This page features the settings for TV series as well as TV show
locations. This is a work in progress. I have many more such TV show
settings in my files. As I get time, I'll add more. If you would like to nominate other TV series locations, email them to
JohnKremer@bookmarket.com.
Alaska
Alaska Kid — syndicated adventure show
Alaska State Troopers — National Geographic Channel reality show set in Alaska
Deadliest Catch — Discovery Channel reality show set in Alaska
Grizzly Man Diaries — Animal Planet reality show set in Alaska
Men in Trees — ABC romantic comedy set in Elmo (fictional)
Northern Exposure — CBS dramedy set in Cicely (fictional)
Tougher in Alaska — History Channel reality show set in Alaska
The Toughest Race on Earth: Iditarod — Discovery Channel reality show set in Alaska
Arizona
Alice — CBS comedy set in Phoenix
Bret Maverick — NBC western set in Sweetwater (fictional)
The Cougar — TV Land reality show
set in Scottsdale
Greetings from Tucson — WB comedy set in Tucson
The High Chaparral — NBC western set in Arizona
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — ABC western set in Dodge City, Kansas, and then Tombstone, Arizona
Medium — NBC crime drama set in Phoenix
Nichols — NBC western set in Nichols (fictional)
Raising Sextuplets — WE TV reality show set in Arizona
Rawhide — CBS western filmed in New Mexico, Arizona, and California
Rules of Engagement — CBS comedy set in New York City. Sedona is the hometown of Adam's mother.
Sons of Tucson — Fox comedy set in Tucson
Sunset Daze — WE reality show set in Arizona
Tombstone Territory — ABC western set in Tombstone
Arkansas
Evening Shade — CBS comedy set in Evening Shade (fictional)
California
The Academy: Orange County Fire — Fox Reality reality show set in Los Angeles
and later in Orange County.
Accidentally on Purpose — CBS comedy set in San
Francisco
Alias — ABC spy drama set in Los Angeles and around the world
America's Next Top Model — CW reality show set in Los Angeles (for its 4th cycle)
American Bandstand — ABC music show in Philadelphia and later in Los Angeles
An American Family — PBS reality show set in Santa Barbara
American Idol — Fox reality show set in Los Angeles. The mansion where the contestants stay is in Bel Air.
Angel — WB vampire drama set in Los Angeles
The Apprentice — NBC reality show set in Los Angeles (6th session)
The Assistants — The N reality show set in Hollywood
The Bachelor — ABC reality show set in Malibu
Baldwin Hills — BET reality show set in Los Angeles
Baywatch — NBC and syndicated beach drama set in California and later in Hawaii
Baywatch Nights — Syndicated crime drama set in California
Bear Whisperer — Animal Planet reality show featuring a
man keeping peace between humans and bears in a California community.
Beauty and the Geek — CW reality show set in Los Angeles
Benson — ABC comedy set in an unspecified state, but
the exterior shot of the governor's mansion features the Bundy House, located at 1365 S. Oakland in Pasadena.
Best Housewives of Orange County — Bravo reality series set in Orange County
The Beverly Hillbillies — CBS comedy set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills 90210 — Fox soap set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Groomer — Animal Planet reality show set in Beverly Hills
The Big Bang Theory — CBS comedy set in Los Angeles;
their apartment is in Pasadena
The Big Valley — ABC western set near Stockton
The Biggest Loser — NBC reality show set in Los Angeles
Black Sash — WB crime drama set in San Francisco
The Bold and the Beautiful — CBS daytime soap opera set in Beverly Hills
The Brady Bunch — ABC comedy set in southern California. A later movie had them living in Santa Monica. The house used for
the exterior shots is located at 11222 Dilling Street, North Hollywood.
Brothers & Sisters — ABC soap opera set in Pasadena and Los Angeles
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer — WB vampire drama set in Sunnydale (fictional)
Burke's Law — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Buzzin' — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles and Malibu
Californication — Showtime sex comedy set in Los Angeles
Celebrity Rehab — VH1 reality show set in Pasadena (Las Encinas Hospital drug rehabilitation clinic)
Charmed — WB fantasy set in San Francisco
Chuck — NBC spy comedy set in Los Angeles and Burbank (where the Buy More store is located)
The Closer — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
Columbo — NBC detective drama set in San Francisco
Complex Malibu — Fox reality show set in Malibu
Crash — Starz drama set in Los Angeles
Crazy Like a Fox — CBS detective drama set in San Francisco
Curb Your Enthusiasm — HBO comedy set in Santa Monica
Daddy's Girls — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
Date My Ex: Jo & Slade — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Death Valley Days — Western set in the Death Valley area
Dharma & Greg — ABC comedy set in San Francisco
Dirt — FX drama set in Los Angeles
Dollhouse — FX fantasy drama set in Los Angeles
Dragnet — NBC and later ABC crime show set in Los Angeles
Eli Stone — ABC fantasy drama in San Francisco
Ellen — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
The Ex-List — CBS romance set in Ocean Beach
Extras — HBO comedy set in Los Angeles
Falcon Crest — CBS soap opera set in
Tuscany Valley (fictional) near San Francisco. Filmed in Napa Valley and Santa Clarita.
Felicity — WB drama set in New York City. Felicity's home town was Palo Alto, California.
Flipping Out — Bravo show set in Los Angeles
Fly Girls — CW reality show set in beach side Los
Angeles
Foursome — Playboy Tv reality show set in Hollywood.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — NBC comedy set in Bel-Air. The main character was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Full House — ABC comedy set in San Francisco
Gary Unmarried — CBS comedy set in Santa Monica
The Girls Next Door — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
The Guiding Light — CBS daytime soap opera set in Five
Points, Illinois (fictional), then Selby Flats, California (fictional), and finally Springfield, Illinois (fictional)
Hannah Montana — Disney comedy set in Malibu
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde, California (fictional).
