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.
You are correct.
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.
Whoa-- just looked it up, and it is fiction. Somehow, I had thought that was a reality show.
Portland.
And… I’d think Dallas has the best claim on Texas, not Friday Night Lights.
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.
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:
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.)
Plus, at the risk of dickishly spoiling your fun, there’s a Wikipedia list of Television shows set in the United States by state.
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.
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
Hart of Dixie is set in Alabama.
For New York State (outside of NYC), you could use Buffalo Bill, set in Buffalo NY.
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.
Ohio: WKRP in Cincinnati
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.
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?
How about It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia for Pennsylvania.
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.