# Jack's Place (TV series)

Jack's Place is an American drama television series that aired from May 26, 1992, to July 13, 1993, on ABC. The series was about a retired jazz musician named Jack Evans (Hal Linden) who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start. The waitress, Chelsea, was played by Finola Hughes and the bartender Greg was played by John Dye.

## History

A first attempt at the series, in 1991, starred Lou Rawls in a never-aired pilot. "ABC liked the idea but not the execution, I guess," his successor, Hal Linden, said the following year. ""So they hired a new producer, Scott Brazil, who rewrote it, recast it and got me on board." Linden speculated that his casting came from the character being "a former musician and bandleader performer, and so am I. Maybe they were going on that."

## Cast

* Hal Linden as Jack Evans
* Finola Hughes as Chelsea
* John Dye as Greg

## Episodes
### Season 1 (1992)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 1 | 1 | "I See Cupid, I See France" | Kristoffer Tabori | Daphne Pollon & David Castro | May 26, 1992 (1992-05-26) |
| 2 | 2 | "What's New?" | Miles Watkins | Unknown | June 9, 1992 (1992-06-09) |
| 3 | 3 | "Solo" | Unknown | Unknown | June 16, 1992 (1992-06-16) |
| 4 | 4 | "Everything Old Is New Again" | Charles Siebert | Unknown | June 23, 1992 (1992-06-23) |
| 5 | 5 | "Forever" | Unknown | Unknown | June 30, 1992 (1992-06-30) |
| 6 | 6 | "Romance Takes a Curtain" | Joan Darling | Michael Pavone & Dave Alan Johnson | July 7, 1992 (1992-07-07) |

### Season 2 (1993)

| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original release date |
| 7 | 1 | "An Affair to Vaguely Remember" | Unknown | Unknown | January 12, 1993 (1993-01-12) |
| 8 | 2 | "Watch Me Pull a Dream Out of My Hat" | Miles Watkins | Michael Pavone & Dave Alan Johnson | January 14, 1993 (1993-01-14) |
| 9 | 3 | "The Seventh Meal" | Paul Lazarus | Nicholas Sagan & Linda Salzman | January 21, 1993 (1993-01-21) |
| 10 | 4 | "Who Knew?" | Charles Siebert | Unknown | January 28, 1993 (1993-01-28) |
| 11 | 5 | "Forever and Ever" | Kristoffer Tabori | Unknown | February 4, 1993 (1993-02-04) |
| 12 | 6 | "Gypsies, Champs and Thieves" | Max Tash | Unknown | February 11, 1993 (1993-02-11) |
| 13 | 7 | "Play It Again, Jack" | Helaine Head | Martha Williamson | June 8, 1993 (1993-06-08) |
| 14 | 8 | "The Pipes Are Calling" | James Keach | Martha Williamson | June 15, 1993 (1993-06-15) |
| 15 | 9 | "The Hands of Time" | Unknown | Martha Williamson | June 22, 1993 (1993-06-22) |
| 16 | 10 | "Something Wonderful This Way Comes" | Kristoffer Tabori | Dave Alan Johnson and Michael Pavone | June 29, 1993 (1993-06-29) |
| 17 | 11 | "Faithful Henry" | Unknown | Unknown | July 6, 1993 (1993-07-06) |
| 18 | 12 | "True Love Ways" | Larry Rapaport | Scott Shepard | July 13, 1993 (1993-07-13) |

## Reception

The show was slated to simply be shown in the summer, but did well enough in the ratings that ABC decided to pick up the series for more episodes. Although initially having some success with audiences reviews tended toward the negative. Hence, Entertainment Weekly deemed it "drearily sentimental and banal" while Jon Burlingame was slightly more positive, describing it as a happy and unthreatening. Both reviewers compared it to The Love Boat and Cheers.