The Hills — MTV reality show set in Beverly Hills
Hollywood Heat — TruTV reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Residential — Starz reality show set in Hollywood
Househusbands of Hollywood —
Fox Reality reality show set in Hollywood
I'm with Her — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
Jake and the Fatman — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles (first year, Hawaii after that)
The Jamie Foxx Show — WB comedy set in Los Angeles
Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency — Oxygen reality show set in Beverly Hills
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC talk show in Los Angeles
Joey — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
John from Cincinnati — HBO fantasy drama set in Imperial Beach
Journeyman — CBS drama set in San Francisco
Keeping Up with the Kardashians — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
Knot's Landing — CBS soap opera set in California
The L Word — Showtime drama set in West Hollywood and Los Angeles
LA Doctors — CBS medical drama set in Los Angeles
LA Hard Hats — National Geographic reality show set in Los Angeles
LA Heat — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
L.A. Ink — TLC reality series set in Los Angeles
LA Law — NBC legal drama set in Los Angeles
Laguna Beach — MTV reality show set in Laguna Beach
Laverne & Shirley — ABC comedy set in Milwaukee, but later relocated to Los Angeles
Life — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Living with Ed — Planet Green reality show set in
Hollywood
Marcus Welby, M.D. — ABC medical drama set in southern California
Malcolm in the Middle — Fox comedy set in California
(though never explicitly referred). The house used in external shots is a real house located in Studio City, California.
Martial Law — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Matt Houston — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
McMillan & Wife — NBC crime drama set in San Francisco
Melrose Place — Fox soap set in Los Angeles
The Mentalist — CBS crime drama set in Sacramento and other parts of California
Million Dollar Listing — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
The Mod Squad — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Moesha — UPN comedy set in Los Angeles
Monk — USA Network detective drama set in San Francisco
Moonlight — CBS vampire crime drama set in Los Angeles
Moonlighting — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Mr. Sunshine — ABC comedy set in
San Diego
Nash Bridges — CBS crime drama set in San Francisco
NCIS Los Angeles — CBS crime
drama set in Los Angeles
The New Adventures of Old Christine
— CBS comedy set in Mar Vista and Los Angeles
Newlyweds — Reality show set in Calabasas.
Night Man — WGN crime drama set in San Francisco
90210 — CW soap set in Beverly Hills
Nip/Tuck — FX drama set in Miami, then later in Los Angeles
Notes From the Underbelly — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
NUMB3RS — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
The O.C. — Fox teen soap set in Orange County
Ozzie & Harriet — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
The Partridge Family — ABC comedy set in San Pueblo (fictional northern California town)
Party Down — Starz sitcom set in Los Angeles
Party of Five — Fox drama set in San Francisco
Pensacola: Wings of Gold — Syndicated military drama set in Pensacola, Florida. Filmed at Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.
Players — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Poltergeist: The Legacy — Showtime/SciFi fantasy mystery drama set in San Francisco
Popular — WB teen drama set in Santa Monica
Presidio Med — CBS medical drama set in San Francisco
Private Practice — ABC soap opera set in Santa Monica
Psych — USA Network detective drama set in Santa Barbara
Quincy M.E. — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Rachel Zoe Project — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Rawhide — CBS western filmed in New Mexico, Arizona, and California
The Real Housewives of Orange County — Bravo reality show set in Orange County
The Real World: Hollywood — MTV reality show set in Hollywood
The Real World: Los Angeles — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
The Real World: San Diego — MTV reality show set in San Diego
The Real World: San Francisco — MTV reality show set in San Francisco
Remington Steele — NBC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Robbery Homicide Division — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Rock of Love — VH1 reality show set in Bel Air and later in Encino
The Rockford Files — NBC detective drama set in Los Angeles
The Ropers — ABC comedy set in Santa Monica
Roswell — WB fantasy drama set in Roswell, New Mexico. Many exteriors were shot in Covina, California.
The Roy Rogers Show — NBC western set on a ranch in California
Sanford and Son — NBC comedy set in southern California
Santa Barbara — NBC daytime soap opera set in Santa Barbara
Saved by the Bell — NBC comedy set in Pacific Palisades
Secret Girlfriend — Comedy Central reality show set in
Los Angeles
7th Heaven — WB family drama set
in Glen Oaks (fictional). The exterior house shot is of an actual house in
Altadena, California. The church is The First Christian Church located in Studio City, California.
77 Sunset Strip — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Sex, Love and Secrets — UPN soap opera set in Los
Angeles
Shark — CBS legal drama set in Los Angeles
The Shield — FX crime drama set in Los Angeles
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
(Hollywood Hills)
Silk Stockings — USA Network
drama set in Palm Beach. Actually filmed in San Diego, California.
Simon & Simon — CBS detective drama set in San Diego
Sons of Anarchy — FX crime drama set in Charming
(fictitious town in northern California)
Southland — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Starter Wife — USA Network comedy set in Los Angeles
Streets of San Francisco — ABC crime drama
set in San Francisco
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — NBC soap set in Los
Angeles
Summerland — WB drama set in Summerland (fictional)
Sunset Tan — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
The Surreal Life — VH1 reality show set in Los Angeles
Tales of Wells Fargo — NBC western set near San Francisco
That's So Raven — Disney comedy
set in San Francisco
Three's Company — ABC comedy set in Santa Monica
The Tonight Show — NBC talk show in New York City and
later in Los Angeles
The Tony Rock Project — MyNetwork reality show set in Los Angeles
Top Chef — Bravo reality series
filmed in Miami, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Washington, DC; and San Francisco, California
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood — Oxygen Network
reality show set in Hollywood
Trauma — NBC medical drama
set in San Francisco
Two and a Half Men — CBS comedy set in Malibu
The Unit — CBS drama set in Sierra Ridge (fictional)
Valentine — CW romance set in Los Angeles
V.I.P. — Syndicated detective dramedy set in southern California
Veronica Mars — CW mystery set in Neptune (fictional
southern California town)
Viva Hollywood — VH1 reality show set in Hollywood
Weeds — Showtime drama set in Agrestic (fictional) and
later set on in a border town near Mexico
Welcome to the Captain — CBS comedy set in Los Angeles
Women's Murder Club — ABC mystery set in San Francisco
The Wonder Years — ABC comedy set in California. The
house used for the exterior shots is at 516 University Avenue, Burbank,
California.
