Frank's Place is a CBS comedy-drama series which aired for 22 episodes in 1987 and 1988. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive-produced by Wilson and starred Tim Reid.
Set in New Orleans, Frank's Place chronicled the life of Frank Parrish (Tim Reid), a well-to-do professor at Brown University, an Ivy League university in Providence, RI, who inherits a restaurant, Chez Louisiane. In the premiere, Frank travels to New Orleans intendin...
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Frank's Place is a CBS comedy-drama series which aired for 22 episodes in 1987 and 1988. The series was created by Hugh Wilson and executive-produced by Wilson and starred Tim Reid.
Set in New Orleans, Frank's Place chronicled the life of Frank Parrish (Tim Reid), a well-to-do professor at Brown University, an Ivy League university in Providence, RI, who inherits a restaurant, Chez Louisiane. In the premiere, Frank travels to New Orleans intending to sell the restaurant. But when Frank returns to New England, the life he's known there suddenly goes inexplicably haywire. The viewers know the reason: Waitress Emeritus (she waits only on customers of 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. Feeling he has no choice, Frank returns to New Orleans and makes many discoveries about Black culture in New Orleans, the differences between northern...
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