# Which U.S. cities HAVE NOT had TV series set in them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 12, 2007, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536 "2007-10-12T23:49:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/21 "2007-10-13T04:39:37Z")
Yes, it looks like San Antonio is the winner. 🙂 There seems to be a bias against setting series in Texas, doesn’t it? There are only 5 cities on the list we haven’t IDed shows for, and three of them are in Texas. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/22 "2007-10-13T04:40:29Z")
Nickelodeon’s “The Brothers Garcia” is set in San Antonio. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/23 "2007-10-13T08:25:51Z")
San Jose gets no respect. #10 and nothing but a song. ☚ ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/24 "2007-10-13T13:41:56Z")
Well, there’s always the SNL skit “Wake Up Wakefield,” which was set in the fictional Wakefield Middle School in San Jose (and featured Maya Rudolph and Rachel Dratch). ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/25 "2007-10-13T14:39:33Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] San Jose gets no respect. #10 and nothing but a song. ☹ [/QUOTE] “Brothers Garcia” ran for four years, and I’d call Nick a major network, so yeah, I agree it’s San Jose (Maya Rudolph and Rachel Dratch don’t count for anything in my book) ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/26 "2007-10-13T14:47:23Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Funny how many cities _not_ in the top 25 have been “host” to TV series… #28: Las Vegas, _Vega$_ #34: Atlanta, _Designing Women_ #40: Cleveland, _The Drew Carey Show_ #43: Miami, _Miami Vice_ #47: Minneapolis, _Mary Tyler Moore_ #91: Reno, _Reno 911_\* [/QUOTE] Even #111 Des Moines, IA had the first season of the '84 sitcom _Double Trouble_🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Rosewater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mr.Rosewater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Rosewater)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/27 "2007-10-13T14:51:17Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] San Jose gets no respect. #10 and nothing but a song. ☹ [/QUOTE] Nobody knows how to get there. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/28 "2007-10-13T14:52:57Z")
> [@Death of Rats](#): > > Even #111 Des Moines, IA had the first season of the '84 sitcom Double Trouble Too bad it was such a turkey, because unless someone adapts Bill Bryson’s [Thunderbolt Kid](http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2006/11/why_the_2_bill_.html?loc=interstitialskip), DSM ain’t gettin’ another chance. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/29 "2007-10-13T15:04:20Z")
[QUOTE=Exapno Mapcase] There hasn’t been any set in Rochester, which was in the top 25 cities at the start of the television age, and whose metro area is still over 1 million and so in the top 50. [/QUOTE] Should be a natural the next time Hollywood execs get excited to do a show about a frigid white-collar company town with no clear ethnic identity. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/30 "2007-10-13T15:15:22Z")
So, is Sanna Zay the winner? What do we get? I’ll accept the prize on behalf of my fellow Jose-heads. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/31 "2007-10-13T15:26:56Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Should be a natural the next time Hollywood execs get excited to do a show about a frigid white-collar company town with no clear ethnic identity. [/QUOTE] You should have grown up in the part of town I did. I didn’t learn about vowels until I was 12. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/32 "2007-10-13T18:22:43Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Funny how many cities _not_ in the top 25 have been “host” to TV series… #28: Las Vegas, _Vega$_ #34: Atlanta, _Designing Women_ #40: Cleveland, _The Drew Carey Show_ #43: Miami, _Miami Vice_ #47: Minneapolis, _Mary Tyler Moore_ #91: Reno, _Reno 911_\* \*Is Comedy Central a “major network”? They run _The Daily Show,_ so I’ll say yes. [/QUOTE] #30: Oklahoma City, _Saving Grace_\* \*Assuming “major network” status for USA network (or is it on FX?) ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/33 "2007-10-13T18:30:44Z")
Is there one for St. Paul? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/34 "2007-10-13T20:56:16Z")
[QUOTE=Frank] Can you link me to this list, please? Boston is after Charlotte and El Paso? _The_ El Paso? [/QUOTE] Those are city limits populations. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/35 "2007-10-13T23:22:03Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Funny how many cities _not_ in the top 25 have been “host” to TV series… #28: Las Vegas, _Vega$_ #34: Atlanta, _Designing Women_ #40: Cleveland, _The Drew Carey Show_ #43: Miami, _Miami Vice_ #47: Minneapolis, _Mary Tyler Moore_ #91: Reno, _Reno 911_\* [/QUOTE] #32: Tucson, _Greetings From Tucson_ ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/36 "2007-10-14T10:29:13Z")
Wasn’t there a series set in Rhode Island where the side kick from MASH was a vet or a doctor or something? ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/37 "2007-10-14T15:58:26Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] Wasn’t there a series set in Rhode Island where the side kick from MASH was a vet or a doctor or something? [/QUOTE] If you’re thinking of Trapper John, MD, that was set in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/38 "2007-10-14T16:36:18Z")
Speaking of Rochester, what about Syracuse? It might only be around half as large as Rochester but it has at least as much of a big-city feel to it, with rows and rows of crumbling victorian housing, a huge central downtown, and tons of ethnic enclaves. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/39 "2007-10-14T17:11:16Z")
[QUOTE=Geobabe] If you’re thinking of Trapper John, MD, that was set in San Francisco. [/QUOTE] No I may have the wrong bloke(I didn’t mean the actual character was the one from MASH) but it definitely wasn’t set in SF,I am almost certain that the place was Rhode Island ,if it wasn’t it was somewhere in that area of the U.S. I wish I hadn’t of brought it up now cos its driving me crackers. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/40 "2007-10-14T18:18:17Z")
[QUOTE=Lust4Life] No I may have the wrong bloke(I didn’t mean the actual character was the one from MASH) but it definitely wasn’t set in SF,I am almost certain that the place was Rhode Island ,if it wasn’t it was somewhere in that area of the U.S. I wish I hadn’t of brought it up now cos its driving me crackers. [/QUOTE] “AfterMASH”? “W_A_L_T_E\*R”? But both were set in the Midwest, AFAIK. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536.md?page=3)