List of television shows set in London

This is a list of television shows set in London.

24: Live Another Day
2point4 Children - Chiswick
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
Black Mirror- mainly set throughout the United Kingdom, with first episode of the series, “The National Anthem”, set in London.
Bless This House - Putney
Bottom - Hammersmith
Bridgerton
Brush Strokes - Motspur Park
The Buddha of Suburbia
Bugs - Docklands
Call the Midwife
Capital City
Citizen Smith - Tooting
Cleaning Up- Canary Wharf
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)
Extraordinary - London borough of London Borough of Tower Hamlets
Family Affairs - London borough of Charnham (fictional) (from 1999 until 2005)
Footballers' Wives
Friday Night Dinner - Mill Hill
Garrow's Law
George and Mildred - Hampton Wick
Gimme Gimme Gimme - Camden
Giri/Haji - "Duty/Shame" (2019)
The Gnomes of Dulwich - Dulwich
The Goodies - Cricklewood
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
Ladies of London
Law & Order: UK
Lead Balloon
London's Burning - Blackwall
London Bridge
Lucy in London
Luther
Marcella (2016 - now)
May to December - Pinner
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
Not Going Out
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 Crayon
Penny Dreadful
PhoneShop - Sutton
Porkpie - Peckham
Pulling - Penge
Pure (British TV series)
The Professionals
QB VII
Rentaghost - Ealing
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
Stath Lets Flats - Edgware
Steptoe and Son - Shepherd's Bush
Taskmaster
The Chelsea Detective
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
Upstart Crow - Central London
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
You (TV series)- its fourth season takes place in London

List of television shows set in London

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