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.

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@shayz0rz Still too soon, huh? hehehe

#DavidKrumholtz is the best! Which reminds me.. I never did get into #Numb3rs. I should fix that.