighting at exactly the same station platform, staying in the same hotels, robbing the same banks.. Perhaps I thought that the USA must be littered with Wild West town just waiting for a film crew to arrive. I was very young.
Watching again decades later, with the benefit of a video recorder and, later, a DVD player, I started to notice the same buildings appearing again and again, and I became obsessed with piecing together a jigsaw that had no straight lines or right angles. I finished up hugely impressed by the cleverness of it all, especially when a tour of the set in 2000 proved my theories more or less correct.
The set is still there (or was in 2000), sadly drab and neglected, with only a few examples of unwarranted vandalism. A modern Heyes and Curry would be far happier exploring the potentials of internet banking and on-line partypoker but if you would like to revisit their old world of morphing banks and quick-change saloons, take my tour of the set.

The set will transport you back to the time of classic Universal Studios magic. It might be a little old-fashioned compared to new hi-tech creations and digital technology but it is where it all began. The roots, the golden age of the films we know and love lie in sets like these. Don't miss a tour of it, especially if you are a cinema buff!