Frank's Place

Synopsis

Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series which 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 Tim Reid. Frank's Place is the most recent show that ran for only one season which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. TV Guide ranked it #3 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".

First Air Date: 1987-09-14

Last Air Date: 1988-03-22

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 22

Created By: Hugh Wilson, Tim Reid

Networks: CBS

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Top Cast

Tim Reid as Frank Parrish
Robert Harper as Bubba Weisberger
Daphne Maxwell Reid as Hanna Griffin
Francesca P. Roberts as Anna-May
Frances E. Williams as Miss Marie
Virginia Capers as Bertha Griffin-Lamour
Tony Burton as Big Arthur
Charles Lampkin as Tiger Shepin
Lincoln Kilpatrick as Reverend Tyrone Deal
William Thomas, Jr. as Cool Charles

Seasons

Season 1 (1987)

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Episodes:

Ep. 1: Pilot (1987-09-14)

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Ep. 2: Frank Returns (1987-09-21)

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Ep. 3: Frank Takes Charge (1987-09-28)

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Ep. 4: The Bridge (1987-10-05)

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Ep. 5: Frank Joins A Club (1987-10-12)

Frank joins an all black club of professionals but then Anna-May informs him of the ""Capital C club,"" as the members are all light-skinned blacks whereas Frank is dark-skinned, making him the token black in an all-black club.
Ep. 6: Eligible Bachelor (1987-10-19)

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Ep. 7: Disengaged (1987-10-26)

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Ep. 8: Cool and the Gang (1) (1987-11-09)

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Ep. 9: Cool and the Gang (2) (1987-11-16)

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Ep. 10: Reverend Gets His Flock (1987-11-23)

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Ep. 11: I.O.U. (1987-11-30)

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Ep. 12: Food Fight a.k.a. Fighting Chefs (1987-12-07)

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Ep. 13: Season's Greetings (1987-12-14)

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Ep. 14: The Bum Out Front (1988-01-04)

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Ep. 15: Dueling Voodoo (1988-01-11)

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Ep. 16: Where's Ed? (1988-01-18)

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Ep. 17: Night Business (1988-02-03)

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Ep. 18: Shorty's Belle (1988-02-15)

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Ep. 19: Frank's Placeâ€”The Movie (1988-02-22)

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Ep. 20: Cultural Exchange (1988-03-07)

As part of a cultural exchange program, a tribal music group from Odolo, East Africa drops by Frank's Place on their tour of the United States. They like it there so much that they invite Frank to come see them perform, but he's got tickets to a Dizzy Gillespie concert on the same day, so instead their manager, Bob Coleman, talks him and the rest of the staff into attending an earlier rehearsal. The group's frontman, Adele, is so enamored with Dizzy Gillespie that Frank invites the group to come with them to see Dizzy in reciprocation. But Bob flies off the handle when Adele tells him afterwards that he wants to stay in the country to play jazz music -- which the leader of East Africa has banned -- and demands that Frank convince Adele to change his mind.
Ep. 21: The Recruiting Game (1988-03-15)

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Ep. 22: The King of Wall Street (1988-03-22)

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