San Francisco, says the show
The WB · 7 October 1998 to 21 May 2006 · eight seasons
Charmed
Set in San Francisco. Orb it to where it was made.
Three sisters try to keep normal lives in modern-day San Francisco while using their combined Power of Three to protect innocent people from demons and warlocks. Each episode’s opening titles begin with images of the Golden Gate Bridge. Almost everything else was made 559 km to the south. Orb each place below to see where.
In the knot: Alyssa Milano on a USO tour, 18 June 2003, during the show’s fifth season. SSGT Edward Braly, USAF · Public domain Shannen Doherty at the Governor’s Ball after the Emmy Awards, August 1991, seven years before Charmed. Alan Light · CC BY 2.0 Rose McGowan at the Grindhouse premiere in Austin, March 2007, the year after the finale. Jeff Balke · CC BY-SA 3.0
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The WB, 1998–2006
Eight seasons,
four sisters.
7.72million watched the first episode, The WB’s highest-rated debut
178episodes, the last on 21 May 2006
Constance M. Burge is hired to create the series, with Aaron Spelling producing.
Shannen Doherty, who plays Prue, leaves at the end of the third season. The part of the new sister, Paige, goes to film actress Rose McGowan for season four.
In season five Charmed becomes the highest-rated Sunday night programme in The WB’s history.
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Where it was made
Orb it
Where it says.
Where it was.
In the show, orbing is how you vanish in a column of light and arrive somewhere else. Orb each place the show puts in San Francisco to where it was really made. The distance is measured from the Golden Gate Bridge.
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Six San Francisco places. Press Orb on each one.
San Francisco, says the show
The attic and the Book of Shadows
San Francisco, says the show
Magic School’s Great Hall
San Francisco, says the show
The seer’s cave
San Francisco, says the show
Every room inside the manor, seasons one to six
San Francisco, says the show
The bridge in the titles
Paramount Pictures
Paramount Studio Tour
Melrose Avenue, Hollywood · 2 hours, daily · $71
A guided walk round the working lot where the last two seasons were made, soundstages included. No promise that any Charmed set survives.
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Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco · Free · 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter
The bridge from the titles, on foot. Walkers use the east sidewalk, the side facing the city; the Welcome Center is at the south end.
Plan the walkCarroll Avenue, Angelino Heights
Two doors
down.
The house at 1329 Carroll Avenue was used as the home of the main characters in Charmed; in the series the manor is in San Francisco. Every house here is a private home, so this page shows the street’s numbers, not its houses. Tap a number.
Odd side
Even side
Start at 1329.
The house two doors down, at 1345 Carroll Avenue, is the one in the final scene of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video (1983).
Known as the Innes House, it was built for Daniel Innes, a city councilman and real estate developer, as one of the first homes on Carroll Avenue in the late 1880s, in the Eastlake style. The Innes family lived there for nearly forty years; in 1920 they sold it to Dominic Iannorone, a barber, who lived there until his death in 1971.
The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue was listed as a National Register Historic District in 1976, and Angelino Heights became Los Angeles’ first Historic Preservation Overlay Zone in 1983.
Every house on the block is a private home. Walk the street, look from the pavement, and do not go up to any door or disturb the people who live there.
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Executive producer
Aaron Spelling.
Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent stay executive producers until the series ends.
On 15 September 1978 Aaron Spelling was honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6667 Hollywood Boulevard.
Aaron Spelling dies on 23 June 2006, a month after the finale, holding the Guinness record for the most hours of television produced.
The Walk of Fame is the public pavement: the star is outside 6667 Hollywood Boulevard, the Musso & Frank Grill.
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Shannen Doherty 1991
Alyssa Milano 2003
Rose McGowan 2007
The Hollywood Roosevelt
The Hollywood Roosevelt
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Not a filming location. Opened in 1927 at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, a short walk along the boulevard from Aaron Spelling’s star.
Check rooms
The Golden Gate
Back to the bridge.
One place on this page really is in San Francisco.
The opening titles of Charmed begin with images of the Golden Gate Bridge. Built during the Great Depression, the bridge carries about 40 million vehicles a year.
Walk the east sidewalk, the side facing the city: 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter. The Welcome Center opens daily 9am–6pm.
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Argonaut Hotel, a Noble House hotel
Argonaut Hotel
495 Jefferson Street, San Francisco
Not a filming location: 252 rooms and suites in the landmark Haslett Warehouse at Fisherman’s Wharf, for the bridge the titles open on.
