10 TV Shows That Re-Used Props From Other Shows

Time-hopping Highland romance Outlander has always taken advantage of filming on location in Scotland to give the series the requisite Caledonian backdrop. But what to do when the story headed off on a pirate ship to the Caribbean in the third season?

When it comes to TV props, an eighteenth-century sailing ship isn't exactly something that's cheap or easy to come by. Fortunately, Outlander's network Starz already made another piece of high seas Caribbean adventure: historical pirate series Black Sails.

Given the constant demand for ship sets on that show, it wasn't enough just to hire historic sailing ships as is common on other series. Instead, the Black Sails team built a whole ship from scratch (albeit as a land-based prop, not a seaworthy vessel) to play Captain Flint's ship The Walrus.

So, for large stretches of Outlander Season 3, the entire production decamped from Scotland to the Black Sails sets in South Africa to use all the pre-existing eighteenth-century Caribbean sets and props they could lay their hands on. And that included the biggest prop of all: the complete Walrus sailing ship.

Cost effective, certainly, but still a little odd for Black Sails fans to see their favourite pirate ship making a raid on a different show entirely!