East Side/West Side

East Side/West Side

1963
East Side/West Side
East Side/West Side

East Side/West Side

8.6 | en | Drama

East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season and was shown Monday nights on CBS. TV Guide ranked it #6 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP26  Here Today
Apr. 27,1964
Here Today

Brock can't find a newspaper interested in publishing his series of articles about the plight of the poor.

EP25  The Givers
Apr. 13,1964
The Givers

Brock uncovers evidence that a wealthy manufacturer has been bribing government officials.

EP24  Nothing But the Half Truth
Mar. 30,1964
Nothing But the Half Truth

When Representative Hanson gets Brock to appear on a TV discussion program about the problem of slums and then refuses to follow through, Brock considers quitting.

EP23  The Name of the Game
Mar. 23,1964
The Name of the Game

A young union negotiator is unsure where his loyalties lie in a labor dispute.

EP22  Take Sides with the Sun
Mar. 16,1964
Take Sides with the Sun

Brock is offered a job as legislative consultant for an ambitious U.S. Congressman, and must decide if this is a better way for him to help people than to continue his community social services work, treating one case at a time.

EP21  The Passion of the Nickel Player
Mar. 09,1964
The Passion of the Nickel Player

Brock comes up against a ""numbers runner"" who caters to his neighborhood's gambling needs.

EP20  If Your Grandmother Had Wheels
Mar. 02,1964
If Your Grandmother Had Wheels

Brock tries to help a wheelchair-bound paraplegic who dreams of nothing but the day he'll be able to walk again.

EP19  The Street
Feb. 24,1964
The Street

After being abused by her mother's boyfriend, a teenage girl tries to make a living on the streets.

EP18  Don't Grow Old
Feb. 17,1964
Don't Grow Old

A construction worker doesn't like having been forced into retirement.

EP17  It's War, Man
Feb. 10,1964
It's War, Man

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EP16  One Drink at a Time
Jan. 27,1964
One Drink at a Time

A homeless woman fears for the life of her friend, who has taken to drinking wood alcohol.

EP15  The Beatnik and the Politician
Jan. 20,1964
The Beatnik and the Politician

When a politician tells a beatnik that the people don't want ""his kind"" in the area, Brock advises the beatnik to fight back by running against him in the next election.

EP14  The $5.98 Dress
Jan. 13,1964
The $5.98 Dress

Brock tries to find a solution to the problem of welfare recipients becoming ineligible if they take part-time jobs.

EP13  Creeps Live Here
Dec. 23,1963
Creeps Live Here

Brock has to find new lodgings for an eccentric group of senior citizens who are losing their present home.

EP12  My Child on Monday Morning
Dec. 16,1963
My Child on Monday Morning

Parents find out that their 5-year-old child has schizophrenia.

EP11  Where's Harry?
Dec. 09,1963
Where's Harry?

A man suddenly leavs his family and goes back to his old neighborhood to rediscover his youth.

EP10  No Hiding Place
Dec. 02,1963
No Hiding Place

A black couple has trouble with some of the other homeowners when they move to an all-white suburban community.

EP9  Not Bad for Openers
Nov. 18,1963
Not Bad for Openers

Brock tries unusual methods in his efforts to cure a conpulsive gambler.

EP8  Go Fight City Hall
Nov. 11,1963
Go Fight City Hall

Brock tries to help a landlord whose building is being razed by the city to make room for a playground.

EP7  Who Do You Kill
Nov. 04,1963
Who Do You Kill

A black couple in Harlem are driven to take action against slum conditions when their baby is bitten by a rat.

EP6  No Wings at All
Oct. 28,1963
No Wings at All

A mildly retarded young man is charged with molesting a girl.

EP5  I Before E Except After C
Oct. 21,1963
I Before E Except After C

The new principal of a high school is faced with a student revolt.

EP4  Something for the Girls
Oct. 14,1963
Something for the Girls

A wealthy playgirl with numerous traffic violations is sentenced to perform social work for a month under Brock's supervision.

EP3  You Can't Beat the System
Oct. 07,1963
You Can't Beat the System

Brock tries to help a war veteran who has been refusing to face the world for the last 10 years.

