List of American television series by setting

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This is a list of American television series arranged by their setting. The list is organized alphabetically by state.

Alabama[]

Birmingham[]

  • Any Day Now

Huntsville[]

  • Rocket City Rednecks

Fictional[]

  • Hart of Dixie (set in the fictional town of Bluebell)

Alaska[]

Skagway[]

Fictional[]

  • Men in Trees (set in the fictional town of Elmo)
  • Northern Exposure (set in the fictional city of Cicely)

Arizona[]

Phoenix[]

  • Alice
  • Medium
  • The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Scottsdale[]

  • The Lying Game

Tucson[]

  • Greetings from Tucson
  • The Last Man on Earth (Season 1)
  • Sons of Tucson

Arkansas[]

Other places[]

California[]

Anaheim[]

  • Genera+ion

Berkeley[]

  • Parenthood

Beverly Hills[]

Burbank[]

Carmel[]

  • Out of This World

Coronado[]

  • Coronado 9

Gilroy[]

  • Zeke and Luther

Glendale[]

  • Daybreak

Las Palmas[]

  • The Tom Ewell Show

Los Angeles[]

Napa[]

  • Mom

Newport Beach[]

  • Arrested Development
  • The O.C.

Malibu[]

Mill Valley[]

Monterey[]

  • Big Little Lies

Oakland[]

  • Hangin with Mr. Cooper[1]

Oceanside[]

  • Animal Kingdom

Ojai[]

  • The Bionic Woman

Palm Springs[]

Palo Alto[]

  • A.N.T. Farm (Season 3)

Pasadena[]

Rancho Cucamonga[]

Sacramento[]

  • Eight Is Enough
  • Even Stevens
  • The Mentalist

San Diego[]

San Francisco[]

San Jose[]

Santa Barbara[]

  • Hunter (1977)
  • Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law
  • Psych
  • Santa Barbara

Santa Clarita[]

Santa Monica[]

Stockton[]

  • The Big Valley

West Covina[]

  • Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

West Hollywood[]

  • 77 Sunset Strip
  • The L Word

Unspecified[]

Fictional[]

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer (set in the fictional city of Sunnydale)
  • Bunheads (set in the fictional Southern California town of Paradise)
  • Falcon Crest (set in the fictional Tuscany Valley)
  • The Fairly OddParents (set in the fictional town of Dimmsdale)
  • Grand Hotel (set in the fictional Riviera Grand)
  • High Incident (set in the fictional Southern California town of El Camino)
  • The Jimmy Stewart Show (set in the fictional town of Easy Valley)
  • The Kallikaks (set in the fictional town of Nowhere)
  • Kickin' It (set in the fictional town of Seaford)
  • Lab Rats (set in the fictional town of Mission Creek)
  • Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers - Power Rangers in Space (set in the fictional town of Angel Grove)
  • The Partridge Family (set in fictional town of San Pueblo)
  • Scrubs (set in fictional town San Difrangeles)
  • Sons Of Anarchy (set in fictional town of Redwood)
  • Teen Wolf (set in the fictional town of Beacon Hills)
  • Veronica Mars (set in the fictional town of Neptune)

Colorado[]

Boulder[]

Colorado Springs[]

  • Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Denver[]

  • Dynasty
  • Good Luck Charlie
  • Last Man Standing

Other Places[]

Fictional[]

  • Community (set in the fictional locale of Greendale, Colorado)
  • Granite Flats (set in the fictional town Granite Flats)
  • The Kallikaks (set in the fictional town Nowhere)
  • Max & Shred (set in the fictional town of Blizzard Springs)
  • South Park (set in fictional town of the same name)
  • The Ranch (TV series) (set in the fictional town of Garrison, Colorado)
  • Everwood (set in the fictional town of Everwood, Colorado)

Connecticut[]

Fairfield[]

Greenwich[]

  • The Mick

Hartford[]

  • Judging Amy
  • Benson

Stamford[]

  • My Wife and Kids

Westport[]

Fictional[]

  • Atypical (set in an unspecified town in Connecticut)
  • The Carrie Diaries (In fictional town of Castlebury)
  • Gilmore Girls (principally set in the fictional town of Stars Hollow, however other locations include Hartford and New Haven)
  • Peter Loves Mary (set in the fictional town of Oakdell — or Oakdale, according to some sources)
  • Soap (set in the fictional town of Dunn's River)
  • (fictional town of Stoneybrook)

Delaware[]

Fictional[]

  • The Pretender (set in fictional town of Blue Cove)

Unspecified[]

Florida[]

Florida Keys[]

Miami[]

Orlando[]

