List of television shows set in London
This is a list of television shows set in London.
- Absolute Power
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Are You Being Served?
- As If
- As Time Goes By - Holland Park
- Ashes to Ashes
- The Avengers and The New Avengers
- Babes in the Wood - St John's Wood
- Bad Girls - HMP Larkhall (fictional), South London
- Between the Lines
- Big Deal
- The Bill - London borough of Canley (fictional)
- The Black Adder, Blackadder II, Blackadder the Third (but not Blackadder Goes Forth)
- Black Books - Bloomsbury
- Bless This House - Putney
- Bottom - Hammersmith
- The Buddha of Suburbia
- Bugs - Docklands
- Call the Midwife
- Capital City
- Citizen Smith - Tooting
- Crapston Villas - fictional postcode of SE69
- The Crown
- Danger Mouse
- Desmond's - Peckham
- Dixon of Dock Green
- Doctor Who — numerous episodes, most notably "Rose", "Aliens of London" and "The Christmas Invasion"; also classic serials "An Unearthly Child" (Shoreditch), "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", "The War Machines", "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" and "Survival" (Perivale)
- Drop the Dead Donkey
- The Duchess of Duke Street
- EastEnders - London borough of Walford (fictional)
- Family Affairs - London borough of Charnham (fictional) (from 1999 until 2005)
- Footballers' Wives
- Garrow's Law
- George and Mildred - Hampton Wick
- Gimme Gimme Gimme - Camden
- Giri/Haji - "Duty/Shame" (2019)
- The Gnomes of Dulwich - Dulwich
- The Good Life - Surbiton (suburb)
- Goodnight Sweetheart set in Cricklewood of the 1990s, with time travel back to World War II
- Grange Hill - east London (up until 2003)
- Hancock's Half Hour - Cheam
- Hardware
- Hotel Babylon
- The House of Cards trilogy - Westminster
- Hustle
- The Inbetweeners
- The I.T. Crowd
- Jeeves and Wooster - Berkeley Square, Mayfair W1 area mostly
- Keen Eddie
- The Kumars at No. 42 - Wembley
- The Last Detective - Willesden
- Law & Order: UK
- Lead Balloon
- London's Burning - Blackwall
- London Bridge
- Lucy in London
- Luther
- Marcella (2016 - now)
- Men Behaving Badly
- Metrosexuality - Notting Hill
- The Mighty Boosh
- Minder
- Mongrels - Isle of Dogs
- My Family - Chiswick
- My Hero - Northolt
- Nathan Barley - Shoreditch
- Neverwhere - "London Below", a fictional realm co-existing with London
- The New Statesman - Whitehall
- New Tricks
- NY-LON
- One Foot in the Grave - though most location shots were filmed in Bournemouth
- Only Fools and Horses - Peckham
- 'Orrible
- Orson and Olivia
- Paddington Bear
- Peep Show
- Penny Dreadful
- Porkpie - Peckham
- Pure (British TV series)
- The Professionals
- QB VII
- Rentaghost
- Ripper Street
- River (2015)
- Rumpole of the Bailey
- Secret Diary of a Call Girl
- Sherlock (2011)
- Skins - Series 7 episodes "Skins Fire" and "Skins Pure" were set in London
- Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
- Spaced - Tufnell Park
- Spooks
- Spotless
- Steptoe and Son - Shepherd's Bush
- The Sweeney
- Terry and June - Purley, London Borough of Croydon
- The Thick of It - Westminster
- The Thin Blue Line - London borough of Gasforth (fictional)
- This Life - South London
- The Tomorrow People
- Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town
- Top Boy
- Trust - City of London
- Upstairs, Downstairs - London townhouse of the Bellamy family at 165 Eaton Place
- W1A - the London postal district of the BBC HQ.
- Waking The Dead
- Whitechapel
- William and Mary
- The Wombles - Wimbledon
- Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister - Whitehall
- The Young Ones - North London
Miniseries, specials or individual episodes
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- "What a Night for a Knight"
- Ben 10: Omniverse
- "An American Benwolf in London"
- The Legend of Tarzan
- ""The Hidden World"
- Totally Spies!
- "Totally Dunzo"
- Transformers: The Headmasters
- "Terror! The Six Shadows"
- Danger Rangers
- "Water Works"
- "Chem Gems"
