... 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 ???
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 ???