CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT: Presidents on The Event, The West Wing and Commander in Chief shared their (Oval) office space with others.
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pioneer repurposing stock scenery from the environmental set-inventory group Gooden created, and some of its walls are still being reused. In fact, most ABC, ABC Family and Disney Channel shows, including Desperate Housewives and Wizards of Waverly Place, repurpose their own scenery. In 1990, Sony Pictures (then Columbia)
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