From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of
television shows set in
London.
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24: Live Another Day
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2point4 Children -
Chiswick
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Absolute Power
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Absolutely Fabulous
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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Are You Being Served?
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As If
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As Time Goes By -
Holland Park
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Ashes to Ashes
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The Avengers and
The New Avengers
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Babes in the Wood -
St John's Wood
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Bad Girls - HMP Larkhall (fictional),
South London
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Between the Lines
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Big Deal
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The Bill - London borough of Canley (fictional)
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The Black Adder,
Blackadder II,
Blackadder the Third (but not
Blackadder Goes Forth)
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Black Books -
Bloomsbury
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Black Mirror- mainly set throughout the
United Kingdom, with first episode of the series, “
The National Anthem”, set in
London.
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Bless This House -
Putney
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Bottom -
Hammersmith
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Bridgerton
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Brush Strokes -
Motspur Park
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The Buddha of Suburbia
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Bugs - Docklands
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Call the Midwife
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Capital City
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Citizen Smith -
Tooting
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Cleaning Up-
Canary Wharf
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Crapston Villas - fictional postcode of SE69
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The Crown
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Danger Mouse
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Desmond's -
Peckham
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Dixon of Dock Green
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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)
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Drop the Dead Donkey
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The Duchess of Duke Street
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EastEnders - London borough of Walford (fictional)
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Extraordinary - London borough of London Borough of Tower Hamlets
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Family Affairs - London borough of Charnham (fictional) (from 1999 until 2005)
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Footballers' Wives
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Friday Night Dinner -
Mill Hill
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Garrow's Law
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George and Mildred -
Hampton Wick
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Gimme Gimme Gimme -
Camden
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Giri/Haji - "Duty/Shame" (2019)
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The Gnomes of Dulwich -
Dulwich
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The Goodies -
Cricklewood
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The Good Life -
Surbiton (suburb)
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Goodnight Sweetheart set in
Cricklewood of the 1990s, with time travel back to World War II
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Grange Hill - east London (up until 2003)
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Hancock's Half Hour -
Cheam
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Hardware
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Hotel Babylon
- The
House of Cards trilogy -
Westminster
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Hustle
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The Inbetweeners
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The I.T. Crowd
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Jeeves and Wooster -
Berkeley Square,
Mayfair
W1 area mostly
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Keen Eddie
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The Kumars at No. 42 -
Wembley
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The Last Detective -
Willesden
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Law & Order: UK
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Lead Balloon
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London's Burning -
Blackwall
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London Bridge
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Lucy in London
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Luther
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Marcella (2016 - now)
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May to December -
Pinner
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Men Behaving Badly
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Metrosexuality -
Notting Hill
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The Mighty Boosh
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Minder
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Mongrels -
Isle of Dogs
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My Family -
Chiswick
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My Hero -
Northolt
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Nathan Barley -
Shoreditch
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Neverwhere - "London Below", a fictional realm co-existing with London
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The New Statesman -
Whitehall
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New Tricks
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Not Going Out
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NY-LON
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One Foot in the Grave - though most location shots were filmed in
Bournemouth
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Only Fools and Horses - Peckham
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'Orrible
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Orson and Olivia
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Paddington Bear
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Peep Show
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Penny Crayon
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Penny Dreadful
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PhoneShop -
Sutton
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Porkpie - Peckham
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Pulling -
Penge
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Pure (British TV series)
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The Professionals
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QB VII
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Rentaghost -
Ealing
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Ripper Street
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River (2015)
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Rumpole of the Bailey
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl
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Sherlock (2011)
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Skins - Series 7 episodes "
Skins Fire" and "
Skins Pure" were set in London
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Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
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Spaced -
Tufnell Park
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Spooks
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Spotless
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Stath Lets Flats -
Edgware
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Steptoe and Son -
Shepherd's Bush
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The Chelsea Detective
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The Sweeney
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Terry and June - Purley, London Borough of Croydon
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The Thick of It - Westminster
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The Thin Blue Line - London borough of Gasforth (fictional)
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This Life - South London
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The Tomorrow People
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Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town
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Top Boy
- Trust -
City of London
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Upstairs, Downstairs - London townhouse of the Bellamy family at 165 Eaton Place
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Upstart Crow -
Central London
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W1A - the London postal district of the BBC HQ.
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Waking The Dead
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Whitechapel
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William and Mary
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The Wombles -
Wimbledon
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Yes Minister and
Yes, Prime Minister -
Whitehall
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The Young Ones - North London
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You (TV series)- its
fourth season takes place in London
Miniseries, specials or individual episodes
See also