US Series Settings Trivia Quiz

"Frasier" was set in Seattle, Washington. The show, centered around psychiatrist Frasier Crane, ran for 11 seasons from premiering in 1993 to its 2004 finale. It was a spin-off from "Cheers" where he was a regular bar customer and followed his life after his return home to Seattle after the end of his marriage.

He becomes the host of a psychiatry call-in radio show and part of the sitcom features life at the station and his co-workers. The rest focuses mostly on his interaction with his family.

His father Martin moves in with him after retirement. They hire a physical therapist for him named Daphne who also moves in to take care of him. His brother Niles, also a psychiatrist, rounds out the family. Niles originally has a wife we never see and is eventually divorced leading to an ongoing attraction to Daphne.

Both brothers are rather pretentious, with expensive tastes and highbrow intellectual interests which is a direct contrast with Martin who is a very down-to-earth character so all does not run smoothly on the home front.

Set in suburban Los Angeles, "Modern Family" also ran for 11 seasons beginning in 2009 and finishing in 2020. The show had characters speaking directly to the camera in a mockumentary style.

The series followed three different types of families within the Pritchards. Patriarch Jay is a wealthy businessman who has remarried a much younger beautiful Columbian woman. Gloria has a young son from a previous marriage and the two later have a child together.

His daughter Claire is married to Phil Dunphy and has three children: Haley, Alex and Luke. They are the stereotypical nuclear family, Phil is a realtor while Claire gave up working to be a stay-at-home mother to their children. Later in the show, she returns to work and takes over her father's business.

Mitchell is Jay's son who is in a same-sex relationship with Cameron. They have just adopted a baby girl, Lily, from Vietnam at the start of the show. Mitchel is a lawyer and Cameron begins the series as a stay-at-home dad. Later he becomes a football coach, and the two get married and adopt another child.

"Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman" ran for a total of six seasons from 1993 to 1998. It centers around Dr Michaela Quinn, a wealthy female doctor from Boston who began practicing with her father until his death in 1867.

Dr Mike, as she is known, leaves Massachusetts to work in Colorado Springs, a small town in the Wild West. Much of the show revolves around her proving that a female doctor is quite capable of practicing medicine.

She is initially helped by a midwife named Charlotte and outdoorsman Byron Sully. Charlotte is then bitten by a rattlesnake and leaves the care of her three children (Mathew, Colleen, and Brian) to Mike. The personal side of the show deals with her new role as a mother and her romantic relationship with Sully.

Running for seven series, from 2005 to 2011, "Medium" was set in Phoenix, Arizona in a fictional county named Mariposa. The show was originally based on real-life medium Allison DuBois who has worked with law enforcement across the USA.

The main character in the series has the same name, with a husband named Joe and three girls, Ariel, Bridgette, and Marie, who have all inherited their mother's psychic abilities.

Allison begins the show by becoming an intern at the office of District Attorney Manuel Devalos and her psychic ability helps them solve the case. Her abilities are not automatic, they are revealed in her dreams or visions that don't always make sense until something ties them all together.

In the first few seasons, only Devalos and Detective Lee Scanlon, who she often works with, are aware of her abilities but it later becomes public knowledge.

"Young Sheldon" is a prequel spin off to "The Big Bang Theory" focusing on the early years of Sheldon Cooper in Medford, a small East Texas town. It began in 2017 and had a seven-year run until 2024. The series is narrated by Jim Parsons who played Sheldon in "The Big Bang Theory".

The show portrays the years 1989 to 1994 in Sheldon's life as he begins high school at age nine and then college at eleven. A child prodigy in intellectual matters he struggles with emotional and social situations.

The series also follows the life of his family; twin sister Missy who is emotionally savvy, elder brother George Junior who is street savvy, mother Mary a devout Baptist, father George the school football coach and grandmother Connie 'meemaw' who lives across the street.

"The Golden Girls" ran for seven seasons from 1985 to 1992. The show centered around four single women sharing a house in Miami and the interactions between their very different backgrounds and personalities.

The house belongs to Blanche Devereaux, a year before the show began she advertised for roommates and Dorothy Zbornak and Rose Nyland moved in. The fourth lady, Sophia Patrillo, is Dorothy's mother who moves in during the series pilot episode.