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Golden Gate Bridge tours
San Francisco
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3 places you can visit. The houses on Carroll Avenue are private homes, named only by their street, and Ray-Art Studios has no address in our sources, so neither is pinned. Paramount is a working studio: see it on the tour.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
Site reference · Public access · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Walk the east sidewalk, the side facing the city: 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter. The Welcome Center opens daily 9am–6pm.
The Golden Gate Bridge above the fog, from Battery Spencer, September 2025. Dongmin03 · CC BY 4.0 San Francisco · US 101 across the Golden Gate; Welcome Center at the south end
The Golden Gate Bridge
The opening titles of Charmed begin with images of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Walk the east sidewalk, the side facing the city: 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter. The Welcome Center opens daily 9am–6pm.
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Stay
Sleep near the places.
One hotel by the bay in San Francisco, one on Hollywood Boulevard.
Argonaut Hotel, a Noble House hotel
Argonaut Hotel
495 Jefferson Street, San Francisco
Not a filming location: 252 rooms and suites in the landmark Haslett Warehouse at Fisherman’s Wharf, for the bridge the titles open on.
Check roomsThe Hollywood Roosevelt
The Hollywood Roosevelt
7000 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Not a filming location. Opened in 1927 at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard, a short walk along the boulevard from Aaron Spelling’s star.
Check roomsGo there
Go and see.
Walk the bridge, tour the Paramount lot, or compare marketplace tours.
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
Walk the Golden Gate Bridge
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco · Free · 5am–9pm in summer time, 5am–6.30pm in winter
The bridge from the titles, on foot. Walkers use the east sidewalk, the side facing the city; the Welcome Center is at the south end.
Plan the walkParamount Pictures
Paramount Studio Tour
Melrose Avenue, Hollywood · 2 hours, daily · $71
A guided walk round the working lot where the last two seasons were made, soundstages included. No promise that any Charmed set survives.
Book the tour
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Los Angeles film and TV location tours
Los Angeles
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San Francisco
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Take it home
A memoir.
A book by one of the sisters.
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Everything behind it
Every place and moment on this page, with sources.
5 of 5 places · 18 of 18 stories
The Golden Gate Bridge
US 101 across the Golden Gate; Welcome Center at the south end
The titles open on the bridge
Each episode’s opening titles begin with images of the Golden Gate Bridge.
The Power of Three
Three sisters try to keep normal lives in modern-day San Francisco while using their combined Power of Three to protect innocent people from demons and warlocks.
Carroll Avenue, Angelino Heights
The 1300 block of Carroll Avenue, Angelino Heights, Los Angeles
The manor’s front
The Innes House at 1329 Carroll Avenue in Los Angeles plays the outside of the sisters’ manor, which the story puts in San Francisco.
Two doors down
The house two doors down, at 1345 Carroll Avenue, is the one in the final scene of Michael Jackson’s Thriller video (1983).
Ray-Art Studios, Canoga Park
Canoga Park, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles
Inside is a stage
The manor’s interiors are filmed on a soundstage, not in the house.
Six seasons in the Valley
Seasons one to six are filmed at Ray Art Studios in Canoga Park.
7.72 million
Charmed premieres on The WB on 7 October 1998; with 7.72 million viewers it is the network’s highest-rated debut episode.
A series from Constance M. Burge
Constance M. Burge is hired to create the series, with Aaron Spelling producing.
Prue leaves
Shannen Doherty, who plays Prue, leaves at the end of the third season.
Paige arrives
The part of the new sister, Paige, goes to film actress Rose McGowan for season four.
Sunday night
In season five Charmed becomes the highest-rated Sunday night programme in The WB’s history.
Paramount Pictures
Melrose Avenue, Hollywood
Five stages at Paramount
For seasons seven and eight the show moves to the Paramount lot, into five stages.
The attic
The attic, home of the Book of Shadows, is a set on a soundstage.
Magic School’s Great Hall
Magic School’s Great Hall is built as a new set, a new place for the story to go.
The seer’s cave
The cave is a constructed set, not a natural cave.
178 episodes
The last episode airs on 21 May 2006, the 178th.
Aaron Spelling’s star, Hollywood Boulevard
6667 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood
Spelling to the end
Aaron Spelling and E. Duke Vincent stay executive producers until the series ends.
3,000 hours
Aaron Spelling dies on 23 June 2006, a month after the finale, holding the Guinness record for the most hours of television produced.