![]() ![]() Scott and Linda have their first fight when they throw a party for his single friends. Under less-than-perfect circumstances, Linda decides it's time to rush to the hospital to have her baby.Īll four grandparents fight over the privilege of babysitting when Scott and Linda take a weekend vacation. The Kirkridge and Rodriguez families gather in a huge church for Linda and Scott's wedding. Scott and Linda tell their parents that they have been secretly married and are expecting a baby. James Kirkridge, a textbook WASP, and an upwardly mobile Hispanic, Jessie Rodriguez, find themselves as condominium neighbors faced with impending family ties. Luis Ávalos as Jesus "Jessie" Rodriguez.In episode four, Scott and Linda's baby boy, Joselito, was born, and his presence in the central nursery slowly brought the families closer together-but not without the steady stream of racial and religious jokes still flying around. James was especially displeased with the conversion, as he was quite content in keeping the room as his study. Grandfather Jose was bold enough to demolish a portion of the wall that separated both families' condo units, and everyone reluctantly agreed to his idea of putting a doorway in, so that all would have central access to the impending grandchild's nursery (in a valiant attempt to improve relations). The Rodriguezes also had a son, Miguel, who was enlisted in the Marines and was thus never seen. The families tried to resolve their differences for the sake of their children and incoming grandchild with James and Jessie's constant clashing over ideals and social attitudes, however, it was going to be a long process.Ĭompleting the families were preteen Billy Kirkridge ( Marc Price), James and Kiki's youngest son, and Maria's father, Jose Montoya ( James Victor), who lived in the Rodriguez household. This further added to the uproar on both sides, but the Kirkridges and Rodriguezes agreed that having the baby be born in wedlock was best in episode three, the Rodriguezes held a proper wedding for Scott and Linda in their Catholic church. In the series' second episode, the young couple had returned from a secret elopement in Las Vegas, and soon informed everyone that, in addition to having been married, that Linda was expecting Scott's child. Shortly after the families moved in, the eldest Kirkridge child, college student Scott (Mark Schubb), and the Rodriguezes' daughter, law student Linda ( Julie Carmen), became smitten with each other and started dating-unbeknownst to their families. Kiki, slightly daffy but strong enough to keep James from stepping out of line, was a little more accepting of her Hispanic neighbors, but found culture shock causing occasional friction between her and feisty Maria especially.īefore James and Kiki could accept that a Hispanic family could gentrify into a neighborhood such as theirs, both families would soon have to deal with another challenge. ![]() The white-bread Kirkridges at first mistook the Rodriguezes as the groundskeepers, but when Jessie informed them that he and his clan were in fact owners of the condo next door, wariness and bigotry ensued, mainly between staunch traditionalist James, a WASP, and the hot-headed, Roman Catholic Jessie, who had no patience for out-of-touch whites. Both couples ended up purchasing condominium units right outside a quaint Los Angeles-area fairway, and became each other's next-door neighbors. Jesus "Jessie" Rodriguez (Avalos), a native of the Los Angeles barrio, had recently become successful as the owner of a landscaping business, enabling him and his wife Maria (Yvonne Wilder) to trade up to a more upscale neighborhood. James Kirkridge (Stevenson) was a middle-aged insurance salesman who was experiencing a gradual reversal in finances, so much that he and his wife Kiki (Brooke Alderson) had to put their rambling, palatial house in the suburbs up for sale, and downsize. This was the fourth sitcom to star McLean Stevenson since leaving M*A*S*H, all of them premiering while that series was still on. Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein were also producers. Sheldon Bull created the series, which was executive produced by Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas, and John Rich. The series stars McLean Stevenson and Luis Ávalos as the fathers of two families who move into condominium units next to each other. Condo is an American sitcom television series that aired on ABC from February 10 to June 9, 1983. ![]()
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