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Abby’s — NBC comedy set in San Diego
About a Boy — NBC comedy set in San Francisco
The Academy: Orange County Fire — Fox Reality reality show set in Los Angeles and later in Orange County
Access Hollywood Live — Reelz gossip show set in Hollywood and Los Angeles
Accidentally on Purpose — CBS comedy set in San Francisco
Adventures of Kit Carson — Syndicated western set in southern California
The After — Amazon paranormal drama set in Los Angeles
Agent Carter — ABC fantasy show set in New York City (first season) and Los Angeles (second season)
Alcatraz — Fox drama set in San Francisco
Alias — ABC spy drama set in Los Angeles and around the world. Order the first five seasons here: https://amzn.to/2DUPeaP.
All American — CW sports drama set in Beverly Hills and Compton
All Rise — CBS legal drama set in Los Angeles
Almost Human — Fox futuristic crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Amazing Race — CBS reality show that kicked off from Venice Beach in Season 27.
America’s Next Top Model — CW reality show set in Los Angeles (for its 4th cycle)
American Bandstand — ABC music show in Philadelphia and later in Los Angeles
American Crime — ABC crime show set in Modesto, but filmed in and around Austin, Texas. One key location was the Hays County Courthouse in San Marcos, Texas.
An American Family — PBS reality show set in Santa Barbara
American Gigolo — Showtime sex drama set in Los Angeles
American Horror Story — FX horror drama set in Los Angeles. The main characters came from Boston, Massachusetts.
American Horror Story: Hotel — FX horror drama set in Los Angeles.
American Idol — Fox musical competition show set in Los Angeles. The mansion where the contestants stay is in Bel Air.
American Ninja Warrior — NBC reality competition show set in Venice Beach
American Soul — BET drama set in Los Angeles. The main character came from Chicago, Illinois.
Angel — WB vampire drama set in Los Angeles
Angie Tribeca — TBS crime comedy set in Los Angeles
Animal Kingdom — TNT crime drama set in Oceanside
The Apprentice — NBC reality show set in Los Angeles (6th session)
Aquarius — NBC crime show set in Los Angeles
Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City — PBS/Netflix drama set in San Francisco
The Assistants — The N reality show set in Hollywood
Awkward — MTV teen drama set in Palos Hills (fictional)
Love California or television? Then check out these #TV shows set in California! #California Share on XThe Bachelor — ABC reality show set in Malibu
Bad Judge — NBC legal comedy set in Los Angeles
Baldwin Hills — BET reality show set in Los Angeles
Banyan — NBC detective show set in Los Angeles
Barry — HBO comedy set in Hollywood. The main character was from Cleveland, Ohio.
Barter Kings — A&E reality show set in Victorville
Based on a True Story — Peacock crime drama set in Los Angeles
Basketball Wives L.A. — VH1 reality show set in Los Angeles
Baskets — FX comedy set in Bakersfield
Baywatch — NBC and syndicated beach drama set in southern California and later in Hawaii
Baywatch Nights — Syndicated crime drama set in southern California
Bear Whisperer — Animal Planet reality show featuring a man keeping peace between humans and bears in a California community.
Beauty and the Geek — CW reality show set in Los Angeles
Benson — ABC comedy set in an unspecified state, but the exterior shot of the governor’s mansion features the Bundy House, located at 1365 S. Oakland in Pasadena.
Best Housewives of Orange County — Bravo reality series set in Orange County
Better Things — FX dramedy set in Hollywood, Los Angeles, and Canoga Park
The Beverly Hillbillies — CBS comedy set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills 90210 — Fox soap set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Buntz — NBC detective comedy set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Groomer — Animal Planet reality show set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Nannies — ABC Family reality show set in Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills Pawn — Reelz reality show set in Beverly Hills
The Big Bang Theory — CBS comedy set in Pasadena
Big Little Lies — HBO crime drama set in Monterey
The Big Valley — ABC western set near Stockton
The Biggest Loser — NBC reality show set in Los Angeles
Black Sash — WB crime drama set in San Francisco
black·ish — ABC comedy set in Pasadena
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco — Britbox crime drama set in San Francisco
Blindspotting — Starz drama set in Oakland
Blunt Talk — Starz comedy set in Los Angeles
The Bold and the Beautiful — CBS daytime soap opera set in Beverly Hills
Bosch — Amazon crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Brady Bunch — ABC comedy set in southern California. A later movie had them living in Santa Monica. The house used for the exterior shots is located at 11222 Dilling Street, North Hollywood.
