# Longest running primetime TV series (by state) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 9, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113 "2010-11-09T23:55:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/41 "2010-11-11T15:56:14Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I think both Green Acres and Petticoat Junction left it ambiguous as to which state they were set in. It may have never been stated outright, but Granny and the Clampetts visited [Silver Dollar City](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Dollar_City) in at least one episode of Beverly Hillbillies which is set in the same Paul Henning-verse. And I seem to recall Granny mentioning [Lake Taneycomo](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Taneycomo) in another episode. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/42 "2010-11-11T16:16:25Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I don’t get that Wiki page. It lists 41 shows set in New York State, and 231 shows set in New York City. > mmm It missed" Home Improvement" for Michigan. 8 years and reruns forever. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/43 "2010-11-11T16:27:46Z")
Wikipedia lists _Home Improvement_ under the subcategory _Television shows set in Detroit, Michigan_. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/44 "2010-11-11T16:31:46Z")
Arkansas - “Evening Shade” (4 seasons) Also, anything set in Oklahoma run longer than \*\*Saving Grace’s \*\*three seasons? ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/45 "2010-11-11T16:41:17Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I don’t get that Wiki page. It lists 41 shows set in New York State, and 231 shows set in New York City. > mmm Big city locations are listed as a sub-catagory They missed “Mr T and Tina” for Chicago. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/46 "2010-11-12T01:09:07Z")
Soap operas take some beating: Illinois - As the World Turns. 54 years. New York - General Hospital. 47 years. Pennsylvania - One Life to Live. 42 years. Wisconsin - the Young and the Restless. 37 years. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/47 "2010-11-12T01:26:44Z")
The thread title calls for _primetime_ series. Those soap operas were _daytime_ shows. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/48 "2010-11-12T01:32:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The thread title calls for _primetime_ series. Those soap operas were _daytime_ shows. OK - that explains why they weren’t suggested before. I didn’t realise there was a real difference - I don’t see them at their original times (and I don’t watch soaps anyway, I just know that they last a long time). What time does primetime start, out of curiosity? Funnily enough, the really cheesy detective shows Murder She Wrote and Diagnosis Murder have always been shown in the daytime over here (UK). ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/49 "2010-11-12T02:20:40Z")
On the East and West coasts of the US, primetime is 8-11pm. (It’s a little different in the Central and Mountain time zones, simply because the networks don’t want another feed for them.) Basically, it amounts to the evening hours. According to Wikipedia, it’s the equivalent of “peak time” in the UK. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/50 "2010-11-12T02:54:42Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > Presumably because all the other residents of Cabot Cove had been murdered? 😃 In a similar vein, “In the Heat of the Night” was set in Mississippi for 7+ seasons, despite Sparta, MS being the murder capital, per captia, of the US for each of those seasons. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/51 "2010-11-12T13:09:27Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > The original _ **CSI** _ is in its 11th season. Has it got 3 more left in it, I wonder? I’m going to answer my own question. I watched it last night for the first time since William Peterson left. Yeesh. I think it’s time to put this one on a slab. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113/52 "2010-11-12T14:45:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I think both Green Acres and Petticoat Junction left it ambiguous as to which state they were set in. Agreed, and if I had to take a WAG as to where they were located, I would guess Illinois instead of Missouri. I do believe **Ferd Burfel** is correct though, that the Clampetts were from down in the Ozarks - either southern Missouri or northern Arkansas, but again I think it was ambiguous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longest-running-primetime-tv-series-by-state/560113.md?page=2)