This is a list of films and television programs shot in Palm Springs, California. It covers filming locations in Palm Springs and other nearby resort communities of the Coachella Valley. These communities, which include Palm Springs, Bermuda Dunes, Cathedral City, Coachella, Desert Hot Springs, Indian Wells, Indio, La Quinta, Mecca, Thermal, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, and the Salton Sea, are in Riverside County, southern California. Included are individual episodes of TV series and radio programs.
1910s
In his 1919 book California Desert Trails, travel writer J. Smeaton Chase mentions that motion-picture people were in the Indian Canyons sometime before 1918.[1]
- A Lez in Wonderland – 2006 TV documentary[citation needed]
- American Dream Builders – 2014 NBC TV series[50]
- Average Joe – 2004 TV series[3][10]
- Beverly's Full House – 2011– Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) TV series[17]
- Biker Build-Off – 2002–2007 TV series
- Bob Hope Television Specials – TV specials
- Bob Hope Special: The Bob Hope Special from Palm Springs (February 13, 1978)[54]
- The Bob Hope Show (January 21, 1989)[55]
- Bob Hope's Yellow Ribbon Party (April 6, 1991)[10][56]
- Bob Hope Christmas Special: Hopes for the Holidays (1994)[10][57]
- Boy Meets Boy – 2003 TV series[10]
- Christy Lane's Line Dancing – 1992 VHS taped at Zelda's[58]
- Columbo – 1968–2003 TV series
- Cops – 1989– TV series
- Season 19, Episode 6, "Drug Arrests #2 Special Edition" (2006)
- Season 19, Episode 24, "Coast to Coast #15" (2007)
- Downey – 1994 television talk show[citation needed]
- Gene Simmons Family Jewels – 2006– TV series
- Hart to Hart – 1979–1984 TV series (episode in La Quinta)[3]
- Hello Paradise – 2004–2011 TV series
- 81 episodes total (which include non-Palm Springs and desert episodes)[citation needed]
- Hidden Palms – 2006 pilot for the 2007 TV series[10]
- I Love Lucy – 1951–1957 TV series (various episodes)[3]
- I Spy – 1965–1968 TV series[3]
- Kate Clinton: The Queen of Comedy – 1996 VHS taped at The Girl Bar during the Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend, included Maggie Cassella[59]
- Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List – 2005–2010 TV series
- Lea DeLaria: The Queen of Comedy – 1997 VHS taped at The Girl Bar during the 7th Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend[60]
- Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends – 1998–2000 TV series
- Season 1, Episode 2, "UFO" (1998)
- Mannix – 1967–1975 TV series[3]
- Martha – 2010– TV series (a.k.a. The Martha Stewart Show)
- "The Palm Springs Show" (May 27, 2010)[62]
- McMillan & Wife – 1971–1977 TV series
- Miss California USA – 1989 TV show (for the 1990 Miss California Title)[10]
- Mission: Impossible – 1966–1973 TV series
- Mrs. America Pageant – 2005 TV show (for the 2006 Mrs. America Title)[10][63]
- Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica – 2003–2005 TV series[3]
- Off Limits – 2011– TV series
- Season 2, Episode 7, "Digging for Sea Salt; Demolishing a Bridge; Atop a Tramway" (2012)[citation needed]
- P.S. I Luv U – 1991–1992 TV series[3][10]
- Rescue 911 – 1989–1996 TV series[3]
- Since You've Been Gone – 1998 television film[10]
- Slow Burn – 1986 television film[10][64]
- Sonny Bono: Pop Songs & Politics – 1998 ABC News documentary[65]
- Southland – 2009– TV series
- Season 2, Episode 4, "The Runner" (2010)
- Tammy Faye: Death Defying – 2004 documentary[10][66]
- The Bold and the Beautiful – 1987– TV series
- The Dating Game – 1965–1999 TV series[3]
- The F.B.I. – 1965–1974 TV series[3]
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show – 1957–1960 TV series[67]
- Season 2, Episode 2, "You're invited to spend the afternoon at the Frank Sinatra Show" (1959)[68]
- The Merv Griffin Show – 1963–1986 TV series (a 1960s special episode)[3]
- Throwdown! with Bobby Flay – 2006–2009 TV series
- True Life – 1998– TV series
- Wheeler Dealers – 2003– TV series
- WWE Legends' House – 2012 TV series
- 2 Fast 2 Furious – 2003 film (Desert Hot Springs)[46]
- After Dark, My Sweet – 1990 film (Mecca, California)[70]
- America's Tribute to Bob Hope – 1988 documentary (Palm Desert)[71]
- Beverly Hills, 90210 – 1990s TV series (1995 episodes in Rancho Mirage)[72]
- Bombay Beach – 2010 documentary (Bombay Beach, California)[73]
- Coachella: The Film – 2006 documentary about the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio[74]
- Constantine – 2005 film (Eagle Mountain near Desert Center)[46]
