# TV Show for Every State **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 2, 2014, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864 "2014-06-02T21:08:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/21 "2014-06-03T14:38:48Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > _The Mentalist_ takes place in Sacramento. _Three’s Company_ took place in San Diego. _Three’s Company_ was in Santa Monica, wasn’t it? Certainly much closer to LA than San Diego. _Simon & Simon_ was originally in San Diego before moving to “generic Southern California,” IIRC. _Home Improvement_ was in Michigan. I think _That’s My Mama_ took place in Oakland. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/22 "2014-06-03T15:34:45Z")
> [@That\_Don\_Guy](#): > > _Three’s Company_ was in Santa Monica, wasn’t it? Certainly much closer to LA than San Diego. You are correct. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/23 "2014-06-03T16:04:28Z")
> [@bibliophage](#): > > Oregon - Hello, Larry (a short-lived sitcom starring McLean Stevenson) Thanks! I don’t know how I forgot about that show-- I used to watch it, because one of the daughters was the girl from the Disney version of Escape to Witch Mountain, a film I loved when I was a kid. > [@](#): > > Utah - Big Love Whoa-- just looked it up, and it is fiction. Somehow, I had thought that was a reality show. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/24 "2014-06-03T16:10:01Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > Isn’t GRIMM set in Oregon as well? Portland. And… I’d think _Dallas_ has the best claim on Texas, not _Friday Night Lights_. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/25 "2014-06-03T17:37:26Z")
I don’t know which Dakota it is, but Fargo is now on FX ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/26 "2014-06-03T17:54:03Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I don’t know which Dakota it is, but Fargo is now on FX I had to look that up, I never realized that the city is in ND. Most of the movie and TV show is set in Minnesota. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/27 "2014-06-03T18:20:01Z")
South Dakota - _Deadwood_ (although it wasn’t actually a state at the time the show was set) Oregon - _Portlandia_ Maryland - definitely agree with **DCnDC** that it should be _The Wire_ or _Homicide_. North Carolina - _Dawson’s Creek_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/28 "2014-06-03T18:55:54Z")
New Hampshire - The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire (And Hogan’s Heroes (note spelling) was, in fact, in Germany - Hammalburg, Germany, to be more specific, and not only does the city exist, but there really was a Stalag 13 there.) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/29 "2014-06-03T19:05:51Z")
> [@mcgato](#): > > [This thread may save some time.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=584986) Plus, at the risk of dickishly spoiling your fun, there’s a Wikipedia list of [Television shows set in the United States by state](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Television_shows_set_in_the_United_States_by_state). ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/30 "2014-06-03T20:10:51Z")
Ron Ely’s \*\*\*Tarzan \*\*\*series was based somewhere in Africa, though I don’t know if they ever said what country. _ **Sgt. Preston of the Yukon** _ was in Canada. David Soul’s short-lived _ **Casablanca** _ series was set in Morocco. The unsuccessful sitcom \*\*\*Ivan the Terrible \*\*\*took place in Russia. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/31 "2014-06-03T20:29:56Z")
_Due South_ in Chicago, IL and various Canadian wildernesses _Early Edition_ in Chicago, too _Joan of Arcadia_ in Maryland _Jack Of All Trades_ on a South Pacific island _The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr_ set in the American Old West incl San Fransisco ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/32 "2014-06-03T21:15:12Z")
_Hart of Dixie_ is set in Alabama. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/33 "2014-06-03T23:35:12Z")
For New York State (outside of NYC), you could use [Buffalo Bill](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill_%28TV_series%29), set in Buffalo NY. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/34 "2014-06-04T00:13:03Z")
You could come up with much better and/or iconic shows for DC than Bones. West Wing and House of Cards come immediately to mind. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/35 "2014-06-04T01:41:21Z")
Ohio: WKRP in Cincinnati > **[WKRP in Cincinnati](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati)** > > WKRP in Cincinnati is an American sitcom television series about the misadventures of the staff of a struggling fictional AM radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio. The show was created by Hugh Wilson and was based upon his experiences working in advertising sales at Top 40 radio station WQXI in Atlanta, including many of the characters. Wilson once told The Cincinnati Enquirer that he selected WKRP as the call sign to stand for C-R-A-P. > The ensemble cast consists of Gary Sandy (as Andy Travis), Ho... ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/36 "2014-06-04T03:41:02Z")
Honorable mentions: From West Virginia, (“The Real McCoys”) came to stay, in Sunny Califor-ni-yay. A substantial part of “Alias Smith and Jones” took place in Wyoming. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/37 "2014-06-04T03:49:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > Can we (finally) upgrade Wisconsin from Happy Days. I strongly support this. Happy Days provided us with the expression “jumped the shark” to describe a series that has gone on so long it has exhausted itself of viable premises for content. But more importantly, its depiction of Wisconsin in the fifties was rather weak: they almost never showed snow, in a state whose name is a synonym for long, harsh winters. I was just looking up a short-lived series featuring Martin Mull, called _Domestic Life_. It was supposedly set in Seattle, but what is curious about it is that he played a TV personality named Martin Crane, which was the name of Frasier’s father in another, more successful, series set in Seattle. There was a Canadian series, _North of 60_, set in a fictional town in NWT. _Route 66_ took place all over the American west. And finally, we have to give a nod to the series that takes place almost entirely 3,000,000 years in the future, _Red Dwarf_. That kind of counts as a place, right? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/38 "2014-06-04T03:51:38Z")
How about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia for Pennsylvania. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864/39 "2014-06-04T17:04:49Z")
> [@pancakes3](#): > > You could come up with much better and/or iconic shows for DC than Bones. West Wing and House of Cards come immediately to mind. > [@PastTense](#): > > Ohio: WKRP in Cincinnati > [WKRP in Cincinnati - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRP_in_Cincinnati) I was trying to come up with shows I actually watched, and I watch _Bones_, at least most of the time. I’ve only seen one episode of _The West Wing_. After shows I actually watched, I’m going with shows I’ve watched at least once, and then shows I’ve heard of enough to know what they are about. _WKRP_ is better. I probably have seen every episode of that, even though I haven’t seen it in a while. I stopped watching _The Drew Carey Show_ after the second season. Does _The Flying Nun_ count as “outside the US,” since it’s outside the states? At any rate, I didn’t have Puerto Rico on my list, but now I can add it. I used _Roseanne_ for Illinois, because I wanted a non-Chicago show, but maybe I should have a Chicago, and an “other” for Illinois. In that case, I’d use _The Bob Newhart Show_ for Chicago. I hated _ER_. I’m about the only person I know who hated it, but I did. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-show-for-every-state/689864.md?page=1)