List of representations of Seattle in popular culture
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Seattle, Washington is represented through different popular culture media.
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[edit] Television
- Here Come the Brides (1968–1970, set in Seattle in the early years of settlement)
- The Night Strangler (1973, tv movie)
- Twin Peaks (1990–1991 TV series and 1992 movie, set in northeast Washington, was filmed in the towns of North Bend and Snoqualmie, about a half-hour outside of Seattle. Seattle is referenced a few times in the series.)
- Almost Home (1993)
- Frasier (1993–2004, set in contemporary Seattle. One episode shot on location in Seattle.)
- A 1995 episode of the short-lived animated series Dumb & Dumber entitled "Senseless in Seattle" took place in the city, most notably in the Space Needle
- Under One Roof (1995)
- Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1996)
- Millennium (1996–1999)
- Dark Angel (2000–2002, set in an apocalyptic future Seattle after an electromagnetic pulse)
- John Doe (2002)
- Rose Red (2002 miniseries)
- The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003 miniseries)
- Dead Like Me (2003–2004, almost none of the show was filmed in Seattle or showed recognizable locations)
- Traffic (2004 miniseries)
- Life as We Know It (2004)
- The 4400 (2004–present)
- Grey's Anatomy (2005–present)
- Kyle XY (2006–present)
[edit] Movies
- It Happened at the World's Fair (1963, Elvis Presley)
- The Slender Thread (1965, Sidney Poitier, Anne Bancroft)
- Cinderella Liberty (1973)
- McQ (1974, John Wayne)
- The Parallax View (1974, includes scenes filmed atop the Space Needle)
- The Changeling (1980)
- WarGames (1983)
- Streetwise (1984, documentary on homeless street kids)
- Trouble in Mind (1985, wildly transforms the city by avoiding the modern center, using public buildings as characters' private residences, etc.)
- Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
- Say Anything... (1989)
- Singles (1992)
- Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
- Disclosure (1994)
- Assassins (1995)
- Mad Love (1995, Drew Barrymore)
- Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999, transforms the Space Needle into the headquarters of Starbucks, and of Dr Evil)
- 10 Things I Hate About You (1999, Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger comedy)
- Double Jeopardy (1999)
- Get Carter (2000 remake starring Sylvester Stallone)
- Life or Something Like It (2002, Angelina Jolie comedy, set in Seattle)
- The Ring (2002, Naomi Watts)
- Agent Cody Banks (2003, Frankie Muniz)
- A Guy Thing (2003)
- Police Beat (2005)
- The Heart of the Game (2005, documentary about Seattle high school girls' basketball team)
- Firewall (2006)
- Boy Culture (2007)
- Battle in Seattle (2007, fictionalized story of the 1999 WTO protests)
[edit] Non-fiction
- I Sing the Body Electronic by Fred Moody (ISBN 0-7881-5793-0)
- The Stranger Beside Me, Ann Rule's book about Ted Bundy (ISBN 0-451-20326-7)
- Selling Seattle: Representing Contemporary Urban America by James Lyons (ISBN 1-903364-96-5)
[edit] Detective Fiction
- The works of K. K. Beck
- The works of Ridley Pearson
[edit] Songs
- "In Seattle" (theme from Here Come the Brides, sung by Bobby Sherman)
- "The bluest sky you've ever seen, in Seattle / And the hills the greenest green, in Seattle..."
- "Mudshark" by Frank Zappa
- "There's a motel in Seattle, Washington, called the Edgewater Inn..."
- "Viva Sea-Tac" by Robyn Hitchcock
- "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" by Nirvana
[edit] Electronic Media
- Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders (1988 video game, Zak flies to Seattle to investigate a two-headed squirrel terrorizing campers near Mount Rainier)
- Shadowrun (1993 video game for SNES)
- Shadowrun (1994 video game for Sega Genesis)
- Pajama sam 2 (1998 video game for personal computer)
- The X-Files: The Game (1998 video game for PC and PlayStation)
- Gran Turismo 3 (2001 video game for PlayStation 2)
- Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee (2002 video game for GameCube and Xbox)
- Deus Ex: Invisible War (2003 video game for Xbox and PC)
- Godzilla: Save the Earth (2004 video game for PlayStation 2 and Xbox)
- World in Conflict (2007 video game for personal computer)
- In the Street Fighter series, the character Ken Masters is a resident of Seattle, Washington.