Fox · 2001 to 2010, and London in 2014
One story told in several boxes at once, and several cities played by one. Kiefer Sutherland on location in Washington, 2007; Dennis Haysbert and Mary Lynn Rajskub, 2009.
Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley · the first three seasons
Joel Surnow first had the idea of a show with 24 episodes in a season, each an hour long, the whole season a single day.
When he rang Robert Cochran, Cochran’s first answer was that it was the worst idea he had heard and could never work. They met the next day at the International House of Pancakes in Woodland Hills to talk it through.
After Fox picked the series up, the CTU set, first built in a Fox Sports office for the pilot, was recreated in a studio in Woodland Hills. The same set served the first three seasons.
Woodland Hills · Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
Years later the showrunner Howard Gordon described sitting across from Surnow and Cochran at the IHOP and agreeing that the planned season seven story was not working.
A neighbourhood at the west end of the San Fernando Valley. No source read gives the address of the pancake house or of the studio, so nothing here is pinned. The photograph is a Woodland Hills street.
Chatsworth, San Fernando Valley · season four to season eight
Before the fourth season, production moved to an old pencil factory in Chatsworth, and the CTU set was redesigned.
The set was redesigned again before the eighth season. Other sets were built there too: Charles Logan’s presidential retreat for seasons five and six, and the White House bunker for seasons four and six.
The room behind the set
The screens on the CTU set were purpose-built, hero displays and background screens alike, with playback operators triggering the graphics on the actors’ cues.
The operators worked from a small room behind the set.
The stages in Chatsworth · Chatsworth, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
A neighbourhood in the north-west San Fernando Valley. The stages are a working production site and no source read gives their address, so Chatsworth is named, not pinned. The photograph is the neighbourhood.
Washington · Los Angeles · New York · London · 2007 to 2014
The show cut its screen into boxes to follow several people at once. Choose a box and cut it across or down: each new box opens on a real place, with the city it was in the story on top and where it was shot underneath.
Box 1 of 1: set in Washington, D.C.; shot at Downtown Washington, on location. Choose a box, then cut it across or down.
Box 1 · Georgetown, Washington
Set in Washington, D.C.Shot at Downtown Washington, on location
On 25 October 2007 the show went to Washington for its first shoot outside California.
It shot around the city, Georgetown included, filming scenes for eight episodes over two weekends.
A historic neighbourhood of north-west Washington. The source names the neighbourhood, not the streets, so it is not pinned. The photograph is the October 2007 shoot.
Downtown Los Angeles · 2001 to 2014
The series was meant to be filmed in Toronto, but Canada’s changeable weather led the producers to choose Los Angeles. The first six seasons are mostly set in Los Angeles and nearby California, in real and fictional places; Washington appears in parts of seasons four, six and seven.
Season seven, 2007–08
Washington, D.C.
Where the story says it is.
Season eight, 2009
New York
Where the story says it is.
Live Another Day, 2014
Parliament, London
Where the story says it is.
Downtown Los Angeles · Downtown Los Angeles
In October 2007 the producer Michael Klick said the Washington season had sent the crew to places they had never used before, downtown Los Angeles among them.
For season eight, set in New York, TV Guide reported in April 2009 that most of the New York scenes would be shot in Los Angeles, with a few establishing scenes in Manhattan.
There were at first no plans to film in New York at all, because of the budget; in the end some scenes were shot there.
Downtown Los Angeles. No source read names a single street, so nothing is pinned. The photograph is Spring Street’s stone bank fronts, an example of downtown, not a confirmed location.
Georgetown, Washington · Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
On 25 October 2007 the show went to Washington for its first shoot outside California.
It shot around the city, Georgetown included, filming scenes for eight episodes over two weekends.
The 2007–08 writers’ strike held season seven back a year; the TV film Redemption, broadcast on 23 November 2008, bridged the gap.
A historic neighbourhood of north-west Washington. The source names the neighbourhood, not the streets, so it is not pinned. The photograph is the October 2007 shoot.
Camarillo Airport, Ventura County · 12 and 13 August 2008
Camarillo Airport · 455 Aviation Drive, Camarillo, Ventura County
On 12 and 13 August 2008, United States Navy SEALs took part in filming a season seven episode at Camarillo Airport.
The Navy’s caption says the producers asked Naval Special Warfare Command to take part, to make the scenes more realistic.
Thirteen West Coast-based SEALs acted in the scene.
Camarillo Airport is a public airport for private and business flying, three miles west of central Camarillo, with no scheduled airline service.
The wing’s museum is at 455 Aviation Drive; admission is always free.
A working airfield. The CAF SoCal museum on Aviation Drive is free, open Thursday to Saturday 10am–4pm and Sunday noon–4pm.
455 Aviation Drive, Camarillo · Thu–Sat 10am–4pm, Sun noon–4pm · free
A free aviation museum on Camarillo Airport, the airfield where the Navy SEALs filmed with the show in 2008.
Plan a visitThe Commemorative Air Force’s Southern California Wing organises the airport’s annual air show, Wings Over Camarillo.
Isleworth · Spitalfields · the Temple · 2013 to 2014
In October 2013 it was confirmed that the new series would be set and filmed in London. Pre-production and location scouting began in November 2013, and production on 6 January 2014.