Colorado
The Bill Engvall Show — TBS
comedy set in a Denver suburb
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — CBS western set in Colorado
Springs
Dynasty — ABC soap opera set in
Denver
Everwood — WB drama set in Everwood (fictional)
Lock n' Load -- Showtime reality show set in Colorado
Make It Or Break It — ABC Family drama set in Boulder
Mork & Mindy — ABC comedy set in
Boulder
The Mountain — WB drama set in Colorado
Peacemakers — USA Network western
set in Silver City (fictional)
The Real World: Denver — MTV reality show set in Denver
Secrets of Aspen — VH1 reality show set in Aspen
Stargate SG-1 — Syndicated fantasy show set in Colorado
Springs
Connecticut
Bewitched — ABC comedy set in Westport
Dark Shadows — ABC soap opera set in Collinsport
(fictional). Exterior shots were made in Essex, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode
Island.
Gilmore Girls — WB drama set in Stars Hollow (fictional),
New Haven, and Hartford
Judging Amy — CBS crime drama set in Hartford
My Wife and Kids — ABC comedy set in Stamford
Soap — ABC soap opera set in Dunns River (fictional)
The Young Americans — WB teen drama set in the Rawley
Summer Academy (fictional) in Connecticut. The series was shot at Agnes Scott
College in Decatur, Georgia; Towson University, Towson, Maryland; and Havre de
Grace, Maryland.
DC
Bones — Fox detective show set in DC
Commander in Chief — ABC drama show set in DC
Cory in the House — Disney comedy set in DC
D.C. — WB drama set in DC
The District — CBS crime drama set in DC
Freshmen — ABC comedy set in DC
Jake 2.0 — UPN spy drama set in DC area
Lie to Me — Fox detective show set in DC
The Lyon's Den — NBC legal drama set in DC
Mister Sterling — NBC political drama set in DC
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington — ABC drama set in DC
NCIS — CBS naval crime drama set in DC and Virginia
Outlaw — NBC legal drama set in DC
The Real Housewives of DC — Bravo reality show set in
DC
The Real World DC — MTV reality show set in
DC
Top Chef — Bravo reality series
filmed in Miami, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Washington, DC; Chicago, Illinois; and San Francisco, California
West Wing — NBC political drama set in DC
Delaware
The Pretender — NBC crime drama. Blue Cove (fictional)
was the setting for the Center in the series.
Florida
Animal Cops: Miami — Animal Planet reality show set in Miami
B. L. Stryker — ABC crime drama set in southern Florida
Burn Notice — USA Network spy drama set in Miami
Cane — CBS drama set in Miami and environs
Coach — ABC comedy set in Minnesota (near the Twin
Cities) and later in Orlando, Florida. Exterior shots were done at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Cops — Fox reality show originally set in Broward County
Cougar Town — ABC comedy set in Sarasota
CSI: Miami — CBS crime drama set in Miami
Dexter — Showtime crime drama set in Miami
Empty Nest — NBC comedy set in Miami
Flipper — NBC family show set in Coral Key Park (fictional)
The Glades — A&E crime drama set in a small Florida
town
Golden Girls — NBC comedy set in Miami. In the pilot,
Rose says that her hometown is Little Falls. In all the episodes after that, she
says that her hometown is St. Olaf.
I Dream of Jeannie — NBC comedy set in Florida
Invasion — ABC drama set in a small town in Florida
Karen Sisco — ABC crime drama set in Miami
Kortney and Khloe Take Miami — E! reality show set in
Miami
Maximum Bob — ABC comedy set in Florida
Miami Animal Police — Animal Planet reality show set in Miami
Miami Ink — TLC reality series set in Miami
Miami Medical — CBS
medical drama set in Miami
Miami Social — Bravo reality series set in Miami
Miami Vice — NBC crime drama set in Miami
The New Adventures of Flipper — Pax family show set in Florida
Nip/Tuck — FX drama set in Miami, then later in Los Angeles
The Paper — MTV reality show set in Weston
Pensacola: Wings of Gold — Syndicated military drama set in Pensacola. Filmed at Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.
Police Women of Broward County -- TLC reality show set
in Broward County.
Prison Break — Fox drama set in Panama City
Privileged — CW drama set in Palm Beach
The Real World: Key West — MTV reality show set in Key West
The Real World: Miami — MTV reality show set in Miami
Ruby & the Rockits — ABC Family comedy set in St. Augustine
Silk Stockings — USA Network drama set in Palm Beach. Actually filmed in San Diego, California.
Simply Delicioso — Food Network cooking show set in Miami
Sit Down, Shut Up — Fox animated
comedy set in southern Florida
Surviving the Filthy Rich — CW drama set in Palm Beach
Top Chef — Bravo reality series
filmed in Miami, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Washington, DC; and San Francisco, California
Georgia
College Hill 5: Atlanta — BET reality show set in Atlanta
Designing Women — CBS comedy set in Atlanta
I'll Fly Away — NBC crime drama set in a small southern town
In the Heat of the Night — CBS drama set in Sparta. The first season was filmed in Hammond, Louisiana, but moved to Conyers and
Covington, Georgia for the rest of the series.
