Where Was A Doctor to Die For: The Sarah Harris Story Filmed?

Lifetime’s A Doctor to Die For: The Sarah Harris Story follows Sarah’s relationship with an older medical professional and the mother and sister who seek answers when tragedy strikes. Siobhan Williams plays Sarah, opposite Luke Macfarlane as Dr. James Ryan. Directed by Siobhan Devine and written by Barbara Marshall, the drama comes from Rohm Feifer Entertainment and Kahn Power Pictures. Its Maryland background raises a question for viewers: did the production return to the places connected with Sarah’s life, or recreate that world elsewhere?

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Where was A Doctor to Die For: The Sarah Harris Story filmed?

Vancouver, British Columbia, is the filming location reported in Tales From the Collection’s production listing. That report uses the earlier title A Dentist to Die For. The production also appears in a primary industry record: UBCP/ACTRA’s April 24, 2026 production list includes the same title with a production address in Burnaby, within the Metro Vancouver region.

The title change is traceable through Rohm Feifer Entertainment’s official project page. The heading now reads A Doctor to Die For, while its web address retains a-dentist-to-die-for. The Sarah Harris and James Ryan synopsis and Devine’s director credit connect it with the Lifetime release. Actor Felix LeBlanc’s professional resume also lists A Dentist to Die For as a Lifetime project directed by Devine, independently supporting that connection.

How Vancouver and Burnaby fit into the production

Vancouver and Burnaby are separate cities within the same metropolitan area. Creative BC’s Greater Vancouver film guide places Burnaby in the region and describes its studio presence, film office and range of urban, historical and natural settings. The guide describes green spaces, waterfront views, cityscapes and older architectural settings among Burnaby’s available backdrops. These are features of the regional industry, rather than identified sets for this film.

A production office can also be outside the municipality where filming takes place. Vancouver’s official permitting guidance specifically provides for productions whose offices are beyond the city boundary to apply for permits within Vancouver. Consequently, the Burnaby administrative base and reported Vancouver shoot are compatible, although the guidance does not establish which permits this movie obtained.

The available records stop short of identifying a particular house, clinic or studio used on screen. Vancouver’s location scouting guidance states that the city does not release filming-location information. The Burnaby office listing should be read as a production contact, rather than a visitor destination or a confirmed screen location.

The planned filming schedule ran from April to May 2026

UBCP/ACTRA classified A Dentist to Die For as a Movie of the Week and listed April 13 through May 1, 2026, in its shooting column. The same window appears in the union’s March 27 production list, before the anticipated start, and its April 24 list, during the planned shoot.

Those documents also name Celeste Crowe as production manager, Jackie Lind as casting director and Chad Sayn as stunt coordinator, alongside Devine. They place the project within a spring television-movie production timetable. The dates remain a listed schedule, rather than independently verified first-day and final-wrap announcements; they do not establish whether later pickups occurred.

Maryland is the story’s real-life background

The Canadian production connection sits alongside a story rooted in Maryland. Rohm Feifer Entertainment identifies the Maryland community in its description of the drama. A Montgomery County Police release from March 2022 places Ryan’s medical practice in Germantown and the home he shared with Sarah in Clarksburg.

These Maryland places explain the real case’s geography. They are not identified as movie sets in that release. For readers comparing the two locations, Maryland concerns the people and events behind the adaptation, while the Vancouver report and Burnaby record concern its screen production.

Siobhan Devine’s connection to Vancouver filmmaking

The director has her own professional connection to the area. Women In the Director’s Chair lists Devine’s location as Vancouver, British Columbia, and notes her work on television movies for Lifetime and Hallmark. Her professional base places her within the same region identified in the production record, with experience across both networks’ television-movie work.

On her official website, Devine lists directing credits on Virgin River, Family Law, Chesapeake Shores and When Calls the Heart, as well as the television movie Imperfect High. Her experience spans continuing television dramas and movies, and her biography describes undergraduate and graduate training in theatre.

The family’s involvement during production

A direct account of making the film comes from executive producers Elisabeth Rohm and Kara Feifer. In TV Insider’s October 2 interview, they said they collaborated with Sarah’s family. Feifer described speaking to Tina by phone from the set, allowing her to greet the actors while giving Janet Kidder space to develop her portrayal of Sarah’s mother.

Lifetime schedules the US premiere for Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 8 p.m. Eastern/7 p.m. Central. The network advertises streaming for the following day.