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GRACE UNDER FIRE: THE ROAD TO PARIS, TEXAS (TV)

Summary

One in this comedy series about Grace Kelly, a Southern woman in her thirties struggling to support her three children by herself after her divorce from an alcoholic, abusive husband. In this episode, Grace is forced to run interference between Nadine and Wade when Nadine abruptly leaves her husband and moves in with her best friend. Grace then receives a postcard from her eccentric and possibly clairvoyant Aunt Vivian and impulsively decides to bring Nadine along on a road trip to visit her in Paris, Texas, leaving Faith in charge of the kids. They head off in Grace's somewhat unreliable car, amusing themselves by pranking other drivers, while back at home Wade admits to Russell that he is "terribly, horribly alone" without Nadine, and Faith begins to resent the men's comfort with her servitude.

Nadine and Grace fend off two flirtatious oddballs at a rest stop, and when they stop for the night at a motel, Nadine admits that she left Wade after he admitted to kissing an ex-girlfriend. Elsewhere, Russell is bewildered that Wade would willingly confess to such a minor crime and assures him that his marriage can be saved, but Wade despairs that it is "too late." Grace admits that she "messed around" on Jimmy during one of their many break-ups and urges Nadine to consider forgiveness. They finally reach Aunt Viv's, and after showing off pictures of her children, Grace questions her aunt about her tireless good nature, admitting that her own life has not gone as she expected. Viv suggests that one can learn useful lessons from an unpredictable life, and Nadine and Grace are both unnerved when her "spirit guide" Rose offers some sage tips about Wade. On the way back home, the two wonder if Viv is truly connected to the supernatural – or is merely "out of her cotton-pickin' mind." Commercials deleted.

Details

  • NETWORK: ABC
  • DATE: 9:30 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:22:21
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: 123406
  • GENRE: Comedy
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Comedy; Families
  • SERIES RUN: ABC - TV series, 1993-1998
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Mark Flanagan … Executive Producer
  • Tom Werner … Executive Producer
  • Caryn Mandabach … Executive Producer
  • Marcy Carsey … Executive Producer
  • Jeff Abugov … Co-Executive Producer
  • Kathy Ann Stumpe … Supervising Producer
  • Bob Dolan Smith … Supervising Producer
  • J.J. Wall … Producer
  • Joanne Curley Kerner … Producer
  • Brenda Hanes-Berg … Co-Producer
  • Howard Murray … Director
  • Chuck Lorre … Created by
  • Alan Ball … Writer
  • Brett Butler … Writer
  • Dennis C. Brown … Music by
  • Aretha Franklin … Theme Music by
  • Brett Butler … Cast, Grace Kelly
  • Dave Thomas … Cast, Russell Norton
  • Casey Sander … Cast, Wade Swoboda
  • Kaitlin Cullum … Cast, Libby Kelly
  • John Paul Steuer … Cast, Quentin Kelly
  • Dylan Sprouse … Cast, Patrick Kelly
  • Cole Sprouse … Cast, Patrick Kelly
  • Julie White … Cast, Nadine Swoboda
  • Jean Stapleton … Cast, Aunt Vivian
  • Valri Bromfield … Cast, Faith Burdette
  • Steve Fitchpatrick … Cast, Murl
  • Vera Lockwood … Cast, Rose
  • Tim Maculan … Cast, Tee Dub