This is a list of fictional towns, villages, and cities from live-action television shows. This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional settlements that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein. Fictionalized versions of actual towns (such as Raytown, Missouri in Mama's Family and Wellsville, New York in The Adventures of Pete & Pete) are not included.
Located near or in Tokyo, Japan, Akebono City is a fictional special ward in Tokyo, Japan. This is where the SHOT (Shoot Hell Obduracy Troopers) headquarters is located. Appears to be a mixture of Shibamata with Yanaka, due to its ancient architecture and to be considered an old city.
The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (or BAU) is sent to Allende del Sol, a small town full of traditions located in Mexico to hunt down a serial killer and rapist who is terrorizing this small Mexican town in the episode "Machismo" (1x19). The total population of Allende del Sol, Mexico is 20,000.
Angelus is a fictional coastal town in Western Australia the Leonard family move to. Is a regular setting used in novels, stories, and novellas by Tim Winton.
Generic midwestern town, location initially unidentified but inferred in the 1980s to be Illinois. Shares the name of a real town Bay City in Michigan.
Bluebell, Alabama, is a Gulf Coast fictional town in the television series Hart of Dixie.[1] The show's main character, Zoe Hart, a New York heart surgeon, moves to the small Southern town to become a general practitioner. All the episodes of Hart of Dixie take place almost entirely in Bluebell.[2][3]
Buckhorn, South Dakota, is a small town. Once, a gory murder of a local librarian happens there, and a local school principal is arrested, after his fingerprints are found on the murder scene.
Cabot Cove, Maine, is the small, fictional fishing village in which Jessica Fletcher lives in the television series Murder, She Wrote. Many episodes of Murder, She Wrote used Cabot Cove as a location because the show's producers were contractually obliged to deliver five Cabot Cove episodes a year.[4] Despite the town's population of 3,560,[4] Cabot Cove became notable as a place where a large number of murders took place. The New York Times calculated that almost 2% of Cabot Cove's residents died during the show's run. More visitors to Cabot Cove died than residents.[4]
Cabot Cove is named after the town's founder, Winfred Cabot. Perhaps setting the stage for the town's reputation for murders, Cabot was killed in a murder-suicide situation with his wife Hepzibah. It has an architectural heritage of Victorian houses. Given the village's rich history, coastal location and close proximity to eastern U.S. cities, Cabot Cove was transformed from a small, sleepy fishing village to a tourist destination for the people coming from New York.
A rural town where the title character Earl Hickey wins $100,000 on a lottery scratcher, only to be hit by a truck. He dedicates his life to helping others that he has wronged.
Capeside is a fictional town in Massachusetts where Dawson's Creek takes place. It is located on Cape Cod, possibly somewhere mid-Cape between Falmouth and Yarmouth, as an early episodes includes these real towns in a "snow day" announcement. Incorporated in 1815, the town has a population of 35,000 and is located between the cities of Providence, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts. Capeside exteriors were shot in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. Its bays and coastlines are similar to those found along the coast of Massachusetts.
Changadan is a uranium-mining town in the far north of Russia, where a detective from Moscow is investigating the death of the daughter of a local oligarch.
Charming is the fictional Northern California town that serves as the main setting for FX's Sons of Anarchy. The town is located in the San Joaquin Valley, bounded by the Bay Area, Stockton, and Sacramento.
Located next to New York City, Chatswin is a suburban city that is infamously known to its residents for having the same physical phenotype: everyone there is stereotypically blond, with a suburban voice.
A small, isolated town in Alaska where the main character, Joel Fleischman, is sent to work off his medical school debt as the town's physician. The ensemble cast forms a tight-knit community of eccentrics. Cicely is also multicultural, with Native American residents and culture playing a significant role. The series was filmed on location in Roslyn, Washington, with real buildings (such as the Brick tavern) utilized as primary sets and local Roslyn residents cast as extras.
Collinsport is a fictional town in Maine on Frenchman's Bay and the location of Collinwood, the home of Barnabas Collins and the Collins Family. Its main industry is the local Collins Fishing and Cannery business.
A small town in Saskatchewan Canada where the CTV series Corner Gas is filmed and the show takes place. It is not specified where, exactly, it is located in Saskatchewan but it is implied to be near Regina, Saskatchewan.
Edgewater is a town located in California's redwood forests, with a conventional Cal Fire station (Station 42) and two CDCR conservation camps known as Three Rock (for men) and Black Creek (for women). It is based on series co-creator Max Thieriot's own hometown of Occidental, California.
Originally known as Beckindale until 1994, Emmerdale, is a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales created by Kevin Laffan for the long-running British soap opera of the same name.
Located somewhere in the US, Fairview is a small town that is the main setting for Desperate Housewives. It is implied that Fairview is located in the Midwest.
