US cities with no TV set there

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Wasn’t Sanford & Son set in St. Louis? It’s been a long time since I watched it on a regular basis, so forgive me if I’m wrong.

While not set in Houston, King Of The Hill’s Arlen was a suburb of it.

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No. It’s actually set in Watts, so Los Angeles. Fred Sanford was FROM St. Louis, though.

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Hartford
Providence
Portland - either one

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Denver? Can’t think of any.

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Portland, OR is the new Vancouver. I thought of Leverage and Portlandia off the top of my head, and Wikishows more, including the brand new Monday Mornings.

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Portlandia

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Scratch Providence off your list.

And what about Portlandia?

[simulpost!]

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Dynasty

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Judging Amy

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I see. I knew it was in there someplace…

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The short-lived Fox sitcom Back to You, starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton, was set in Pittsburgh.

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Long before that Doctor Doctorwas set in Providence.

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Though they never filmed there and the city in QaF bore very little resemblence to the actual Pittsburgh.

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Wasn’t “Matt Houston” set in Houston?

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Most TV shows weren’t shot in the city that were set in, except for maybe a shot or two in the opening titles. Most TV shows have no resemblance to the city they are set in. Most TV shows are apparently entirely written, directed, and acted by people that have never been out of Southern California. That’s one of the most irritating thing for me about Glee. They finally make a TV show set in a city (Lima, Ohio) only 25 miles from where I grew up, and it has no connection with the actual city.

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Phoenix
Santa Fe

I can’t think of anything set in either of those… :confused:

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Well, I’ve given adequate evidence that I haven’t watched 1 in 20 TV shows over the last couple of decades… and it’s only that high because we got into the habit of sampling the top-drawer stuff on DVD.

Of course, the city a show is supposedly set in is about as significant, in most cases, as the color of the family’s house. Other than a series of stock shots and a proper name to drop the script when needed, most shows could be set anywhere at all.

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One of the things my wife and I find amusing about Sons of Anarchy is that they do a pretty good job of showing the “Charming” area in a recognizable way. My wife long lived right about where Charming would be located, and although the show is almost entirely shot in SoCal, the houses, streets, and locations are dead-bang for that part of the Central Valley.

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Phoenix

Medium (the lead was a consultant with the Phoenix district attorney’s office)

Santa Fe

Law of the Plainsman was an early '60s Western in which a Harvard-educated Apache returned to Santa Fe as a U.S. Marshall.

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Tim Allen’s latest show, Last Man Standing, is set in the Denver area.

San Jose is probably the biggest city without a show.