# Any Shows "take place" in your hometown? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2005, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092 "2005-03-18T02:14:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/41 "2005-03-18T17:21:47Z")
[QUOTE=Casey1505] The upcoming NBC sitcom, [The Office](http://www.nbc.com/The_Office/about/), based on the British sitcom of the same name, is set in Scranton. From what I’ve heard, there are some Scranton-specific references in the show, such as one of the characters went to Bishop O’Hara High School (next town over, but so what), ate lunch at so-and-so place, etc. Scranton is merely the setting, not the punchline, which is nice. [QUOTE] I’ll try and complete the circle by saying I was born in Slough, England where the UK “The Office” was based. I don’t live there now though. ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/42 "2005-03-18T17:25:07Z")
My hometown was the setting for the movie “In Country” starring Bruce Willis. Bobbie Ann Mason is from there, so she set her novel there and they came back to film it. Lexington has appeared in a number of films and TV shows, the most notable being “Seabiscuit” (the racing scenes were all shot at Keeneland.) ---
**Author:** ![Chastain86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Chastain86](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chastain86)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/43 "2005-03-18T17:39:18Z")
The shows _Medium_ and (IIRC) _Alice_ are both Phoenix-based. Other than those two, I can’t remember any. ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/44 "2005-03-18T17:47:14Z")
There’s _WKRP in Cincinnati_. Jodi Foster’s film _Little Man Tate_ was shot in Cincinnati, although they don’t name it in the film. I used to live in the building where Harry Connick Jr.'s character resided - in fact, the front door of my old apartment is clearly visible in one shot. And my sister knew a couple of the local extras used in the movie. It’s amusing b/c there’s a guy in a green shirt sitting next to the little kid Tate in a couple of scenes - only if you look real closely, two different extras play that green-shirted guy. My sister knew both of them. ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/45 "2005-03-18T18:12:34Z")
I am also a New Yorker. Plenty of shows to choose from there. I spent most of my youth in the suburbs, however. The closest town to my old digs leapt into the forefront American public consciousness due to the televisual _feast_ that was The Facts of Life. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/46 "2005-03-18T18:26:37Z")
the miniseries of Stephen King’s “The Stand” had some scenes taking place in southern coastal Maine (York, Kittery, Eliot), in fact, the Nubble Lighthouse on Long Sands beach in York Beach was a prominent feature ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/47 "2005-03-18T21:22:18Z")
Hee Haw…and multiple episodes of Cops ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/48 "2005-03-18T21:51:36Z")
**Mama’s Family** was set in Raytown, Missouri–which is a few minutes away from Kansas City (Missouri). There was also a short-lived series, **Back to Kansas** , that was set somewhere vague in Kansas. It eventually changed its name to **Married to the Kellys** , but failed anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/49 "2005-03-18T21:59:43Z")
I live in Columbus, home of **Family Ties**. I can only remember a few times they actually mentioned that during the show. ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/50 "2005-03-18T22:07:54Z")
The\* Halloween\* horror movies were based in the town that I grew up in - Haddonfield, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![MinniePurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MinniePurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinniePurl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/51 "2005-03-18T22:08:29Z")
I grew up in Colorado Springs, the setting of _Stargate:SG-1_ (kinda sorta, when they are on Earth) and _Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman_. Stargate gets a lot of things wrong. A lot of time there will be dead-on accurate props on exterior shots (a newspaper vending machine carrying “The Gazette”, a police car which looks identical to the real CSPD cars), but they really can’t hide the fact that all their exteriors, except for the stock footage of the Cheyenne Mountain entrace, look entirely like British Columbia, and not a bit like Colorado. They did have a pretty egregious error in one episode when Carter claimed that Colorado Springs had no zoo. Not only is there one-- it is ON Cheyenne Mountain. But at least they try to get it right once in a while, unlike _Dr. Quinn_. \*Dr. Quinn \* portrayed Colo. Spgs. in the late 1800s as a typical dusty Western frontier town. Problem is, it never looked like that. The town’s founder, General Palmer, specifically founded and built the town because his English wife hated typical dusty western frontier towns so much that she wanted to go back to England. He tried to make it look as much like London as possible. She went back to England anyway-- there’s gratitude for you. I don’t understand why they set it in a real town if they were not going to use the historical details of the town. Why not just make up a town? It seems to be based on [Doc Susie](http://ellensplace.net/hcg_fac3.html) anyway, who wasn’t based in Colorado Springs. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/52 "2005-03-18T22:16:54Z")
