Condo (TV series)

Condo is an American sitcom which aired on ABC from February 10, 1983 until June 9, 1983. The series stars McLean Stevenson and Luis Avalos as the fathers of two families who move into condominium units next to each other. Sheldon Bull created the series, which was executive produced by Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas and John Rich.

Synopsis

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 up their rambling, palatial house in the suburbs up for sale, and downsize. Jesse Rodriguez (Avalos), a native of the Los Angeles barrio, had recently become successful as the owner of a landscaping business, enabling he and his wife Maria (Yvonne Wilder) to trade up to a more upscale neighborhood. Both couples ended up purchasing condominium units right outside a quaint Los Angeles-area fairway, and became each other's next-door neighbors. The white-bred Kirkridges at first mistook the Rodriguezes as the groundskeepers, but when Jesse informed them that he and his clan were in fact owners of the condo next door, weariness and bigotry ensued, mostly from staunch traditionalist James. 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.

Before 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. Shortly after the families moved in, the eldest Kirkridge child, Scott (Mark Schubb), and the lone Rodriguez child, Linda (Julie Carmen) revealed that they had been dating for the past three months. This put both sets of parents into a uproar, as they tried to find ways to prevent Scott and Linda from going steady. However, in the series' second episode, the young couple eloped, and returned to inform everyone that, in addition to having been married, that Linda was expecting Scott's child. Instead of resorting to throwing their children out, the Kirkridges and Rodriguezes slowly tried to resolve their differences for the sake of their children and incoming grandchild; with James and Jesse's constant clashing over ideals and social attitudes, it was going to be a long process.

Completing 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. It was Jose's boldness of chopping through the wall that separated both families' condo units, and everyone reluctantly agreed to his idea of putting a doorway in so that everyone would have central access to the impending grandchild's nursery. James was especially displeased with the conversion, as he was quiet content in keeping the room as his study.