Located near Tokyo, this city is the main setting of Kamen Rider W and is known for being an ecologically friendly city, whose energy comes from windmills and which have become the city's trademark.
Genoa City is a northern city in Wisconsin in the United States. It is the setting of the CBS television daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Hawkins is a fictional town in Stranger Things. The Duffer Brothers originally wanted to call the series Montauk, after Montauk, New York, and set it on Long Island, but filming locations around Atlanta, Georgia could not pass for a beachside setting, so they went with Indiana instead.[6][7][8]
A fictional city in the United Kingdom, in which BBCmedical dramasCasualty and Holby City, and police drama HolbyBlue are set. It is based upon the city of Bristol and is located in the fictional county of Wyvern in the South-West of England, not far from the Welsh border.[9] Both Casualty and Holby City are set in the same fictional Holby City Hospital, with storylines focusing on the Emergency, Clinical Decisions Unit (CDU), Private Healthcare Unit (HolbyCare), General (Kellar) and Cardiothoracic surgical (Darwin) departments, an Acute Assessment Unit (AAU) and the fictional Holby Ambulance Service.[10]
A fictional village based in the city of Chester in the United Kingdom, which provides the setting for the long running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks.
Jericho is set in northwestern Kansas, but the series was filmed in Van Nuys, California.[11][12] The pilot and all episodes involving New Bern, Kansas, were filmed in Fillmore, California.[11][13] Filming also occurred in Pasadena, California, including in front of the city hall. The final episode to air included portions filmed at the Santa Anita race track. Some filming also took place in Canada. The commentary for some episodes on the Jericho Season 1 DVD includes the location of their filming.
A major human city of the future on a corrupt world governed by an all-powerful Company, where the rich scheme in mansions filled with robot slaves, the poor scrabble for survival in the Sewerpits, the Security forces are out of control and terrorism is a daily fact of life".[14] The city was first mentioned in The Robots of Death as the home base of a "storm mine" touring the desert searching for and mining precious minerals from within the sands, with the crew working on a commission for the company. It was created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and was reused in his Past Doctor AdventureCorpse Marker in 1999. It is also the
A town in some part of India which has been long forgotten by the system. The town struggles daily for basic facilities, yet the people residing there are the happiest of the lot.
A town in the West Midlands nearby to Birmingham. The set is located at the BBC Drama Village and is a host to fictional locations including the Mill Health Centre, a university doctor's surgery, a police station and a restaurant, the Icon.[15]
Little Dimpton is the fictional English town and setting where many of the incidents and events of "The Benny Hill Show" take place, particularly in the later half of the series.
A fictional village in the north of Luxembourg. A 15-year-old girl, Jenny Engel, gets murdered there, and police inspector Luc Capitani is investigating her death and the disappearance of her twin sister Tanja.
Master Mayhem and his monsters of space who try conquest the city on the earth. Costumed giant robot characters fight each other in a model set of the city.[16]
Melonville is a small Canadian prairie town that serves as the city of license for SCTV, the TV station at the center of the TV series of the same name, and the center of said series' fictional universe.
Neptune, California is the series' fictional setting, a US unincorporated town in Balboa County. The town is described as without a middle class, and the upper class is known as "09ers", wealthy citizens from the fictional 90909 ZIP code. The nearby towns, at some distance from the beaches, do not have the same extremes between rich and poor.
A small town that is the hometown of FBI agent Jennifer Jareau, the team comes here when someone kidnaps three local teenage girls and locks them in a cellar.
Located in California, it is the setting for the last episode of Carnivàle (2x12 - New Canaan, CA) and the location of the final confrontation between the protagonist, Ben Hawkins and the main villain of the series, Brother Justin Crowe.
Fictional town used as primary setting throughout the history of As the World Turns, appears in the names of two DVD releases: "Christmas in Oakdale" (2011) and "Farewell to Oakdale" (the final 10 episodes of the series).
Orson is a small suburban town located in Indiana, approximately twenty-five miles southwest of Indianapolis. It is the 200th safest town in the state and is home to the world's largest polyurithane cow.
Featured on the television show Bunheads, Paradise is a fictional sleepy coastal town located thirty miles south of Ojai, California. It is depicted as a close-knit small town with many quirky characters.
A city located in South Central Indiana, known for being the fourth fattest city in America. It was founded in May, 1817, by Rev. Luther Howell, who drove the native Indians off the land.
A town located in Tasmania that is also the hometown of Daniel McCallum where he returns to help his mother run the real estate business alongside his friend Emma who turns up after her honeymoon doesn't work out.
Small upstate New York town, the location for a proposed casino that Bobby Axelrod visits in an effort to persuade a landowner to accept a deal.
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A village located on an eponymous island in Karelia, Russia. The nature of the island doesn't let its residents get diseases, but no more than 46 residents must reside in the village.
