List of fictional towns in television
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 are not included.
For a list of fictional towns, villages and cities from animated television shows, see list of fictional towns in animation.
| Town Name | Origin | Network | Notes |
| Algonquin Bay, Ontario | Cardinal | CTV | Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay. |
| Allende del Sol, Mexico | Criminal Minds | CBS | The FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit is send 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". |
| Agrestic, California | Weeds | Showtime | A fictional suburb of Los Angeles. |
| Angel Grove | Power Rangers | Various | City of Power Rangers |
| Angelus, Western Australia | Lockie Leonard | NN | 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. |
| Babylon, Texas | Carnivàle | HBO | Located in Texas, it is the main scenario of the episodes "Black Blizzard" and "Babylon" of Season 1 of Carnivàle |
| Bay City | Another World | NBC | 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. |
| Beacon Hills, California | Teen Wolf | MTV | Beacon Hills is the fictional town in which that main character Scott McCall is turned into a werewolf it is the central hub of the television show. |
| Bluebell, Alabama | Hart of Dixie | The CW | Bluebell, Alabama, is a Gulf Coast fictional town in the television series Hart of Dixie. 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. |
| Buckhorn, South Dakota | Twin Peaks | Showtime | 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 | Murder, She Wrote | CBS | 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. Despite the town's population of 3,560, 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. 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. |
| Camden County | My Name is Earl | NBC | 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. |
| Central City | The Flash | The CW | Central City is the home to the titular character Barry Allen. |
| Charming, California | Sons of Anarchy | FX | 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. |
| Chatswin, New York | Suburgatory | ABC | - |
| Chester's Mill, Maine | Under the Dome | CBS | A fictional town, where the dome traps the entire town and its residents from the outside world. |
| Cicely, Alaska | Northern Exposure | CBS | 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 utilized as primary sets and local Roslyn residents cast as extras. |
| Clinton Corners, Georgia | Carter Country | ABC | Clinton Corners is a fictional town in Georgia, presumably near the part of the state from which U.S. President Jimmy Carter hailed. |
| Collinsport, Maine | Dark Shadows | ABC | 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. |
| Capeside, Massachusetts | Dawson's Creek | The WB | 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. |
| Creed, Oklahoma | Carnivàle | HBO | Located in Oklahoma, this city is the birthplace of Evander Geddes, the man who made Henry Scudder's death mask. |
| Crinkley Bottom | Noel's House Party | BBC | Crinkley Bottom is a fictional village where Noel Edmonds lives in The Great House where the program is set. |
| Dog River | Corner Gas | CTV | A small fictional town in Saskatchewan Canada where the CTV series Corner Gas is filmed and the show takes place. Hilarious comedy. |
| Eerie, Indiana | Eerie, Indiana | NBC, Fox Kids | Eerie is a strange, desolate, little town in Indiana in the Eerie, Indiana and television shows. The town is known for being quite weird, especially to the main characters of both series. |
| Emmerdale | Emmerdale | ITV | 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. |
| Everwood, Colorado | Everwood | The WB | Everwood, Colorado is a fictional small town that forms the main setting for the American drama television series of the same name. It was filmed in Ogden, South Salt Lake, and Draper, Utah, except the series pilot which was filmed in Canmore, Alberta, Denver, Colorado and Calgary. |
| Fairview | Desperate Housewives | ABC | |
| Genoa City, Wisconsin | The Young and the Restless | CBS | 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. |
| Gotham City | Gotham | FOX | A reimagining of the Batman mythology. |
| Happiness, Arizona | The Twilight Zone | CBS | A small town in Arizona. |
| Hawkins, Indiana | Stranger Things | Netflix | 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. |
| Holby | Casualty, Holby City, HolbyBlue | BBC | A fictional city in the United Kingdom, in which BBC medical dramas Casualty 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. While Casualty is filmed on location in Bristol, Holby City is filmed in Elstree, Hertfordshire. Both shows are set in the same fictional Holby City Hospital, with storylines focusing on the Emergency, Clinical Decisions Unit, Private Healthcare Unit, General and Cardiothoracic surgical departments, an Acute Assessment Unit, and the fictional Holby Ambulance Service. |
| Hollyoaks | Hollyoaks | Channel 4 | Hollyoaks is fictional village based in the city of Chester in the United Kingdom, in which provides the setting for the long running Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks |
| Jericho, Kansas | Jericho | CBS | Jericho is set in northwestern Kansas, but the series was filmed in Van Nuys, California. The pilot and all episodes involving New Bern, Kansas, were filmed in Fillmore, California. 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. |
| Kaldor City | Doctor Whos The Robots of Death | BBC | Kaldor City is 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". 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 Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999. It is also the setting and title of a series of audio plays produced by Magic Bullet Productions. |
| Lapataganj | Lapataganj | SAB TV | 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. |
| Letherbridge | Doctors | BBC One | A town in the West Midlands. |
| Little Dimpton | The Benny Hill Show | Thames Television | 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. |
