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Murder Capital of the TV World

Miss Chicken

Miss Chicken

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My sister and I were discussing the British TV show Midsomer Murders when she commented that Causton, the central town of the fictional Midsomer County must have the highest murder rate in TV land.

I though about this for a moment and suggested that Jessica Fletcher's town of Cabot Cove in Murder She Wrote would have a higher murder rate.

Can anyone think of any other town/county/region in TV land that has an extremely high murder rate that might equal these two locations?
 
Smallville, Kansas ('Smallville')
Sunnydale, California ('Buffy the Vampire Slayer')
Eureka, Oregon ('Eureka')
Los Angeles, California ('24')
 
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California, Cleveland, China (Qhin? Province) (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series)

Romania (Dracula, Duckula, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Sledge Hammer, can't remember where it was set, think it was New York.
 
Remember folks, I am asking about murder rates of places not the number of murders that occur.

For example, Cabot Cove had a population of about 3,500 and the Wikipedia said that during the show it is estimated that 2% of the town's population died (I assume this meant mainly by murder) and that visitors to the town died at even a higher rate. The show ran 12 seasons.

For a city like New York to have a similar murder rate it would have to have upwards of 160,000 murders of locals over a 12 year period. This number excludes all the murders of non-locals.

Sunnydale is a good call. In the first three seasons its population was said (by Wikipedia) to have been 38,500. By the seventh season the population had fallen to 32,900 though how many of those died violently and how many just moved away is not mentioned in the Wiki article.
 
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Well, the show with the biggest body count is clearly 24. However, given that it takes place mostly in LA, the RATE wouldn't be as high as Sunnydale, CA in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Living on the Hellmouth certainly has it's drawbacks. :lol:
 
According to Dexter, Miami has a truly horrifyingly large population of serial killers. :rommie:

But the unhealthiest place to live is either LA or NYC. They keep getting destroyed. Volcanoes, earthquakes, nukes, asteroids, overgrown lizards, etc.
 
Well Sunnydale had 12 Cemeteries (Season 1), was on top of the worlds most active of the dozen or so Hellmouths (Season 8) and was founded by a Demon wannabe/later actual Demon (Season 3) and the population dropped a couple of thousand between Season 2 and 7 then yeah had to be a high rate :lol:

But since it no longer exists (S7/8) and the entire population fled the town in the last three episodes does it still count?
 
Miss Chicken said:
For example, Cabot Cove had a population of about 3,500 and the Wikipedia said that during the show it is estimated that 2% of the town's population died (I assume this meant mainly by murder) and that visitors to the town died at even a higher rate. The show ran 12 seasons.
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I wonder if anyone's made similar calculations for 12th-century Shrewsbury? (Cadfael)
 
Miss Chicken said:
My sister and I were discussing the British TV show Midsomer Murders when she commented that Causton, the central town of the fictional Midsomer County must have the highest murder rate in TV land.
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That's what I thought of when reading the thread title.

According to Morse & Lewis, my city of Oxford has quite a high murder rate. It's not that bad in real life, promise. Well, outside of Blackbird Leys, anyway.... :D
 
Maybe I should turn to a life of crime... either that or I should start a Consulting Detective Agency.
 
Smallville Kansas, but Gotham City - location unnamed - on Birds of Prey had quite a few during the shows brief run. It even had an episode where Harley Quinn was randomly killing people.
 
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