> [@ISiddiqui](#): > > Well, I was born in Point Pleasant, NJ, which is the setting for the show **Point Pleasant**. Seconded. I live in an adjoining town, but I was born in Pt. Pleasant Hospital, went to grade school in Point, and spent a great deal of my time on Pt. Pleasant boardwalk years ago (or, at least the shore bars along that boardwalk). Although for some reason, I can’t seem to find the lighthouse or cliffs featured on the show. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/53 "2005-03-18T22:21:13Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > _Mr. Belvedere_ was set in Pittsburgh. No, it was set in Beaver Falls. I was living there at the time, going to Geneva College. And the tv BF was nothing like the real one. (Big surprise there.) I think the only thing they got right was the name of the town. Driving times, local landmarks, even the high school’s colors were wrong. Hollywood: What can ya do? ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/54 "2005-03-19T01:06:59Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Lots of John Hughes’ movies were set here, but not here. (Evanston, IL, but he called it Shermer, much to the consternation of Jay and Silent Bob.) _The Breakfast Club_, while supposedly based on Evanston Township High School, was filmed two towns over at Main East High School, I believe. I don’t know if he did any filming here or not. > > I don’t know of any TV shows set here though. But then again, I don’t pay much attention to the settings of TV shows unless they’re integral to the plot, like \*Angel \*in LA. I believe the short-lived ABC series **Once and Again** was set in Evanston; at least I know for sure that Jake’s restaurant was located there. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/55 "2005-03-19T01:08:10Z")
> [@todd33rpm](#): > > **bodypoet** and I live in the town that Jeff Foxworthy’s short-lived sitcom supposedly took place in. I couldn’t be bothered to watch it, but friends of mine have said it’s wildly, wildly wrong. > > And up the road, in Indianapolis, you can find \*One Day At A Time \*, though what the hell the show had to do with Indy is still beyond me. How far up the road are you talking? I’m an Indiana boy, myself. Within spittin’ distance of Louisville. But you beat me to _One Day at a Time_, damn you! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![threeorange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@threeorange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threeorange)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/56 "2005-03-19T01:10:56Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > Quite a few shows have been set in Chicago, including The Bob Newhart Show and ER. ER does a few days of location shooting here each year, but the only show I can think of that was filmed entirely on location here (as opposed to in a studio) was _Cupid_. **ER** must only do their location shooting in January, because from watching the show, one would get the impression that it snows eleven months a year here. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/57 "2005-03-19T04:34:09Z")
_The Drew Carey Show_ was set in Cleveland. They filmed one of the opening sequences (before the big dance openers started) in town and I remember an episode where they were going to a Browns game, and filmed here. There are numerous references to Cleveland and its suburbs throughout the show. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/58 "2005-03-19T04:43:23Z")
Hawaii, North Shore and Lost all take place in my hometown. I think the only one left standing is Lost. I have yet to see the actors around town (God _please_ let me run into Saeeb at Foodland.) [sub]please?[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/59 "2005-03-19T04:59:28Z")
The Canadian show _Corner Gas_ is set in the fictional town of Dog River, Saskatchewan, but from time to time the characters go to Regina. The office tower I work in has showed up in a couple of episodes, as has Taylor Field. But because they shoot in the summer, the episode where they all tried to go to Grey Cup just didn’t look right. I was at Taylor Field that day, and it was not, repeat not, shirt sleeve weather. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/60 "2005-03-20T11:48:14Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Cheers > Two Guys and a Girl > Boston Common > Boston Public > Ally McBeal > The Practice Great, Are we supposed to guess where you live? Can you give us a hint? 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092.md?page=4)