Fictional city/town planners on television and streaming shows
Here’s our list of shows on broadcast television and streaming services that contain(ed) a character who is a city or town planner. The most recent addition is the character of Helen who appears in the new Netflix/CBC comedy, North of North. If you know of any others that were overlooked, please feel to pass them along.
Peace!
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North of North (2025-?) – Netflix/CBC
- Mary Lynn Rajskub plays Helen, the Town Planner in the fictional Canadian Inuk Arctic hamlet of Ice Cove.
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Numb3rs (2005-2010) – CBS
- Alan Eppes, played by Judd Hirsch, is a former city planner for Los Angeles.
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Parks & Recreation (2009-2015) – NBC
- Mark Brendanawicz, played by Paul Schneider, is a City Planner for Pawnee, Indiana.
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The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2025) – Hulu
- June’s husband, Luke Bankole who is played by O.T. Fagbenle, worked in Suffolk County’s Office of Urban Planning (in Massachusetts) before the rise of Gilead.
