Frank's Place
| Frank's Place | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Comedy-drama |
| Created by | Hugh Wilson |
| Written by | Richard Dubin David Chambers Samm-Art Williams Hugh Wilson |
| Directed by |
Neema Barnette Richard Dubin Stan Lathan Max Tash Hugh Wilson |
| Starring |
Tim Reid Daphne Maxwell Reid Tony Burton Virginia Capers Robert Harper |
| Theme music composer |
Louis Alter Eddie DeLange |
| Opening theme | "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?" performed by Louis Armstrong |
| Composer(s) | Richard Kosinski |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Tim Reid Hugh Wilson |
| Producer(s) | Max Tash David Chambers Richard Dubin |
| Camera setup | Single-camera |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Viacom Productions |
| Release | |
| Original network | CBS |
| Original release | September 14, 1987 – March 22, 1988 |
Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series that 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 and fellow WKRP in Cincinnati alumnus Tim Reid.
Frank's Place is the most recent show that ran for only one season that was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series.
TV Guide ranked it #3 on its 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
Set in New Orleans, Frank's Place chronicles the life of Frank Parrish (Tim Reid), a well-to-do African-American professor at Brown University, an Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, who inherits a restaurant, Chez Louisiane. In the premiere, Frank travels to New Orleans intending to sell the restaurant. However, waitress Emerita (she waits only on customers with twenty years or more of patronage) of Chez Louisiane -- Miss Marie (Frances E. Williams) has a voodoo spin (curse) put on Frank ensuring that he will come back to carry on his family's business. Consequently, when Frank returns to New England, the life he's known there suddenly goes inexplicably haywire. Feeling he has no choice, Frank returns to New Orleans and makes many discoveries about black culture in New Orleans, the differences between northern and southern lifestyles, and himself.
On its surface, Frank's Place was a fish-out-of-water story, like The Beverly Hillbillies or Green Acres. However, the series' story lines featured weightier topics such as race and class issues.
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