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
  • Harlots
  • 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
  • The Moonstone - London
  • 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
  • The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
  • 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
  • Strangers and Brothers – Cambridge
  • 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

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"
  • Don't Blame The Koalas
  • "Fate Steps In"

See also

  • London in film