Frank's Place is an American comedy-drama series that aired on CBS for 22 episodes during the 1987-1988 television season.
[2] Set in New Orleans, Frank's Place chronicles the life of Frank Parrish (Tim Reid), a well-to-do African-American professor at Brown University, an Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, who inherits a restaurant, Chez Louisiane.
However, waitress 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.
As a young man, Maday frequented a restaurant in Buffalo, New York named Dan Montgomery's.
Maday also wanted a series based in New Orleans due to the mid-1980s interest in Cajun cuisine and zydeco.
[3] Unlike most sitcom productions of the era, Frank's Place was filmed with a single camera and used no laugh track.
"[9] Tim Reid was later told by CBS board member Walter Cronkite that the show was cancelled because Laurence Tisch, the network's CEO at the time, was upset by the episode "The King of Wall Street."