# Have all 50 states housed a sitcom? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225 "2005-05-31T15:35:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/21 "2005-05-31T17:09:44Z")
Massachusetts (Islands): **George and Leo Wings** ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/22 "2005-05-31T17:19:49Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I think you’re off on DVD – the Petries lived on Bonny Meadow Road in New Rochelle, N.Y. My mistake, you’re right. I knew they were in the New York City suburbs, and I’ve taken that rail line into the city once or twice, but I forgot that it was New York side of the border. Why is it I only find out people actually read my posts when they’re correcting me? [sub]_cough_ Saltire _cough_[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/23 "2005-05-31T17:38:00Z")
[This](http://www.tvacres.com/add_coverpage.htm) might help a little. It’s a site that has all the fictional addresses that they could track down for television shows. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/24 "2005-05-31T17:46:09Z")
Hmm, even better: a [state-by-state](http://www.tvacres.com/geographic_settings_usa.htm%5B/url) listings of television show locations. Dunno how complete it is, I suspect not very. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/25 "2005-05-31T17:58:00Z")
Maryland-Roc D.C.-227 ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/26 "2005-05-31T18:00:58Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Why is it I only find out people actually read my posts when they’re correcting me? [sub]_cough_ Saltire _cough_[/sub] Whoops! Gimme a break, it’s still early, and I just got in from a long weekend. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/27 "2005-05-31T18:02:59Z")
Some classic sitcoms, probably some that none of us have ever heard of, let alone seen, courtesy of Rick Mitz’ _The Great TV Sitcom Book_ Arizona - The New Dick Van Dyke Show (Carefree) Colorado - Pistols ‘n’ Petticoats (Wretched) Connecticut - Peter Loves Mary; The Lucy Show; The New Loretta Young Show; My World … And Welcome to It Florida - I Dream of Jeannie (Cape Kennedy); Love Nest Illinois - Life with Luigi (Chicago); The Chicago Teddy Bears (Chicago); The McLean Stevenson Show (Evanston); Mr. T. and Tina (Chicago) Iowa - Nancy (Center City) Kansas - The Phil Silvers Show/You’ll Never Get Rich (Fort Baxter); Paper Moon Louisiana - Tammy Maryland - No Time for Sergeants (Andrews Air Force Base); Hot l Baltimore (Baltimore); In the Beginning (Baltimore) Massachusetts - Highcliffe Manor Missouri - Apple Pie (Kansas City) Nevada - Blansky’s Beauties (Las Vegas); Who’s Watching the Kids (Las Vegas) New Hampshire - Willy (Renfrew) New Jersey - We’ll Get By; Joe and Sons (Hoboken) New Mexico - Guestward Ho! (dude ranch) Ohio - That’s My Boy (Rossmore); It’s a Man’s World (Cordella) Pennsylvania - The Roller Girls (Pittsburgh); Angie (Philadelphia) Texas - The Texas Wheelers Wisconsin - The Waverly Wonders (Waverly) Washington, D.C. - The Farmer’s Daughter; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Temperatures Rising; That’s My Mama; Szysznyk; Grandpa Goes to Washington Puerto Rico - The Flying Nun (San Juan) Non-US locales (I thought there would just be one or two, but I didn’t even include the ones set on cruise ships or with people wandering around the world): London, England - Dick and the Duchess; Fair Exchange; From a Bird’s Eye View England - When Things Were Rotten Paris, France - Don’t Call Me Charlie France - Roll Out Rome, Italy - To Rome with Love Moscow, USSR - Ivan the Terrible Germany - Hogan’s Heroes Europe - Harry’s Girls Korea - M_A_S\*H Siam - Anna and the King South Pacific - Ensign O’Toole; Mr. Roberts; McHale’s Navy (later Italy); Gilligan’s Island; Broadside; Operation Petticoat Toronto, Canada - The Trouble with Tracy Vancouver, Canada - Sunshine ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/28 "2005-05-31T18:20:16Z")
I truly can’t think of one for Kentucky. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/29 "2005-05-31T18:50:28Z")
There are already multiple items for Pennsylvania, but I’d like to add _Grand_ to that list. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/30 "2005-05-31T19:24:48Z")
There was a shortlived one on WB set in Arizona called “Greetings from Tuscon” ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/31 "2005-05-31T19:35:12Z")
The first season of “Double Trouble” was also set in Iowa, specifically Des Moines. I don’t remember “Nancy”, which saddens me that a TV show like that could have avoided my attention. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/32 "2005-05-31T19:52:01Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > Oregon: _Hello, Larry_ Arnold: “Whatchoo talking about Willis?” _Diff’rent Strokes_ ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/33 "2005-05-31T20:10:39Z")
> [@squeegee](#): > > Hmm, even better: a [state-by-state](http://www.tvacres.com/geographic_settings_usa.htm) listings of television show locations. Dunno how complete it is, I suspect not very. Fixed link. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/34 "2005-05-31T20:14:21Z")
> [@Yeticus Rex](#): > > Arnold: “Whatchoo talking about Willis?” > _Diff’rent Strokes_ My bad…New Yawk. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/35 "2005-05-31T20:29:45Z")
> [@F. U. Shakespeare](#): > > I don’t remember it ever being explicitly stated, but ISTR hearing that references to Bugtussle, TN (where the Beverly Hillbillies Clampetts hailed from) placed Pixley and Hooterville (towns referred to in both _Petticoat Junction_ and _Green Acres_) in close enough proximity that they also had to be in Tennessee. Hooterville was in Illinois. Chicago was mentioned alot as being the nearest big city on Green Acres and Petticoat Junction. Springfield was also mentioned as the name of the state capital. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/36 "2005-05-31T20:37:05Z")
> [@DoctorJ](#): > > I truly can’t think of one for Kentucky. _The Simpsons_, arguably. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/37 "2005-05-31T20:52:50Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > Kansas - The Phil Silvers Show/You’ll Never Get Rich (Fort Baxter); Paper Moon Let’s “upgrade” Kansas with _F-Troop_. ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/38 "2005-05-31T21:13:44Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > Fixed link. Arg. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/39 "2005-05-31T21:54:19Z")
I believe that Gilligan’s Island was located in the tail end of the Hawaiian archipelago. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2005, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-all-50-states-housed-a-sitcom/306225/40 "2005-05-31T22:12:34Z")
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