spartancaver That's how long I've been sending letters to CBS to release Frank's Place on VCR tape. Now of course I petition for a DVD release. Or any digital download. ANYTHING! I have always replied "Frank's Place" when asked for my favorite show. #1. After the second episode, I knew the fluffy headed public did not deserve nor would support the show. Of course moving the time slot around didn't help. Maybe not having a laugh track kept the public from understanding this was a working mans comedy. The premise of the show might have been beyond the public understanding. Yes, NOLA really is like these people, and in fact, are like people around the world. I could write a similar sit-com just sitting in the Mexican Restaurant I frequent almost daily. "That's Ed!" "Ed, he's dead." still my favorite line and episode. Then the man singing "The Banana Boat" song in the alley. I knew where that one was going. Then Conchata Ferrell the lawyer's line. "In other words gentlemen, I am your worst nightmare come true." Plus the search for Beignet was a classic joke. I still use it today on friends that don't know what the are.

jfaust75 ... and I'm still going back there to visit family at least once a year. This show was the best show I ever saw on television - and the best and most faithful rendition of New Orleans ever.At the time, I wondered if it was so good because I knew New Orleans, but at my workplace, there were several of us who watched it each week (no mean feat, since CBS moved it 4 times in one year - just keeping up with when it would be shown was a true act of devotion) and none of the others had any connection to New Orleans. Then I look at locations of those on this site commenting on it - Vermont, Minnesota, Texas, Missouri, Canada, Delaware, California, South Carolina, Pennsylvania - it was just so groundbreaking in so many ways that its appeal was universal. Back then, those of us who were devotees would grab each other the morning after a show and rave about how wonderful, how funny, how touching, how real it was. The paper bag test in the social club episode was not made up.I still miss the show - more than 19 years later. I wish I had taped it - and like many of those commenting here, I would buy multiple copies if it were put out on DVD. And think how popular this would be now, after all the travails of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina? And how much good could be done if the owner of it did as one other commenter suggested, and donated at least some of the profits to Katrina relief and what good publicity for the owner?! Is anybody sending these comments to the owner - Viacom or ???

aussie-20 I've got to agree, this is closer to real Louisiana folks & New Orleans than anything else you'll find, and there's a lot of heart to it. I sense that the series was a labor of love, and I wish I could have it on DVD, along with Evening Shade.

balformatted Fantastic show. As everyone else seems to note, canceled way too soon. Puts shows like NYPD Blue, Six Feet Under, and other critical darlings to shame -- had more depth, cleverness, backwards humor and good, understated acting in a single show than a year's worth of Six Feet Under.Definitely leads off the list of "why don't the networks spend the six hours it would take to hire some intern to transfer the tape to DVD and release this oblivion" shows.