List of American television series by setting

This is a List of American television series arranged by their setting.

Atlanta

  • Designing Women
  • Matlock

Baltimore

  • [...]: Life on the Street
  • Hot L Baltimore
  • Roc
  • The Wire

Boston

  • Ally McBeal
  • Banacek
  • Beacon Hill
  • Boston Common
  • Boston Legal
  • Boston Public
  • Cheers
  • Crossing Jordan
  • James at 15
  • The Practice
  • Spenser: For Hire
  • St. Elsewhere
  • Tru Calling
  • Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
  • The Young Lawyers

Boulder

  • Mork and Mindy

Buffalo

  • Buffalo Bill
  • Jesse

Chicago

  • All About Us
  • According to Jim
  • Andy Richter Controls the Universe
  • Angel Street
  • The Bob Newhart Show
  • The Building
  • Chicago Hope
  • Crime Story
  • Due South
  • Early EDition
  • E/R
  • ER
  • Family Matters
  • Good Times
  • The Home Court
  • It's a Living
  • It's All Relative
  • Jack and Mike
  • Joanie Loves Chachi
  • Kolchak: The Night Stalker
  • Life with Bonnie
  • The Loop
  • Love & War
  • M Squad
  • Married with Children
  • Once and Again
  • Our Private World
  • Pepper Dennis
  • Perfect Strangers
  • Punky Brewster
  • Reasonable Doubts
  • Soul Food (TV series)
  • Special Unit 2
  • The Steve Harvey Show
  • Still Standing
  • Tracker
  • The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
  • The Untouchables (1993 TV series)
  • Webster
  • What About Joan

Cincinnati

  • WKRP in Cincinnati

Cleveland

  • The Drew Carey Show

Columbus

  • Family Ties
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun (in the fictional suburban city of Rutherford)
  • Hope and Faith

Dallas

  • Dallas
  • Walker, Texas Ranger
  • Sons of Thunder

Denver

  • Dynasty

Detroit

  • 8 Simple Rules (For Dating My Teenage Daughter) (set in Auburn Hills)
  • Martin
  • ''Sister, Sister
  • ''Home Improvement

Hartford

  • Gilmore Girls (principally set in the fictional Connecticut town of Star's Hollow)
  • Judging Amy

Honolulu

  • Hawaii Five-0
  • Hawaiian Eye
  • Magnum P.I.

Houston

  • Reba

Indianapolis

  • Close to Home
  • One Day at a Time
  • Men Behaving Badly

Las Vegas

  • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
  • Dr. Vegas
  • Las Vegas
  • Vega$

Los Angeles

  • 24
  • 240-Robert
  • 77 Sunset Strip
  • The A-Team
  • Adam-12
  • Alien Nation
  • ''Almost Perfect
  • Angel
  • B.J. and the Bear
  • Banyon
  • ''Barnaby Jones
  • Baywatch
  • The Bernie Mac Show
  • The Beverly Hillbillies
  • Beverly Hills 90210
  • The Blue Knight
  • Boomtown
  • Boston Blackie
  • The Brady Bunch
  • Burke's Law
  • C-16: FBI
  • Cannon
  • Charlie's Angels
  • Chase
  • Chico and the Man
  • CHiPs
  • City of Angels
  • Columbo
  • The Cop and the Kid
  • The Bill Cosby Show
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Cybill
  • The D. A.
  • David Cassidy - Man Undercover
  • The Debbie Reynolds Show
  • Delvecchio
  • Diagnosis: [...]
  • Doctors' Hospital
  • Dragnet
  • Dragnet 1967
  • Emergency!
  • Enos
  • The Fall Guy
  • Fastlane
  • The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  • Get Christie Love
  • Girlfriends
  • Hardcastle and McCormick
  • Here's Lucy
  • Hunter
  • It's Like, You Know...
  • Joey
  • Knots Landing
  • L.A. Firefighters
  • L.A. Law
  • Lou Grant
  • Mannix
  • Medical Center
  • Melrose Place
  • Moesha
  • Moonlighting
  • [...] One
  • The [...] Truth
  • Perry Mason
  • Police Story
  • Remington Steele
  • Robbery [...] Division
  • The Rockford Files
  • Room 222
  • Sanford and Son
  • Saved by The Bell
  • S.W.A.T.
  • The Shield
  • Titans
  • What's Happening!!
  • Whiz Kids
  • Zorro

