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17	* On ''Series/{{The 100}}'', the artificial intelligence ALIE seems to be based out of a pristine mansion on a remote island. Given that everyone else in the series is living out of tents, underground bunkers, or crashed spacecraft, the opulence is on a whole 'nother level.
18	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
19	** The mansion of CorruptCorporateExecutive and vampire Russell Winters in "[[Recap/AngelS01E01CityOf City Of]]".
20	** In ''After the Fall'', Spike takes over the Magazine/{{Playboy}} Mansion and uses it as his residence after dusting a vampirized Hef.
21	* Par for the course for rich superheroes[[spoiler:/[[AristocratsAreEvil villains]]]], The Queen Mansion and the Merlyn home in ''Series/{{Arrow}}''.
22	* In ''Series/AsTimeGoesBy'':
23	** Lionel's father gives him a country house in Hampshire complete with a full-time housekeeper, however most of the time he lives with Jean in her nice London home. Lionel is practically LandPoor, however, and at one point suggests they sell the infrequently used house, which leads to an awkward situation where his father offers to buy it back from him.
24	** Alistair, Lionel's highly successful publisher, hints several times about his prized penthouse overlooking the Thames, but little of it is seen.
25	* ''Series/{{Beef}}'':
26	** Amy, whom Danny describes as a "rich bitch from Calabasas", has a large, spacious modern home. It contrasts the dinky motel room Danny lives out of.
27	** Amy's own house is dwarfed by the home of billionaire Jordan, an isolated, high-ceilinged mansion on an isolated California hill, filled with expensive art, furniture, and cultural artifacts.
28	* Jed Clampett's mansion in ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies''.
29	* Hodgins' mansion has popped up in conversation once or twice in the early seasons of ''Series/{{Bones}}.'' He sold it when he married Angela though.
30	* Gu Jun Pyo's house in the KoreanSeries ''Series/BoysBeforeFlowers'' comes complete with many many housemaids.
31	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Angel had a mansion, though not in the typical rich guy sense. He shared it with Drusilla and Spike.
32	* ''Series/CinderellaAndTheFourKnights'': Haneul House, a hilltop mansion deemed one of the top 100 contemporary architectural marvels in the world, outfitted with a state-of-the-art security system, a private gym, and beautiful interior design.
33	* Likewise, in ''Series/TheCityHunter'', the house that Yoon Sung grew up in includes extensive grounds, many servants, garages filled with vehicles. Oh and a terrorist-style training camp, all paid for with drug money.
34	* Southfork Ranch in ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
35	* Collinwood Mansion featured in ''Series/DarkShadows'' is also known for being {{haunted\|Headquarters}}.
36	* Jenny Joyce’s house in ''Series/DerryGirls'' is significantly larger than other houses, has eight bedrooms and some of them have bathrooms, much to Orla’s surprise. When she throws a party there, guests keep getting lost in it.
37	* Drummond's Manhattan penthouse in ''Series/DiffrentStrokes''.
38	* Periodically throughout "Series/{{Doctor Who}}", including:
39	** Maxtible's Victorian mansion in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E9TheEviloftheDaleks The Evil of the Daleks]]"
40	** UNIT HQ, as seen in, among others, "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]"
41	** Harrison Chases' mansion in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsofDoom The Seeds of Doom]]"
42	* ITV's smash hit, ''Series/DowntonAbbey'', concerns the Abbey itself (exterior shots are of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highclere_Castle Highclere Castle]] in Hampshire). Downton is so so fantastically big and fancy that requires a full-time staff of almost twenty people to clean and maintain. Much of the plot frames the Abbey as an obligation and a money drain, creating tension for everyone.
43	* Niles Crane, in ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', is shown living in two Big Fancy Houses: Maris's mansion and his later apartment at The Montana. Various jokes are made about the ridiculous size of his place at The Montana, especially for one single man, with Martin once getting lost on his way to the bathroom. It has at least three floors, a study ''and'' a library, and a gift-wrapping room.
44	** Later, when he's hooked up with Daphne, they have a minor disagreement about how many things Niles should pack if he's planning on staying over with her at Frasier's apartment. It takes them a surprisingly long time to reach the conclusion that it would probably be much easier if she moved into his massive apartment with him.
45	* The Banks' mansion in ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' - which in addition to the mansion, features both a swimming pool and a poolhouse that characters use as an apartment in later years.
46	** On the other hand [[MediumAwareness it has no ceiling]].
47	* ''Series/GhostsUK'': Button House is a deconstruction of this trope. While it was once grand and beautiful, the show goes into quite a bit of detail about how those British country houses that look so impressive from the outside can be absolute money pits to maintain and restore for the owners. It's only by the end of Series 2 that Alison and Mike restore it enough that they can hire it out for weddings, and even then it's still a long way off from being a proper hotel.
48	* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': Emily and Richard's home [[spoiler: which is later sold by Emily after Richard's death]]. Sookie is impressed when she and Lorelai do a job there for Emily.
49	** Same thing happens when Rory takes Lane to a Chilton party at Madeline's house, and Lane asks Rory whether her grandparents' house is just as big.
50	** The Huntzberger Mansion, home of Rory's rich boyfriend, Logan.
51	* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'':
52	** Tahani and Jianyu live in a huge, very fancy European-style mansion. It is big enough to house most of the neighborhood during a lockdown crisis and apparently has thirty-six tennis courts. Given that she lives in a far smaller house, Eleanor is rather unsubtle about her jealousy regarding it.
53	** The situation is flipped in Version 2, with Tahani [[spoiler: assigned a claustrophobically small cottage. The same fancy mansion is given to another resident and Tahani jealously demands that it be given to her when she gets drunk at the welcome party.]]
