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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“The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.”
—Frederic Raphael (b. 1931)
“It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.”
—Shirley Chisholm (b. 1924)
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—Ellen Galinsky (20th century)