A pilot for a television series. The show was based on a series of humorous columns written by Tom De Lisle for The Detroit News about growing up on the city's east side.

A pilot for a television series. The show was based on a series of humorous columns written by Tom De Lisle for The Detroit News about growing up on the city's east side. Tom Ryan played "Pop Hamlin," patriarch of the working class Hamlin family, whose daughter was about to marry a boy from the upper class city of Farmington Hills. Ryan also played Stan the Polka Man, leader of the Polka Rascals.—Paul Gerard Kennedy