# Shows or film that were actually filmed in the place where they are set **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 18, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764 "2021-01-18T00:29:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/141 "2021-01-24T14:26:33Z")
Black Sunday had the crowd scenes and game action scenes filmed during the actual Super Bowl. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/142 "2021-01-24T15:43:52Z")
Highlander: The Series was another where only some of the scenes were filmed where they were set. Half of each season was filmed in and around Vancouver, the other half in and around Paris. The scenes set in Paris, for the most part, were really filmed in Paris. A lot of the flashback scenes were filmed in other areas of France, standing in for Scotland, Italy, etc. Scenes in the American city where Duncan lived half the year were filmed in Vancouver. It was obviously meant to resemble Seattle, but I don’t think that was ever made explicit. Fans of the show took to calling it “Seacouver” in jest. Eventually the producers made this the canonical name of the fictional town. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/143 "2021-01-24T21:19:42Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > My wife, Pepper Mill, grew up in Grover’s Mill (which is actually a very small section of West Windsor Township), and her sister was instrumental in getting that monument put up. Cool. When I lived in Princeton I’d often drive past Grover’s Mill on the way to the Cranbury Book Worm. That was before the 50th anniversary, though. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/144 "2021-01-24T21:26:43Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Me, too. I love the Bradbury building. Some very good TV episodes and movies were filmed there. There was short lived Ray Bradbury Anthology series, which opened going to his supposed office in, of course, the Bradbury Building. “The Birds” supposedly set in Bodega Bay was filmed there, or around there. The school house is actually in Bodga, a few miles inland. “IQ” about the last days of Einstein, was filmed in Princeton and a gas station supposedly in Hopewell Township was filmed there. They redid the gas station to make it look 1955-ish. Unfortunately they didn’t redo Palmer Square, which had the modern stores in its scene. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/145 "2021-01-24T21:29:38Z")
_Clerks_ was filmed in an actual New Jersey convenience store. ---
**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:** [January 25, 2021, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764/146 "2021-01-25T13:49:19Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Cool. When I lived in Princeton I’d often drive past Grover’s Mill on the way to the Cranbury Book Worm. That was before the 50th anniversary, though. I miss the Book Worm. One of those great Used Book Stores stuffed into a house. By the way, I forgot to mention that the scene shot in Grovers Mill was actually supposed to be in Grovers Mill – it’s not a rewrite of H.G. wells’ story, but a scene celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast at Grovers Mill. Which was actually shot in Grovers Mill, NJ on the 50th anniversary. This makes it, like the 1984 adaptation, one of the few films shot not only on the corrct location but at the same time it’s set. Unlike the scenes in **Buckaroo Banzai** that were set in Grovers Mill. The real Grovers Mill doesn’t have palm trees. And I think the Yoyodyne factory they show may be bigger than Grovers Mill itself. I don’t think they shot the New Brunswick scenes in New Brunswick, either. But they get points for naming the town. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shows-or-film-that-were-actually-filmed-in-the-place-where-they-are-set/930764.md?page=7)