54	* ''Series/GossipGirl'': The Vanderbilt Mansion, home to Nate's maternal grandfather. Dan is very impressed by it when he gets there.
55	--> '''Dan''': You told me your grandfather lived in a mansion, not a ''country club''.
56	* Francis Urquhart, in ''Series/{{House of Cards\|UK}}'', has a very nice house in London, and an impressive estate in the countryside, where he shows off some of his Conservative "Old Boy" values.
57	* The beachfront Robin's Nest estate in Hawaii in ''Series/MagnumPI''.
58	* ''Series/{{Mo\|2022}}'': Shila and Glen own a $6M Texas [=McMansion=], which features bathrooms in every corner, a pool, and a zoo.
59	* The Scottish estate Glenbogle plays a significant role in ''Series/MonarchOfTheGlen''. Its owners, though, are LandPoor, which is a source of struggle in the stories.
60	* The Darling family of ''Series/DirtySexyMoney'' lives in the Imperial, a townhouse in the upper east side of Manhattan, that stands about eight stories tall and takes up an entire city block.
61	* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': The house in Florida owned by Harriet's parents, seen in "Yesterday's Heroes".
62	* ''Series/TheLastOfTheBaskets'': Clogborough Hall was in its prime, but by the time Clifford moves in, it's falling apart and collapsing into the marsh.
63	* ''Series/LifestylesOfTheRichAndFamous'' features real-life fancy houses of famous businessmen and celebrities.
64	* [[Creator/AppleTVPlus Apple TV+]] comedy ''Loot'' has as a very lavish mansion that's home to its multi-billionaire main character, Molly Wells [[spoiler: and formerly, her tech CEO ex-husband, John Novak, before their divorce due to his affair with a younger woman]]. It also happens to be set and shot at [[https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-225-million-mansion-the-one-biggest-modern-home-us-2021-9 The One]], a ''giga-mansion'' that's not only the largest home in the modern US history, but also at one point, was the priciest home ever listed in US, for half a billion dollars.
65	* ''Series/{{Narcos}}'': Fairly standard for the narcos:
66	** Escobar has several mansions, including one with a private zoo. The private prison he has built for himself also counts.
67	** Rafa makes sure that the mansion he's looking at is spacious enough for himself and his friends to ride their motorbikes through before he makes the purchase.
68	** Miguel Angel's spacious mansion is often used to accentuate the isolation he feels, especially after his wife leaves with the children.
69	** Amado stops partway through construction of one mansion to make it even larger and more opulent; when it's finished, it's so big that he can't even find the kitchen and has to ask a maid how to get there.
70	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'':
71	** Mr. Whipple, in the episode of the same name, lives in a mansion guarded by vicious dogs.
72	** In the [[TheMovie cinematic]] [[GrandFinale series finale]] the Nolans live in a large mansion, complete with a butler and additional servants.
73	* Andrew Hartford's mansion in ''Series/PowerRangersOperationOverdrive'' has a [[CoolGarage Zord bay]] beneath the house, 27 bathrooms on the first floor alone, and yet he can't make a security system to keep the villains out. Maybe the sheer size IS the reason it's such a nightmare to secure.
74	* ''Series/ThePunisher2017'': The CIA owns several large mansions up and down the East Coast that it uses for safehouses. William Rawlins and Billy Russo use one as a base to plot details about their plans to go after Frank Castle, and it's where Frank makes an attempt to kill Rawlins with a sniper rifle...only for the bullet to stop inches from Rawlins' face by the bulletproof glass.
75	* The Grayson Manor from ''Series/{{Revenge}}''.
76	* PBS ''Series/SecretsOf'' series explores such residences, including Highclere Castle (the setting for ''Series/DowntonAbbey''), Chatsworth, and the Home of Henry VIII. The kitchens alone have to be seen to be believed. Bonus points for the couple who live in the Tower of London and take care of the crown jewels. There is also an episode called "Secrets of the Manor House," which [[http://www.pbs.org/program/secrets-manor-house/ explores]] the lifestyles of British aristocracy.
77	* The eponymous ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'', which is a huge castle located just outside of New York City that houses an organization that keeps and investigates supernatural creatures.
78	* ''Series/TheSopranos'': Tony is a successful mobster and lives in a nice, large house with a big backyard and a pool in a good neighborhood. His son waxes philosophical about the trials of being born rich to his new girlfriend, humble-bragging about the nice home he lives in. Then he visits his girlfriend's house and discovers to his horror that it's five times the size of his own. He's really only upper-middle class, while his girlfriend has been SecretlyWealthy the whole time.
79	* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': The very first episode shows the Rose family being evicted from their gorgeous mansion. They never get back there, but we do see it again in {{Flashback}} during the ChristmasEpisode.
80	* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Mayor Larry Kline’s house in Season 3. It’s a mansion straight out of Beverly Hills built in rural Indiana. It’s also a sign that he’s rather out of touch with the predominantly working and middle class community of Hawkins.
81	** Nancy and Jonathan’s boss Tom also has a rather impressive house, but more restrained.
82	* ''Series/{{Succession}}'', with its CastFullOfRichPeople, features a lot of expensive homes (although most characters live in New York City, so they're not very big). Connor's hacienda in the desert counts, however, and the biggest example is Caroline Collingwood's slave-built castle where Shiv's wedding takes place.
83	** The first episode of the second season, titled "Summer Palace", is named after the Roys' massive Hamptons summer home featured in it.
84	* The comedic tension in ''Series/ToTheManorBorn'' focuses on Grantleigh Manor, which the LandPoor Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton sells to the wealthy SelfMadeMan Richard [=DeVere=].
85	** One example of the sheer size of the place is the fact that he has a rather large room ''just'' for his antique china collection.
86	* ''Series/WhiteCollar'' June's New York townhouse is shown to be pretty fancy.

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