Brand X with Russell Brand — FX talk show set in Hollywood at the Vanguard Theater
Bristol Palin: Life’s a Tripp — Lifetime reality show set in Wasilla, Alaska, and Beverly Hills, California
Broke — CBS comedy set in Reseda
Brother vs. Brother — HGTV reality show set in San Francisco (season 5)
Brothers & Sisters — ABC soap opera set in Pasadena and Los Angeles
Buffy, the Vampire Slayer — WB vampire drama set in Sunnydale (fictional)
Bunheads — ABC Family drama set in Paradise, a fictional California seaside town (close to Solvang). The lead character is a former Las Vegas showgirl.
Burke’s Law — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Buying Beverly Hills — Netflix reality show set in Beverly Hills
Buzzin‘ — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles and Malibu
The Californians — NBC western set in San Francisco
Californication — Showtime sex comedy set in Los Angeles
Camping — HBO family drama set in Los Angeles
Casual — Hulu dramedy set in Los Angeles
Cavemen — ABC comedy set in San Diego
Call to Glory — ABC military drama set at Edwards Air Force Base
Carol’s Second Act – CBS medical comedy set in California
Celebrity Rehab — VH1 reality show set in Pasadena (Las Encinas Hospital drug rehabilitation clinic)
Charmed — WB fantasy set in San Francisco
Chiquis ‘N Control — mun2 reality show set in Encino
Christina on the Coast — HGTV reality show set in southern California
Chuck — NBC spy comedy set in Los Angeles (Echo Park) (where they lived), and Burbank (where the Buy More store was located). Chuck attended Stanford University in Stanford.
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter — Sundance roundtable discussion show set in Hollywood
The Closer — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles. The main character originally came from Atlanta, Georgia. Her parents still lived there.
Cobra Kai — YouTube Premium martial arts drama set in the San Fernando Valley
Colony — USA sci-fi drama set in future Los Angeles
Columbo — NBC detective drama set in San Francisco
The Comedians — FX comedy set in Hollywood
Common Law — USA crime drama set in Los Angeles but filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Complex Malibu — Fox reality show set in Malibu
Crash — Starz police drama set in Los Angeles
Cracking Up — Fox comedy set in Beverly Hills
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend — CW romantic comedy set in West Covina
Crazy Like a Fox — CBS crime drama set in San Francisco
Crews Family Values — BET reality show set in Pasadena
Crossing Jordan — NBC crime drama set in Boston, Massachusetts. The main character had been working in Venice, California, before she moved back to Boston.
Curb Your Enthusiasm — HBO comedy set in Santa Monica
The Curse of the Chippendales — Discovery+ drama set in Los Angeles
Daddy’s Girls — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
Dark Blue — TNT crime show set in Los Angeles
Date My Ex: Jo & Slade — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Daybreak — Netflix postapocalyptic dramedy set in Glendale
Dead to Me — Netflix comedy set in Laguna Beach
Death Valley — MTV reality show set in the valley north of Los Angeles
Death Valley — CMT reality show set in Death Valley
Death Valley Days — Syndicated western set in the Death Valley area
Deputy — Fox crime drama set in Los Angeles
Desert Flippers — HGTV reality show set in Palm Springs
Devious Maids — Lifetime drama set in Beverly Hills
Devs — FX drama set in San Francisco and the Bay area
Dharma & Greg — ABC comedy set in San Francisco
Dirt — FX drama set in Los Angeles
Dirty John — Netflix drama set in Newport Beach. A Long Beach home stood in for a key character’s Newport Beach penthouse.