Miami

  • Alright Already
  • CSI: Miami
  • Dave's World
  • Empty Nest
  • Eve
  • Flipper
  • The Golden Girls
  • The Golden Palace
  • Good Morning, Miami
  • Grapevine
  • Invasion
  • Karen Sisco
  • Miami Vice
  • Nip/Tuck
  • Ocean Ave.
  • ?Que Pasa, USA?
  • South Beach (1993 TV series; set in the South Beach area of Miami Beach, Florida)
  • South Beach (2006 TV series; set in South Beach)
  • Surfside 6
  • T. J. Hooker

Milwaukee

  • Happy Days
  • Laverne and Shirley
  • Step by Step (set in the suburb of Port Washington, Wisconsin)

Minneapolis-St. Paul

  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show

New Orleans

  • The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  • Bourbon Street Beat
  • The Big Easy
  • Frank's Place
  • K-Ville
  • SHERIFF Wiggum: PI

New York City and metro area

  • All in the Family
  • The Morey Amsterdam Show
  • Baretta
  • Barney Miller
  • Becker
  • Bosom Buddies
  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Brooklyn South
  • Cagney and Lacey
  • Caroline in the City
  • The Cosby Show
  • Cosby
  • CSI: New York
  • Doc
  • Diff'rent Strokes
  • Dream On
  • East Side/West Side
  • The Equalizer
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
  • Fair Exchange
  • Family Affair
  • Felicity
  • Fired Up
  • Fish
  • Friends
  • Going My Way
  • Grounded for Life
  • Hawk
  • He & She
  • The Honeymooners
  • I Love Lucy
  • The Investigators
  • The Jeffersons
  • Just Shoot Me
  • Kate & Allie
  • The King of Queens
  • Kojak
  • Law & Order
  • Law & Order: Criminal Intent
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
  • Law & Order: Trial by Jury
  • Less Than Perfect
  • Living Dolls
  • Living Single
  • Lotsa Luck
  • I Love Lucy
  • McCloud
  • Mad About You
  • Make Room for Daddy
  • Maude
  • Michael Hayes
  • Miss Match
  • The Nanny
  • Ned and Stacey
  • NewsRadio
  • Night Court
  • Mr. & Mrs. North
  • N.Y.P.D.
  • N.Y.P.D. Blue
  • New York Undercover
  • The Odd Couple
  • The Patty Duke Show
  • Rhoda
  • Ryan's Hope
  • Seinfeld
  • Serpico
  • [...] and the City
  • The Single Guy
  • The Sopranos
  • Spin City
  • Sports Night
  • Tattingers or Nick & Hillary
  • Taxi
  • Temporarily Yours
  • That Girl
  • The Thin Man
  • Third Watch
  • Time of Your Life
  • The [...] Van Dyke Show
  • Veronica's Closet
  • Welcome Back, Kotter
  • What I Like About You
  • Will & Grace
  • Without a Trace

Orange County, California

  • Arrested Development (set in Newport Beach, California)
  • The O.C.

Philadelphia

  • American Dreams
  • Angie
  • Boy Meets World
  • Brotherly Love
  • Brothers
  • Cold Case
  • Hack
  • Shannon's Deal
  • Strong Medicine
  • thirtysomething

Phoenix

  • Alice
  • Medium

Pittsburgh

  • The Guardian
  • Mr. Belvedere
  • Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
  • Queer as Folk
  • Remember WENN
  • Back To You

Providence

  • Doctor Doctor (1989 TV series)
  • Providence

Saint Louis

  • The John Larroquette Show
  • Lucas Tanner (set in suburban Webster Groves, Missouri)

San Diego

  • Simon & Simon

San Francisco

  • Amy Prentiss
  • Charmed
  • Checkmate
  • Dante
  • Dharma and Greg
  • The Division
  • The Doris Day Show
  • The John Forsythe Show
  • Full House
  • Girls Club
  • Hooperman
  • Hotel
  • House Calls
  • Ironside
  • Just Cause
  • Love is a Many Splendored Thing
  • Love on a Rooftop
  • McMillan and Wife
  • Midnight Caller
  • Monk
  • My Sister Sam
  • Nash Bridges
  • Party of Five
  • Phyllis
  • Shannon
  • Sliders
  • The Streets of San Francisco
  • Too Close for Comfort
  • Trapper John, M.D.

Santa Monica

  • Three's Company

Seattle

  • The 4400
  • Dark Angel
  • Dead Like Me
  • Frasier
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • Here Come the Brides
  • Under One Roof

Tucson

  • Greetings from Tucson

Washington, D.C.

  • 227
  • All's Fair
  • The District
  • FM
  • Hearts Afire
  • K Street
  • The Lone Gunmen
  • Mr. Smith
  • Murphy Brown
  • Snoops
  • That's My Mama
  • The West Wing
  • The X-Files

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