Keyshia Cole: The Way It Is — BET reality show set in Atlanta
Making News: Savannah Style — TV Guide Network reality show
Matlock — CBS crime drama set in Atlanta
Meet the Browns — TBS comedy set in Georgia
The Real Housewives of Atlanta — Bravo reality show set in Atlanta
Ruby — Style reality show set in Savannah
Savannah — WB soap opera set in Savannah
There Goes the Neighborhood — CBS reality show set in Kennesaw
The Vampire Diaries — CW fantasy drama set in Mystic
Falls (fictional). Filmed outside Atlanta, Georgia.
The Young Americans — WB teen drama set in the Rawley Summer Academy (fictional) in Connecticut. The series was shot at Agnes Scott
College in Decatur, Georgia; Towson University, Towson, Maryland; and Havre de Grace, Maryland.
Hawaii
Baywatch Hawaii — Syndicated beach drama set in Hawaii
Dog the Bounty Hunter — Reality show set in Honolulu
Jake and the Fatman — CBS crime drama set in Honolulu
Hawaii — NBC crime drama set in Honolulu
Hawaii Five-O — CBS crime drama set in Honolulu
High School Reunion — WB reality
show featuring high school alums from Round Rock. Set in Maui, Hawaii.
Magnum P.I. — CBS crime drama set in Honolulu
Maui Chopper — Tru reality show
North Shore — Fox soap opera set in Hawaii
The Real World: Hawaii — MTV reality show set in Hawaii
Illinois
According to Jim — ABC comedy set in Chicago
As the World Turns — CBS daytime soap opera set in
Oakdale (fictional)
Bob Newhart Show — CBS comedy set in Chicago
Chicago Hope — CBS medical drama set in Chicago
College Hill: Interns — BET reality show set in Chicago
Cupid — ABC romantic drama set in Chicago
The Dresden Files — SciFi supernatural detective drama set in
Chicago
Due South — CTV crime drama set in Chicago
Early Edition — CBS drama set in Chicago
ER — NBC medical drama set in Chicago
Family Matters — ABC comedy set in Chicago
The Forgotten — ABC crime drama set in Chicago
The Good Wife — CBS drama set in Chicago
The Guiding Light — CBS daytime soap opera set in Five
Points, Illinois (fictional), then Selby Flats, California (fictional), and
finally Springfield, Illinois (fictional)
Jerry Springer Show — syndicated talk show set in
Chicago
The League — FX comedy set in Chicago
Life with Bonnie — ABC comedy set in Chicago
Married with Children — Fox comedy set in Chicago. The
house shown at the beginning and end of each episode is in Deerfield, Illinois.
My Boys — TBS comedy set in Chicago
The N's Student Body — The N reality show featuring
students from rival Illinois high schools
Newhart — CBS comedy set in Vermont but ended with him
in bed with his wife in Chicago
Once & Again — ABC drama set in Chicago
Oprah — Syndicated daytime talk show in Chicago
Perfect Strangers — ABC comedy set in Chicago
The Real World: Chicago — MTV reality show set in
Chicago
Ride-Along — Fox crime drama set in Chicago
Roseanne — ABC comedy set in Lanford (fictional).
Exterior shots were of various city streets and buildings in Evansville,
Indiana.
Special Unit 2 — UPN paranormal crime show set in Chicago
Still Standing — CBS comedy set in Chicago
Swingtown — CBS soap opera set in a suburb of Chicago
Top Chef: Chicago — Bravo reality show set in Chicago
Truth in Advertising — TNT drama set in Chicago
Wrecked — Speed reality show set in Chicago
Indiana
Armed & Famous — CBS reality show set in Muncie
Close to Home — CBS legal drama set in Indianapolis
Eerie, Indiana — Fox fantasy drama set in Eerie
(fictional)
The Fugitive — ABC mystery drama. Dr. Richard Kimble's
home town was Stafford, Indiana (fictional).
Good Morning, Miss Bliss — Disney comedy set in Indianapolis
(the predecessor of Saved by the Bell)
The Middle — ABC comedy set in Orson, Indiana
(fictional)
One Day at a Time — CBS comedy set in Indianapolis
Parks and Recreation — NBC sitcom set in Pawnee
(fictional)
Roseanne — ABC comedy set in Lanford (fictional).
Exterior shots were of various city streets and buildings in Evansville,
Indiana.
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch — ABC comedy set in
Westbridge (fictional), but the zip code is for Salem. Mrs. Quick, Sabrina's
math teacher in high school, grew up in Terra Haute, Indiana.
Iowa
Coach — ABC comedy set in Minnesota (near the Twin
Cities) and later in Orlando, Florida. Exterior shots were
done at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Invasion Iowa — Spike TV spoof set in Riverside
M*A*S*H — CBS comedy set in Korea. The home town of Radar O'Reilly is Ottumwa.
Kansas
Greensburg — Planet Green reality show about Greensburg
Gunsmoke — CBS western set in Dodge City
High School Confidential — WE reality show set in
Kansas
Jericho — CBS apocalyptic drama set in Jericho
(fictional)
Making It Home: Greensburg — TLC reality show about
Greensburg
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp — ABC western set in
Dodge City, Kansas, and then Tombstone, Arizona
Smallville — CW super-hero drama set in Smallville
(fictional)
Summerland — WB drama set in Summerland, California
(fictional). The orphaned children were originally from Kansas.
Supernatural — CW fantasy thriller with a starting
location of Lawrence
United States of Tara — Showtime comedy set in Overland
Park
Kentucky
Daniel Boone — NBC adventure series set in Booneville.
It was shot in California and Kanab, Utah.
Justified — FX drama set in Harlan County, Kentucky.