  • Fresh Off The Boat

Tampa[]

  • Second Noah

Other places[]

  • I Dream of Jeannie (set in Cocoa Beach)

Fictional[]

  • Cougar Town (Gulf Haven, in Sarasota County)
  • Grand Hotel (set in the fictional Miami Beach)
  • The Thundermans (fictional town of Hiddenville)

Georgia[]

Atlanta[]

Fictional[]

  • The Dukes of Hazzard (set in fictional Hazzard County)
  • The Three Stooges

Hawaii[]

Haleiwa[]

  • Baywatch Hawaii

Honolulu[]

  • The Brian Keith Show (also known as The Little People)
  • Dog the Bounty Hunter
  • Follow the Sun
  • Hawaii Five-O (1968)
  • Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
  • Hawaiian Eye
  • Hawaiian Heat
  • Magnum, P.I.

Fictional[]

Idaho[]

Boise[]

  • The Grinder

Fictional[]

  • Wayward Pines (Fictional small town)
  • Malcolm in the Middle (set in a fictional "Tri-County Area," but filmed in Los Angeles)

Illinois[]

Chicago[]

Oak Park[]

  • The Hogan Family

Fictional[]

  • As the World Turns (set in the fictional town of Oakdale)
  • The Conners (set in the nearby fictional town of Lanford)
  • Roseanne (set in the nearby fictional town of Lanford)

Indiana[]

Bloomington[]

  • Breaking Away (but filmed in Athens, Georgia)

Indianapolis[]

  • Close to Home
  • Good Morning Miss Bliss
  • Men Behaving Badly
  • One Day at a Time

Fictional[]

  • The Middle (set in fictional town of Orson)
  • Parks and Recreation (set in the fictional town of Pawnee)
  • Stranger Things (set in the fictional town of Hawkins)
  • Eerie, Indiana (set in the fictional town of Eerie)

Iowa[]

Des Moines[]

  • Double Trouble

Sioux City[]

Other Places[]

  • American Pickers (set in Le Claire)

Kansas[]

Kansas City Metropolitan Area[]

  • Married to the Kellys (principally set in rural Kansas)
  • United States of Tara (set in Overland Park)

Other places[]

  • Gunsmoke (set in Dodge City)
  • Supernatural (Lawrence (backstory, few episodes only); Lebanon, seasons 8–12)

Fictional[]

  • Jericho (set in the fictional town of Jericho)
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog (set in the fictional town of Nowhere)
  • Smallville (in the fictional town of Smallville)

Kentucky[]

Lexington[]

  • Justified

Louisville[]

  • Call Me Kat

Fictional[]

  • Outsiders (set in fictional town of Blackburg, in the also fictional Crockett County)
  • Perfect Harmony (set in fictional town of Conley Fork)

Louisiana[]

New Orleans[]

Other places[]

  • Duck Dynasty (in West Monroe)
  • True Detective (season 1, central Louisiana)
  • Queen Sugar (several locations in Louisiana)

Fictional[]

  • Scream (set in the fictional town of Lakewood)
  • True Blood (set in the fictional town of Bon Temps)

Maine[]

Fictional[]

  • Bunk'd (in Camp Kikiwaka, a fictional camp in the fictional Moose Rump County)
  • Dark Shadows (fictional town of Collinsport)
  • The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (fictional town of Schooner bay)
  • Haven (fictional town of Haven)
  • Murder, She Wrote (fictional Maine town of Cabot Cove, filmed in Mendocino, California)
  • Nancy Drew (fictional town of Horseshoe Bay)
  • Once Upon a Time (fictional town of Storybrooke)
  • Under The Dome (fictional town of Chester's Mill)

Maryland[]

Baltimore[]

  • The Corner
  • Hannibal
  • Homicide: Life on the Street
  • Hot l Baltimore
  • Roc
  • The Wire

Fictional[]

  • Joan of Arcadia (in the fictional town of Arcadia)

Massachusetts[]

Boston[]

  • Ally McBeal
  • Banacek
  • Beacon Hill
  • Being Human
  • Boston Common
  • Boston Legal
  • Boston Public
  • Cheers
  • Clipped (in Charlestown)
  • Crossing Jordan
  • Falling Skies (seasons 1���2)
  • Fringe
  • Goodnight, Beantown
  • James at 15
  • Leverage (seasons 2–4)
  • A Million Little Things
  • Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers
  • The Practice
  • Rizzoli & Isles
  • Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (in the fictional suburb of Westbridge)
  • St. Elsewhere
  • Spenser: For Hire
  • The Suite Life of Zack & Cody
  • Tru Calling
  • Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
  • The Young Lawyers