Disjointed — Netflix comedy set in Los Angeles
The Division — Lifetime crime drama set in San Francisco
Dog Whisperer — WILD reality show set in Santa Clarita
Dollhouse — FX fantasy drama set in Los Angeles with the ending set at Neuropolis (Tucson, Arizona).
Doris Day Show — CBS comedy set on a ranch in California; later set in San Francisco.
Dragnet — NBC and later ABC crime show set in Los Angeles
Dragula — Shudder reality show set in Los Angeles
Dresscue Me — Planet Green reality show set in Los Angeles
Drop Dead Diva — Lifetime comedy set in Los Angeles, but filmed in Senoia, Georgia.
The Dropout — Hulu real-life drama set in California
Droppin’ Cash: Los Angeles — Netflix reality show set in Los Angeles
East Los High — Hulu teen drama set in East Los Angeles
Eight Is Enough — ABC drama set in Sacramento
Eli Stone — ABC fantasy legal drama set in San Francisco
Ellen — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
Emergency — NBC medical drama set in Los Angeles
Enos — CBS crime comedy set in Los Angeles
Episodes — Showtime comedy set in Los Angeles
Euros of Hollywood — Bravo reality show set in Hollywood
Executive Suite — CBS drama set in southern California
The Ex-List — CBS romance set in Ocean Beach
Extras — HBO comedy set in Los Angeles
Fairly Legal — USA legal drama set in San Francisco
Falcon Crest — CBS soap opera set in Tuscany Valley (fictional) near San Francisco. Filmed in Napa Valley and Santa Clarita.
Famous in 12 — CW reality show set in Hollywood, but the family featured in the show is from Beaumont, California.
FCU: Fact Checkers Unit — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Fear the Walking Dead — AMC horror drama set in Los Angeles
Felicity — WB drama set in New York City. Felicity’s home town was Palo Alto, California.
Fire Country — CBS drama set in Edgewater (fictional)
First In — BET reality show set in Compton
The Fix — ABC legal drama set in Los Angeles. The main character returned from Monroe, Washington, to pursue the case.
Flip or Flop — HGTV reality show set in southern California
Flipping Out — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Fly Girls — CW reality show set in beach side Los Angeles
The Fosters — ABC Family family drama set in San Diego. Filmed in Los Angeles, Long Beach, and San Pedro.
Foursome — Playboy TV reality show set in Hollywood.
4th and Loud — AMC reality show set in Los Angeles, featuring the LA KISS Arena Football team.
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air — NBC comedy set in Bel-Air. The main character was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Full House — ABC comedy set in San Francisco
Future Cop — ABC futuristic crime show set in Los Angeles
The Game — BET comedy set in San Diego
Gang Related — Fox crime drama set in Los Angeles
Gary Unmarried — CBS comedy set in Santa Monica
Gentefied — Netflix comedy set in Los Angeles
Girlboss — Netflix drama set in Los Angeles and Southern California
Girlfriend Confidential — Oxygen reality show set in Los Angeles
The Girls Next Door — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
Girls5Eva — Peacock sitcom set in Malibu
The Good Doctor — ABC medical drama set in San Jose
Good Trouble — Freeform romantic drama set in Los Angeles. Filmed in Santa Clarita and Los Angeles.
The Grace Helbig Show — E! talk show set in Los Angeles
Graceland — USA crime drama set in southern California. Besides being filmed in Los Angeles, California, it was also filmed in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, Florida.
Gracepoint — Fox crime drama set in Gracepoint (fictional seaside town)
The Great Escape — TNT reality show set in San Francisco (Alcatraz Prison)
Growing Up Chrisley — USA reality show set in Los Angeles
grown·ish — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
The Guiding Light — CBS daytime soap opera set in Five Points, Illinois (fictional), then Selby Flats, California (fictional), and finally Springfield, Illinois (fictional)
Guy’s Grocery Games — Food Network reality show set in Santa Rosa
Guy’s Ranch Kitchen — Food Network reality show set on a ranch in California
Hand of God — Amazon crime drama set in San Vincente (fictional)
Hannah Montana — Disney comedy set in Malibu
Harris Against the World — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Have Gun, Will Travel — CBS western set in San Francisco. His business card read: Have Gun, Will Travel…Wire Paladin, San Francisco.
