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What a poignant, lovely, well done show of real people in a real neighborhood, in an era when children grew up with an innocence that somehow has disappeared. I feel sorry for everyone who did not and those who will never experience life as it was then. I was lucky enough to do so in a similar setting in late 1950's Baltimore, but I did not appreciate it until adulthood. I thought the series was expertly cast, especially the grandparents and the father.

Most of the episodes were of situations that most of us raised in that time could identify with. But in typical fashion, CBS could not see beyond the end of their noses, and summarily killed this high quality, critically praised series. Too bad for us, and too bad for them.

I am going on a quest to find the series on DVD.