I love finding when items in Twin Peaks magically jump from location to location or character to character. We saw this with the CCX Trucking mug that traveled from Big Ed’s Gas Farm in the pilot to the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Department or Annie Blackburn wears a sweater that Donna Hayward wore. In season two, a black…
For the second season of Twin Peaks, ABC Television commissioned additional publicity photos such as these images of Joan Chen and Michael Ontkean. Based on research, it appears the image was captured on the Blue Pine Lodge set in Van Nuys, California around the time episode 2.004 was shot in August 1990.
Twin Peaks feels like home because of its believable clutter. Rich set decoration makes its spaces feel real and occupied, and the coziness of a place like the Double R Diner is palpable through the screen. To me, the giant ice cream cone displayed behind the counter is a beacon of the diner’s small town…
Agent Cooper’s affinity for handheld gadgets is established very quickly in the Twin Peaks pilot episode. His arsenal contains a trusty microcassette recorder, a lighted magnifying glass, and a pocket calculator. But the calculator is more than meets the eye.
One thing I love about identifying props and details in Twin Peaks is that some of these things are still found at film locations today. For this article, I’m taking a look at a background prop from the Blue Pine Lodge – a Thunderbird totem pole at home to the Martell family and Josie Packard. This…
Throughout Twin Peaks’ second season, a coffee cup with a blue eagle design appears in various places around the Double R Diner. This was produced by New York-based Syracuse China, who you may remember from a previous article as the maker of the airbrushed dinnerware used at the Blue Pine Lodge.
For the past several years on Twitter, I’ve seen the iconic image of Special Agent Dale Cooper giving a thumbs-up at The Roadhouse every hour on my timeline. I’ve long wondered what painting is behind him in this shot from Episode 2.009 in Season 2. Today, I have the answer.
Something’s brewing in Twin Peaks and I had to find it. When I first discovered TwinPeaksBlog.com, I became obsessed with figuring out the central items in a particular image of Lucy Moran at the Twin Peaks Sheriff’s Station. After many cups of coffee and several internet searches, I have identified the automatic coffee brewing system in…
Lately I’ve been spending time identifying a variety of props found in Twin Peaks. I love the thrill of the hunt and the endorphin rush when I finally find a match. This effort to identify all of the props has turned into a team sport which is fantastic! After I published an article about a Con-way…
One of my favorite things to find are props that were carried over from the Pilot Episode to the regular season of Twin Peaks. Thanks to the help of fellow Bookhouse Boy Jason McMahan, I recently picked up a replica of the Con-way Central Express (CCX) Miles Ahead mug that is seen both in the Pilot…