Hello Ladies — HBO comedy set in Los Angeles
Heroes — NBC fantasy show set in Odessa, Texas as well as New York, New York; Las Vegas, Nevada; and Costa Verde, California (fictional).
Hidden Palms — CW soap opera set in Palm Springs. The main teen character was originally from Seattle, Washington.
Hidden Potential — HGTV reality show set in Huntington Beach
High Incident — ABC crime drama set in El Camino (fictional). Filmed in Chatsworth and Los Angeles.
High Potential — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
High Tide — Syndicated detective drama set in Santa Monica
The Hills — MTV reality show set in Beverly Hills
Hit the Floor — VH1 drama set in Los Angeles
Holey Moley — ABC game show set at Sable Ranch in Santa Clarita
Hollywood Cycle — E! reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Divas — TVOne reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Exes — VH1 reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Game Night — NBC game show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Girls Night — TV Guide Network talk show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Heat — TruTV reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Heights — Nick at Night teen soap opera set in Hollywood
Hollywood Hillbillies — Reelz reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Hi-Tech — DIY reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Houselift — Freevee reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry — E! reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Residential — Starz reality show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Scandals — Reelz gossip show set in Hollywood
Hollywood Treasure — Syfy reality show set in Hollywood
Home Economics — ABC comedy set in San Francisco
Hot Properties: San Diego — HGTV reality show set in San Diego
Hotel — CBS drama set in San Francisco
Househusbands of Hollywood — Fox Reality reality show set in Hollywood
Human Target — Fox thriller set in San Francisco
I Am the Night — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
I Feel Bad — NBC comedy set in the Bay area
Ice — Starz crime drama set in Los Angeles and Malibu
I’m a Virgo — Amazon Prime satire set in Oakland
I’m Sorry — truTV comedy set in Los Angeles
I’m with Her — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
The InBetween — NBC science fiction drama set in Los Angeles. It is filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Insecure — HBO comedy drama set in South LA
Jake and the Fatman — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles (first year, Hawaii after that)
James Ellroy’s LA: City of Demons — ID drama set in Los Angeles
The Jamie Foxx Show — WB comedy set in Los Angeles
Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency — Oxygen reality show set in Beverly Hills
Jay Leno’s Garage — CNBC reality show set in Beverly Hills
Jennie Garth: A Little Bit Country — CMT reality show set in Santa Ynez
The Jennie Garth Project — HGTV reality show set in Studio City
Jessie — ABC crime show set in San Francisco
Jimmy Kimmel Live — ABC talk show in Los Angeles
Joe Forrester — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Joey — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
John from Cincinnati — HBO fantasy drama set in Imperial Beach
Journeyman — CBS drama set in San Francisco
Judge Judy — Syndicated reality judge show set in Los Angeles. Judge Judy Sheindlin is originally from New York City.