Blanche is a southern belle who was brought up in a wealthy family in Atlanta. She moved to Miami with her husband George and they had five children. She is a widow and is always teased about being promiscuous.

Rose is of Norwegian American heritage and came from a small farming town in Minnesota named St Olaf. She was married to Charlie and also had five children. She moved to Miami after her husband's death but is forever regaling the others about strange tales from her hometown. Naive and gullible she is always being teased by the others.

Dorothy was from New York where she had married her husband Stan after getting pregnant in high school. The marriage produced two children but she ended up divorced after 38 years when Stan left her for a younger woman. Practical and short-tempered, her sarcastic comments lead to much comedy.

Sophia was married to Salvadore and had two other children besides Dorothy. Prior to the show she had had a stroke and was living in a retirement home which burnt down in the pilot episode. Much comedy comes from her Sicilian ancestry.

"The Waltons" was based on a book called "Spencer's Mountain" by Earl Hamner Jr about his life. He created the series and narrated the opening and closing statements made by John-Boy. It began as a movie in 1963 and then a TV Christmas movie in 1971. Following the success of that ,it began a nine-season run in 1972 followed by six movies over two decades.

The series followed the lives of the Walton family during the Great Depression and WWII spanning 13 years in their lives living on Walton Mountain in the fictitious Jefferson County. The show reinforced the value of family unity through times of trouble.

Living on the mountain was Zebulon (grandpa) and Esther (granma) with their son John Sr and his family; wife Olivia and children John Jr (John-Boy), Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Benjamin (Ben), James Robert (Jim-Bob) and Elizabeth.

"Cheers" was set in a bar of the same name in Boston, Massachusetts. It ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. The bar was run by Sam Malone, an ex-relief pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, until he became an alcoholic which ended his career.

The pilot series had regular characters Diane Chambers and Carla Tortelli as waitresses and Coach Ernie Pantusso as another bartender. Customers Norm Peterson and Cliff Calvin became regulars in the first season.

Frasier becomes a recurring character in season three and a regular from season five. Lilith (his wife-to-be) is only a permanent in season ten but has guest appearances in others. Woody Boyd becomes a regular bartender in season four after Coach dies and Diane leaves at the end of season five to be replaced by Rebecca Howe.

Throughout it all, there is Sam - a complete womanizer who chases both Diane and Rebecca throughout the series but ends up alone at the end.

Apart from "Frasier," the show had another spinoff named "The Tortellis" about Carla's ex-husband and his ditsy new wife, and the program "Wings" is from the same 'universe' with crossovers of "Cheers" characters.

"Family Ties" ran for seven seasons beginning in 1982. The show centered around the Keaton family during the money-hungry 1980s in Columbus, Ohio. Parents Steve (a manager at a local public television station) and Elyse (an architect), are baby boomers and liberal ex-hippies from the 1960s who are bringing up their children in a very different time and environment.

Their eldest, Alex, was virtually an antithesis of his parent's belief system, totally embracing the Reagan era politics. He is intelligent, ambitious, and always looking for schemes to make money.

Second child Mallory has no interest in politics or education. She is presented as a typical teenager whose interests mostly include fashion and boys.

Their younger sister Jennifer is the most like her parents but is primarily interested in sports. Another son, Andrew, was born in season three.

There are problems with continuity with ages throughout the series with some children staying the same age and others jumping several years. At the beginning of the series, Alex is seventeen, Mallory is fifteen, and Jennifer is nine.

Set in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Happy Days" ran for a total of eleven seasons from 1974 to 1984. The show was set during the 1950s and 1960s and portrayed a wholesome portrait of teenagers growing up in this time period.

The series focused on the Cunningham family. Father Howard, a hardware store owner, his wife Marion, a traditional housewife, and their two/three children. The initial season portrayed an oldest son named Chuck went upstairs and was never mentioned again.

Richie then became the oldest and the main focus of the show in its original years and followed his high school years with best friends Potsie Webber and Ralph Malph. Younger sister Joanie rounded out the family.

The series also featured cool Arthur 'Fonzie' Fonzarelli, a high school dropout, leather-clad, motorbike rider who rents a room over the Cunninghams' garage and becomes friends with the family. Originally a secondary character, he went on to be the central character after Richie left for military service.