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Shows That Didn't Originate From L.A. or New York

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RicoGregg

I'm trying to think of regularly scheduled network & syndicated programs that didn't come from Hollywood or New York City. Sports, specials, or news shows don't count. The ones I have so far:

Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine - Miami Beach
Miami Vice - Miami
Hawaii 5-0 - Honolulu
Everything's Relative (old 60s game show) - Chicago
American Bandstand (early years) - Philadelphia
Soul Train (early years) - Chicago
Quiz Kids (70s revival) - Boston
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood - Pittsburgh
Phil Donahue (early years) - Cleveland
Mike Douglas - Philadelphia
Jerry Springer - Chicago
Oprah Winfrey - Chicago
Johnny Cash (ABC/70s) - Nashville
Austin City Limits - Austin
Vega$ (ABC/70s) - Las Vegas
Zoorama (syndicated/early 60s) - San Diego

Any others? I'll bet I'm overlooking plenty.
 
Well since you're including scripted dramas, I'd have to say:

Streets of San Francisco - uh...San Francisco

Nash Bridges - San Francisco

Tennessee Ernie Ford's mid 60s variety show - San Francisco. Even though the old "pea-picker" was from the country, he preferred living on the suburban SF peninsula.

Many premium cable and regular cable dramas tend to shoot in the locale in which the show takes place, so The Sopranos was shot in New Jersey, Breaking Bad in New Mexico, and so forth.
 
(TV) Barn Dance (Chicago) wgm
The Big Bands (Chicago) wgn
National Farm Report (Chicago) wgn
It's Polka Time (Chicago) wbkb
Zoo Parade (Chicago)
Super Circus (Chicago) wbkb
Stud's Place (Chicago)
Ding Dong School (Chicago)
Mr. Wizard (Chicago) wnbq
Kukla, Fran and Ollie (Chiago) wnbq
 
Mike said:
Dallas (in Texas)
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Yes, most of the exterior scenes were filmed in and around the Metroplex (and other Texas locales) especially in the earlier years, but the interior scenes were done in Culver City/Los Angeles.

Other shows I can think of...

The Dukes of Hazzard (1st season)--Covington, Georgia
In the Heat of the Night--also in Covington
Oz--Bayonne, New Jersey
Double Dare (Nickelodeon game show)--first few years in Philadelphia, the rest of the run in Orlando
Let's Make a Deal--Las Vegas (final original syndicated season), Orlando (1990-91 revival)
Magnum, P.I.--Honolulu, and would assume various other parts of Hawaii
Jerry Springer--Cincinnati (1991-1993)
Steve Wilkos--Chicago
Jenny Jones--Chicago
Phil Donahue--Chicago (1974-82 at WGN; '82-85 at WBBM)
 
RicoGregg said:
Phil Donahue (early years) - Cleveland
Mike Douglas - Philadelphia
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Donohue's show was based in Dayton (WLW-D) and Chicago (WGN-TV & WBBM-TV) before moving to NYC. He never did a syndicated show based in Cleveland, although he was a staff announcer at KYW-TV there very early in his career.

Mike Douglas started his show at KYW-TV Cleveland and moved with the station to Philly.

Others:

Midwestern Hayride (also called just "Hayride") - Cincinnati (WLW-T)

Sneak Previews/Siskel & Ebert/At the Movies - Chicago (WTTW & WLS-TV)

Many Dumont shows - Chicago (WGN-TV)

Durkee's Backyard Barbeque (syndicated cooking show in the '70s) - Green Bay (WFRV-TV)

McLaughlin Group - Washington (WRC-TV, although the show was on PBS in most markets)
 
New Dick Van Dyke Show -- its first two seasons were shot in Arizona where Dick had his talk show before its last season when the show moved to Hollywood and Dick starred in his own soap opera.
 
Braves2005 said:
New Dick Van Dyke Show -- its first two seasons were shot in Arizona where Dick had his talk show before its last season when the show moved to Hollywood and Dick starred in his own soap opera.
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The reason for that was that he owned a radio station in Phoenix, KXIV 1400 (now KSUN) and lived in the area at the time. The (fictitious) station that the talk show aired on was called KXIV-TV.
 
A syndicated version of "Sea Hunt" in the 80s was filmed in Vancouver (where the water was really cold). Lots of other shows were shot there as well, I'm sure.
 
gr8oldies said:
A syndicated version of "Sea Hunt" in the 80s was filmed in Vancouver (where the water was really cold). Lots of other shows were shot there as well, I'm sure.
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I think you may be deviating from the premise of the thread a bit...but that's OK. Of course, many TV shows that are supposed to be in other cities are often filmed in Los Angeles to save the expense of location shooting. The last couple of decades, many shows are shot in Canada to save money compared to the union wages the industry has to pay anywhere in the U.S.

I remember seeing a scene in The X Files that was supposedly taking place on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. The marina they used was very picturesque, and looked convincingly like the real thing. But in the long shots, there was a big hill in the background covered by hundreds of acres of evergreen trees - instead of the tightly packed houses and apartments of San Francisco.

I'm no tree expert - but it looked like the Pacific Northwest to me - probably Vancouver BC.
 
Garroway at Large (Chicago)
Hee Haw (Nashville)
The Jimmy Dean Show (Washington)
The Muppet Show (London)
 
In using a "strict interpretation" of this topic, I was targeting shows that
physically originated elsewhere as a live show, as opposed to shows taped
or filmed in places other than the NYC and El Lay studios/broadcast centers.

Other than a number of early TV Chicago originations mentioned earlier in
this thread, there was also Ozark Jubilee, a mid-/late 1950s country
music show on ABC which was done live from Springfield, MO.

Apparently it was difficult just to get a backhaul Telco line set up from
Springfield. (I hope they didn't have to deal with the Hooterville phone
company. ;D) This is one instance where even New York would have
heard the show via a 5 kHz network audio line.
 
Besides the aforementioned X-Files in Vancouver (and I believe the production of the final couple of seasons shifted back to Southern California), another Fox hit, 21 Jump Street, was filmed in Vancouver. Also, the show that replaced 21 Jump Street in first-run syndication, Street Justice with Carl Weathers, was also filmed in British Columbia.

Another show coming to mind...

TBS' New Leave it to Beaver--Universal Studios in Orlando
 
gr8oldies said:
A syndicated version of "Sea Hunt" in the 80s was filmed in Vancouver (where the water was really cold). Lots of other shows were shot there as well, I'm sure.
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Yes, Vancouver has been a hotbed for tv and movie production for decades due to a film-friendly attitude there. It is used as a stand-in for Seattle all the time. If you ever watch a Lifetime cable movie, chances are it was filmed in Vancouver.
 
The long running cooking show "Cookin' Cheap" came to us out of Roanoke, Virginia.

The early 1970's syndicated variety show "Al Alberts Showcase" was taped on location at Hersheypark Amusement Park in Hershey, PA.

Bob Braun & Company ( syndicated to a few markets in the 70s & 80s ) came from Cincinatti's WLWT

The 700 Club-Virginia Beach

and didn't the Debbie Drake exercise show back in the 60's originate from Indianapolis plus I believe there was a syndicated show back in the 70's that originate from Denver. I just don't remember the title or what the show was about but I remember the view of the mountains and Elitch Gardens ( yet another amusement park LOL )
 
The short-lived 1975 "Diamond Head Game" was originated in Honolulu (I think).

-crainbebo
 
Some of Ernie Kovacs' early network shows originated from WPTZ(Now KYW-TV) Philadelphia. "Ernie in Kovacsland" and "It's Time for Ernie" gave most American viewers their first look at a true TV genuis.
 
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