It seems I used to watch more TV than I readily admit. Here are episodes I recall:
In the Cheers episode, Diane was compelled to admit that she bowled in college to satisy a physical education requirement. The best moment in the show was when Norm Peterson walked into the bowling alley’s lounge and everyone shouted “Norm!”. Sam asked how it was possible everyone there new him, and Cliff said something such as: “Hey: he’s got a life besides you.”
There was an episode of The Real McCoys where Richard Crenna felt guilty and embarrassed because he had a female bowling partner other than his wife. This may have been considered racy at the time.
On My Three Sons there was an episode where Fred MacMurray takes Beverly Garland to a bowling alley and she seems insanely competitive–a weakness she had wanted to conceal from him.
On Designing Women the women all went bowling to get in good with a prospective client. Annie Potts does a kind of caricature of a loud-mouthed, vulgar, male bowler, and the potential client, revolted, decides to hire a group of gay men who are good sportsmen instead.
On Roseanne there was an episode in which Booker, Jackie’s old supervisor at the plastic factory, makes a bet with her that if he outscores her at bowling she will spend the night with him. He wins, and she is disappointed when he does not enforce the bet. There were also a number of jokes about how Roseanne was completely inept at bowling.
On Laverne and Shirley there was an episode in which Lennie and Squiggy try hitting on women at a bowling alley by telling them they are the heirs to the Schotzky Beer forturne, Lennie and Squiggy Schotzky.
I don’t believe there was an episode set in an alley on Benson, but for a time there were numerous references to Inga Swenson dating a man who liked to take her bowling.
Similarly, I don’t recall any scenes in a bowling alley on The Honeymooners, but there were numerous references. In a Christmas episode which parodied O. Henry’s The Gift of the Magi, Ralph pawned his bowling ball so he could afford a gift for Alice. She, in turn, buys him a new bowling ball bag.
As noted above, there is an episode of The Drew Carey Show in which Drew and Mimi became bowling hustlers.
Bowling has figured more than once on The Simpsons. In one of my favorite episodes, Homer told of how he quit his job at the power plant shortly before Maggie was born, and realized his lifelong dream of becoming a professional pin monkey. It was revealed that replacement bowling pins are continually being whittled in the basement of the alley, one each from enormous tree trunks.
On The Andy Griffith Show, Howard Sprague was on his way to bowling a perfect game. His team and their opponents got into a big bet, and then, at the start of the tenth frame, there was a blackout. It was decided that they would come back the next week to bowl the last frame, and ost of the show was about the tension Howard was feeling. I don’t recall the conclusion.
While I don’t recall specifics, it seems likely there were numerous bowling references on The Odd Couple. So too on The Flintstones.
On Cheers, Roseanne, and (I believe) The Andy Griffith Show and Laverne and Shirley many shots were done from the point of view of the end of the lane, as though the camera was in the way of the pins. The Real McCoys and My Three Sons episodes appear to have been shot in real alleys. The only scenes I remember from Designing Women were from the area at the front of the lanes.