Nantucket[]

  • Wings

Fictional[]

Michigan[]

Detroit[]

  • Detroit 1-8-7
  • Detroiters
  • Freaks and Geeks (in fictional suburb of Chippewa)
  • Home Improvement
  • Low Winter Sun
  • Martin
  • Sister, Sister
  • Soul Man
  • Undateable

Other places[]

  • 8 Simple Rules (For Dating My Teenage Daughter) (set in Auburn Hills)
  • Battle Creek (set in Battle Creek)
  • The Loud House (set in the fictional town of Royal Woods)

Minnesota[]

Minneapolis–Saint Paul[]

  • The Big C
  • Coach
  • Get a Life
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Other Places[]

  • Fargo (season 1, set in Bemidji)
  • Fargo (season 2, set partly in Luverne)
  • Fargo (season 3, set in St. Cloud)
  • Little House on the Prairie (set in Walnut Grove)

Fictional[]

  • The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (set in fictional town of Frostbite Falls)
  • Happy Town (set in fictional town of Haplin)

Missouri[]

Kansas City[]

St. Louis[]

Other places[]

  • The Beverly Hillbillies (two locations: Beverly Hills, California and near Hooterville and Petticoat Junction, Eldon, Missouri in The Ozarks)
  • Green Acres (in Hooterville, near Petticoat Junction, Eldon, Missouri in The Ozarks)
  • Ozark (Netflix original series, set in Ozark, Missouri)
  • Ozark Jubilee (Springfield)
  • Petticoat Junction (in Eldon, Missouri near Hooterville in The Ozarks)
  • Resurrection (set in Arcadia)
  • The X-Files (episode Aubrey ) (Set in the fictional town of Aubrey)
  • Timeless (episode The Murder of Jesse James, in St.Joseph)
  • Truck Stop Missouri aka Truck Stop USA (Columbia)

Fictional[]

  • Grace Under Fire (Set in Victory, a fictional small town)

Mississippi[]

Fictional[]

  • In the Heat of the Night (set in fiction town of Sparta)

Montana[]

Fictional[]

  • Buckskin (Set in fictional town of same name, in the 1880s)

Nebraska[]

Omaha[]

  • Better Call Saul (flash-forward scenes)

Other Places[]

  • The Young Riders (set in Sweetwater in the 1850s)

Nevada[]

Las Vegas[]

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • The Defenders
  • Dr. Vegas
  • Las Vegas
  • Pawn Stars
  • Vega$
  • Flipping Vegas

Reno[]

  • Reno 911!

Other Places[]

  • Bonanza (set near Virginia City)

New Hampshire[]

Other Places[]

  • Assy McGee (set in Exeter)

Fictional[]

  • The Brotherhood of Poland, NH (set in fictional town of Poland)
  • Willy (set in fictional town of Renfrew)

New Jersey[]

Atlantic City[]

  • Boardwalk Empire

Jersey City[]

  • Mercy
  • Seven Seconds

Newark[]

  • The Sopranos

New Brunswick[]

  • Charles in Charge

Princeton[]

  • House M.D

Other Places[]

  • Jersey Shore (set in Seaside Heights)
  • ’’ ((Wanda vision (Tv series) | Wandavision))’’ (set in <<west view>>)

Unspecified[]

  • Jonas (Season 1)

New Mexico[]

Albuquerque[]

  • Better Call Saul
  • Breaking Bad
  • In Plain Sight
  • T@gged

Other places[]

  • Roswell (set in Roswell)

Fictional[]

  • Nakia (in the fictional town of Concord in fictional Davis County)

New York[]

Buffalo[]

New York City, Long Island, and the metro area[]

Other Places[]

  • The Facts of Life (set in Peekskill)

Fictional[]

  • General Hospital (in fictional city Port Charles)
  • General Hospital: Night Shift (in fictional city Port Charles)
  • The Lucy Show (in fictional town of Danfield, Seasons 1–3)
  • Orange is the New Black (in fictional town of Litchfield)
  • Please Don't Eat the Daisies (in fictional town of Ridgemont)
  • Port Charles (in fictional city of Port Charles)
  • Suburgatory (in the fictional Chatswin)
  • Twisted (set in the fictional town of Green Grove)
  • The Young Marrieds (in the fictional suburb of fictional city Port Charles, Queen's Point)

North Carolina[]

Charlotte[]

  • The Carmichael Show
  • Secrets & Lies (set in Wilmington in season 1, and in Charlotte in season 2)
  • My Brother and Me

Fictional[]