The Gillette Building · Great West Road at Syon Lane, Isleworth, west London
Live Another Day’s production offices were in the Gillette Building in west London, which had served Red 2 before it.
The building is a Grade II listed Art Deco office and works by Sir Banister Fletcher, set back behind the trees of the Great West Road at Gillette Corner.
Offices, not open to visitors; the long white front is seen from the pavement of the Great West Road at Gillette Corner.
Cobb Street, Spitalfields · Cobb Street, London E1
A promotional video was shot on 22 January 2014, and filming for the series began on 26 January.
On 22 January 2014 film crews were seen in Cobb Street, E1, and City A.M. ran some of the first footage shot in the City.
A short public street at the eastern edge of the City; walk it any time.
Inner and Middle Temple · Middle Temple Lane, the Temple, City of London
Film London records that Live Another Day used one of the Temple’s halls to double for Parliament. It does not say which hall.
Stephen Fry was cast as the British prime minister, first named Trevor Davies and later renamed Alastair Davies.
Temple Church is open for sightseeing on weekdays, usually 10am to 4pm, and closed for sightseeing at weekends.
The lanes and courts of the Temple; the halls belong to the Inns of Court and are not open as attractions. Temple Church is open for sightseeing on most weekdays, 10am–4pm; admission £5 or £3.
Temple, London EC4Y 7BB · Weekdays 10am–4pm · £5 or £3
The Temple’s church, open for sightseeing on most weekdays, with talks on its history this autumn.
Opening timesFox · 6 November 2001 to 14 July 2014
Live Another Day was broadcast from 5 May to 14 July 2014, twelve episodes that took the series to 204.
5 places you can pin and visit, in California, New York and London. No source read gives an address for the Woodland Hills studio, the Chatsworth stages, the pancake house or the downtown and Georgetown streets used, so those four are named but not pinned.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. A working airfield. The CAF SoCal museum on Aviation Drive is free, open Thursday to Saturday 10am–4pm and Sunday noon–4pm.
455 Aviation Drive, Camarillo, Ventura County
On 12 and 13 August 2008, United States Navy SEALs took part in filming a season seven episode at Camarillo Airport.
A working airfield. The CAF SoCal museum on Aviation Drive is free, open Thursday to Saturday 10am–4pm and Sunday noon–4pm.
Stay
A hotel a walk from the Temple.
Strand, London WC2
A large hotel at 372 Strand, near Covent Garden; the Temple is further east along the Strand. Pictured: Middle Temple Hall.
See roomsGo there
A tour of the UN, an aviation museum on the Camarillo airfield, Temple Church and Los Angeles screen-location tours.
First Avenue at 46th Street, New York · Adults $29 plus booking fee · no under-fives
A one-hour guided tour of the headquarters where season eight shot its exteriors. Register with UN security before you go.
Book a tour455 Aviation Drive, Camarillo · Thu–Sat 10am–4pm, Sun noon–4pm · free
A free aviation museum on Camarillo Airport, the airfield where the Navy SEALs filmed with the show in 2008.
Plan a visitTemple, London EC4Y 7BB · Weekdays 10am–4pm · £5 or £3
The Temple’s church, open for sightseeing on most weekdays, with talks on its history this autumn.
Opening timesLos Angeles
Live marketplace results for screen-location tours in Los Angeles. Check each itinerary for downtown.
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A song recital in Temple Church and an anniversary presentation at Camarillo.
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Take it home
The director’s behind-the-scenes book and an early companion.
Jon Cassar
Insight Editions, 2006, by Jon Cassar, who won the 2006 Emmy for directing the show.
Find the bookMarc Cerasini and Alice Alfonsi
HarperEntertainment, 2003: a companion book from the show’s early seasons.
Find the bookDates, prices, rooms and stock change: confirm with the provider before you travel or buy. A stay or tour is described as a filming location only where the card says so.
Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
9 of 9 places · 15 of 15 Moments
Woodland Hills, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
Surnow and Cochran meet at the IHOP in Woodland Hills to talk over a season told in real time.
Production begins in July 2001; the premiere, planned for 30 October, is moved to 6 November after the September 11 attacks.
Season one brings in split screens, born of the number of phone calls; the editors want the boxes to overlap, and Stephen Hopkins decides they will not.
Chatsworth, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
Production moves to Chatsworth and CTU is rebuilt.
The CTU set is redesigned again for the New York season.
Downtown Los Angeles
The $4 million pilot is filmed in Los Angeles, Toronto’s weather having ruled it out.
For the Washington season the crew works in parts of downtown Los Angeles it had never used.
Most of season eight’s New York is shot in Los Angeles, with a few establishing scenes in Manhattan.
Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
The first shoot outside California: two weekends around Washington, Georgetown included.
First Avenue at 46th Street, Manhattan, New York
Permission to shoot at the United Nations, mostly for exteriors.
455 Aviation Drive, Camarillo, Ventura County
Navy SEALs act in a staged scene at Camarillo Airport, at the producers’ request.
Great West Road at Syon Lane, Isleworth, west London
Live Another Day sets up its production offices in the Gillette Building.
Cobb Street, London E1
Film crews in Cobb Street, E1, on the day the promotional video is shot.
Live Another Day’s twelve episodes end on 14 July 2014, bringing the series to 204.
Middle Temple Lane, the Temple, City of London
One of the Temple’s halls doubles for Parliament.
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