The Simpsons — Fox cartoon comedy set in Springfield,
Vermont (as voted by movie goers in 2007). The TV show once indicated Kentucky
and another time southern Missouri.
Southern Belles: Louisville — SOAPnet reality show set
in Louisville.
Louisiana
Architecture School — Sundance
reality show set in New Orleans
The Buccaneers — CBS western set in New Orleans
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde,
California (fictional). Also set in New Orleans (home of one of the heroes).
In the Heat of the Night — CBS drama set in Sparta. The
first season was filmed in Hammond, Louisiana, but moved to Conyers and
Covington, Georgia for the rest of the series.
K-Ville — Fox crime drama set in New Orleans
The Real World: New Orleans — MTV reality show set in
New Orleans
The Riches — FX drama set in Edenfalls (fictional)
Sordid Lives — Logo soap opera set in Texas. Filming
done on location in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Steven Seagal Lawman — A&E reality show set in
Jefferson Parish.
Treme — HBO drama set in New
Orleans
True Blood — HBO vampire drama
set in Bon Temps, Louisiana (fictional)
Yancy Derringer — CBS western set in New Orleans
Maine
Dark Shadows — ABC soap opera set in Collinsport
(fictional). Exterior shots were made in Essex, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode
Island.
The Dead Zone — USA Network drama set in Penobscot
County and Cleave's Mill (fictional)
Haven — Syfy science fiction mystery series set in
Haven (fictional)
Murder in Small Town X — Fox reality show shot in
Eastport
Murder, She Wrote — CBS crime drama set in Cabot Cove
(fictional)
Maryland
Aces of Cakes — Food Network reality show filmed at
Charm City Bakery in Baltimore
Airline — A&E reality show set in Baltimore
Homicide: Life on the Street — NBC crime drama set in Baltimore
Hopkins — ABC reality show set in Baltimore's John Hopkins Hospital
The Wire — HBO crime drama set in Baltimore
The Young Americans — WB teen drama set in the Rawley
Summer Academy (fictional) in Connecticut. The series was shot at Agnes Scott
College in Decatur, Georgia; Towson University, Towson, Maryland; and Havre de
Grace, Maryland.
Massachusetts
Ally McBeal — Fox legal drama set in Boston
Boston Common — NBC comedy set in Boston
Boston Legal — ABC legal drama set in Boston
Boston Public — Fox school drama set in Boston
Boston's Finest — ABC crime drama set in Boston
Cheers — NBC comedy set in Boston
Crossing Jordan — NBC police drama set in Boston
Dawson's Creek — WB teen drama set in Capeside
(fictional). Episodes were filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina.
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman — CBS western set in Colorado
Springs, but the main character came from Boston, Massachusetts.
Fringe — Fox crime drama set in Boston (but filmed in
New York City)
HMS — CW medical school drama set in Cambridge
Jess Stone — CBS TV movie series set in a small
Massachusetts town
Leverage — TNT crime drama set in Boston
October Road — ABC drama set in Knights Ridge
(fictional)
The Practice — ABC legal drama set in Boston
The Real World: Boston — MTV reality show set in Boston
Sabrina, The Teenage Witch — ABC comedy set in
Westbridge (fictional), but the zip code is for Salem. Mrs. Quick, Sabrina's
math teacher in high school, grew up in Terra Haute, Indiana.
St. Elsewhere — NBC medical drama set in Boston
Spenser: For Hire — ABC detective drama set in Boston
Tru Calling — Fox mystery set in Boston
Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place — ABC comedy set in Boston
Unhitched — Fox comedy set in Boston
Wings — NBC comedy set on Nantucket Island
Michigan
Crash Course — ABC reality show set in Detroit
Detroit SWAT — A&E reality show set in Detroit
8 Simple Rules — ABC comedy set in a Detroit suburb
Home Improvement — ABC comedy set in Detroit
Hung — HBO comedy set in Detroit
Nimrod Nation — Sundance reality series set in Watersmeet,
Michigan
Sister, Sister — ABC/WB comedy set in Detroit
Soul Man — ABC comedy set in Royal Oak
Minnesota
Coach — ABC comedy set in Minnesota (near the Twin
Cities) and later in Orlando, Florida. Exterior shots were
done at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Golden Girls — NBC comedy set in Miami, Florida. In the pilot,
Rose says that her hometown is Little Falls, Minnesota. In all the episodes
after that, she says that her hometown is St. Olaf.
Happy Town — ABC soap opera set in Haplin (fictional)
Little House on the Prairie — NBC western set in Walnut
Grove
Mall Cops: Mall of America — TLC reality show set in
Bloomington
Mary Tyler Moore Show — CBS
comedy set in Minneapolis
Mississippi
Half Their Size — ABC docu-soap set in Mississippi
In the Heat of the Night — CBS drama set in Sparta. The
first season was filmed in Hammond, Louisiana, but moved to Conyers and
Covington, Georgia for the rest of the series.
The Mississippi — CBS law drama set in Mississippi
Missouri
AfterMASH — CBS comedy set in Missouri
Farmer Wants a Wife — CW reality show set on a Missouri
farm
The Simpsons — Fox cartoon comedy set in Springfield,
Vermont (as voted by movie goers in 2007). The TV show once indicated Kentucky
and another time southern Missouri.
Nebraska
The Big Bang Theory — CBS comedy set in Los Angeles,
California. The home town of Penny is Omaha, Nebraska.
Chuck — NBC spy comedy set in Los Angeles. In one
episode, Bryce says to Sara, “We'll always have Omaha.” Yes, they will.
Nevada
Bonanza — NBC western set near Lake Tahoe and Virginia City
Breaking Vegas — Reality show set in Las Vegas
CSI — CBS crime drama set in Las Vegas
The Defenders — CBS legal drama set in Las Vegas
Dr. Vegas — CBS medical drama set in Las Vegas
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde,
California (fictional).
