# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**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, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/61 "2005-03-20T11:50:30Z")
Roughly Half of all Braves Baseball games happen in my hometown… Same for Hawks Basketball, but I don’t think its a real winner for ratings. :o We Used to have a show called “Thrashers Hockey”, But I think it got cancelled last season. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/62 "2005-03-20T15:15:44Z")
MTV had a show in the early 90s called _Austin Stories_. I great up there, but live in Dallas now so I watched it just to see if I could spot the location shots. I hear MTV is coming back to Austin to do a season of _The Real World_. ---
**Author:** ![iggy\_popov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f17d59/32.png) [@iggy\_popov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iggy_popov)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/63 "2005-03-20T21:07:18Z")
I used to live in Park Ridge Il. There were a few scenes in the Blues Brothers that were shot mere blocks from my old house. I still go to the gas station they get pulled over near and the mall they drive through used to be only a few blocks from my place. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/64 "2005-03-20T21:17:29Z")
If you’ve ever seen the British detective series Inspector Morse, it’s set and mainly set in my home town of Oxford. The strangest I ever saw on the show was Morse walking down an Oxford street, turn a corner and he came out in St. Albans, where my parents used to live. Must have been a very brisk 50-mile hike. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/65 "2005-03-20T23:29:59Z")
Cold Case takes place in Philly, I believe, and they actually shot a couple clips for the opening credits here. Everything else is shot in Vancouver or something. The soon-to-be cancelled American Dreams (which my mother watches religiously) is based in Philly of eras past, also not filmed here. There was some mystery show a year or so ago that ran for one season, about a cab driver, which was partly filmed here, IIRC, and was cancelled. There was also some series that started this summer or something based in Philly, which was promptly cancelled. I think there’s a trend there. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/66 "2005-03-21T00:17:47Z")
I live in a little town in North Carolina called Mayberry but of course no show has ever been set here. 🙂 Seriously, I live in Cleveland and all we had was Drew Carey’s show, which has already been mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/67 "2005-03-21T00:54:27Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > 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! 😉 They’re talking about Bloomington, IN. ---
**Author:** ![VernWinterbottom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/c67d28/32.png) [@VernWinterbottom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VernWinterbottom)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/68 "2005-03-21T01:41:17Z")
No TV shows, but two movies. _Passionada_ was set in New Bedford, MA, where most of the filming was done. A couple of scenes, though, were shot just over the bridge in my hometown. Then way, way back in 1920, the silent film _Down to the Sea in Ships_ with Clara Bow was filmed here. One of the locations is a block away from my office. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/69 "2005-03-21T02:04:04Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > As **Scott** said, Homocide and The Wire are set here, and filmed here. Dave’s dad was the pediatrician for Andre Braugher’s children during their time in Baltimore. ---
**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 21, 2005, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/70 "2005-03-21T03:47:37Z")
> [@Guy Incognito](#): > > They’re talking about Bloomington, IN. Go Hoosiers! ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/71 "2005-03-21T06:14:28Z")
OK, this one’s a stretch, but it was a real surprise. In **Animal House** , which was filmed in Eugene and Cottage Grove, Oregon, there is a scene in which Tom Hulce as Larry “Pinto” Kroger and Sarah Holcomb as Clorette DePasto vist the home of Faber College Prof. Dave Jennings (Donald Sutherland). There’s a short scene in the living room and then a scene in a bathroom where Sutherland shares a joint with the young couple, and in which the following classic interchange is included: [Handed his first joint] Pinto: I won’t go schizo, will I? Jennings: It’s a distinct possibility. The house in which that was filmed is a huge early-20th-Century fourplex a the corner of Sixth and Lawrence streets in Eugene. I used to live in the apartment immediately above that one; my brother and his wife used to live n the actual apartment where the filming took place. I helped paint that bathroom. How much closer to immortality can one get? ---
**Author:** ![c\_carol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e79b87/32.png) [@c\_carol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_carol)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/72 "2005-03-21T22:46:54Z")
> [@zamboniracer](#): > > I live in a little town in North Carolina called Mayberry but of course no show has ever been set here. 🙂 I really did grow up in Mount Airy, NC. It’s Andy Griffith’s hometown, and the fictional Mayberry was loosely based on it. The town now has a thriving Mayberry-based tourism industry, but the truth is that Mount Airy isn’t actually very much like Mayberry, and really never was. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092/73 "2005-03-22T03:29:19Z")
I live in the San Fernando Valley, setting for _The Big Lebowski_, _Boogie Nights_, and about eighten trazillion pornos. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-shows-take-place-in-your-hometown/295092.md?page=3)