What Are The Best TV Shows Set In Vermont?
December 21, 2023 03:35pm
As a setting for TV shows and movies, Vermont isn’t likely to rank with more familiar places for dramas and comedies, such as New York and Southern California, but “The Green Mountain State” has been the setting for a handful of notable shows.
In offering up the best shows set in Vermont over the years, BetVermont.com considered all the television series set in the state as listed on Wikipedia. From that starting point, BetVermont.com then utilized IMDb rating, Rotten Tomatoes Audience score, Rotten Tomatoes Critic score, and award recognition to create a weighted scoring system.
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Best TV Shows Set in Vermont
| Overall Rank | Show | Total Points |
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| 1 | Newhart | 103 |
| 2 | Wednesday (2023) | 91.3 |
| 3 | The Sex Lives of College Girls | 83.3 |
| T4 | Lassie (1997) | 61 |
| T4 | Three Moons Over Milford | 61 |
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Bob Newhart Takes The Throne
The No. 1 show set in Vermont, with a 103 total points in the BetVermont.com rankings, turned out to be a long-running popular sitcom, “Newhart”, which ran from 1982 to 1990. In the show, Newhart plays a book author (Dick Loudon) who also helps run an inn with his wife, played by Mary Frann. Their business is called the Stratford Inn. The show was marked by the comings and goings of quirky locals, such as Tom Poston and Peter Scolari.
As the plot of the series unwinds and becomes more bizarre, “Newhart” ends with the twist that the whole thing has been a dream of a character from a previous Bob Newhart show in which he played a psychologist.
The No. 2 Vermont-set show is “Wednesday” (2023) with 91.3 total points. The Netflix show is set at a private school in Jericho, Vermont, and is a comedy horror based on the Wednesday Addams character from the “The Addams Family” TV show of the 1960s.
No. 3 is the “The Sex Lives of College Girls” (score: 83.3). This comedy-drama set in a fictitious college placed in Vermont follows the exploits of four female students. The show was created by the award-winning Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble.
Tied for No. 4 (scores of 61) were “Lassie,” from 1997, and “Three Moons Over Milford”.
This “Lassie” was a more up-to-date TV take of the adventures of the familiar collie who became famous to television viewers in the 1950s. In this version, Lassie and her family are in Hudson Falls, Vermont. “Three Moons Over Milford” is a 2006 science fiction drama where a celestial catastrophe threatens life on earth. The show’s attention is on Vermonters coping with existential issues.
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