Best movie of this year hands down!

ridiculous rating

Lack of good storyline.

just watch it!

... 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 ???

I have taken the time to read and applaud each of the preceding comments which have detailed my own personal opinions and appreciation for this "best ever" series. Although sorrowful for it's brief duration, I enjoy quality over quantity.This is the first time I have been moved to use this comment forum and it may be my last. But I do so for the purpose of motivating those "powers that be" to recognize that there is a real market for the release of this series to DVD. I would purchase multiple copies, some to gift. And I would encourage libraries to stock it and writing course instructors to require it for their students.It may well wind up being a part of a collection of some of the most accurate depictions of a lost culture of an American city. A culture lost in a natural disaster and an ensuing "fematic diaspora".

I saw this show the first year I had moved away from New Orleans. I moved back to FL to be with my family, but it sure looked like N. O. had followed me. The pilot had a scene of Frank's first night there, after living in Chicago (I believe). What he finds crawling up his bedclothes made me yell with recognition, and I will never forget his reaction. This was such an accurate show - that's why I remember it so well. The writers REALLY knew The City, and I should know - I lived there for 10 years, and went through much of what Frank had to learn. My favorite episode was when the young man who worked for Frank got in with the wrong crowd, then tried to get back out. I have been a "vidiot" for 50 years, and I can say absolutely that that one TV episode made me cry so hard I had to get a bath towel to try to recover. I have never, ever, been so moved by what I saw, and I saw the last episode of M.A.S.H., the last Johnny Carson Show, and many All In The Family episodes that were every bit as dramatic as they were usually hilarious. I cannot recommend it enough. Period.

This show was a victim of CBS. As other posters here have so adroitly put it, this was a wonderful, well done show about a New Orleans restaurant. The setting, the characters, the little touches throughout were positively intoxicating. The episodes I remember are "The Bum Out Front" and "Dueling Voodoo". The "Voodoo" episode was especially memorable because the lead character literally had to use magic powder to undo a curse. I remember when the show aired, it did have low ratings, but I thought they would renew it and give it another shot, because the show was of such high quality. I thought CBS would do what NBC did when it renewed the low rated but high quality "Cheers" and "Hill St. Blues" and gave them the time to find their audience. It was canceled by CBS and I have never forgotten how disappointed I was at that decision. Part of the reason it was taken off of the air, was so that the leads actors in the series, Tim Reid and his wife Daphne Maxwell Reid could do a forgettable hour long detective show called "Snoops". "Frank's Place" truly was a victim of CBS, I'd love to see the series on DVD or on Nick at Night again.