  • The Andy Griffith Show (set in the fictional city of Mayberry)
  • Matlock
  • One Tree Hill (set in the fictional town of Tree Hill)
  • Outer Banks (set in the fictional town of Pelican in the fictional Kildare County)

North Dakota[]

Fargo/West Fargo[]

  • Fargo (Season 2, partly)

Fictional[]

Ohio[]

Cincinnati[]

Cleveland[]

  • The Drew Carey Show
  • Hot in Cleveland
  • Little Fires Everywhere (Shaker Heights)

Columbus[]

  • Family Ties
  • Glee (some scenes set in the suburb of Westerville)
  • Hope & Faith

Dayton[]

Toledo[]

  • A.P. Bio
  • Melissa and Joey

Other places[]

  • Glee (in the town of Lima)
  • Clarissa Explains It All (unspecified suburban town in Ohio)
  • Leave It to Beaver (Mayfield, Ohio)

Fictional[]

  • 3rd Rock from the Sun (in the fictional suburban city of Rutherford, said to be 52 miles outside Cleveland and roughly corresponding with the location of Kent State University).
  • Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (Fictionalized version of Fernwood)

Oklahoma[]

Oklahoma City[]

  • Saving Grace

Other places[]

  • Outlaws, set in Guthrie (1960–1961) and Stillwater (1961–1962)

Fictional[]

  • The Torkelsons (set in the fictional town of Pyramid Corners, near the real town of Vinita)

Oregon[]

Portland[]

Other Places[]

Fictional[]

  • The Angry Beavers (set in the fictional city of Wayouttatown)
  • Eureka (fictional town of same name)
  • Gravity Falls (fictional town of same name)

Pennsylvania[]

Philadelphia[]

Pittsburgh[]

Other places[]

  • The Goldbergs (set in Jenkintown)
  • The Office (in Scranton)
  • Mr. Belvedere ( Beaver Falls)
  • Kate Plus 8 ( Mount Joy)
  • Viva La Bam ( West Chester)

Fictional[]

  • All My Children (in fictional Pine Valley, suburb of Philadelphia)
  • Hemlock Grove (in fictional Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania)
  • Loving (in fictional town Corinth)
  • One Life to Live (in fictional Llanview, suburb of Philadelphia)
  • Pretty Little Liars (in the fictional town Rosewood)
  • Banshee (in the fictional town Banshee)
  • Big Lake (in the fictional town Big Lake)
  • Unfabulous (in the fictional town Pine crest)
  • Gung Ho (in fictional town of Hadleyville)

Puerto Rico[]

San Juan[]

  • The Flying Nun (the only series set in a US territory)

Rhode Island[]

Providence[]

Fictional[]

  • Family Guy (set in the fictional town of Quahog)

South Carolina[]

Charleston[]

North Charleston[]

  • Army Wives

Sea Islands[]

Fictional[]

South Dakota[]

Sioux Falls[]

  • Fargo (Season 2, partly)

Other places[]

  • Deadwood (set in Deadwood during the 1870s)

Unspecified[]

Texas[]

Austin[]

  • Faking It
  • My Generation
  • SKAM Austin
  • 9-1-1: Lone Star

Dallas/Fort Worth[]

Houston[]

San Antonio[]

Fictional[]

  • Bella and the Bulldogs (set in the fictional town of Silverado)
  • Cruel Summer (set in the fictional town of Skylin)
  • Cutter to Houston (set at Cutter Community Hospital in the fictional small town of Cutter, sixty miles from Houston)
  • Friday Night Lights (set in the fiction town of Dillon, Texas)
  • King of the Hill (set in the fictional town of Arlen. Various episodes set Arlen in different locations in Texas, outside Houston, Dallas, Midland/Odessa, the Texas panhandle, North Texas and at least one episode on the US/Mexican border)
  • Panic (set in the fictional town of Carp)
  • Rango (set at the fictional Deep Wells Ranger Station)
  • Young Sheldon (set in the fictional town of Medford)

Tennessee[]

Memphis[]

Nashville[]

  • Nashville

Utah[]

Salt Lake City[]

  • Big Love (set in suburb of Sandy)
  • High School Musical: The Musical: The Series

Vermont[]

Unspecified[]

  • Newhart (most likely set in Norwich)

Virginia[]

Alexandria[]

Arlington[]

  • K.C. Undercover

Fairfax[]

  • Finding Carter

Falls Church[]

  • JAG

Fictional Places[]

  • American Dad (in the fictional city of Langley Falls).
  • The Vampire Diaries and Legacies (in the fictional city of Mystic Falls).
  • The Cleveland Show (in the fictional city of Stoolbend).
  • The Waltons (in the fictional county of Jefferson County)

