List of television shows set in London

This is a list of television shows set in London.

• 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
• Bless This House - Putney
• Bottom - Hammersmith
• The Buddha of Suburbia
• Bugs - Docklands
• Capital City
• Citizen Smith - Tooting
• Crapston Villas - fictional postcode of SE69
• Danger Mouse
• 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)
• Family Affairs - London borough of Charnham (fictional) (from 1999 until 2005)
• Footballers' Wives
• Garrow's Law
• George and Mildred - Hampton Wick
• Gimme Gimme Gimme - Camden
• The Gnomes of Dulwich - Dulwich
• 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
• Lucy in London
• Luther
• 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
• 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 Dreadful
• QB VII
• Rentaghost
• Rumpole of the Bailey
• Secret Diary of a Call Girl
• Sherlock (2011)
• Skins - Series 7 episodes "Skins Fire" and "Skins Rise" were set in London
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• Spaced - Tufnell Park
• Spooks
• Spotless
• Steptoe and Son - Shepherd's Bush
• 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
• Top Boy
• Trust - City of London
• Upstairs, Downstairs - London townhouse of the Bellamy family at 165 Eaton Place
• W1A - the London postal district of the BBC HQ.
• Waking The Dead
• William and Mary
• The Wombles - Wimbledon
• Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister - Whitehall
• The Young Ones - North 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"
• The Legend of Tarzan
  • ""The Hidden World"

See also

• List of films set in London