''Jack's Place'' is an American

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television series that aired from May 26, 1992, to July 13, 1993, on

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. The series was about a retired jazz musician named Jack Evans (

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) who runs a restaurant where romances tend to start. The waitress, Chelsea, was played by

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and the bartender Greg was played by

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History

A first attempt at the series, in 1991, starred

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in a never-aired pilot. "

liked the idea but not the execution, I guess," his successor,

, said the following year. ""So they hired a new producer,

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, 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

as Jack Evans *

as Chelsea *

as Greg

Episodes

Season 1 (1992)

Season 2 (1993)

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, ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' and ''

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''.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title 1992 American television series debuts 1993 American television series endings 1990s American drama television series American English-language television shows Television series by Disney–ABC Domestic Television Television series set in restaurants American Broadcasting Company television dramas