Bones

Washington[]

Seattle[]

Pierce County[]

Tacoma[]

  • Haters Back Off
  • Tacoma FD

Other places[]

  • The Sentinel (set in Cascade)

Fictional[]

  • Cedar Cove (set in fictional Cedar Cove)
  • Twin Peaks (set in a fictional town of the same name)

Washington, D.C. and the metropolitan area[]

  • 1600 Penn
  • 227
  • The Agency
  • All's Fair
  • The Americans
  • The Blacklist
  • Bones
  • Capitol
  • Commander in Chief
  • Cory in the House
  • Criminal Minds
  • Crisis
  • Designated Survivor
  • The District
  • E-Ring
  • The F.B.I.
  • First Monday
  • FM
  • Freakazoid
  • Get Smart
  • Hail to the Chief
  • Hearts Afire
  • Homeland
  • House of Cards
  • I Spy
  • JAG (in season 2–10, the headquarters moved to Falls Church, Virginia)
  • K Street
  • Karen
  • Lie to Me
  • The Lone Gunmen
  • Madam Secretary
  • A Man Called Hawk
  • Mr. Smith
  • Murphy Brown
  • NCIS
  • Scandal
  • Scarecrow and Mrs. King
  • Snoops
  • That's My Bush!
  • That's My Mama
  • Veep
  • The West Wing
  • The Whispers
  • The X-Files

West Virginia[]

Fictional[]

  • Outcast (TV series) (fictional town of Rome)

Not Specified[]

Wisconsin[]

Milwaukee[]

Madison[]

Other Places[]

  • Aliens in America (set in Chippewa Falls)
  • American Dreamer (set in Kenosha)
  • Liv and Maddie (set in Stevens Point)
  • Raising Miranda (set in Racine)
  • Step by Step (set in Port Washington)

Fictional[]

  • ChalkZone (set in fictional town of Plainsville)
  • Life with Louie (set in fictional town of Cedar Knoll)
  • A Minute with Stan Hooper (set in fictional town of Waterford Falls)
  • My Talk Show (set in fictional town of Derby)
  • Picket Fences (set in fictional town of Rome)
  • That 70's Show (In the fiction suburb of Point Place, which has two possible locations: outside either Green Bay or Kenosha)
  • Young and the Restless (set in a fictionalized version of Genoa City)

Not Specified[]

  • Women in Prison (Set in fictional Wisconsin town apparently outside of Green Bay)

Wyoming[]

Medicine Bow[]

  • The Virginian, 1898–1907)

Fictional[]

  • Longmire (set in fictional Absaroka County)
  • Stagecoach West (set in fictional towns of Outpost and Timberline)

Foreign locations[]

Unspecified[]

  • 13 Reasons Why (set in the fictional town of Crestmont in an unspecified state)
  • 100 Things to Do Before High School
  • Andi Mack (set in the fictional town of Shadyside in an unspecified state)
  • Behind Closed Doors (anthology series with a variety of domestic and foreign settings)
  • The Cara Williams Show
  • Days of Our Lives (set in the fictional town of Salem in an unspecified state)
  • Ensign O'Toole (set aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer as it travels the world)
  • Good Witch (set in the fictional town of Middleton in an unspecified state)
  • Grand Hotel (set in the fictional Riviera Grand)
  • Grand Hotel (set in the fictional Riviera Grand Hotel)
  • Hellcats
  • Jane By Design
  • Henry Danger (set in the fictional town of Swellview in an unspecified state)
  • Lizzie McGuire (set in the fictional town of Hillridge in an unspecified state)
  • Love Story (anthology series with a variety of settings)
  • The Man and the Challenge
  • My Name Is Earl (Set in the fictional Camden County of an unspecified state)
  • The Nine Lives of Chloe King
  • Phil of the Future
  • Riverdale (set in the fictional town of Riverdale in an unspecified state)
  • Sally (first 21 episodes set overseas in variety of locales, final seven episodes somewhere in the United States)
  • The Secret World of Alex Mack (set in the fictional town of Paradise Valley in an unspecified state)
  • The Simpsons (set in Springfield in an intentionally unspecified state)
  • Steven Universe (set in the fictional town and state of Beach City, Delmarva. Presumably situated on the real world Delmarva Peninsula)
  • Straightaway
  • Totally Spies! and The Amazing Spiez! (set in the fictional town of Hollywood in an unspecified state)
  • The Troubleshooters (episodes set in various locations in the United States and abroad)
  • Window on Main Street (set in the fictional town of Millsburg)
  • The Wonder Years

References[]

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