What California city was the setting for the TV series "Eight is Enough"?

"Eight Is Enough" is an American television comedy-drama series that ran on ABC from March 15, 1977, until August 29, 1981. The show was modeled on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book by the same title.

The show centers on a Sacramento, California, family with eight children (from oldest to youngest: David, Mary, Joanie, Susan, Nancy, Elizabeth, Tommy, and Nicholas). The father, Tom Bradford, was a newspaper columnist for the fictional "Sacramento Register". His wife Joan (Diana Hyland) took care of the children. Hyland was only in four episodes before falling ill; she was written out for the remainder of the first season and died five days after the second episode aired.

After the end of the show's fifth season (112 hour episodes), production costs and declining ratings caused the show to be canceled, along with seven other shows that season (including "The Waltons"). Variety's headline on the cancellation stated, "Eight Shows In, Eight Shows Out". In a 2000 episode of "E! True Hollywood Story", Dick Van Patten stated that no one contacted him to inform him of the cancellation. Instead, he read about it in a newspaper.