A town in the Mexican countryside that appears in the first two episodes of season 5 that is effectively run by an international fugitive who has taken refuge here. Looking to escape his own problems back home, Hondo gets involved in the town's politics when he tries to help out a local family who has been steadfast in refusing to sell their farm to the fugitive. The show does not specify where in Mexico the town is located, but the episodes in question were filmed in the Mexican state of Morelos.[17]
Springfield identifies fictional towns in various TV series, as many real US cities in diverse states (including Massachusetts, Missouri and Illinois) share this common name.
Stafford, Indiana is the fictional Indiana town on the 1963-67 television show The Fugitive where Dr. Richard Kimble was arrested (and later convicted) for the murder of his wife.
St-Jean-De-Bosco is a fictional small town in Quebec featured on the television show Rock et Belles Oreilles. It is never seen, but in several sketches some notable characters in the show are stated to be from there, including the glam metal band "Suppositories de Satan (Suppositories of Satan)" and the winners of the international francophoneUniversity Challenge game show (who hailed from its reform school).
Storybrooke, Maine, is a fictional city whose residents are characters from various fairy tales sent to this world by a powerful curse cast by the Evil Queen.
Summer Bay setting for the Australian soap operaHome and Away and since the creation of the show in 1988 almost all of the action in the show takes place inside this small New South Wales coastal town. Notable long running locations in the area have included the Surf Life Saving Club, the High School, caravan park and diner. Nearby towns include Mangrove River and Yabbie Creek.[18]
Sunnydale, California is the fictional setting for the U.S. television drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Series creator Joss Whedon conceived the town as a representation of a generic California city, as well as a narrative parody of the all-too-serene towns typical in traditional horror movies.
Sunnydale is located on a "Hellmouth"; a portal "between this reality and the next", and convergence point of mystical energies.[19]
Running gags on the show referred to Upper Kumbukta West, a fictional country town in New South Wales, Australia; home of radio station 2KW and the character "Mrs Mac".
Walmington-on-Sea is a fictional seaside resort that is the setting of Dad's Army, including the BBC Television sitcom, the BBC Radio 4 series and two feature films. Walmington is on the south coast of England which, following the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk during the Second World War, found itself on the front line against Hitler.
A fictional town in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom[20] based on Salford. Much of Weatherfield has been seen by viewers throughout the years, however, the primary focus in the viewer's perspective is the eponymous Coronation Street.
A nameless village in an unknown location, it is used by powers unknown to host, convert and extract information from retired spies and other intelligence and military personnel.
A village in the north of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, which is adjacent to a large factory and a monastery. It is ruled by a mysterious man, known as "The Owner", who poisoned the village's water supply, making locals hallucinate en masse. There is no escape from the village.
A fictional village in southern Italy. The 500-year-old town lies near the towns of Marinello, San Marcello, Porto Lorenzo, and others. McHale and the boats of PT Squadron 19 are transferred there in 1944 for the remainder of the war. The town is headed by the conman Mayor Mario Lugatto.
A fictional town in Germany with a nuclear power plant and a cave system in it. In 2019, two children go missing and one unidentified child is found dead in a local forest, what leads the locals to discover the time portals in the caves.
A fictional town in the state of Missouri, known for its pig farms. Every summer, locals celebrate the Calhoun Day, related to the founder of the town and a Confederate soldier, Zeke Calhoun.
A small town in northern Georgia. Following the zombie apocalypse, the area was fortified and turned into a settlement led by a figure known as The Governor.
Yoorana is a small town in the Australian state of Victoria, where seven people return from the dead in perfect health but with no recollection of who they are and what happened to them.
Aahoo Jahansouzshahi, known professionally as Sarah Shahi, is an American actress. She played Carmen on The L Word in 2005, Kate Reed in the USA Network legal drama Fairly Legal (2011–2012), Sameen Shaw on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest (2012–2016), and Billie on the Netflix series Sex/Life. She has also appeared in the main role Det. Dani Reese in Life, and in a supporting role in Alias. In 2018, she starred in the series Reverie. In 2019, she appeared in a recurring role in City on a Hill on Showtime, and appeared in seven episodes of the series The Rookie as romantic interest Jessica Russo. In 2023, she received critical praise for her role of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Zahra Bankston in the LGBTQ+ romantic comedy streaming film Red, White & Royal Blue.
Jericho is an American post-apocalyptic action drama television series, which centers on the residents of the fictional city of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of a nuclear attack on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States. It was produced by CBS Paramount Network Television and Junction Entertainment, with executive producers Jon Turteltaub, Stephen Chbosky, and Carol Barbee. It was shown in more than 30 countries.
Ian Anthony Dale is an American actor. His notable roles include Adam Noshimuri on Hawaii Five-0, Harris Edwards on Salvation, Simon Lee on The Event, Davis Lee on Surface, Avatar Gamma on Charmed and Kazuya Mishima in Tekken. He has also appeared on shows such as Las Vegas, JAG, Day Break, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Criminal Minds, 24 and The Walking Dead.
