PBS SoCal is ready to debut a brand new domestically produced, three-episode digital shorts sequence referred to as  “Locationland” that can discover well-known and forgotten filming places in Southern California, from the enduring Hollywood Signal to the world across the Sixth Road Bridge.

Created by Harry Pallenberg and hosted by creator and “locationologist” Harry Medved, the sequence options visitors embody filmmakers Joe Dante, Will Gluck and Randal Kleiser. An early launch of three episodes will stream on the PBS app and pbssocal.org beginning Jan. 27 with new episodes dropping weekly on PBS SoCal’s YouTube channel.

The debut episode focuses on the enduring Hollywood signal, with visitors together with Dante and Gluck. In episode 2, “Grease” director Randal Kleiser joins Medved on a highway journey to go to numerous filming places from the 1978 musical, together with the house underneath the Sixth Road Bridge, the place he filmed the Thunder Highway scorching rod race. In episode 3, comic and superfan Dana Gould (“The Simpsons”) joins Medved for a go to to the graveyard the place Ed Wooden shot Bela Lugosi’s remaining film scenes, later reappearing in Wooden’s “Plan 9 From Outer Area.”

These interviewed for the sequence additionally embody location managers/scouts Kokayi Ampah (“Million Greenback Child”), Alison A. Taylor (“Straight Outta Compton”), Scott Trimble (“Iron Man 2”) and different members of the Location Managers Guild Worldwide.

“The sequence is geared to be a celebration of the onerous work of our native manufacturing neighborhood, significantly the placement professionals who assist maintain films and TV filming in California,” says Medved. “We’re grateful for the assist of the Location Mangers Guild Worldwide, and we couldn’t do that present with out them.”