Grand

Grand

1990
Grand
Grand

Grand

7.9 | en | Comedy

In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP12  The Well
Dec. 27,1990
The Well

Timmy seeks help for Janice who is trapped in an abandoned well; and Desmond and Manny duel over Viva.

EP11  Wolf Boy (1)
Dec. 20,1990
Wolf Boy (1)

Richard offers Janice a job. Viva eases Desmond into another year. A challenge accompanies Carol Anne's new son.

EP10  The Mother Load
Dec. 13,1990
The Mother Load

At a black-tie affair honoring Janice's boyfriend, Norris falls victim to Janice's mother's boyfriend.

EP9  One Way Out
Dec. 06,1990
One Way Out

Carol Anne gets a death threat, but the woman hired to guard her body is more interested in Desmond's. Janice has a Weldon executive over for dinner.

EP8  Lady Luck
Nov. 29,1990
Lady Luck

Carol Anne has all the luck because Janice ignores Edda's lucky lima bean. Meanwhile, advertised female wrestling packs the bar.

EP7  Roamers and Rumors
Nov. 22,1990
Roamers and Rumors

The rumor mill grinds Edda and Janice while Weldon and Desmond take a commemorative hike. Carol Anne looks for work.

EP6  Norris' Romance
Nov. 15,1990
Norris' Romance

Carol Anne creates one really great page for her diary after Norris turns his bar into a cabaret, where he discovers a rising talent.

EP5  Desmond's Mother
Nov. 01,1990
Desmond's Mother

Child-parent relationships are strained between Edda and Janice as well as Desmond and his visiting mum.

EP4  The Return of Yale Pinhaus
Oct. 25,1990
The Return of Yale Pinhaus

Carol Anne organizes a high-school reunion, where Janice is reunited with her senior-prom date.

EP3  The Healing
Oct. 18,1990
The Healing

Janice is romanced by a traveling salesman. Norris buys his way into a band. A man who won't take no for an answer asks Carol Anne to dance.

EP2  The Chickens Come Home to Roost
Oct. 11,1990
The Chickens Come Home to Roost

A voodooist and an olfactory psychic are only two of the steps taken by Carol Anne to locate Tom who is sought not only by his spouse.

EP1  Janice Steals Home
Oct. 04,1990
Janice Steals Home

Janice and Edda are living at Weldon's mansion until their tornado-ravaged trailer is fixed. Meanwhile, Carol Anne mourns her missing spouse.

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7.9 | en | Comedy | More Info
Released: 1990-01-18 | Released Producted By: Carsey-Werner Company , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

In the piano-making town of Grand, Pennsylvania, Janice Pasetti keeps house for factory owner Harris Weldon, his newlywed niece and her husband, while raising her teenage daughter.

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Cast

Pamela Reed , Bonnie Hunt , John Neville

Director

Tom Werner

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lhuffman_66 In 1990, my wife had each browsed through the new Fall TV issue of the TVG...and had both independently decided that, based on the cast and storyline, this was a show we wanted to watch. We started with episode one and loved every minute of it...and like so many others on here, were utterly blown away by the network's decision to cancel...an the worse yet, rework it.Bonnie Hunt was wonderful in an already wonderful cast...but John Randolph made this show. His portrayal of the dour millionaire was priceless and the thing that kept the show moving. Yet another show that should have survived.
HartfordHammer I love shows with great ensemble casts... NewsRadio was my favorite. Cheers and Just Shoot me are great too.I was just reminded of this show for some reason, and I looked it up. I remember loving Michael McKean, Pamela Reed, and Joel Murray. I was shocked to see Bonnie Hunt and Sarah Rue in there! I guess I just hadn't made the connection between them then and now (now that I know who they are).Great show, ruined before it's time. I'd love to see it on DVD. I was a youngun when I watched it, so I don't think I grasped that the Network cancelled it and then made a lame attempt to bring it back. I just thought the 2nd season was stupid for no reason.
JamesL-4 In this case, the "company town" is a town built not around a coal mine or a lumber mill, but around a piano factory.What do I mean by "soap operetta"? Well, just as an operetta is a comedy in somewhat scaled-down opera form, "Grand" was (far more than outright soap opera spoofs like "Soap" or "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman") a comedy in scaled-down soap opera form. Also, like a typical operetta, and unlike a typical soap opera spoof, the humor was gentle, witty, and largely suitable for a family audience.I never even knew there WAS a second season of the show, or that the second season mostly threw out the "soap operetta" format, but what I saw of the series, I thoroughly enjoyed. The characters were the sort of people you actually would want to meet, something sadly lacking in an awful lot of television.And the open used throughout the first season was certainly one of the best sitcom opens ever constructed.
Rd Stendel-Freels "32,000" people inhabit Grand. This is the story of eight or nine of them.""Grand" was my favorite show of 1990! It ran only 25 episodes (although there was a 26th episode filmed which never aired). Pamela Reed and Bonnie Hunt hit their peak in this quirky series! It was a psuedo-soap opera revolving around the lives of a piano manufacturer (Harris Weldon), his family (reformed pyromaniac son Norris, neurotic neice Carol Anne and her get-rich-quick-scheming husband, Tom), and his servants (butler Desmond and cleaning lady Janice Pasetti--a former homecoming queen raising a daughter in a travel tailer!). With a handful of other quirky characters (Janice's ex-husband Eddie and policeman Wayne Kazmusky, most notably), the show seemed destined to go down in the annals of TV history before "Twin Peaks" began airing opposite it. NBC didn't hold out much hope for the series from the begining, apparently, and the first season finale was a tour-de-force intended to end the show's brief run. It's unexpected ratings caused them to renew the show in the fall, but the soap opera format was dropped for much of the season. Sadly, just as the show returned to its soap opera format, it was cancelled, leaving Janice and Carol Anne trapped at the bottom of an abandoned well. The dream sequence Janice has while in the well was one of the classics of TV! I would have loved to see this one go on and on!