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California TV Titles

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RicoGregg

I was trying to think of TV shows that have the names of cities, towns, and places in the Golden State. What I have so far:

Beverly Hills 90210
The OC
The Streets of San Francisco
Disneyland
Bakersfield PD
San Francisco Mix
Coronado 9
Here's Hollywood
Santa Barbara
Melrose Place (there really is such a street in L.A.)
Beverly Hills Buntz
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?

Can you think of any others? ???
 
The Beverly Hillbillies
77 Sunset Strip
Death Valley Days
San Francisco Beat
The San Pedro Beach Bums
That's Hollywood!
The Hollywood Palace
California Dreams
LA Law
LA Dragnet (I think that was the one with Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry)
South of Sunset (the cop show with Glenn Frey that was canceled after one episode)
If Balboa is a real place, then "The Baileys of Balboa"
As for "Melrose Place", there is a Melrose Avenue...That's where KHJ was located for years. (KHJ, however, served the semi-fictional town of "Boss Angeles".)
 
Corky Marlowe said:
The Beverly Hillbillies
77 Sunset Strip
Death Valley Days
San Francisco Beat
The San Pedro Beach Bums
That's Hollywood!
The Hollywood Palace
California Dreams
LA Law
LA Dragnet (I think that was the one with Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry)
South of Sunset (the cop show with Glenn Frey that was canceled after one episode)
If Balboa is a real place, then "The Baileys of Balboa"
As for "Melrose Place", there is a Melrose Avenue...That's where KHJ was located for years. (KHJ, however, served the semi-fictional town of "Boss Angeles".)
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You list some I should have thought of! Good going.

Balboa is a section of Newport Beach, so it's good.

Melrose Place is a small side street right off of Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood. It's sort of like Santa Monica Blvd. and Little Santa Monica, but Melrose Pl. is much smaller.
 
There was a short-lived series in 1979 called California Fever. It lasted only 10 episodes.
 
Mike said:
A couple of game shows come to mind: HOLLYWOOD SQUARES and HOLLYWOOD SHOWDOWN.
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and in the Hollywood vein, let us NOT forget "Hollywood's Talking"... :) :)

Andrea
 
Just thought of another obvious one:

The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.

There's something on Tru TV (It'll always be Court TV to me) called Hollywood Heat.

In this instance, we can count CHiPs. :)
 
Bagdad Cafe (although the real-life town and the original real-life cafe are now as non-existent as the series)
 
Two more:

The Big Valley - reference to the San Joaquin Valley. Stockton often mentioned.
Fresno - a 1986 spoof miniseries starring Carol Burnett and Dabney Coleman.
 
More obscurity:

Hollywood And The Stars
1963-64 season, NBC, Monday 9:30/8:30.
Look it up in your Funk and Wa...er, Brooks & Marsh.


Useless trivia to all but maybe 1% of you (paging
bpatrick ;))--

In another of its early and mid-60s wacky prime time
lineups, KVOA-TV Tucson aired this "live" at 7:30 MT.
It was preceded by the 10:00 ET show Sing Along
With Mitch on a one-week tape delay at 6:30, and
followed by a local movie 8-10. KVOA did not clear
the 7:30-9:30 ET NBC movie.
 
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