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Tales of the City - Episodes & Seasons Summaries | Recap-TV
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Tales of the City

1994

8/10

Drama, Comedy, Romance

Tales of the City (and its sequels) follows the soap-operaish lives of the people living in 1970's and 1980's San Francisco, and are based on Armistead Maupin's novels. The show centers around Anna Madrigal, the eccentric landlady at 28 Barbary Lane (who welcomes her tenants by taping homegrown joints above their doors), her tenants and the others implicated in their lives. Tenants include Mary Ann Singleton, a naive midwesterner who moves to California to start a new life; Mona Ramsey, a "fag-hag" with a special connection to Mrs Madrigal; Michael "Mouse" Tolliver, a gay Floridan who moved to California to avoid letting his parents find out he was gay; and Brian Hawkins, a horny straight guy trapped in a gay city... People involved in their lives are Beauchamp Day, Mary Ann's boss, and his wife DeDe; Edgar Halcyon, Anna's boyfriend, and his wife, Frannie who are DeDe's parents.

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Complete Season Recaps

Season 1
6 Episodes
Season 2
6 Episodes
Season 3
4 Episodes

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Cast

Olympia Dukakis

Olympia Dukakis

as Anna Madrigal

Donald Moffat

Donald Moffat

as Edgar Halcyon

Laura Linney

Laura Linney

as Mary Ann Singleton

Marcus D'Amico

Marcus D'Amico

as Michael "Mouse" Tolliver

Billy Campbell

Billy Campbell

as Jon Fielden

Paul Gross

Paul Gross

as Brian Hawkins

Thomas Gibson

Thomas Gibson

as Beauchamp Day

Barbara Garrick

Barbara Garrick

as DeDe Halcyon Day

Chloe Webb

Chloe Webb

as Mona Ramsey

Stanley DeSantis

as Norman Neal Williams

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