List of television shows set in New York City

This page provides a partial list of television shows set in New York City.

Shows set primarily in the Five Boroughs

Live format

Title	Start	End	Comment
The Ed Sullivan Show	1948	1971	known as The Toast of the Town until 1955
The Milton Berle Show	1948	1955	known as Texaco Star Theater until 1953 and The Buick-Berle Show 1953–1954, moved to California during final 1955–1956 season
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson	1962	1972	moved to Burbank, California in 1972
Saturday Night Live	1975	present
Late Night with David Letterman	1982	1993
The Late Show with David Letterman	1993	present
Late Night with Conan O'Brien	1993	2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	2009	present
The View	1997	present
Live with Regis and Kelly	2000	present	known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee from 1988 until 2000

Comedy, drama, and reality

1940s-1960s

Tom's Restaurant, at West 112th Street and Broadway, was used as the establishing shot for "Monk's Cafe" on Seinfeld, a program that satirized life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Title	Start	End	Comment
Mary Kay and Johnny	1947	1950
The Goldbergs	1949	1956	The Bronx, moved to fictional Haverville, New York in final season.
Amos and Andy	1951	1953	Harlem
I Love Lucy	1951	1957	Upper East Side, moved to Connecticut in final season.
My Little Margie	1952	1957	Upper Fifth Avenue
Meet Millie	1952	1956	in Jackson Heights, Queens
Make Room for Daddy	1953	1954
The Honeymooners	1955	1956	in Bushwick, Brooklyn
The Thin Man	1957	1959
Naked City	1958	1963
Johnny Staccato	1959	1960
Top Cat	1961	1962
Car 54, Where are You?	1961	1963
The Joey Bishop Show	1961	1965
The Dick Van Dyke Show	1961	1966	Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
Dr. Kildare	1961	1966
The Patty Duke Show	1963	1966	in Brooklyn Heights
Bewitched	1964	1972	Workplace scenes in Manhattan; (see below)
That Girl	1966	1971	Some episodes/scenes also set in Brewster in Putnam County
Family Affair	1966	1971
Sesame Street	1969	present

1970s

Title	Start	End	Comment
The Trouble with Tracy	1970	1971	Taped in Toronto, Canada
The Odd Couple	1970	1975	Park Avenue
McCloud	1970	1977
All in the Family	1971	1979	in Astoria, Queens
The Electric Company	1971	1977
Bridget Loves Bernie	1972	1973
Madigan	1972	1973
Kojak	1973	1978
Rhoda	1974	1978
Baretta	1975	1978
Barney Miller	1975	1982
Ellery Queen	1975	1976
The Jeffersons	1975	1985	Upper East Side
Ryan's Hope	1975	1989	Upper West Side
Welcome Back, Kotter	1975	1979	in Brooklyn
Fish	1977	1978
Diff'rent Strokes	1978	1986
Taxi	1978	1983
The Ted Knight Show	1978	1978
Archie Bunker's Place	1979	1983	in Astoria, Queens
Eischied	1979	1980

1980s

Title	Start	End	Comment
Bosom Buddies	1980	1982
Gimme a Break	1981	1987	final season only, all prior seasons set in fictitious Glenlawn, California
Love, Sidney	1981	1983
Cagney & Lacey	1982	1986
Fame	1982	1987
The Cosby Show	1984	1992	in Brooklyn
Kate and Allie	1984	1989	in Greenwich Village
Night Court	1984	1992
The Equalizer	1985	1989
The Bronx Zoo	1987	1988	in the Bronx
Beauty and the Beast	1987	1990
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	1987	1996

1990s

• Working Girl (1990)
• Seinfeld (1989–1998)
• Law & Order (1990–2010)
• Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1993); in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
• Ghostwriter (1992–1995); in Fort Greene, Brooklyn
• Mad About You (1992–1999)
• The Real World (1992 and 2001 in Manhattan; 2009 in Brooklyn)
• Living Single (1993–1998)
• The Nanny (1993–1999) Upper East Side
• NYPD Blue (1993–2005)
• 704 Hauser (1994) Astoria, Queens
• The George Carlin Show (1994–1995)
• New York Undercover (1994–1998)
• The Cosby Mysteries (1994–1995)
• The Critic (1994–1995)
• Gargoyles (1994–1997)
• Spider-Man: The Animated Series (1994–1998)
• Sports Night (1998–2000)
• Friends (1994–2004)
• New York News (1995)
• Caroline in the City (1995–1999)
• NewsRadio (1995–1999)
• The Parent 'Hood (1995–1999)
• The Wayans Bros. (1995–1999)
• Central Park West (1996)
• Cosby (1996–2000)
• Spin City (1996–2002)
• Brooklyn South (1997–1998); in Brooklyn
• Fired Up (1997–1998)
• Just Shoot Me! (1997–2003)
• Sex and the City (1997–2004)
• Veronica's Closet (1997–2000)
• City Guys (1997–2001)
• Felicity (1998–2002)
• Cousin Skeeter (1998–2003)
• Becker (1998–2004); in The Bronx
• The King of Queens (1998–2007); in Queens
• That's Life (1998)
• Will & Grace (1998–2006)
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present)
• Futurama (1999–present) (set a thousand years in the future in New New York, built above the ruins of the old)
• BrainPOP (1999–present)
• Mike, Lu & Og (1999–2002; Mike was born in Manhattan)
• Third Watch (1999–2005)

