This is a list of fictional towns, villages and cities from live-action television shows. This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional settlements that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein. Fictionalized versions of actual towns (such as Raytown, Missouri in Mama's Family and Wellsville, New York in The Adventures of Pete & Pete) are not included.
For a list of fictional towns, villages and cities from animated television shows, see list of fictional towns in animation.
Cabot Cove is named after the town's founder, Winfred Cabot. Perhaps setting the stage for the town's reputation for murders, Cabot was killed in a murder-suicide situation with his wife Hepzibah. It has an architectural heritage of Victorian houses. Given the village's rich history, coastal location and close proximity to eastern U.S. cities, Cabot Cove was transformed from a small, sleepy fishing village to a tourist destination for the people coming from New York.
It was created by Chris Boucher for the Doctor Who serial The Robots of Death broadcast in 1977, and was reused in his Past Doctor Adventure Corpse Marker in 1999. It is also the setting and title of a series of audio plays produced by Magic Bullet Productions.
Sunnydale is located on a "Hellmouth"; a portal "between this reality and the next", and convergence point of mystical energies.