More Indiana
Eerie, Indiana
Men Behaving Badly
Roseanne was in Lanford, Illinois, AFAIK.
New Jersey
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Mayberry, North Carolina
…and then I realized there was more than one page to the thread. Sorry.
Anyway, to Texas add the short-lived Matt Houston.
To New Jersey add the short-lived animated version of Clierks.
er, Clerks.
I second your confusion, Midnight Radio.
I also want to add that “Touched by an Angel” was filmed in Utah. I never saw the show, but perhaps some episodes were set in Utah as well.
The Barbara Stanwyck western – The Big Valley or something like that – Montana?
Bonanza was set in Nevada; the map on the opening credits makes that clear.
Add to your Florida list the unforgettable Flipper.
Although the Andy Griffith question’s already been answered several times, I’d like to point out that “Mayberry” is an affectionate caricature of Mount Airy, NC, Andy’s home town, as it was when he was growing up there.
I have to say, I’m a little amused at this thread’s “descent” (if you can call it that) into the task of geographically sorting out every single TV show in existence that a poster can think of. I’m not quite sure that’s at all what was intended. If it were, we’re in for a looooooooooong thread…
For more Texas:
The Lone Ranger
Houston Knights
Urban Cowboy (yes there was a tv series based on the movie; it lasted one or two episodes)
I distinctly remember a tv show from the late 80’s that had a group of cowboys from the 1880’s transported through time to the present by a magic bolt of lightning, though the name escapes me.
My So-Called Life was set in Pittsburgh.
As the OP, I’m all for it. Maybe we can create a ‘Rand-McNally Atlas of TV’.
Set in “the West”, filmed in Utah.
And wat’s wiht all the speling-crorection posts?
The Big Valley was set in Stockton, California.
That may be what I was thinking of - I remember somebody talking about people back home in West Virginia.
As for Don Knott’s high school, my daughter attends that high school now.
It’s sort of a military version of Law & Order, with better lighting and less-intersting actors. JAG=Judge Advocate General, which is sort of the District Attorney for the military.
While I’m sort of on the subject of CBS crime dramas, does it seem to anyone but me that some of the leading men in these shows care a lot more about looking “cool” than about telling the damn story? JAG isn’t a terribly gross offender, but it’s a definite stylistic element to all the CBS cop shows, and not of NBC’s. Consider the recent CSI Miama where David Caruso and Gary Sinise were preening competitively. I like the influx of big shot movie directors (Jerry Bruckheimer, Wolfgang Petersen, David Bellissario) doing top-drawer TV productions, but instead of cribbing from Tom Cruise movies, I wish they’d take a long hard look at Homicide: Life on the Streets*.
Well, I’d like to request a moratorium on new mentions of shows set in New York City and Southern California. It’s not like there’s a shortage of these.
Outlaws! I loved that show in all its glorious stupidity. Especially the bit in the pilot where the newly transported cowboys (actually, a gang of outlaws and the sherrif that was trying to apprehand them) look down upon modern-day Houston from a nearby mountaintop. Yeah, sure. One of the many mountaintops here on the Gulf Coast Plain.