![]() ![]() Netflix has resurrected the series, and there is no such thing as the children's hour on that streaming (steaming?) network. The themes involve nudity, sex, drug use and foul language - not appropriate for the children's hour - which could explain why PBS only produced the first toned-down series. ![]() ![]() The third installment, Further Tales of the City, also on Showtime, was released in 2001. The second series came out in 1998, More Tales of the City on Showtime, the granddaddy of pay-TV networks. It is run by landlady Anna Madrigal (Olympia Dukakis), a transgender woman who is an eccentric sweetheart with lots of wise words and advice to impart. Mary Ann Singleton (Laura Linney) gets off the bus from Cleveland in 1976 and answers an ad for a furnished apartment at 28 Barbary Lane. ![]() The first series premiered in 1993 on PBS. The address is the four-apartment complex that plays a major role in Tales of the City, a continuation of Armistead Maupin's groundbreaking newspaper stories of life in San Francisco, which started in 1976. And we are all the better for it.īut first, we need to know who we are and where we are. It took us 18 years to return to 28 Barbary Lane. ![]()
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