Television
- The Showtime series Brotherhood is set in Providence.
- The Fox animated sitcom Family Guy (1999 – 2002; 2005 – present) is set in the fictional town of Quahog.
- The NBC series Providence is set and named for Providence.
- Doctor Doctor was set in Providence.
- On FOX's popular X-Files (1993 – 2001) TV series, Fox Mulder's family lives in Chepachet, a small village in the northern town of Glocester, Rhode Island. His mother retires to Quonochontaug, an even smaller community in South County.
- Ghost Hunters is set in Warwick.
- Canterbury's Law is set in Providence and the surrounding areas.
- In the Star Trek universe, there exists a ship called the USS Rhode Island NCC-72701
- Aqua Teen Hunger Force Season 1 Episode 2, one of the leprechauns says he is from Rhode Island.
- 30 Rock Season 5 Episode 3 introduces Queen Latifah as a State representative from Rhode Island, specifically mentioning Smithfield, Providence, and Brown University.
- In an episode of Phineas and Ferb, Ferb's name happens to be "Rhode Island Flecther".
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“We cannot spare our children the influence of harmful values by turning off the television any more than we can keep them home forever or revamp the world before they get there. Merely keeping them in the dark is no protection and, in fact, can make them vulnerable and immature.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)