CNET Networks Entertainment GameSpot | GameFAQs | SportsGamer | MP3.com | TV.com | Metacritic
Score: 9.0 Superb 1 votes

Cultural Exchange

Episode Number: 20    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Monday March 7, 1988    Prod Code: 8720
As part of a cultural exchange program, a tribal music group from Odolo, East Africa drops by Frank's Place on their tour of the United States. They like it there so much that they invite Frank to come see them perform, but he's got tickets to a Dizzy Gillespie concert on the same day, so instead their manager, Bob Coleman, talks him and the rest of the staff into attending an earlier rehearsal. The group's frontman, Adele, is so enamored with Dizzy Gillespie that Frank invites the group to come with them to see Dizzy in reciprocation. But Bob flies off the handle when Adele tells him afterwards that he wants to stay in the country to play jazz music -- which the leader of East Africa has banned -- and demands that Frank convince Adele to change his mind.

Cast and Crew

Add Cast | Add Crew
Writer: Samm-Art Williams
Director: Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Star: Tim Reid (Frank Parrish),  Virginia Capers (Mrs. Bertha Griffin-Lamour),  Tony Burton (Big Arthur),  William Thomas Jr. (Cool Charles),  Robert Harper (Bubba Weisberger),  Lincoln Kilpatrick (Reverend Deal),  Daphne Maxwell Reid (Hanna Griffin),  Francesca P. Roberts (Anna-May),  Charles Lampkin (Tiger Shepin),  Don Yesso (Shorty La Roux),  Frances E. Williams (Miss Marie)
Guest Star: Onochie Chukwurah (Ibrahim),  George James (Samuel),  Walter Davis Jr. (Jazz Band, Piano),  Tootie Heath (Jazz Band, Drums),  Al McKibbon (Jazz Band, Bass),  Harold Land (Jazz Band, Trombone),  Khalid Abdullah (The African Group),  Nana Yaw Asiedu (The African Group),  Francis Awe (The African Group),  Capharo Brown, Jr. (The African Group),  Nzingha Cissokho (The African Group),  Therese Diagne (The African Group),  Darryl Munyungo Jackson (The African Group),  Rhonda Riedel (The African Group),  Akpor Otebele (Utu),  Kunle Adeyemo (Septimus),  Mel Stewart (Bob Coleman),  Dizzy Gillespie (Himself),  Johnny Sekka (Adele),  Rose Marie Riedel (The African Group)

Notes

add »
Odolo and Colonel Sembei are both fictitious. (edit)

Quotes

add »
This episode does not have any quotes. Add some now!

Trivia

add »
This episode does not have any trivia. Add some now!

Allusions

add »
This episode does not have any allusions. Add some now!
Tell the world what you think of Cultural Exchange, write a review for this episode.
Write a Review
Previous Next
advertisement

Episode Vital Stats

 
Episode: Cultural Exchange
Season Number: 1
Episode Reviews: 0
Episode
Score:
9.0 Superb 1 votes
Your Cultural Exchange Score
This content requires Macromedia Flash Player 7 or higher. Get Flash
Review This Episode Contribute

Top Contributors

 
Editor brandi1leigh
Score: 194 points
Riff_Rafferty
Score: 35 points
rustle49
Score: 15 points
Owepar
Score: 10 points
char2renee
Score: 7 points
NinJoe21
Score: 4 points
MaxTash
Score: 1 points

Current Forum Topics