REGINA - Corner Gas fans looking to slide into a booth at the Ruby coffee shop and grab a cup of joe could soon do that in their own homes.

The Ruby’s counters, booths, tables and dishes are going on sale. Prairie Pants Productions, the company behind the now-defunct hit Canadian comedy series, will hold a set sale March 25-27 at the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios in Regina.

More than 1,000 lots of props, costumes and set pieces from all six seasons will be up for grabs.

Series creator, star and writer Brent Butt says many of the items have been sitting in storage since Corner Gas pumped out its last episode in April 2009.

“It’s just a case of having way more stuff than we need and a lot of little things that, even if a movie were to happen, they wouldn’t be utilized in the movie,” Butt said in a telephone interview.

“There’s tons and tons of small props.”

Other items for sale include counters, stools and licence plates from the Corner Gas service station, Oscar and Emma’s kitchen and living room furniture and collectibles and the police station’s desks and files.

But some things won’t be on the market.

“All the key element pieces are going to go back into storage into a smaller storage facility,” said Butt.

That includes the Corner Gas sign and the gas pumps — “things that are really kind of iconic and can’t be replaced.”

Butt will be at the first day of the sale. Cavan Cunningham, who played the mayor of the fictional Dog River, will be at the Saturday sale to serve as auctioneer of 50 choice items.

Part of the proceeds will go to the Children’s Hospital Foundation of Saskatchewan.

The executive producers have also begun to look at the prospect of taking down the standing set, which includes the gas station and the restaurant that sit near the highway in Rouleau, Sask. They say it must be dismantled because work needs to be done on the structure and foundation. But they hope to rebuild it one day for potential future Corner Gas projects.

“It was never built to last,” said Butt.

“We all went into this thinking, okay, we got this opportunity to do the show, 13 episodes over the summer. And it was built like a real kind of flopsy-mopsy set . . . because none of us knew we had a hit show on our hands that was going to go for six years.

“So it’s deteriorated as a result. It wasn’t built to withstand the weather.”

The Rouleau set became a tourist attraction when Corner Gas started airing in 2004. People from across Canada and around the world made the trek to Rouleau, population 400, to pose next to the red and yellow pumps.

The set started to fall into disrepair when the show wrapped up. The Saskatchewan government and town officials talked in 2009 about ways to fix it up and make it a tourist attraction once again.

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But the show’s producers said at the time that the filling station was designed as nothing more than a set and would be expensive to renovate.

Butt suggested it could still be saved.

“The notion isn’t to just get rid of it. The notion is to build it up so that it can be there. I think everybody’s idea is to keep the gas station standing. It’s just has to go through some pretty extensive . . . retooling.”