Just Add Magic — Amazon children’s fantasy set in Saffron Falls, the Pluot Capital of the World
Just Cause — PAX legal crime drama set in San Francisco
Karen — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Keeping Up with the Kardashians — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
Kendra Sells Hollywood — Max reality show set in Hollywood and Los Angeles
The Kids Are Alright — ABC comedy set in a Los Angeles suburb
Kindred: The Embraced — Fox vampire drama set in San Francisco
Kingdom — DirecTV MMA drama set in Venice
Kings of Napa — OWN soap opera set in Napa Valley
Knife Fight — Esquire Network reality show set in Los Angeles
Knot’s Landing — CBS soap opera set in California
The Kominsky Method — Netflix drama set in Los Angeles
The L Word — Showtime drama set in West Hollywood and Los Angeles
The L Word: Generation Q — Showtime drama set in Los Angeles
La Brea — NBC drama set in the La Brea section of Los Angeles
The L.A. Complex — CW dramedy set in Los Angeles
LA Doctors — CBS medical drama set in Los Angeles
LA Fire and Rescue — NBC reality show set in Los Angeles
LA Hair — WEtv reality show set in Los Angeles
LA Hard Hats — National Geographic reality show set in Los Angeles
LA Heat — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
L.A. Ink — TLC reality series set in Los Angeles
LA Law — NBC legal drama set in Los Angeles
L.A. Noir — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
LA to Vegas — Fox airline soap opera set in Los Angeles and in Las Vegas, Nevada
LA’s Finest — Spectrum crime drama set in Los Angeles
Laguna Beach — MTV reality show set in Laguna Beach
Lancer — CBS western set in the San Joaquin Valley
Last Chance U: Basketball — Netflix docuseries set in East Los Angeles
The Last Man on Earth — Fox futuristic dramedy set in Los Angeles
Laverne & Shirley — ABC comedy set in Milwaukee, but later relocated to Los Angeles
Law & Order: Los Angeles — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Legends of the Hidden Temple — CW game show set in Simi Valley
Lessons in Chemistry — Apple TV drama set in Los Angeles
Lethal Weapon — Fox crime drama set in Sherman Oaks and Los Angeles
Life — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Life of Ryan — MTV reality show set in Newport Beach
Little Women: LA — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
Living with Ed — Planet Green reality show set in Hollywood
Lodge 49 — AMC mystery set in Long Beach
Looking — HBO gay dramedy set in San Francisco
Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood — VH1 reality show set in Hollywood
MacGyver — CBS spy drama headquartered in Los Angeles, California. The series is filmed in Atlanta.
Major Crimes — TNT crime drama set in Los Angeles
Major Dad — CBS comedy set in San Diego and later in Farlow, Virginia (fictional).
Malcolm in the Middle — Fox comedy set in California (though never explicitly referred). The house used in external shots is a real house located in Studio City, California.
Malibu Country — ABC comedy set in Malibu
Malibu Dan the Family Man — Pure Flix comedy set in Malibu
The Man in the High Castle — Amazon science fiction show set in Canon City, Colorado as well as San Francisco, California, and New York, New York.
Man of the People — NBC comedy set in Long View (fictional)
Marcus Welby, M.D. — ABC medical drama set in southern California
Married to Medicine: Los Angeles — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Martial Law — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Matt Houston — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Mayans M.C. — FX crime drama set in southern California
The Mayor — ABC comedy set in small town in Northern California
McMillan & Wife — NBC crime drama set in San Francisco
Medical Center — CBS medical drama set in Los Angeles
Melrose Place — Fox soap set in Los Angeles
Men at Law — CBS legal drama set in Century City and Los Angeles
The Mentalist — CBS crime drama set in Sacramento and other parts of California, and later set in Austin, Texas.
Million Dollar Decorators — Bravo reality show set in Hollywood
Million Dollar Listing: Los Angeles — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Million Dollar Listing: San Francisco — Bravo reality show set in San Francisco
Million Dollar Matchmaker — WeTV reality show set in Funner
Miss Advised — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles (dating columnist), San Francisco (radio host), and New York City (matchmaker)
The Mod Squad — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Moesha — UPN comedy set in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Leimert Park
Mom — CBS comedy set in Napa
Monk — USA Network detective drama set in San Francisco
Moonlight — CBS vampire crime drama set in Los Angeles
Moonlighting — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
The Mosquito Coast — AppleTV drama starting in Stockton, California, before moving on to Mexico.
Mr. Sunshine — ABC comedy set in San Diego
Murder in the First — TNT crime drama set in San Francisco
Murder One — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Murder, She Wrote — CBS crime drama set in Cabot Cove, Maine (fictional). Many of the Cabot Cove outdoor scenes were filmed in Mendocino, California.
My Sister Sam — CBS comedy set in San Francisco
Love California or television? Then check out these #TV shows set in California! #California Share on XThe Nail Files — TV Guide Network reality show set in Los Angeles
Nash Bridges — CBS crime drama set in San Francisco
Natural Born Sellers — HGTV reality show set in Los Angeles
NCIS — CBS naval crime drama set in DC and Virginia. It is filmed in Santa Clarita, California.
