One Day at a Time.
Much as I loved this show, it was very obviously not filmed in Indianapolis.
Ann was supposed to have moved there from Logansport, but when they show the entrance to Indianapolis, it’s an entrance to highway 70. That’s an east/west entrance to Indy, the right one from Hollywood or NYC, but the wrong one from Logansport.
Barbara is once at a meeting for her college political group, and someone is introduced as spearheading the recall election for some politician. Indiana, unlike California, does not have recall elections. We just hope our bad governors leave office to run as VP for even worse presidential candidates. We do have a law that you can’t run for one office while holding another.
A city police officer shows up at the apartment, and says he’s from the IPD. The Indianapolis police department is referred to as the IMPD, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, to differentiate it from the ISPD, the Indiana State Police Department. Also to express the fact that it has co-jurisdiction with the township departments outside the city proper, like Speedway, Carmel, etc.
Ann and the girls live on the 4th floor of her building. No building of residential units, unless it’s a high-rise, is higher than 3 floors, because there is a statute that a building (other than a private residence) with more than 3 floors must have an elevator, so there are no 4, 5 or 6 floor apartment buildings: they present a nightmare for landlords if the elevator goes out, so they end up actually needing to have at least 2. The lowest residential building I’ve seen with more than three floors has 10, and it’s downtown. The family does not live downtown. I’ve also seen some 5-floor medical buildings in the VERY expensive Carmel. They couldn’t afford to park a bike in Carmel.
There’s also an occasional reference to Indiana University, and to the Indy 500, but never to anything campus specific at IU, and once there’s some famous orchestra conductor who is in Indianapolis, and conducting, apparently, the barely professional Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra with no reference to the world-famous Indiana University School of Music (yes, people come from world-over to study there). And though Ann must live on the westside (by process of elimination), she never griped once about racetrack traffic.
Anyway, there’s never any reference to anything Indianapolis-specific, that a resident would recognize-- or that a Hoosier from any city would recognize, like the things you get all the time in shows set in California and NYC-- Sparkletts water, or ConEd, for example.