since it was no canned laughter or studio audience I wasn't able to get into the show. And more Importantly, Tim Reid is too NERDY for me

Tim Reid nerdy? I never really liked this show myself.

Tim Reid nerdy? I never really liked this show myself.


I dont't know if Tim Reid the actor is a Nerd but his character on the show is on the GEEKY side. I never liked Grown Men TV characters with Geeky Qualities

i like tim reid but i never saw what the big deal was about this show ether i just couldnt get into it

ive got the complete set on dvd-r

and i love it

very unusual
no laughtrack
odd dixieland music
pretty realistic black show!

Tim Reid's character was a fish out of water not a geek or nerd!

the thing i love about Franks Place is the show had an incredible atmosphere and some of the most distinguished characters ever on a sitcom.
Franks Place was like an half hour motion picture so a laugh track would've been inappropriate

but i guess this type of sitcom isn't everybody's cup of tea but people who haven't seen the show in years would give it another chance,

M*A*S*H had a rough first season in the ratings & people were slow to warm to it but CBS stuck with it and gave it a better time slot and it went on the become one of the most successful shows in the history of television.

just my opinion but i think Franks Place would've been another M*A*S*H but we'll never know:rolleyes:

for-the-record i hated the laugh track on M*A*S*H:mad:
it seem so tacky

Series was so brilliant, it didn't have a chance.

I tried to give it a chance but I just didn't find it funny. Maybe if it had a laugh track. This is one show when I would have needed to know when to laugh.

This is funny, I have been looking in the one year wonders or whatever for this show only I couldn't remember the name of it, only that I thought it starred Tim Reid and it was set in New Orleans. I remember liking it a lot, I would watch if they reran it but what are the odds of that??

This is funny, I have been looking in the one year wonders or whatever for this show only I couldn't remember the name of it, only that I thought it starred Tim Reid and it was set in New Orleans. I remember liking it a lot, I would watch if they reran it but what are the odds of that??


The odds are very slim since the show has under 30 eps-lol Not enough to be reran

Maybe next time I go to the Museum of Television, now the Paley Media Center, I should look and see if it's there.

Maybe next time I go to the Museum of Television, now the Paley Media Center, I should look and see if it's there.


I had the show on DVD last year and gave it away-lol

Canadas favorite comedy Corner Gas has no laugh track and, not only do i not miss it, i now wish all comedies were trackless....i can make my OWN laughtrack

Canadas favorite comedy Corner Gas has no laugh track and, not only do i not miss it, i now wish all comedies were trackless....i can make my OWN laughtrack


A show with no laugh track or studio audience is called a drama

A show with no laugh track or studio audience is called a drama


Very true. Their are very few sitcoms without a studio audience I can get into.

I tried to give it a chance but I just didn't find it funny. Maybe if it had a laugh track. This is one show when I would have needed to know when to laugh.
Motion picture Comedies don't have laugh tracks don't have laugh tracks and i know when to laugh

Series was so brilliant, it didn't have a chance.

Despite being critically praised (http://web.mit.edu/comm-forum/forums/franks_place.html), and being one of the first black shows written, produced, directed, casted by all black people (as well as having a predominately black cast) AND GET EMMY (http://www.emmys.com/shows/franks-place) NODS/WINS, CBS KILLED (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ScrewedByTheNetwork/LiveActionTV) THE SHOW.

Here's what happened (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:x0dkjZXryCkJ:www.tvobscurities.com/2009/04/q-and-a-amerika-franks-place/+&cd=12&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us):
A special preview episode of Frank’s Place (http://www.avclub.com/article/franks-place-celebrated-best-human-lifeand-new-orl-206346) was broadcast at 8PM on Monday, September 14th; another preview was shown the following Monday at the same time. The plan was for the sitcom to then move to the 8-8:30PM timeslot on Saturdays beginning October 3rd. Instead, due to strong ratings, it remained at 8PM on Mondays, forcing Everything’s Relative, the new sitcom that was supposed to air from 8-8:30PM on Mondays to move to Saturday.

CBS gave the series a full-season order in October 1986 but those strong ratings were already faltering (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/board/flat/88098944?p=1). The network tried switching Frank’s Place with Kate & Allie in December and then shifting it to 9:30PM on Mondays (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/board/thread/216652130?d=227530628#227530628) following Newhart in February 1988, but nothing seemed to work. It was moved again in March to Tuesdays at 8PM where it sank even lower in the Nielsen ratings. Its second Tuesday airing — also its season finale — drew a dismal 6.9/11 Nielsen rating.

Soon thereafter, the network pulled the bulk of its Tuesday line-up, including Frank’s Place, promising to return the critically acclaimed series at a later date. And it did, eventually, airing repeats of the series on Saturdays at 8:30PM beginning July 16th. For the 1987-1988 season as a whole, Frank’s Place ranked 61st out of 104 programs with a 12.0 rating. CBS didn’t include the series on its 1988-1989 schedule nor did it cancel the show. It decided to keep Frank’s Place on the back burner for use as a mid-season replacement.

The final repeat of Frank’s Place was shown on October 1st. Days later and only a week away from starting production on thirteen new episodes, CBS officially cancelled (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092354/board/flat/228531992?p=1) the series.

And despite CBS claiming they "lost the master copies" which is why there is no Complete Series DVD set (http://michaelhoman.blogspot.com/2006/12/franks-place.html), Tim Reid (http://www.nola.com/treme-hbo/index.ssf/2002/10/frankly_unforgettable_-_it_las.html) HAS THE MASTERS and can't release them.