Michelle Borth is an American actress who has portrayed characters on The Forgotten and the HBO series Tell Me You Love Me. Borth played Catherine Rollins on the CBS crime-drama Hawaii Five-0.
Mircea Monroe is an American actress. She had roles on the TV series Episodes as Morning Randolph (2011–2017), Hart of Dixie as Tansy Truitt (2011–2015), Impastor as Alexa Cummings (2015–2016) and Sing It! as Stacey Needles (2016). She has also performed in films including Cellular (2004), House of the Dead 2 (2005), Just Friends (2005), The Change-Up (2011) and Magic Mike (2012).
Hart of Dixie is an American comedy-drama television series that aired on The CW from September 26, 2011, to March 27, 2015. The series, created by Leila Gerstein, stars Rachel Bilson as Dr. Zoe Hart, a New Yorker who, after her dreams of becoming a heart surgeon fall apart, accepts an offer to work as a general practitioner in the fictional Gulf Coast town of Bluebell, Alabama.
Mercedes Mason is a Swedish-American actress and former model. She is known for playing the role of Zondra in the television series Chuck, and Isabel Zambada in the procedural drama The Finder. She also starred in the 2011 American horror film Quarantine 2: Terminal, portrayed Louise Leonard in the supernatural drama series 666 Park Avenue (2012–2013), played Talia Del Campo in NCIS: Los Angeles, and was a regular on AMC's television series Fear the Walking Dead from 2015 to 2017. In 2018 she played Captain Zoe Andersen in ABC Police crime drama The Rookie.
The third season of the American television series Person of Interest premiered on September 24, 2013. The season is produced by Kilter Films, Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. Television, with Jonathan Nolan, Greg Plageman, J. J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk serving as executive producers and Plageman serving as showrunner.
NCIS: New Orleans is an American action crime drama and police procedural television series that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2014, following the twelfth season of NCIS. The pilot was written by Gary Glasberg. Produced by CBS Studios, Wings Productions and, for the first four seasons, When Pigs Fly Incorporated, the series stars Scott Bakula and CCH Pounder. The series, set and filmed in New Orleans, is the third series of the NCIS franchise. In May 2020, the show was renewed for the seventh season, which premiered on November 8, 2020. In February 2021, CBS announced that the seventh season would be the series' final one. The series concluded on May 23, 2021, making it the first show in the NCIS franchise to end.
Supernatural: Bloodlines was a proposed American television series, before being decided against by The CW for the 2014–15 season. It was set to be a spin-off of Supernatural, with the twentieth episode of the show's ninth season serving as the backdoor pilot. The backdoor pilot was written by Andrew Dabb and directed by Robert Singer. The series was set to explore the "clashing hunter and monster cultures in Chicago".
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Tiera Skovbye is a Canadian actress. She began her career as a child actress. She is known for starring in television films such as her role playing Elizabeth Berkley in Lifetime's The Unauthorized Saved by the Bell Story; for her recurring roles as Polly Cooper on The CW series Riverdale, as Robin on the ABC television series Once Upon a Time. Skovbye starred as Grace Knight on the Global series Nurses.
The first season of the American science fiction, horror, drama television series. Stranger Things premiered worldwide on the streaming service Netflix on July 15, 2016. The series was created by the Duffer Brothers, who also serve as executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.
Magnum P.I. is an American action drama television series developed by Peter M. Lenkov and Eric Guggenheim. It stars Jay Hernandez as Thomas Magnum, the titular private investigator and former Navy SEAL who solves crimes in Hawaii. It is a reboot of the original series of the same name created by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, which aired from 1980 to 1988. The series co-stars Perdita Weeks, Zachary Knighton, Stephen Hill, Amy Hill, and Tim Kang.
The 2019–20 network television schedule for the five major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the prime time hours from September 2019 to August 2020. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series canceled after the 2018–19 season.
The Lenkov-verse is a media franchise that consists of a group of three interconnected television reboots that share a fictional universe, and their related media. All three of the television series, Hawaii Five-0, MacGyver, and Magnum P.I., were developed by Peter M. Lenkov who also served as the showrunner on the series. They are each American crime dramas that aired on CBS. Hawaii Five-0 revolves around a task force, led by Steve McGarrett, that investigates crimes in Hawaii. MacGyver centers around Angus MacGyver who uses nonviolent methods to keep the world safe, with the help of a team of undercover government agents. Magnum P.I. follows private investigator Thomas Magnum, who solves crimes in Hawaii with the help of his friends. The universe is also connected to the so-called Bellisario-verse, which consists of the entire NCIS franchise and JAG, via two direct crossovers between Hawaii Five-0 and NCIS: Los Angeles.
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