| Llanview, Pennsylvania | One Life to Live | ABC | Llanview, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting of the ABC Daytime soap opera One Life to Live. |
| Mega City | Massive Monster Mayhem | Family Channel | 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. |
| Mayberry, North Carolina | The Andy Griffith Show | CBS | Mayberry is a fictional community in North Carolina that was the setting for two American television sitcoms, The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. Mayberry was also the setting for a 1986 reunion television movie titled Return to Mayberry. It is said to be based on Andy Griffith's hometown, Mount Airy, North Carolina. |
| Melonville | SCTV | Various | 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. |
| Mystic Falls, Virginia | The Vampire Diaries | The CW | Mystic Falls is a small town in Virginia. It is home to numerous supernatural creatures. |
| National City | Supergirl | The CW | National City is a fictional city that appears in Supergirl and is the home to Superman's cousin and the titular character Supergirl. |
| Neptune, California | Veronica Mars | UPN | 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. |
| New Canaan, California | Carnivàle | HBO | Located in California, it is the setting for the last episode of Carnivàle and the location of the final confrontation between the protagonist, Ben Hawkins and the great villain of the series, Brother Justin Crowe. |
| Oakdale | As the World Turns | CBS | 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" and "Farewell to Oakdale". |
| Orson, Indiana | The Middle | ABC | 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. |
| Paradise, California | Bunheads | ABC | 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. |
| Pawnee, Indiana | Parks and Recreation | NBC | 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. |
| Pine Valley, Pennsylvania | All My Children | ABC | Pine Valley, Pennsylvania is the fictional setting of the ABC Daytime soap opera All My Children. |
| Port Charles, New York | General Hospital | ABC | Port Charles, New York is the fictional setting of the ABC Daytime soap operas General Hospital and its spin-offs Port Charles and '. It was later retroactively revealed as the setting of The Young Marrieds, a short-lived series which ran between 1964 and 1966. |
| Port Niranda, Victoria | Round the Twist | ABC SN | Port Niranda is a fictional town in Victoria the Twist family move to that serves as the setting for Round the Twist. |
| Puerto del Santos, Mexico | ' | CBS | A popular tourist destination in Mexico, this Mexican coastal city is the main setting for the episode "De Los Inocentes". |
| Rosewood, Pennsylvania | Pretty Little Liars | ABC | A wealthy, gossip-fueled suburb of Philadelphia that is host to Rosewood High School. |
| Royston Vasey | The League of Gentlemen | BBC Two | Location for the dark comedy in the English Pennines. A sign on an approach road ominously declares "Welcome to Royston Vasey. You'll never leave!" |
| Sandicot, New York | Billions | Showtime | 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. |
| Smallville, Kansas | Smallville | The WB | A reimagining of the Superman comic books, focusing on his youth as Clark Kent growing up in a small farming town in Kansas. |
| Springfield | Guiding Light | CBS | Springfield identifies fictional towns in various TV series, as many real US cities in diverse states share this common name. |
| Stafford, Indiana | The Fugitive | ABC | Stafford, Indiana is the fictional Indiana town on the 1963-67 television show The Fugitive where Dr. Richard Kimble was arrested for the murder of his wife. |
| Stars Hollow, Connecticut | Gilmore Girls | The WB | Stars Hollow is a fictional small town in Connecticut featured on the television show Gilmore Girls. It is depicted as a close-knit small town with many quirky characters, located roughly thirty minutes by car from Hartford. It is loosely based on the towns of Essex, Wallingford, and Washington, Connecticut, but filming of the pilot was done in historical Main Street Unionville in Unionville, Ontario. |
| St-Jean-De-Bosco | Rock et Belles Oreilles | V Tv Network | 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 " and the winners of the international francophone University Challenge game show. |
| Star City | Malcolm in the Middle | FOX | Star City is a fictional town in California on the television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. |
| Star City | Arrow | The CW | Star City, formerly Starling City, is a fictional city appearing in Arrow and home to Oliver Queen. |
| Storybrooke, Maine | Once Upon a Time | ABC | 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 | Home and Away | Seven Network | Summer Bay setting for the Australian soap opera Home and Away and since the creation of the show in 1988 almost all of the action in the show takes place inside this small Victorian 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. |
| Sunnydale, California | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | The WB | 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. |
| Twin Peaks, Washington | Twin Peaks | ABC | Twin Peaks is the small town in David Lynch's television serial drama of the same title. Known for its supernatural occurrences. |
| Walmington-on-Sea | Dad's Army | BBC | 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. |
| Wayward Pines, Idaho | Wayward Pines | FOX | Wayward Pines' is a fictional town in Idaho, where no one can escape. |
| Weatherfield | Coronation Street | ITV | a fictional town in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom 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. |
| The Village | The Prisoner | ITV | 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. |
| Voltafiore, Italy | McHale's Navy Season 4 | ABC | 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. |
| Webster, Connecticut | Atypical | Netflix | Shown on the address of mail sent to the address of the family of the central character. |
| Winden | Dark | Netflix | 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. |