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

See also

• List of films set in London

• Lists of television series by setting
• Television shows set in London
• London-related lists