NCIS Los Angeles — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
NCIS Origins — CBS crime drama set around Oceanside and Camp Pendleton
The Neighborhood — CBS comedy set in a Los Angeles, California. One of the main families comes from a small town in Michigan.
Never Have I Ever — Netflix teen romance set in Sherman Oaks
The New Adventures of Old Christine — CBS comedy set in Mar Vista and Los Angeles
The New Normal — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Newlyweds — Reality show set in Calabasas.
Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County — MTV reality show set in Newport Beach
Night Man — WGN crime drama set in San Francisco
The Nine Lives of Chloe King — ABC Family fantasy adventure show set in San Francisco
Nine Perfect Strangers — Hulu drama set in a California health resort (but filmed in Australia)
90210 — CW soap set in Beverly Hills
Nip/Tuck — FX drama set in Miami, then later in Los Angeles
Notes From the Underbelly — ABC comedy set in Los Angeles
Now Apocalypse — Starz fantasy romance set in Los Angeles
NUMB3RS — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles. One of the main characters used to play for the Stockton Rangers baseball team.
The O.C. — Fox teen soap set in Newport Beach and Orange County
Oddities — Science reality show set in San Francisco
One Day at a Time — Netflix comedy set in Los Angeles
Ordinary Family — ABC superhero drama set in Pacific Bay (fictional)
Our House — NBC family drama set in California (although the mother and children had come from Fort Wayne, Indiana to live with her father-in-law and the children’s grandfather).
Ozzie & Harriet — ABC comedy set in the Los Angeles area
Pacific Blue — USA Network crime drama set in Santa Monica
Parenthood — NBC family drama set in Berkeley.
The Partridge Family — ABC comedy set in San Pueblo (fictional northern California town)
Party Down — Starz sitcom set in Los Angeles
Party of Five — Fox drama set in San Francisco
Penny Dreadful — Showtime crime drama set in Los Angeles
Pensacola: Wings of Gold — Syndicated military drama set in Pensacola, Florida. Filmed at Miramar Naval Air Station, San Diego, California.
Physical — Apple TV comedy set in San Diego
The Pink House — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Pitch — Fox drama set in San Diego
Platonic — AppleTV+ romantic comedy set in Los Angeles and Culver City
Players — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Police Story — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Police Woman — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Politician — Netflix teen drama set in Santa Barbara
Poltergeist: The Legacy — Showtime/SciFi fantasy mystery drama set in San Francisco
Popular — WB teen drama set in Santa Monica
Preachers of L.A. — Oxygen reality show set in Los Angeles
Presidio Med — CBS medical drama set in San Francisco
Princes of Malibu — Fox reality series set in Malibu
Private Chefs of Beverly Hills — Food Channel reality show set in Beverly Hills
Private Practice — ABC medical soap opera set in Santa Monica and Malibu
Project Mc2 — Netflix spy drama set in Maywood Glen (fictional)
Promised Land — ABC soap opera set in Sonoma County
The Protector — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
P.S.I. Luv U — CBS crime show set in Palm Springs
Psych — USA Network detective drama set in Santa Barbara
Pure Genius — CBS medical drama set in Silicon Valley
Quincy M.E. — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Rachel Zoe Project — Bravo reality show set in Los Angeles
Raines — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Rake — Fox legal comedy set in Los Angeles
Rawhide — CBS western filmed in New Mexico, Arizona, and California
Ray Donovan — Showtime crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills — Bravo reality show set in Beverly Hills
The Real Housewives of Orange County — Bravo reality show set in Orange County
Real Husbands of Hollywood — BET reality show set in Hollywood
The Real World: Hollywood — MTV reality show set in Hollywood
The Real World Homecoming: Los Angeles — Paramount+ reality show set in Los Angeles
The Real World: Los Angeles — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
The Real World: San Diego — MTV reality show set in San Diego
The Real World: San Francisco — MTV reality show set in San Francisco
Rebel — BET crime drama set in Oakland
The Rebels — Amazon sports comedy set in Los Angeles
Red Band Society — Fox medical comedy set in Los Angeles
Red Table Talk — Web series set in Los Angeles
Red Widow — ABC crime drama set in San Francisco and Marin County
Remington Steele — NBC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Renegade — Syndicated crime drama set in Bay City (fictional). The series filmed primarily in San Diego and surrounding areas.
