Well watched this for the first time and.....

[APPLEI]

Originally Posted by Clint Eastwood Fan

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

[TMC]

Originally Posted by Edison

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

Despite being critically praised, 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 NODS/WINS, CBS KILLED THE SHOW.

Here's what happened:

A special preview episode of Frank’s Place 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. The network tried switching Frank’s Place with Kate & Allie in December and then shifting it to 9:30PM on Mondays 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 the series.

And despite CBS claiming they "lost the master copies" which is why there is no Complete Series DVD set, Tim Reid HAS THE MASTERS and can't release them.