Las Vegas — NBC crime drama set in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Jailhouse — TruTV reality show set in Las
Vegas
Push, Nevada — ABC crime drama set in Push (fictional)
The Real World: Las Vegas — MTV reality show set in Las
Vegas
Reno 911 — Comedy Central comedy set in Reno
Seven Days — UPN fantasy drama set in Nevada
Top Chef Las Vegas — Bravo reality show set in Las Vegas
True Beauty — ABC reality show set in Las Vegas
Vega$ — ABC crime drama set in Las Vegas
Viva Laughlin — CBS musical drama set in Laughlin
New Hampshire
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire — CBS drama
set in Poland (fictional)
New Jersey
Boardwalk Empire — HBO crime drama set in Atlantic City
Brick City — Sundance Channel reality show set in
Newark
Cake Boss — TLC reality show set in Hoboken
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas; New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; Costa Verde,
California (fictional). The home of Pinehurst Industries is Fort Lee, New
Jersey.
House M.D. — Fox medical drama set in New Jersey. The
aerial shots of the fictional hospital are the back of Frist Student Center at
Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey).
Jersey Couture — Oxygen reality show set in Freehold
Jersey Shore — MTV reality show set in Seaside Heights
Jerseylicious — Style reality show set in Green Brook
Mercy — NBC medical drama set in Jersey City
The Real Housewives of New Jersey — Bravo reality show
set in New Jersey
Sopranos — HBO drama set in New Jersey
New Mexico
Breaking Bad — AMC comedy show set in New Mexico
Easy Money — CW dramedy set in Albuquerque
In Plain Sight — USA crime show set in Albuquerque
Kid Nation — CBS reality show set in New Mexico
The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams — NBC family show
filmed in the mountains near Ruidoso
The Lost Room — SyFy fantasy drama set in Gallup
McCloud — NBC crime drama set in New York City,
but the main character Sam McCloud was a sheriff from Taos, New Mexico.
Rawhide — CBS western filmed in New Mexico, Arizona,
and California
The Rifleman — ABC western set near North Fork (fictitious)
Roswell — WB fantasy drama set in Roswell, New Mexico.
Many exteriors were shot in Covina, California.
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — Fox fantasy
show set in New Mexico (at least the first few episodes)
New York
Ace of Cakes — Food Channel reality show set in New York City
All in the Family — CBS comedy set in Queens
America's Next Top Model — CW reality show set in New York City
and Los Angeles
The Apprentice — NBC reality show set in New York City
Beach Lane — NBC drama set in the Hamptons
The Beautiful Life — CW reality show set in New York City
Big Shots — ABC comedic drama set in New York City
Blue Bloods — CBS crime drama set in New York City
Bored to Death — HBO detective drama set in Brooklyn
and Manhattan
The Bronx Is Burning — ESPN sports drama set in the Bronx
Brooklyn South — CBS crime drama set in Brooklyn
Buffalo Bill — NBC comedy show in Buffalo
Caroline in the City — NBC comedy set in New York City
Cashmere Mafia — ABC drama set in New York City
Castle — ABC detective drama set in New York City
Central Park West — CBS soap opera set in New York City
The Cosby Show — NBC comedy set in Brooklyn. The
residence used in the exterior shots is actually in the West Village of
Manhattan.
CSI: NY — CBS crime drama set in New York City
Cupid — ABC romantic drama set in New York (second
version)
Damages — FX legal drama set in New York City
The Dick Van Dyke Show — CBS comedy set in New Rochelle
Diff'rent Strokes — NBC comedy set in New York City
Dinner with the Band — IFC reality show set in Brooklyn
Dirty Sexy Money — ABC soap opera set in New York City
Do Not Disturb — Fox comedy set in New York City
Ed — NBC dramedy set in Stuckeyville (fictional)
Ed Sullivan — CBS variety show set in New York City
Everybody Hates Chris — CW comedy set in Brooklyn
Everybody Loves Raymond — CBS comedy set on Long Island
The Fabulous Beekman Boys -- Planet Green reality show set on an
upstate New York organic farm
The Facts of Life — NBC comedy set in Peekskill. Mrs. Garrett's hometown was Appleton, Wisconsin.
Fame — NBC music drama set in New York City
Felicity — WB drama set in New York City. Felicity's home town was
Palo Alto, California.
Flight of the Conchords — HBO comedy set in New York City
Friends — NBC comedy set in New York City. Their apartment building is
located at the corner of Bedford and Grove.
Fringe — Fox crime drama set in Boston (but filmed in
New York City)
Gastineau Girls — E! reality show set in New York City
General Hospital — SOAPnet soap opera set in Port
Charles (fictional)
General Hospital: Night Shift — ABC daytime soap opera set in Port
Charles (fictional)
Gossip Girl — CW teen drama set in Manhattan
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde,
California (fictional). One episode was set in Poughkeepsie, New York. The
Primatech Facility Level 5 is located in Hartsdale, New York.