Rich Kids of Beverly Hills — E! reality show set in Beverly Hills
Robbery Homicide Division — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Rock of Love — VH1 reality show set in Bel Air and later in Encino
The Rockford Files — NBC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Rockville CA — WB drama set in Rockville
Rocky Road — WTBS comedy set in Pismo Beach
Rogue — DirecTV crime drama set in Oakland
The Rookie — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles. The main character’s hometown is Foxburg, Pennsylvania.
The Rookie Feds — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Ropers — ABC comedy set in Santa Monica
Roswell — WB fantasy drama set in Roswell, New Mexico. Many exteriors were shot in Covina, California.
The Roy Rogers Show — NBC western set on a ranch in California
Rude Awakening — Showtime comedy set in Los Angeles
Running Wilde — Fox comedy set in Beverly Hills
RuPaul’s Drag Race — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles
RV Kings — Travel Channel reality show set in Corona
Sacrifice — BET+ legal series set in Los Angeles
Sanford and Son — NBC comedy set in southern California
Santa Barbara — NBC daytime soap opera set in Santa Barbara
Santa Clarita Diet — Netflix soap opera set in Santa Clarita
Saved by the Bell — NBC comedy set in Pacific Palisades
Scorpion — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Scoundrels — ABC crime drama set in Palm Springs
Secret Girlfriend — Comedy Central reality show set in Los Angeles
Selling Sunset — Netflix reality show set in Los Angeles
Selling the OC — Netflix reality show set in Orange County
7th Heaven — WB family drama set in Glen Oaks (fictional). The exterior house shot is of an actual house in Altadena, California. The church is The First Christian Church located in Studio City, California.
77 Sunset Strip — ABC detective drama set in Los Angeles
Sex, Love and Secrets — UPN soap opera set in Los Angeles
The Shahs of Sunset — Bravo reality show set in Beverly Hills
Shangri-La — Showtime docuseries set in Malibu and Los Angeles
Shark — CBS legal drama set in Los Angeles
The Shatner Project — DIY Network reality show set in Los Angeles
She’s Got Game — VH1 reality competition set in Los Angeles
Sherman Oaks — Showtime comedy set in Sherman Oaks
The Shield — FX crime drama set in Los Angeles
$#*! My Dad Says — CBS comedy set in San Diego
A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila — MTV reality show set in Los Angeles (Hollywood Hills)
Shut Eye — Hulu drama set in Southern California
Silicon Valley — HBO drama set in Silicon Valley
Silk Stockings — USA Network drama set in Palm Beach. Actually filmed in San Diego, California.
Simon & Simon — CBS detective drama set in San Diego
Sliders — Fox and SciFi fantasy set in San Francisco and alternative realities
Snowfall — FX crime drama set in South Central Los Angeles
Somewhere Between — ABC time-travel crime show set in San Francisco
Son of the Beach — FX Baywatch parody set in Malibu (Adjacent), California
Sons of Anarchy — FX crime drama set in Charming (fictitious town in northern California)
Sons of Hollywood — A&E reality show set in Hollywood
Southland — NBC crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Spoils Before Dying — IFC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Stalker — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Standoff — Fox crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Starter Wife — USA Network comedy set in Los Angeles
Strange Angel — CBS drama set in Los Angeles
Streets of San Francisco — ABC crime drama set in San Francisco
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip — NBC soap set in Los Angeles
Styling Hollywood — Netflix reality show set in Hollywood
Sugar— Apple TV detective series set in Los Angeles
Summer Camp — USA Network reality show set in California
Summerland — WB drama set in Summerland (fictional)
Sunset Tan — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
The Surreal Life — VH1 reality show set in Los Angeles
Sweet Life: Los Angeles — HBO reality show set in South LA (Ladera Heights, Inglewood, and Watts)
Tales of Wells Fargo — NBC western with headquarters in San Francisco. Jim Hardee’s ranch in the last season was near Gloribee (fictional).
