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Largest City Never To Have Had A TV Show Set In That Town

Kurt Toy said:
Mr. Belvedere was set in Pittsburgh, and there were one or two other shows set in that city, can't think of any others.
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Hope and Gloria, Skag, Three Rivers, and Back to You were all set in Pittsburgh (and all quite short-lived)

Offhand I can't think of any shows set in Toledo (though it is the most oft-mentioned city on M*A*S*H)
 
Setting Judging Amy in Hartford made sense, since series star Amy Brenneman is a graduate of Glastonbury (CT) High School, class of 1982. However, outside of a couple of exteriors, I don't think any of the show was ever filmed in this area (I live in the same county as Hartford and Glastonbury).
 
Cold Case is definitely in Philadelphia! They once showed the star and a cast member coming up from the SEPTA subway line under that massive municipal building at Market and Broad Streets. :)
 
KML-224 said:
Cold Case is definitely in Philadelphia! They once showed the star and a cast member coming up from the SEPTA subway line under that massive municipal building at Market and Broad Streets. :)
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One other show set in Philly was "Angie" which ran on ABC from 1979 to 1980. Maureen McGovern sang the theme song "Different Worlds" and a young Donna Pescow (still hot from her Saturday Night Fever role) played the title character.

Always wondered what life is like on the other side of the Walt Whitman Bridge over in New Jersey? (Camden,Glouscester City,Collingswood and neighboring communities) Would that inspire a series?
 
anotherguy said:
There was also a short run series in the early 80's called Filthy Rich, which was a Dallas Spoof, that was set in Memphis.
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I must have missed that one, because I don't remember it. Of course, in addition to the afore-mentioned Memphis Beat, the bluff city was also the setting for most of the John Grisham novels.

I can't recall any TV show being set here in Nashville, my current home base, but we, too, are "metro" here, having been so since 1963.

And I never could tell where the "Haz(z)ard" was in The Dukes of Haz(z)ard. Was it Georgia or Kentucky?
 
firepoint525 said:
anotherguy said:
There was also a short run series in the early 80's called Filthy Rich, which was a Dallas Spoof, that was set in Memphis.
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I must have missed that one, because I don't remember it. Of course, in addition to the afore-mentioned Memphis Beat, the bluff city was also the setting for most of the John Grisham novels.
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More info on Filthy Rich: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filthy_Rich_(1982_TV_series) I really never saw it that I can remember, but I remember it being mentioned that the series was set in Memphis, and it was mentioned with Dixie Carter's death since she is from the West TN area. According to the article this was the first time for Dixie Carter, Delta Burke, and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason to work together, before Designing Women.

firepoint525 said:
I can't recall any TV show being set here in Nashville, my current home base, but we, too, are "metro" here, having been so since 1963.
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I was thinking about that as well. All I know of would be the various country music shows from Nashville. I don't know of any drama, sitcom, etc. to be set there.
 
firepoint525 said:
And I never could tell where the "Haz(z)ard" was in The Dukes of Haz(z)ard. Was it Georgia or Kentucky?
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According to the Hazard, Kentucky Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard,_Kentucky) and corroborated by a 2009 article from Hazard's WYMT-TV (http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/59675622.html), the show was named after Hazard, Kentucky, but set in the fictional Hazard County, Georgia. I can't remember which episode, but if memory serves, one could see Alabama road signs during a chase scene in the town square.
 
I can think of four set in New Orleans: N.O.P.D.,
a syndicated '50s series; Bourbon Street Beat,
Longstreet, and Frank's Place.

Re shows set in Miami: how can we forget Surfside 6?
Also, there was one from around 1959 that starred (yes!) Walter
Matthau called Tallahassee 7000.

And around 1977 there was a show on CBS called Nashville 99.
 
fortmill said:
Austin: Austin City Limits---still can't think of the name of the Nick show set in Charlotte.
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I don't know if "Austin City Limits" should count, as it's a concert series, not a fictional drama or sitcom.

Along the same token, if Austin City Limits should be included, so should "The PTL Club" for Charlotte.
 
Austin, TX did have the short lived 1997 MTV series "Austin Stories". I had lived in Austin for several years and found the series to be quite a good representation of 20-something life in Austin. Of course it got the axe and is still not available on DVD as far as I know.
 
bpatrick said:
And around 1977 there was a show on CBS called Nashville 99.
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I remember Nashville 99, starring Claude Akins and iirc, Jerry Reed as investigators for the Nashville Police Department. It was a mid season replacement and was only on for about 6 to 8 weeks.

I don't believe that Knoxville or Chattanooga has ever had a series set in either city, even though Knoxville was the setting for an episode of the "Today's FBI", starring Mike Connors, on ABC in 1981/82.
 
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