Frank's Place

Frank's Place

1987
Frank's Place
Frank's Place

Frank's Place

8.6 | en | Drama

Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series which aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive produced by Wilson and series star Tim Reid. Frank's Place is the most recent show that ran for only one season which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. TV Guide ranked it #3 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP22  The King of Wall Street
Mar. 22,1988
The King of Wall Street

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EP21  The Recruiting Game
Mar. 15,1988
The Recruiting Game

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EP20  Cultural Exchange
Mar. 07,1988
Cultural Exchange

As part of a cultural exchange program, a tribal music group from Odolo, East Africa drops by Frank's Place on their tour of the United States. They like it there so much that they invite Frank to come see them perform, but he's got tickets to a Dizzy Gillespie concert on the same day, so instead their manager, Bob Coleman, talks him and the rest of the staff into attending an earlier rehearsal. The group's frontman, Adele, is so enamored with Dizzy Gillespie that Frank invites the group to come with them to see Dizzy in reciprocation. But Bob flies off the handle when Adele tells him afterwards that he wants to stay in the country to play jazz music -- which the leader of East Africa has banned -- and demands that Frank convince Adele to change his mind.

EP19  Frank's Place—The Movie
Feb. 22,1988
Frank's Place—The Movie

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EP18  Shorty's Belle
Feb. 15,1988
Shorty's Belle

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EP17  Night Business
Feb. 03,1988
Night Business

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EP16  Where's Ed?
Jan. 18,1988
Where's Ed?

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EP15  Dueling Voodoo
Jan. 11,1988
Dueling Voodoo

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EP14  The Bum Out Front
Jan. 04,1988
The Bum Out Front

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EP13  Season's Greetings
Dec. 14,1987
Season's Greetings

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EP12  Food Fight a.k.a. Fighting Chefs
Dec. 07,1987
Food Fight a.k.a. Fighting Chefs

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EP11  I.O.U.
Nov. 30,1987
I.O.U.

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EP10  Reverend Gets His Flock
Nov. 23,1987
Reverend Gets His Flock

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EP9  Cool and the Gang (2)
Nov. 16,1987
Cool and the Gang (2)

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EP8  Cool and the Gang (1)
Nov. 09,1987
Cool and the Gang (1)

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EP7  Disengaged
Oct. 26,1987
Disengaged

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EP6  Eligible Bachelor
Oct. 19,1987
Eligible Bachelor

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EP5  Frank Joins A Club
Oct. 12,1987
Frank Joins A Club

Frank joins an all black club of professionals but then Anna-May informs him of the ""Capital C club,"" as the members are all light-skinned blacks whereas Frank is dark-skinned, making him the token black in an all-black club.

EP4  The Bridge
Oct. 05,1987
The Bridge

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EP3  Frank Takes Charge
Sep. 28,1987
Frank Takes Charge

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EP2  Frank Returns
Sep. 21,1987
Frank Returns

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EP1  Pilot
Sep. 14,1987
Pilot

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8.6 | en | Drama , Comedy | More Info
Released: 1987-09-14 | Released Producted By: Viacom Productions , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series which aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive produced by Wilson and series star Tim Reid. Frank's Place is the most recent show that ran for only one season which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. TV Guide ranked it #3 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

