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CBS Situation Comedy
Cast:
| Luigi Basco: | J. Carrol Naish |
| Vito Scotti | |
| Pasquale: | Alan Reed |
| Thomas Gomez | |
| Rosa: | Jody Gilbert |
| Muriel Landers | |
| Miss Spalding: | Mary Shipp |
| Schultz: | Sig Ruman |
| Olson: | Ken Peters |
| Horowitz: | Joe Forte |
This live TV series was about Luigi, a newly arrived Italian
immigrant who was learning to love his new homeland. He did not
always understand what everything meant, and often took things too
literally, but his sweet, gentle nature won everyone over.
The setting alternated between Luigi's antique shop at
221 North Holstead Street, Chicago and his friend Pasquale's
Spaghetti Palace restaurant. Pasquale, a fellow immigrant who had
been in this country for several years, had paid Luigi's boat fare
to America in hopes that he might be able to marry off his
fat daughter Rosa to his impressionable coountryman.
Stories relate Luigi's attempts to adjust to a new homeland
and his struggles to evade Pasquale's endless attempts to
marry him to his over-weight daughter.
When the series returned in the spring of 1953 all three
principal parts were being played by different actors.
Watch complete episode "Citizenship" from 1952 below.
Watch a complete episode with the new 1953 cast below.
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