Well? Nearly every major city has had a TV show based in it. What’s the biggest one without one?
I’m not going to run a search but I know there was a thread about this a few months back. I think Tulsa, Oklahoma was the answer.
Houston or Phoenix?Excepting football games.Only a guess,don’t watch the major networks prime time series.
I thought so, too. I searched back six months and didn’t find anything (using “biggest city show” as the criteria). For some reason, Sacremento came to mind, but I think that was the “Biggest City Without an Interstate”.
Philadelphia.
American Dreams is set in Philadelphia of the 60’s.
Richie, there’s a TV show called “The Hack” or “Hack” that is being filmed here in Philly now. I’m not sure if it has premiered yet. And there’s that skit on Mad TV with the two rather large women that is set in Philly.
Houston had two shows that lasted a single season set there, both airing in the same year, in the late eighties. They were the only two to ever be set there. So it’s disqualified if you mean ever, but currently it would be.
Wasn’t thirtysomething set in Philadelphia?
Houston had Matt Houston
Philadelphia had, in addition to those already mentioned, Philly and American Bandstand.
Sacramento had Eight is Enough.
Here’s a table of the twenty largest cities in the US–I’m assuming that the US is what’s being referred to in the OP. All we have to do is find a tv show for as many on this list as we can, and the highest one left would be our winner. The three numbers listed are population, area, and density.
1 New York city, NY *...... 7,322,564 308.9 23,705
2 Los Angeles city, CA..... 3,485,398 469.3 7,427
3 Chicago city, IL......... 2,783,726 227.2 12,252
4 Houston city, TX......... 1,630,553 539.9 3,020
5 Philadelphia city, PA.... 1,585,577 135.1 11,736
6 San Diego city, CA *..... 1,110,549 324.0 3,428
7 Detroit city, MI......... 1,027,974 138.7 7,411
8 Dallas city, TX.......... 1,006,877 342.4 2,941
9 Phoenix city, AZ *....... 983,403 419.9 2,342
10 San Antonio city, TX… 935,933 333.0 2,811
11 San Jose city, CA… 782,248 171.3 4,567
12 Baltimore city, MD… 736,014 80.8 9,109
13 Indianapolis city, IN *… 731,327 361.7 2,022
14 San Francisco city, CA… 723,959 46.7 15,502
15 Jacksonville city, FL *… 635,230 758.7 837
16 Columbus city, OH… 632,910 190.9 3,315
17 Milwaukee city, WI… 628,088 96.1 6,536
18 Memphis city, TN *… 610,337 256.0 2,384
19 Washington city, DC… 606,900 61.4 9,884
20 Boston city, MA… 574,283 48.4 11,865
I can’t think of any shows set in Phoenix, San Antonio, San Jose, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, or Memphis.
One Day at a Time was set in Indianapolis.
GAH coding error.
Anyhoo, Alice was set in Phoenix. So the title appears to go to San Antonio.
When this was done a while back I thought the two finalists were San Antonio and Tulsa.
And since Friends has been featuring Tulsa as Chandler’s work site…does this bring it down to San Antonio?
What show was set in Portland, Oregon?
Number Six, where did that data come from?
What about Kansas City?
2000 census numbers
Top 50 Cities in the U.S. by Population - 2000
1: New York, N.Y. 8,008,278
2: Los Angeles, Calif. 3,694,820
3: Chicago, Ill. 2,896,016
4: Houston, Tex. 1,953,631
5: Philadelphia, Pa. 1,517,550
6: Phoenix, Ariz. 1,321,045
7: San Diego, Calif. 1,223,400
8: Dallas, Tex. 1,188,580
9: San Antonio, Tex. 1,144,646
10: Detroit, Mich. 951,270
11:San Jose, Calif. 894,943
12: Indianapolis, Ind. 791,926
13: San Francisco, Calif. 776,733
14: Jacksonville, Fla. 735,617
15: Columbus, Ohio 711,470
15: Austin, Tex. 656,562
17: Baltimore, Md. 651,154
18: Memphis, Tenn. 650,100
19: Milwaukee, Wis. 596,974
20: Boston, Mass. 589,141
The TV show “Alice” took place in Phoenix.
Number six, those stats are old. Probably from 1990. San Jose, I believe is in the top 10. Houston is over 1,900,000.
Good job Astro
Never mind here’s whole list
Top 50 Cities in the U.S. by Population - 2000
1: New York, N.Y. 8,008,278
2: Los Angeles, Calif. 3,694,820
3: Chicago, Ill. 2,896,016
4: Houston, Tex. 1,953,631
5: Philadelphia, Pa. 1,517,550
6: Phoenix, Ariz. 1,321,045
7: San Diego, Calif. 1,223,400
8: Dallas, Tex. 1,188,580
9: San Antonio, Tex. 1,144,646
10: Detroit, Mich. 951,270
11: San Jose, Calif. 894,943
12: Indianapolis, Ind. 791,926
13: San Francisco, Calif. 776,733
14: Jacksonville, Fla. 735,617
15: Columbus, Ohio 711,470
15: Austin, Tex. 656,562
17: Baltimore, Md. 651,154
18: Memphis, Tenn. 650,100
19: Milwaukee, Wis. 596,974
20: Boston, Mass. 589,141
21: Washington, DC 572,059
22: Nashville-Davidson, Tenn. 1,569,891
23: El Paso, Tex. 563,662
24: Seattle, Wash. 563,374
25: Denver, Colo. 554,636
26: Charlotte, N.C. 540,828
27: Fort Worth, Tex. 534,694
28: Portland, Ore. 529,121
29: Oklahoma City, Okla. 506,132
30: Tucson, Ariz. 486,699
31: New Orleans, La. 484,674
32: Las Vegas, Nev. 478,434
33: Cleveland, Ohio 478,403
34: Long Beach, Calif. 461,522
35: Albuquerque, N.M. 448,607
36: Kansas City, Mo. 441,545
37: Fresno, Calif. 427,652
38: Virginia Beach, Va. 425,257
39: Atlanta, Ga. 416,474
40: Sacramento, Calif. 407,018
41: Oakland, Calif. 399,484
42: Mesa, Ariz. 396,375
43: Tulsa, Okla. 393,049
44: Omaha, Neb. 390,007
45: Minneapolis, Minn. 382,618
46: Honolulu CDP,2 Hawaii 371,657
47: Miami, Fla. 362,470
48: Colorado Springs, Colo. 360,890
49: St. Louis, Mo. 348,189
50: Wichita, Kans. 344,284