Teen Wolf — MTV fantasy set in Beacon Hills (fictional), but filmed near Atlanta, Georgia
Ten Days in the Valley — ABC drama set in California
Ten Things I Hate About You — ABC Family teen drama set in San Diego
That’s So Raven — Disney comedy set in San Francisco
T.H.E. Cat — NBC crime drama set in San Francisco
This Is Us — NBC comedy set in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well as in Los Angeles, California
Three’s Company — ABC comedy set in Santa Monica
Timeless — NBC time-fantasy drama set in San Francisco (headquarters)
TMZ Hollywood Sports — Reelz gossip show set in Hollywood
Togetherness — HBO comedy set in Los Angeles
Tom Dick and Marry — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
Tommy — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
The Tonight Show — NBC talk show in New York City and later in Los Angeles
The Tony Rock Project — MyNetwork reality show set in Los Angeles
Too Old to Die Young — Amazon crime drama set in Los Angeles
Top Chef — Bravo reality series filmed in Miami, Florida; Las Vegas, Nevada; Washington, DC; and San Francisco, California
Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood — Oxygen Network reality show set in Hollywood
Training Day — CBS crime drama set in Los Angeles
Transparent — Amazon dramedy set in Los Angeles
Trapper John, M.D. — CBS medical drama set in San Francisco
Trauma — NBC medical drama set in San Francisco
True Detective — HBO crime drama set in Louisiana (first season). The second season was set in Vinci, California (fictional).
Two and a Half Men — CBS comedy set in Malibu
Undercovers — NBC spy drama set in Los Angeles
The Unit — CBS drama set in Sierra Ridge (fictional)
Unspouse My House — HGTV reality show set in southern California
Utopia — Fox reality show set in Santa Clarita
Valentine — CW romance set in Los Angeles
Valerie’s Home Cooking — Food Channel reality show set in Los Angeles
Vanderpump Rules — Bravo reality show set in West Hollywood
Vanishing Sun — Syndicated martial arts drama set in San Francisco, Oakland, Rancho Santa Fe, Monterey Park, and other locations. Also Flagstaff, Arizona; Portland, Oregon; and Amarillo, Texas.
Veronica Mars — CW mystery set in Neptune, Balboa County (fictional southern California town)
A Very Brady Renovation — HGTV reality show set in Studio City
Vida — Starz reality show set in Eastside Los Angelesw
V.I.P. — Syndicated detective dramedy set in southern California
Virgin River — Netflix romantic drama set in Virgin River (fictional)
Viva Hollywood — VH1 reality show set in Hollywood
The Wanted Life — E! reality show set in Los Angeles
Warrior — Cinemax martial arts series set in San Francisco
Waterfront — Syndicated crime drama set in Los Angeles
We Are Men — CBS comedy set in Tarzana
Wedding: Impossible — Food Network reality show set in Napa Valley
Weed Wars — Discovery Channel reality show set in Oakland
Weeds — Showtime drama set in Agrestic (fictional) and later set on in a border town near Mexico
Welcome to the Captain — CBS comedy set in Los Angeles
Welcome to the Family — NBC comedy set in Los Angeles
The White Room Challenge — HGTV reality show set in Los Angeles
White Shadow — CBS drama set in Los Angeles
Why Women Kill — CBS All Access drama set in Pasadena
Wicked City — ABC crime drama set in Los Angeles
Winning Time — HBO drama set in Los Angeles
Women’s Murder Club — ABC mystery set in San Francisco
The Wonder Years — ABC comedy set in California. The house used for the exterior shots is at 516 University Avenue, Burbank, California.
Young & Hungry — Freeform comedy set in San Francisco
You’re the Worst — FXX romantic comedy set in Los Angeles
Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist — NBC dramedy set in the Bay area
Love California or television? Then check out these #TV shows set in California! #California I Love California! Share on XThis is a work in progress. As I get time, I’ll add more. If you would like to nominate other TV series locations, comment below. Thanks!