The Honeymooners — CBS comedy set in Brooklyn
How I Met Your Mother — CBS comedy set in New York City
I Love New York — MTV reality show set in New York City
In Treatment — HBO drama set in Brooklyn
Jesse — NBC comedy set in Buffalo
Just Shoot Me — NBC comedy set in New York City
The King of Queens — CBS comedy set in Queens
Late Show with David Letterman — CBS talk show set in New
York City
Law & Order — NBC crime drama set in New York City
Law & Order: Criminal Intent — NBC crime drama set in New York City
Law & Order: SVU — NBC crime drama set in New York City
Life on Mars — ABC fantasy crime drama set in New York City
Lipstick Jungle — NBC soap opera set in New York City
Living Single — Fox comedy set in Brooklyn
Mad About You — NBC comedy set in New York City
Mad Men — AMC comedy set in New York City
Manimal — NBC fantasy crime drama set in New York City
Mary Knows Best — Syfy reality show set on Long Island
Maude — CBS comedy set in Tuckahoe
McCloud — NBC crime drama set in New York City
Mike Hammer — CBS detective drama set in New York City
Murphy Brown — CBS comedy set in New York City
The Nanny — CBS comedy set in New York City
New Amsterdam — Fox fantasy crime drama set in New York City
New York Goes to Work — VH1 reality show set in New York City
New York Undercover — Detective drama set in New York City
NewsRadio — NBC comedy set in New York City
Night Court — NBC comedy set in New York City
Now & Again — CBS fantasy crime drama set in New York City
NYC Prep — Bravo reality show set in New York City
NYPD Blue — ABC crime drama set in New York City
Past Life — Fox crime drama set in New York City
Queen's Supreme — CBS comedy set in Queens
The Real Housewives of New York City — Bravo reality show set in New
York City
The Real Hustle — truTV hidden camera show set in New York City
The Real World: Brooklyn — MTV reality show set in Brooklyn
The Real World: New York — MTV reality show set in New York
Rescue Me — FX drama set in New York City
Reunion — Fox mystery drama set in Bedford (fictional)
Rhoda — CBS comedy set in New York City
Royal Pains — USA drama set in the Hamptons
Rules of Engagement — CBS comedy set in New York City
The Return of Jezebel James — Fox comedy set in New York City
Sandhogs — History Channel reality show set in New York City
Saturday Night Live — NBC comedy show in New York City
Say Yes to the Dress — TLC reality show set in New York City
Seinfeld — NBC comedy set in New York City
Sex and the City — HBO comedy set in New York City
Slap Maxwell — ABC comedy show in Buffalo
Spin City — ABC comedy set in New York City
Sports Night — ABC comedy set in New York City
Stylista — CW reality show set in New York City
30 Rock — NBC comedy set in New York City
Taxi — NBC comedy set in New York City
That Girl — ABC comedy set in New York City
Third Watch — NBC crime drama set in New York City
3 Lbs. — CBS medical drama set in New York City
The Tonight Show — NBC talk show in New York City and
later in Los Angeles
The Trouble with Larry — Comedy set in Syracuse
Ugly Betty — ABC comedy set in New York City. The
Metropolitan Life Insurance North Building was used as the exterior of the
Mode magazine offices. Now the Woolworth Building is used. Betty's home is
in the Bronx.
The Unusuals — ABC crime drama set in New York City
Welcome Back, Kotter — ABC comedy set in Brooklyn
White Collar — USA Network crime drama set in New York City
Whoopi! — NBC comedy set in New York City
Witchblade — TNT fantasy detective show set in New York City
Without a Trace — CBS crime drama set in New York City
Wizards of Waverly Place — Disney
fantasy set in New York City
Wonderfalls — Fox fantasy
set in Niagara Falls
Z Rock — IFC comedy set in Brooklyn
North Carolina
The Andy Griffith Show — CBS comedy set in Mayberry
(fictional)
Dawson's Creek — WB teen drama set in Capeside,
Massachusetts
(fictional). Episodes were filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina.
Eastbound and Down — HBO comedy set in a small town. Filmed in Scotts
Hill.
One Big Happy Family — TLC reality show set in North Carolina
One Tree Hill — WB teen drama set in Tree Hill
(fictional)
Time Heals — TNT medical drama set in Charlotte, North Carolina
Ohio
Drew Carey Show — NBC comedy set in Cleveland
Family Ties — ABC comedy set in Columbus
Glee — Fox musical set in a small town in western Ohio
Hot in Cleveland — TV Land comedy set in Cleveland
M*A*S*H — CBS comedy set in Korea. The home town of
Corporal Klinger is Toledo.
Normal, Ohio — Fox comedy set in Normal (fictional)
10 Items or Less — TBS comedy set in Ohio
3rd Rock from the Sun — NBC comedy set in Rutherford
(fictional)
WKRP in Cincinnati — CBS comedy set in Cincinnati
Oklahoma
Cimarron City — NBC western set in Cimarron City (fictional)
Cimarron Strip — CBS western set in Cimarron City (fictional)
Hec Ramsey — NBC crime drama set in New Prospect
(fictional)
Saving Grace — TNT crime drama set in Oklahoma City
Oregon
Ax Men — History Channel show set in Vermonia and Astoria
Life Unexpected — CW comedy set in Portland
Little People, Big World — Reality show set in Hillsboro
Pennsylvania
All My Children — ABC soap opera set in fictional Pine Valley on
Philadelphia's Main Line.
American Bandstand — ABC music show in Philadelphia and
later in Los Angeles
American Dreams — NBC family drama set in Philadelphia
Back to You — Fox comedy set in Pittsburgh
Cold Case — CBS crime drama set in Philadelphia
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — NBC comedy set in Bel-Air.
The main character was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
— FX comedy set in Philadelphia
Jon & Kate Plus 8 — TLC reality show set in Wernersville
The Office — NBC comedy set in Scranton
One Life to Live — ABC daytime soap opera set in
Llanview (fictional)
Paranormal State — A&E series about Penn State
University students looking for ghosts
Parking Wars — A&E reality show set in Philadelphia
Philly — ABC legal drama set in Philadelphia
The Real World: Philadelphia — MTV reality show set in Philadelphia
Pretty Little Liars — ABC Family drama set in Rosewood (fictional)
thirtysomething — ABC drama set in Philadelphia
'Til Death — Fox comedy set in Philadelphia
Rhode Island
Brotherhood — Showtime drama set in Providence
Dark Shadows — ABC soap opera set in Collinsport
(fictional). Exterior shots were made in Essex, Connecticut, and Newport, Rhode
Island.
