of the television series Highway to Heaven (1984–1989) was partially filmed here and features the university football team. A horror movie, The Clonus Horror (1979), was partially filmed at CLU.
An episode of Behind the Lights: the Coolest Jobs Behind the Biggest Sports (2012), a series BBC Worldwide is co-producing with Break Media, was filmed at CLU and featured the captain of the United States men's national water polo team.
The documentary series All or Nothing: A Season with the Los Angeles Rams (2017) also features scenes from CLU.
Members of the Theater Department were featured in an episode of the HBO program Vice News Tonight on November 19, 2018, where they discussed the CLU play "Columbinus" based on the Columbine High School massacre.
== Notable people ==
=== Alumni ===
Catherine Byrne – politician serving as the Nevada State Controller
Desta Hagos – Ethiopian painter
Eric Dever fine artist, painter
Jason Dolley – actor
Jacquelynne Fontaine – 2006 Miss California
Joe Fuca – businessman and CEO …
