View Full Version : Tim Reid on why Frank's Place was canceled after only one season


TMC
01-18-2022, 01:09 AM
Walter Cronkite told him that the episode "The King of Wall Street" (https://books.google.com/books?id=bx54TBgFKP8C&pg=PA244&lpg=PA244&dq=frank%27s+place+The+King+of+Wall+Street&source=bl&ots=Vo-E_W9T_K&sig=ACfU3U3mZyv-hacAenKU5R_FmeeJI-Xd5Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjMr7GbxLr1AhX4mWoFHQtvDXsQ6AF6BAgzEAM) upset at least one person on the CBS Board of Directors. It was axed (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-10-05-ca-2995-story.html) just as filming for Season 2 was to begin.

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04-14-2022, 11:17 AM
I never knew that.

TMC
12-15-2025, 04:08 AM
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