Hollywood
May 2012 Issue

With Friends Like These

The cast and showrunners—and photos of Monica’s apartment set, where the show was predominantly filmed—in our slide show of Friends history. Read the oral history of the 10-season ratings juggernaut—as adapted from former NBC Entertainment president Warren Littlefield’s book Top of the Rock—in the May issue of Vanity Fair.
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    Kauffman and Matt LeBlanc during the last week of shooting.

  • Lisa Kudrow and Matthew Perry on the NBC lot during the first season of Friends, 1994.

  • The set of Monica’s apartment on Friends, Season Two, 1995.

  • The cast takes a curtain call at the end of the final episode, titled “The Last One—Part Two,” which aired May 6, 2004, and had more than 50 million viewers.

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  • The Central Perk set from “The Last One.”

  • Director James Burrows and Warren Littlefield at the L.A. Free Clinic annual fund-raiser, December 1995. Littlefield was being honored, and the Friends cast attended.

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  • Friends in production, June 1, 1995.

  • Executive producer David Crane, actor David Schwimmer (directing this episode), and executive producer Marta Kauffman on the set of a Season Six episode, titled “The One on the Last Night,” in 1999.

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