The Mint Mansion
The Mint Mansion wasn't referred to as a 'set' and the presenters played along with the fiction that they were all friends who lived in the mansion. The other presenters who weren't working on a particular night were said to be "upstairs sleeping". Some of the presenters occasionally slipped up and called the mansion a set or mentioned that certain other presenter weren't in that day; when this occurred they normally corrected themselves and tried to maintain the illusion.
When the presenters needed to refer to the producer/director (and other people who normally reside in the gallery of such TV shows) they called them "people in the Utility Room" or the "Butlers". The camera men were referred to as 'the window cleaner' (due to them looking in on the proceedings).
When celebrity guests were about to appear a doorbell sound effect was played, and when their time on the programme was up a distant car horn sound effect was played (this was supposed to be the guest's cab home).
Segments were linked by canned footage of (supposedly) the mansion and its grounds with Securicor style security guards standing outside the front door.
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