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Cast

Tim Reid , Robert Harper , Daphne Maxwell Reid

Director

Hugh Wilson

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Reviews

jakes-mail This is the sort of quality material usually seen from the BBC; intelligent and witty without being jokey; funny and believable situations with superb acting. The best part for me is that although the show had a mostly all black cast, it was not an exploitation of the black demographic. It was a smart, dry, somewhat dark situational comedy to which anyone could relate. A bar/restaurant owner is struggling to do whatever he can to stay afloat and keep his business going despite lots of problems and setbacks. Frank is everyman. I would love to see this on DVD because I missed some of the episodes when they were originally aired.
jfaust75 ... and I'm still going back there to visit family at least once a year. This show was the best show I ever saw on television - and the best and most faithful rendition of New Orleans ever.At the time, I wondered if it was so good because I knew New Orleans, but at my workplace, there were several of us who watched it each week (no mean feat, since CBS moved it 4 times in one year - just keeping up with when it would be shown was a true act of devotion) and none of the others had any connection to New Orleans. Then I look at locations of those on this site commenting on it - Vermont, Minnesota, Texas, Missouri, Canada, Delaware, California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania - it was just so groundbreaking in so many ways that its appeal was universal. Back then, those of us who were devotees would grab each other the morning after a show and rave about how wonderful, how funny, how touching, how real it was. The paper bag test in the social club episode was not made up.I still miss the show - more than 19 years later. I wish I had taped it - and like many of those commenting here, I would buy multiple copies if it were put out on DVD. And think how popular this would be now, after all the travails of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? And how much good could be done if the owner of it did as one other commenter suggested, and donated at least some of the profits to Katrina relief and what good publicity for the owner?! Is anybody sending these comments to the owner - Viacom or ???
asbwa I too greatly loved the show, though I only saw a few episodes because they kept changing the time it was on and I couldn't always find it. The plots, acting, and music were all wonderful - intelligent and quirky. I especially remember the episode about the corpse taken out for his last night on the town; it was reminiscent of the Cuban film Death of a Bureaucrat, but very funny in its own right. About a year ago, I wrote an e-mail to Tim and Daphne Reid asking about releasing the show on DVD. I thought it would be good to do it then and donate a portion of the proceeds for Hurricane Katrina relief. Daphne Reid replied, saying Viacom owns the rights and they'd been trying to get Viacom to release it on DVD for about two years. Of course, that's now three years, assuming it hasn't changed ownership. If anyone out there is ambitious enough to start a campaign to get it released, that's who to contact.
richard.fuller1 Going on twenty years later, and it was one of a kind. Best show hands down.Too funny, without being sexually explicit with adult material. Brilliant. Beah Richards would deservedly win the guest actress Emmy as the widow of the man who "may" have killed himself, but to this day I enjoy fellow nominee Conchata Farrell from the same episode as the lawyer representing Richards. The lines "I spit up on her. My mother died in her arms" is a chilling, stunning setup. "In other words, gentlemen, I am your worst nightmare come true."Fantastic.The Rosalind Cash-Lynne Thigpen episode. Subtle, yet memorable. Cash was the old voodoo ways, Thigpen was the updated voodoo ways. Too classic. Loved the "spell" being carried in by Thigpen in a paper bag covered in aluminum. I had forgotten about the dead body being removed from the funeral home. The "body" would tip his hat and smile at the very end after credits rolled.The boxing match. Sensational.I suppose my fave was the restaurant episode with the country band, the drag queens, the white family and "Pick a bale of cotton." Around the same time, Robin Williams had pulled the same joke on a special "Carol, Carl, Robin & Whoopi" but it was still funny here. My brother managed to record most of the episodes, only missing a two parter dealing with drugs.I still think about this grand show.Daphne Maxwell-Reid and Virginia Capers. Hilarious when she got mad and was in that wheelchair.And the reverend! How could I forget him! "But the Lord loves me!"He would have a quick scene in the boxing match that was too funny.Toward the end, Frank would be told that Daphne was getting married to a football player and he would meet the guy, who had a voice like a cartoon character. Frank felt vindicated. At the very end, he mimicked MIckey Mouse giving football calls. This show would be replaced with that horrendous retirement community show that starred Glynis Johns, Alan Young and the fellow who played Wimpy in the Robin Williams-Shelly Duvall Popeye movie.Was Frank's Place ahead of its time? Who knows? It would receive numerous nominations in the only year it was on, and other than Richards' guest win, it would only receive writing.Yes, it seemed to be because they were Black. Even in the eighties it could be too much. It was a shame.But thankfully the show was done for that year.