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Do you love California, TV series,  or television? Then check out these TV shows set in California or these television series related to California in some other way. I Love California!

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

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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)

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The 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 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

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The 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

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

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

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This 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!


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