EP2  Age of Consent
Sep. 30,1963
Age of Consent

An angry cop has his underage daughter's boyfriend arrested on a charge of statutory rape.

EP1  The Sinner
Sep. 23,1963
The Sinner

Brock must decide if a woman is an unfit mother because of her profession.

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Released: 1963-09-23 | Released Producted By: Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) , Talent Associates Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.mgm.com/view/series/576/East-Side-West-Side/
Synopsis

East Side/West Side is an American drama series starring George C. Scott, Elizabeth Wilson, Cicely Tyson, and later on, Linden Chiles. The series aired for only one season and was shown Monday nights on CBS. TV Guide ranked it #6 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

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George C. Scott , Elizabeth Wilson , Cicely Tyson

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Reviews

Joseph Harder Apparently , the early nineteen sixties was one of the under appreciated eras of TV history. It may not have been a " Golden age; but at least it was a silver one. It began with Newton Minow lamenting the fact that Television was a vast wasteland, it ( probably ) ended when Slattery's People left the airwaves for good. It was a period of interesting writing and of shows that were socially conscious without ( usually ) being preachy. While some of these programs are never rerun and are not even on DVD( Witness SLattery's People), East Side/West Side was actually rerun about seven years ago on the sadly departed TV network TRIO. Of course, It helped that East Side West Side starred a true legend of acting in George C. Scott. Unlike Slattery's People, which (usually) tried to be pretty optimistic, for all its ironic undercurrents, East Side West Side was gritty, melancholy and frequently downright depressing. I have only seen one full episode. I saw as part of a high school class on "Black America" It was the classic, widely banned, Who Do you Kill, with James Earl Jones. I still remember how well acted and written it was, and how utterly sad. Like Slattery's People, and (maybe) the even more obscure Channing, it deserves to be on DVD.
pfeffermuse This was not George C. Scott's only television series, as someone stated elsewhere. While "East Side/West Side" is a brilliant drama with intelligent stories and an incredibly talented cast, George C. Scott was the lead in an abysmal FOX Channel series called "Mr. President" (1987). Both Mr. Scott and FOX would have liked to forget this programme.Also, as far as "Naked City", that series often did not have neatly tied-up endings. Often, the endings were left deliberately ambiguous to make the audience think. While certainly not the poster child for civil rights programming, "Naked City" did show a multi-ethnic NYPD, and there were often Hispanic and African-American characters/actors with sizable parts in individual episodes. I can't say that the episode "The Contract", about Chinese-Americans and the conflict of cultures was the greatest representation of Asians on television -- especially with James Shigata, Khigh Dhiegh and Abraham Sofaer all playing Chinese -- but the characters were treated with respect, and not as stock figures.
Miles-10 I saw one episode of this show during the 1990s at the NYC Museum of TV & Radio. I couldn't even tell you what it was about except that, considering it was done in the early 1960s, it was way ahead of its time. It had to do with a family's trouble facing the fact that it had serious trouble, and featured, I think, a self destructive daughter but it was probably something more shockingly specific. By the 1990s, what was shocking in 1963 almost seemed tame. By the way, who said George C. Scott played a *young* social worker? Did the Great Scott ever play somebody young? Along with other great shows of long ago (such as "Slattery's People"), this is one I wish that somebody would release on video/DVD.
jwarthen-3 Beautiful series-- a one-season long experiment that tried to reflect a tumultuous time-period (its single season encompassed JFK's death, the Civil Rights Bill, killings of Civil Rights workers in Alabama, escalation of fighting in Vietnam). George C. Scott played a social worker in Manhattan, Cicely Tyson his secretary, and before they softened the series toward the end toward whimsey, they produced at least three episodes that have stuck in my head for nearly 40 years: 1. social services take-away the child of a prostitute, who was portrayed as a devoted mother-- her grief was seismic; 2. a young black father who loses a baby to a rat's attack gets a weapon and wanders through Harlem looking for someone to kill; 3. a middle-class black couple moving to the suburbs sets off a calculated real-estate stampede, and even the liberal whites who sponsored them finally rebukes them. The second of these episodes was blocked-out in Georgia-- am surprised we got to see the other two; criticism at the time inevitably used the killing word "grim". Actors were drawn from the NY casting-pool, and shooting was done in the streets of the city.