Airing this fall on ABC , Downward Dogis a television series that succeed a lonely dog and his proprietor ( Allison Tolman of FX’sFargo ) . Not only is the show define in Pittsburgh , but it ’s also being filmed in the Steel City byAnimal production company , a extra effects studio apartment that makes animate being peach ( like the Taco Bell dog ! Haha , remember that ? Man , what a throwback . ) . Though it may seem refreshing to choose our metropolis as a film goal , Downward Dogactually follows a long line of television show and movies that have been set in Pittsburgh , some of which you plausibly did n’t even consider :
My So-Called Life
Before Claire Danes played CIA livewire Carrie Mathison onHomeland , she first add up onto TV silver screen as Angela Chase , high school sophomore at Liberty High School in Three Rivers , Pennsylvania on ABC ’s short - experience teen drama . Despite references to Pittsburgh on the series , true Steel Town citizen know there is no Liberty High School , nor a Three Rivers suburban area . Still , the high school landscape mat up real enough for this show to become a cult classic . How to watch it : Hulu , ABC.com
Mr. Belvedere
WhileMy So - Called Lifeignored Pittsburgh reality , Mr. Belvedereembraced it . This ABC show was set in the Pittsburgh suburbia of Beaver Falls , and when a material - life crack cocaine touched down in the leap of 1985 , the writer of the show incorporated it into a Season 2 patch point in its second episode titled “ Tornado . ” In the episode , the family head up to the basement to tantalize out the tempest , where Mr. Belvedere ( Christopher Hewett ) and George ( Bob Uecker ) play a game of puddle . How to watch it : YouTube , baby !
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
This 1979 film is described as a " mutant fantasy " and with good rationality . In this movie , Pittsburgh has a professional basketball squad mention the Pittsburgh Pythons . ( The last time the Steel City had a professional basketball game team was in 1972 . ) As for the titular “ fish , " spoiler alert : it ’s the Pisces astrological foretoken . Stockard Channing ’s character comes up with the idea to create an entire team of Pisces players because Fish is the foretoken of star player Moses Guthrie . How to watch it : iTunes(though you ’ll have to cough up $ 9.99 ) , rent it fromYouTube , stream it from some sketchythird party land site , or just foray into your dad ’s VHS collection .
The Roller Girls
Nearly 10 days before Terry Kiser donned dark glasses and bet beat inWeekend at Bernie ’s , he managed a fancied crimper plug hat squad called the Pittsburgh Pitts on this very short - live NBC sitcom . The shady thing is that today , roller derby is animated and well in Pittsburgh in the sort ofSteel City Roller Derby . Obviously , this series is in serious need of a Netflix reboot!How to watch it : Hope you show it when it aired because this one is sturdy to come by on any cyclosis service .
The Next Three Days
The reason why you may have forgotten this film was filmed in Pittsburgh was probably because you ’ve completely forget this film . It stars Elizabeth Banks as a cleaning woman convict of murdering her chief , and her hubby , played by Russell Crowe , is set on breaking her out of jail . In fact , if you mentionNext Three twenty-four hours , most Pittsburghers are probably thinking ofthe neighbourhood fete . How to watch it : give up oniTunes , or get your most Russell Crowe - obsessed Quaker to give you the elaborate synopsis .
Sudden Death
… In which Jean - Claude Van Damme drop kick Iceburgh , the Penguin ’s mascot , in this hockey thriller . That is all . How to look out it : HBO Go , YouTube , iTunes , Amazon , Google Play , Vudu
For just one season on Fox , Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton ( a aboriginal Clevelander ) played bickering co - ground tackle on this comedy set at fictional Pittsburgh intelligence program WURG - TV News 9 ( No WPXI , WTAE , or KDKA ! ) . The news place may have been phony , but the gift on the series was real . Centennial State - asterisk Ty Burrell and Josh Gad go on to have majuscule success onModern Familyand in the filmFrozen , severally . How to watch it : clean up the DVD onAmazonor stream the three random episodes onXfinity , bet on how bad a Kelsey Grammer sports fan you are .
Only You
mavin - crossed lovers Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. may have end up meeting in Italy , but this picture starts in the ' Burgh where ‘ XC Pittsburgh is on consummate , pristine showing , when the Civic Arena and Three Rivers Stadium were still in existence and the foodie revolution was only a twinkle in the metropolis ’s eye . Although be prepared to cringe at Fisher Stevens ’ Yinzer pronunciation of Italy ( “ It - ly!”).How to keep an eye on it : Rent it fromAmazonor your protagonist who ’s deep into ' ninety read-only memory - coms .
Stigmata
Patricia Arquette stars in this horror thriller as an atheist Pittsburgh hairdresser who get rosary beads that cause her to receive excruciation wound . What ’s stranger than experiencing Stigmata ? obviously being an atheist in the Steel City – Pittsburgh is tied with New York and Boston as one of the most Catholic cities in the United States . How to watch it : rip it fromAmazon .
Romantically Challenged
In the belated ‘ eighty , Alyssa Milano ’s connexion to Pittsburgh was her romance with Pittsburgh Penguin forward Rob Brown . But in 2010 , the Steel City was the background of her ABC situation comedy about a single mammy go steady for the first time in days . She may have been a kid onWho ’s the Boss ? , but on this serial , her character was a divorced lawyer with a 15 - class - honest-to-goodness son . How the tables have turned!How to observe it : Honestly , these four episodes might be misplace to 2010 .
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
UnlikeMy - So - Called Life , 2015 ’s Sundance darling take a page from real life with its schoolhouse context : Schenley High School . In the film , Thomas Mann run a Schenley fourth-year who befriends a girl who has leukaemia . Novelist Jesse Andrews , who was abide and raised in Pittsburgh ( and a Schenley graduate ) , adapt his Koran by the same deed of conveyance for the big concealment . How to look on it : Another one with alternative ! flow it onHBO Go , YouTube , Amazon , Google Play , iTunes , andVudu .
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