# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/41 "2007-10-14T18:51:05Z")
[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. [/QUOTE] That’s [Providence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177991/); Mike Farrell plays a veterinarian. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/42 "2007-10-14T19:20:06Z")
“Family Guy” is set in Quahog, Rhode Island, but I believe that’s a fictional town. And I really think that for this list to be authoritative, we should work from a population list that includes the cities’ MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), i.e., their suburbs. Memphis is NOT bigger than Boston. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2007, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/43 "2007-10-14T22:02:24Z")
[QUOTE=DfrntBreign] #30: Oklahoma City, _Saving Grace_\* \*Assuming “major network” status for USA network (or is it on FX?) [/QUOTE] TNT. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/44 "2007-10-15T17:43:40Z")
The mini-series _[Kingpin](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0324865/)_, which was to have been followed up by a full season on NBC, was shot in and around El Paso, but I don’t know where it was actually set. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/45 "2007-10-15T18:14:59Z")
I was gonna say Rochester, N.Y., But Exapno beat me to it. There have been several shows set in Boston, so that’s out. How about **Salt Lake City**? I suspect they’re shying away from it to avoid offending the Mormons, and because they haven’t the slightest idea what to make of it. To quote somebody else (writing about a different place altogether), “there are no cultural warts onto which to hang a story”. (Come to think of it, you could say the same about Rochester. You’d have to tell people that Kodak and Bausch and Lomb are there, with Xerox just out of town, and even then they couldn’t relate.) ---
**Author:** ![Reloy3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c68b51/32.png) [@Reloy3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reloy3)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/46 "2007-10-15T19:15:00Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] I was gonna say Rochester, N.Y., But Exapno beat me to it. There have been several shows set in Boston, so that’s out. How about **Salt Lake City**? I suspect they’re shying away from it to avoid offending the Mormons, and because they haven’t the slightest idea what to make of it. To quote somebody else (writing about a different place altogether), “there are no cultural warts onto which to hang a story”. (Come to think of it, you could say the same about Rochester. You’d have to tell people that Kodak and Bausch and Lomb are there, with Xerox just out of town, and even then they couldn’t relate.) [/QUOTE] I think SLC would have been a winner except for **Big Love,** if HBO counts. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/47 "2007-10-15T19:23:42Z")
[QUOTE=Reloy3] I think SLC would have been a winner except for **Big Love,** if HBO counts. [/QUOTE] SLC is #124th in population. It’s not even _in the running._ ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/48 "2007-10-15T19:27:46Z")
> [@](#): > > I think SLC would have been a winner except for Big Love, if HBO counts. I thought **Big Love** was set outside SLC (Pepper Mill watches this – I don’t). You don’t have openly practicing polygamists in Salt Lake. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/49 "2007-10-15T20:25:17Z")
[QUOTE=DrDeth] SLC is #124th in population. It’s not even _in the running._ [/QUOTE] Salt Lake is [just above Rochester](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas) (that is, 48th) in MSA population. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2007, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536/50 "2007-10-27T14:15:35Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] That’s [Providence](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177991/); Mike Farrell plays a veterinarian. [/QUOTE] Thank you,thank you thank you,now I can get some sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-u-s-cities-have-not-had-tv-series-set-in-them/422536.md?page=2)