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
 * 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
 * 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

Miniseries, specials or individual episodes

 * Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
 * "What a Night for a Knight"
 * Ben 10: Omniverse
 * "An American Benwolf in London"
 *  Friends (The one with Ross's wedding) 
 * The Legend of Tarzan
 * ""The Hidden World"
 * Totally Spies!
 * "Totally Dunzo"
 * Transformers: The Headmasters
 * "Terror! The Six Shadows"
 * Danger Rangers
 * "Water Works"
 * "Chem Gems"
 * Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
 * "Elementary, My Dear Shaggy!"
 * Doki
 * "Happy New Year... Again!"
 * World of Winx
 * "Shattered Dreams"
 * Bailey's Comets
 * "Ghost of a Clue"
 * The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures
 * "Those Amazing Mice in Their Flying Machines"
 * Liberty's Kids
 * "The Intolerable Acts"