You wrote: " I thought I would see if some of you might know of
tourist sites which owe their popularity to films or TV series."
 
This may be slightly off the mark, but you can take a walking tour
of the San Francisco sites of "The Maltese Falcon."  The City Lights
book store has a book on literary San Francisco which has a guide
to the the tour.
 
LARRY WIENER
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