Coach was set in Minnesota. The first season of The Jeff Foxworthy Show was inexplicably set in Bloomington, Indiana.
Oklahoma - Cimarron Strip (In reruns I saw it listed as just Cimarron)
Louisiana - Yancy Derringer
Arizona - Cochise, Tombstone Territory, Wyatt Earp (that last one for one seasons).
Kansas - Wyatt Earp (for three seasons), Gunsmoke, Bat Masterson.
Something tells me Idaho’s going to be left out in the cold here.
Idaho - Amazing Grace
**Montana ** - Lonesome Dove, My Friend Flicka
**West Virginia ** - Hawkins
Yes, but the producers said it was loosely based on Buffalo, NY.
I think the idea is to get one or two shows for every state, and California is already well-represented. Every show takes place somewhere, after all, and “somewhere” usually translates to LA or Manhattan.
I think the New York and Massechussettes entries in the OP contradict that.
Someone mentioned that Chicago Hope was set in Illinois, but ER is, also.
(Re: Grace Under Fire. Yes, it was set in Missouri, but all the exterior still shots were taken in my neighborhood in Illinois!)
Where was Grizzley Adams set?
Where was The Andy Griffith Show set?
Funny, I just always assumed Hill Street Blues was set in NYC. That’s what I get for not watching it, I guess. Little House on the Prairie, OTOH, I watched a lot of, and yet I could’ve sworn Walnut Grove was in Kansas, not Minnesota. Oh well.
Soooo… to recap:
Alabama
Any Day Now (On Lifetime. Any broadcast network shows?)
Alaska
Northern Exposure
Arizona
Cochise
Tombstone Territory
Wyatt Earp
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
Probe
Cade’s County
Greetings From Tucson
Alice
Arkanas
Evening Shade
California
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Angel: the Series
Gomer Pyle: USMC
Monk
Beverly Hills, 90210
Beverly Hillbillies
Streets of San Francisco
Colorado
South Park
Mork & Mindy
Connecticut
Who’s the Boss?
Delaware
Florida
Miami Vice
Golden Girls
Empty Nest
CSI: Miami
Georgia
Designing Women
Dukes of Hazzard
Hawaii
Hawaii Five-O
Magnum P.I.
Idaho
Amazing Grace
Illinois
The Bob Newhart Show
Chicago Hope
ER
Married… With Children
Indiana
One Day at a Time
The Jeff Foxworthy Show
Iowa
Heartland
Kansas
Gunsmoke
Bat Masterson
Smallville
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Louisiana
Yancy Derringer
Bourbon Street Beat
Frank’s Place
Maine
Murder, She Wrote
Maryland
Hot L Baltimore
Homicide, life on the streets
Joan of Arcadia
Massachusetts
Cheers
St. Elsewhere
Ally McBeal
The Practice
Boston Public
Michigan
Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
Home Improvement
Minnesota
Coach
Little House on the Prairie
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Mississippi
In the Heat of the Night
Missouri
Mama’s Family
Grace Under Fire
The John Larroquette Show
Montana
Lonesome Dove
My Friend Flicka
Nebraska
Nevada
Vega$
Bonanza
CSI
New Hampshire
The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (Anything that lasted more than 2 episodes?)
New Jersey
The Sopranos
Down the Shore
New Mexico
Roswell
Quantum Leap
New York
Third Watch
All in the Family
Barney Miller
Hill Street Blues
Diff’rent Strokes
Night Court
NYPD Blue
Welcome Back, Kotter
North Carolina
The Andy Griffith Show
North Dakota
F-Troop
Ohio
Family Ties
Homefront
The Drew Carey Show
Oklahoma
Cimarron
The Torkelsons
Oregon
Hello, Larry
Pennsylvania
ThirtySomething
Mr. Belvedere
Boy Meets World
Grand
Rhode Island
Family Guy
South Carolina
South Dakota
Deadwood
Tennesee
Davy Crockett
Texas
Dallas (Any others? This can’t be the only one)
Utah
Vermont
Newhart
Virginia
JAG (I’ve never heard of this one, what was it?)
The Waltons
Washington
John Doe
Dark Angel
Frasier
West Virginia
Hawkins
Wisconsin
Picket Fences
Laverne & Shirley
Happy Days
That 70’s Show
Wyoming
The Virginian
Washington, D.C.
Murphy Brown
West Wing
That leaves us with Delaware, Nebraska, South Carolina and Utah as the TV orphans so far.
What? You sully the colors of the glorious flag of Maryland with your scurrilous comments!! May a thousand camel fleas infest your armpits.
The Andy Griffith Show was set in Mayberry, North Carolina (and is on the list). The imdb listing for Grizzly Adams just says “in the wilderness”.
Since we’ve got The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart on the list, does anyone remember where Bob was set?
High Mountain Rangers with Robert Conrad was set in Nevada.
If you’re looking for a New Hampshire show that lasted more than three episodes, Peyton Place, at least in the novel and movie, was supposed to be in NH. But I haven’t been able to confirm the same for the series. I assume it should be, but…
Queer as Folk is set in Pittsburgh. I don’t know if it counts, though, being a cable series.
You can add Double Trouble (the Sagal twin vehicle) to the Iowa list. It was set in Des Moines.
Maryland
Homicide
*The Pretender * - Delaware
Rachel Gunn, R.N. - Nebraska
*American Gothic * - South Carolina
The Swamp Fox - South Carolina
The Brothers Garcia, a kid’s show on Nickelodeon, is set in San Antonio.
I think Get Smart was also set in DC.