Miriam Margolyes
Frannie Escobar
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- 1. Pilot Sep 13, 1992
- A middle-aged seamstress (Miriam Margolyes) asserts herself.
- 2. Money Talks, Olivia Walks Sep 19, 1992
- Frannie (Miriam Margolyes) and Joseph (Tomas Milian) discover each other's financial secrets.
- 3. Sex and Saints Sep 26, 1992
- Frannie (Miriam Margolyes) tries to spice up her marriage.
Frannie's Turn is an American sitcom television series that premiered on CBS on September 13, 1992, and ended on October 10, 1992. The series was the first show Chuck Lorre ever created, after his time as a writer for Roseanne.
Frannie's Turn: Created by Chuck Lorre. With Miriam Margolyes, Alice Drummond, Tomas Milian, Phoebe Augustine. Frannie is a happy, outgoing seamstress dealing with her old-style spouse Joseph and her overbearing boss, Armando. Daughter Olivia is making the same choice in men.
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Frannie's Turn was a Syndication network sitcom series created by Chuck Lorre, starring Miriam Margoyles in the lead role.
The show aired from September 13 to October 10, 1992, lasting for only one season & 6 episodes.
Set on Staten Island, New York, the series centered on Frannie Escobar, a homemaker whose life is making her crazy, but with laughter, wisdom & plenty of heart, she copes with the ups and downs of everyday life with her cantankerous Cuban husband Joseph, his eccentric mother, their dim-witted son and headstrong daughter.
•Miriam Margolyes as Frannie Escobar
•Tomas Milian as Joseph Escobar
•Phoebe Augustine as Olivia Escobar
•Stivi Paskoski as Eddie Escobar
•Alice Drummond as Rosa Escobar
•Taylor Negron as Armando
Frannie's Turn. 1992 -1992. CBS. Comedy. Watchlist. A good-natured seamstress has her hands full with a demanding Cuban-American husband and two kids in a sitcom set in New York. Streaming ...
5 x 30 minute episodes. This short-lived CBS comedy from the creators of Roseanne and The Cosby Show (Marcy Casey and Tom Werner) was set on Staten Island, New York. Frumpish Frannie Escobar (veteran British actress Miriam Margolyes, tragically wasted here) is a happy, outgoing seamstress of Irish-Italian descent.
S1.E3 ∙ Sex and Saints. Rosa claims to have encountered St. Monica and though Frannie and Joseph dismiss her they are unable to rule out divine intervention to improve their less than heavenly love life.
A woman tries to deal with the chauvinistic men in her life.