2000s-present

Title	Start	End	Comment
The Street	2000
The 10th Kingdom	2000
Welcome to New York	2000	2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	2001	present
Grounded for Life	2001	2005	on Staten Island
The Job	2001	2002
Animal Precinct	2002	present
Samurai Jack	2002	2004
Family Affair	2002	2003
Less Than Perfect	2002	2006	Manhattan and Brooklyn
What I Like About You	2002	2006
Without a Trace	2002	2009
America's Next Top Model	2003	present	seasons 1-3, 10, 12 and 14
Tarzan	2003
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	2003	2009
Tru Calling	2003	2005
The Apprentice	2004	present	all seasons (except season 6)
The Jury	2004
CSI: NY	2004	present
Rescue Me	2004	present
Law & Order: Trial By Jury	2005
Blind Justice	2005
Everybody Hates Chris	2005	2009	in Bed-Stuy
How I Met Your Mother	2005	present
Jake in Progress	2005	2006
American Dragon: Jake Long	2005	2007
Related	2005	2006
The Bedford Diaries	2006
Conviction	2006
30 Rock	2006	present
Ugly Betty	2006	2010	in Manhattan and Jackson Heights, Queens
Heroes	2006	2010
Gossip Girl	2007	present
Dirty Sexy Money	2007	2009
Flight of the Conchords	2007	2009
Damages	2007	present
Mad Men	2007	present	taped in Los Angeles
Wizards of Waverly Place	2007	present	filmed in Hollywood, California
The Naked Brothers Band	2007	2009
Cashmere Mafia	2008
Life On Mars	2008	2009
Lipstick Jungle	2008	2009
Sherri	2009
Nurse Jackie	2009	present
The Electric Company	2009	present
White Collar	2009	present
Bored to Death	2009	present
24	2009	2010	season 8
True Jackson, VP	2009	present
Castle	2009	present
Blue Bloods	2010	present
How to Make It in America	2010	present
Scrappers	2010	present
Oddities	2010	present
Mad Love	2011	2011
Suits	2011	present
2 Broke Girls	2011	present	in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Jessie	2011	present

Shows set primarily in other parts of the New York metropolitan area

• The Goldbergs (see above: moved to Haverville, New York, in final season)
• I Love Lucy (see above: moved to Westport, Connecticut, in 1957 season)
• The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966, New Rochelle in Westchester County, with workplace scenes in Manhattan)
• The Facts of Life 1979–1988, Peekskill, New York
• Bewitched (1964–1972, Westport, Connecticut, with workplace scenes in Manhattan)
• The Don Rickles Show (1972, Long Island)
• Maude (1972–1978, Tuckahoe in Westchester County)
• Who's the Boss? (1984–1992, Connecticut)
• Growing Pains (1985–1992, Long Island)
• Dear John (1988–1992, New Rochelle in Westchester County)
• Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–2005, Lynbrook on Long Island)
• The Sopranos (1999–2007, North Caldwell, New Jersey, with occasional scenes in Manhattan)
• Gilmore Girls (2000–2007); in Western Connecticut
• That's Life (2000–2002, fictional Bellefield, New Jersey, obstensibly Belleville or Bloomfield)
• My Wife and Kids (2001–2005, Stamford, Connecticut)
• Megas XLR (2004–2005, New Jersey)
• House (2004–present, fictional "Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital" in New Jersey; Princeton and Plainsboro are two adjacent towns within the New York metropolitan area.)
• The Book of Daniel (2006), fictional Newbury in Westchester

See: The Five Boroughs, New York metropolitan area, Tri-State Region

See also

• List of television shows filmed in New York City
• List of movies set in New York City
• List of television shows set in Los Angeles
• List of television shows set in Washington, D.C.
• List of television shows set in Chicago
• List of television shows set in San Francisco
• List of television shows set in Miami

External links

• Fun City: TV's Urban Situation Comedies of the 1990s