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
- Saturday Night Live (1975–present)
Comedy, Drama, and Reality
- Mary Kay and Johnny (1947–1950)
- The Goldbergs (1949–1956, moved to Haverville, New York in final season)
- Amos and Andy (1951–1953)
- I Love Lucy (1951–1957, moved to Connecticut in final season)
- My Little Margie (1952-1955)
- Make Room for Daddy (1953-1964)
- The Honeymooners (1955–1956)
- The Thin Man (1957–1959)
- Car 54, Where are You? (1961–1963)
- The Joey Bishop Show (1961–1965)
- The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966, workplace scenes in Manhatan; see below)
- Dr. Kildare (1961–1966)
- The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966)
- Bewitched (1964–1972; workplace scenes in Manhattan; see below)
- That Girl (1966–1971)
- Family Affair (1966–1971)
- Sesame Street (1969–present)
- The Odd Couple (1970–1975)
- McCloud (1970–1977)
- All in the Family (1971–1979)
- Madigan (1972–1973)
- Kojak (1973–1978)
- Rhoda (1974–1978)
- Baretta (1975–1978)
- Barney Miller (1975–1982)
- Ellery Queen (1975–1976)
- The Jeffersons (1975–1985)
- Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979)
- Fish (1977–1978)
- Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986)
- Taxi (1978–1983)
- The Ted Knight Show (1978)
- Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983)
- Cagney & Lacey (1982–1986)
- Fame (1982–1987)
- Silver Spoons (1982–1987)
- The Cosby Show (1984-1992)
- Night Court (1984-1991)
- The Bronx Zoo (1987–1988)
- Beauty and the Beast (1987–1990)
- Working Girl (1990)
- Seinfeld (1990–1998)
- Law & Order (1990–present)
- Brooklyn Bridge (1991–1993)
- Mad About You (1992–1999)
- The Real World (1992 and 2002 seasons)
- The Nanny (1993–1999)
- NYPD Blue (1993–present)
- The Cosby Mysteries (1994–1995)
- Friends (1994–2004)
- 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)
- Just Shoot Me (1997–2003)
- Sex and the City (1997–2004)
- Veronica's Closet (1997–2000)
- Felicity (1998–2002)
- Becker (1998–2004)
- The King of Queens (1998–present)
- That's Life (1998)
- Will & Grace (1998–present)
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999–present)
- Futurama (1999–2003)
- Third Watch (1999–present)
- The Street (2000)
- Welcome to New York (2000–2001)
- Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001–present)
- Grounded for Life (2001–present)
- Family Affair (2002–2003)
- Less Than Perfect (2002–present)
- What I Like About You (2002–present)
- Without a Trace (2002–present)
- Tarzan (2003)
- Tru Calling (2003–present)
- The Apprentice (2004)
- CSI: New York (to premiere in fall 2004)
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)
- Bewitched (1964–1972, Westport, Connecticut, with workplace scenes in Manhattan)
- The Don Rickles Show (1972, Long Island)
- Maude (1972–1978, Tuckahoe in Westchester County)
- Dear John (1988–1992, New Rochelle in Westchester County)
- Everybody Loves Raymond (1996–present, Long Island)
- The Sopranos (1999–present, northern New Jersey)
- That's Life (2000-2002, fictional Bellefield, New Jersey, obstensibly Belleville or Broomfield)
See: The Five Boroughs, New York metropolitan area, Tri-State Region