FICTIONAL TV TOWNS & CITIES
ONE-WORD TV TITLES
THE SPEAKER IN SHAKESPEARE
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100

Home of a famous tire yard fire, this memorable TV town is where the Simpsons live 

Springfield

100

This drama was about the survivors of the crash of Oceanic flight 815

Lost

100

"A bloody deed--almost as bad, good mother as kill a king, and marry with his brother"

Hamlet

100

Football fans know it sits at the mouth of Wisconsin's Fox River

Green Bay

100

Harrison Ford plays John Thornton, rescuer of sled dog Buck, in the 2020 adaptation of this Jack London novel

Call of the Wild

200

On this show, the title character slayed them, she really slayed them in Sunnydale, California

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

200

Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson solved crimes in modern-day New York City on this CBS procedural

Elementary

200

"Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble"

Witches of Macbeth

200

A Southern California city & a Northern New Jersey township share this citrusy name

Orange

200

Meryl Streep brought to life Miranda Priestly, magazine editor & the boss from hell, in this movie based on a bestseller

The Devil Wears Prada

300

A young Clark Kent struggled to find his way in Smallville, a town in this Heartland state

Kansas

300

A San Francisco detective solved crimes on this show despite his obsessive-compulsive disorder sometimes getting in the way

Monk

300

"Katherine, I charge thee, tell these headstrong women what duty they do owe their lords and husbands"

Petruchio

300

Parlez-vous Francais? Then name this Louisiana port at the head of the Mississippi's deepwater navigation

Baton-Rouge

300

When "One Shot" by Lee Child came to the big screen, it was named this, after the main character

Jack Reacher

400

If you write about "Murder, She Wrote", include that it took place in Cabot Cove in this New England state

Maine

400

Hayden Panettiere starred on this show about rising & fading country music stars

Nashville

400

"I prithee, daughter, do not make me mad"

King Lear

400

This "ville" is across the Rio Grande from Matamoros

Brownsville

400

Michael B. Jordan played lawyer Bryan Stevenson & this actor played the wrongfully convicted death row inmate Walter McMillian in 2019's "Just Mercy"

Jaime Foxx

500

The Log Lady & the late Laura Palmer were residents of this fictional Pacific Northwest community

Twin Peaks

500

After their mom's death, 3 young women discover they have magic powers on this CW drama

Charmed

500

"How camest thou hither, tell me, and wherefore? The orchard walls are high and hard to climb"

Juliett

500

This former mining town was Colorado's territorial capital

Golden

500

Just like the second book about this British diarist, the second film about her was subtitled "The Edge of Reason"

Bridget Jones