- Five Graves to Cairo – 1943 film (Indio)[75]
- Hot Springs Hotel – 1997 Showtime adult comedy series (Desert Hot Springs) with Samantha Phillips[76]
- I Shouldn't Be Alive – 2005– TV series (San Jacinto Mountains, 2010 episode)[citation needed]
- Impostor – 2002 film (Eagle Mountain near Desert Center)[46]
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World – 1963 film (Palm Desert, Twentynine Palms, Yucca Valley and Palm Springs)[10][77][78]: 113 [3]
- Julie – 1956 film (Indio)[79]
- Little Birds – 2012 film (the Salton Sea)[80]
- Live from Baghdad – 2002 HBO television movie (Eagle Mountain near Desert Center)[46]
- Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea – 2004 documentary (the Salton Sea)
- Rita Rudner: Married Without Children – 1995 HBO performance (Palm Desert)[81]
- River Monsters – 2013 Animal Planet promotional video (Bombay Beach)[82]
- Satan's Sadists – 1969 outlaw biker film (Indio)[83]
- The Beast with a Million Eyes – 1955 film (Coachella Valley)[84]
- The Big Fisherman – 1959 film (La Quinta)[3][85]
- The Bob Cummings Show – 1955–1959 TV series (portions filmed at the Rancho Las Palmas Country Club in Rancho Mirage)[86]
- The Island – 2005 film (Eagle Mountain and Salton Sea)[46]
- The Kid – 2000 film (Coachella Valley)[citation needed]
- The Long, Long Trailer – 1954 film (on the Pines to Palms Scenic Byway (State Route 74) in Palm Desert)[87]
- The Player – 1992 film (Desert Hot Springs)[10][88]
- The Salton Sea – 2002 film (Mecca (Box Canyon and Painted Canyon) and the Salton Sea)[46]
- Third World California – 2006 documentary (Lower Coachella Valley)[89]
- Torque – 2004 film (Blythe, Desert Hot Springs, Palm Desert)[46]
- Trista & Ryan's Wedding – a 2003 ABC miniseries (The Lodge luxury resort in Rancho Mirage)[90]
- Twentynine Palms – 2003 film (Twentynine Palms (Drifting Palms) and Coachella Valley)[46]
- Two Guys from Texas – 1948 musical comedy (Rancho Mirage)[91]
- Unknown – 2006 film (Eagle Mountain and Desert Center)[46]
Star Studded Ride (1954). Universal Pictures. Summary (from Library of Congress data): "A group of desert riders from Palm Springs, Calif., on their weekly ride watch Ben Hogan demonstrate some golf shots at the Tamarish [sic] Country Club, see Gussie Moran and Dave Gillam play a set of tennis at Charles Farrell's Racket Club, and observe Pat McCormack and Stubby Kreuger [sic] in a diving exhibition at the El Mirador Hotel. Credits: Producer, Thomas Mead; director, William C. Menzies; script, Allan Kitchel, Jr.; narrator, Tex Antoine; music, Jack Shaindlin; editor, Ed Bartsch." LCCN fi54-948
Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies (1997). Santa Monica, CA: Little Apple Productions. VHS. (39 minutes). OCLC 38964599
"Palm Springs Neighborhood Premiers on NBC Reality Show". The Public Record. 37 (26): 3. April 1, 2014. ISSN 0744-205X.
Lea DeLaria; Mariah Hanson; Robin Gans; Sandy Sachs; Aarin Burch; (1996). The Club Skirts Girl Bar queens of comedy: in Palm Springs, California during the Dinah Shore Golf Classic week. Tallahassee, FL: Northern Arts/Naiad Press. VHS. ISBN 978-1562801540 OCLC 38996994
Kate Clinton; Mariah Hanson; Robin Gans; Sandy Sachs; Aarin Burch; (1997). The Girl Bar [and] Club Skirts queens of comedy: in Palm Springs, California during the 7th annual Dinah Shore Golf Classic week. Tallahassee, FL: Northern Arts/Naiad Press. VHS. OCLC 43665546
After Dark, My Sweet at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films and Ebert, Roger "After Dark, My Sweet" Archived 2012-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. The Chicago Sun-Times film review, March 13, 2005. Accessed: August 28, 2012. and Farber, Stephen (January 21, 1990). "In the Desert, a Jim Thompson Novel Blossoms on Film". New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
Historical Society of Palm Desert; Rover, Hal; Kousken, Kim; Romer, Brett (2009). Palm Desert. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing. p. 128. ISBN 978-0738559643.
Meeks, Eric G. (2011). P.S. I Love Lucy: The Story of Lucille Ball in Palm Springs. Horotio Limburger Oglethorpe. p. 31. ISBN 978-1468098549.
- Alan, Ken (January 22, 2013). "Valley gets serious about attracting filmmakers". The Public Record. 37 (4). Palm Springs, CA: Robert Marra: 1–2. ISSN 0744-205X.
- Alan, Ken (January 21, 2014). "Desert, desert everywhere—but you can't film on it". The Public Record. 37 (6). Palm Springs, CA: Robert Marra: 1–2. ISSN 0744-205X.