Family Guy — Fox cartoon set in Quahog
Providence — NBC drama set in Providence
South Carolina
Army Wives — Lifetime drama set in a South Carolina army base
South Dakota
Deadwood — HBO western set in Deadwood
Warehouse 13 — Syfy science fiction thriller set in the South Dakota
badlands (the warehouse)
Tennessee
Design Star — HGTV reality show set in Nashville
Down Home with the Neelys — Food show set in Memphis
Gone Country — CMT reality show set
in Nashville
Memphis Beat — TNT crime show set in Memphis
Nashville — Fox reality docu-soap set
in Nashville
Nashville Star — NBC reality show set
in Nashville
Outsider's Inn — CMT reality show set in rural Tennessee
The Road Hammers — GAC reality show set
in Nashville
Texas
Anchorwoman — Fox reality show set in Tyler
Animal Cops Houston — Animal Planet reality show set in Houston
Austin City Limits — PBS music show set in Austin
The Big Bang Theory — CBS comedy set in Los Angeles. One of the main
characters, Sheldon Cooper, grew up in Texas.
Brothers — Fox comedy set in Houston
Black Gold — TruTV reality show set on a Texas oil rig
Dallas — CBS soap opera set in
Dallas
Dallas SWAT — Bio reality show set in Dallas
Friday Night Lights — NBC drama set in Dillon
(fictional), but based on the book and movie set in Odessa
The Good Guys — Fox crime drama set in Dallas
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde,
California (fictional).
High School Reunion — WB reality
show featuring high school alums from Round Rock. Set in Maui, Hawaii.
Houston Knights — Detective series set in Houston
Laredo — NBC western set in
Laredo
Midland — Fox drama set in Midland
The Real World: Austin — MTV reality show set in Austin
Sordid Lives — Logo soap opera set in Texas. Filming done on location
in Shreveport, Louisiana.
Texas Justice — Fox reality show
set in Texas
Trackdown — CBS western set in
Texas
12 Miles of Bad Road — HBO drama set in Dallas
Walker, Texas Ranger — CBS crime drama set in Dallas
Utah
Daniel Boone — NBC adventure series set in Booneville. It was shot in
California and Kanab, Utah.
Big Love — HBO drama set in Sandy
Vermont
Newhart — CBS comedy set in Vermont but ended with him
in bed with his wife in Chicago
The Simpsons — Fox cartoon comedy set in Springfield,
Vermont (as voted by movie goers in 2007). The TV show once indicated Kentucky
and another time southern Missouri.
Virginia
The Cleveland Show — Fox cartoon show set in Stoolbend (fictional)
HawthoRNe — TNT medical drama set in Richmond
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in
Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde,
California (fictional). Also in Arlington, Virginia.
The Vampire Diaries — CW fantasy drama set in Mystic Falls
(fictional). Filmed outside Atlanta, Georgia.
The Waltons — CBS family drama set in the Blue Ridge
Mountains
Washington
Dark Angel — Fox science fiction drama set in Seattle.
The location of the facility was in Gillette, Wyoming.
Dead Like Me — Showtime drama set
in Seattle
Frasier — NBC comedy set in Seattle
Grey's Anatomy — ABC medical drama set in Seattle
Harper's Island — Set in Seattle
Hello, Larry — CBS comedy set in Seattle
iCarly — Nickelodeon teen show set in Seattle
Kyle XY — ABC Family drama set in Seattle
Life As We Know It — ABC drama set in Seattle
The Real World: Seattle — MTV reality show set in Seattle
The Sentinel — UPN crime drama set in Cascade
(fictional)
Twin Peaks — ABC crime drama set in Twin Peaks
(fictional)
Wolf Lake — CBS/UPN werewolf drama set in a Seattle
suburb
West Virginia
Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution — ABC reality show set in Huntington
Wisconsin
Aliens in America — CW comedy set in Milwaukee suburb
The Facts of Life — NBC comedy set in Peekskill. Mrs.
Garrett's hometown was Appleton, Wisconsin.
Happy Days — ABC comedy set in
Milwaukee
Laverne & Shirley — ABC comedy
set in Milwaukee, but later relocated to Los Angeles
Picket Fences — CBS drama set in Rome (fictional, but
near Green Bay)
Step-by-Step — ABC comedy set in Wisconsin
That 70's Show — Fox comedy
set in a Milwaukee suburb (the fictional Point Place)
The Young and the Restless — CBS daytime soap opera set
in Genoa City (fictional)
Wyoming
Dark Angel — Fox science fiction drama set in Seattle,
Washington.
The location of the Manticore facility was in Gillette, Wyoming.
Laramie — NBC western set in Laramie
Lawman — ABC western set in Laramie
The Men from Shiloh — NBC western set near Medicine Bow
The Virginian — NBC western set near Medicine Bow
Canada
18 to Life — CBC/ABC sitcom set in Montreal, Quebec
Flashpoint — CBS crime drama set in Toronto, Ontario
The Tom Green Show — Rogers TV 22 and MTV comedy set in Ottawa, Ontario
Ice Road Truckers — History Channel reality show set in Canada
M.V.P. — CBC and SoapNet soap opera set in Canada
Reaper — CW fantasy set in Vancouver, British Columbia
Stone Undercover — CBC crime drama set in Calgary, Alberta
Trailer Park Boys — comedy set in Nova Scotia. The pilot was filmed in
Spryfield, Nova Scotia. The first season was filmed in Sackville, Nova Scotia.
The second, fourth, and fifth seasons in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. The third in
Lakeside, Nova Scotia.
Whistler — CTV crime drama set in Whistler, British Columbia
Many syndicated and network TV shows are filmed in Canada, especially in
Vancouver or Toronto.
