This show, along with "Pink Lady and Jeff" have got to be two of the worst shows ever to have been produced. Pat Morita was on a high from being "Arnold" on "Happy Days" and was given this series. The stories were feeble and the direction amateurish. I remember it was canceled after this one ridiculous episode which played like a cartoon - having Mr. Takahashi blast off through the roof of his place in some sort of contraption. It hold a place in my heart as being the dumbest thing I can remember from my youth. A real goof, funny to watch because it was such junk, but then it wore off.
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TheGrip14 December 2002
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Not much to say. It was bad. Very bad. The only episode I gave a real memory of since it disappeared so fast had Mr. T flying around the living room. The worst casualty was Pat Morita lost the role of Arnold on Happy Days because of this travesty but who can blame him. It was a chance for a supporting player to become a star! It's happened many times before with talented comics. See Don Knotts and Tim Conway.
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This piece of trash sitcom is not only the worst sitcom and show of the 1970's, but one of the very worst sitcoms of all time, poor pat morita got written out of the role of arnold from happy days to waste his absolute talent as a man and his family move from japan to chicago in search of a better life, this wastefully unfunny and massive mess featuring dreary lines, poor dialogue and very poor acting, what was hollywood and television executives thinking when they put this b.s. On the air, do they think it's good enough, even chino and the man was way better than this tripe, luckily after 9 miserable episode, this show bit the dust and cancelled, which it should be and thankfully pat morita went on to do bigger and better things, like the wonderful masterpiece the karate kid, thank goodness ralph macchino didn't star in this junk.
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amherst528227 November 2005I may be wrong, but as I recall this was another "summer replacement" series. I don't think it lasted more than a couple of episodes ...There were the straight-laced and exasperated Mr. Takahishi (Mr. T), the brainless white-girl housekeeper (Tina) and the crazy uncle (Uncle Matsu) who did things like throw cherry blossoms in the toilet while reciting Haiku, among other characters. In the tradition of "Ivan the Terrible," it was shot on what looked like a set about 12 feet in size, for about 50 bucks. LOts of racist stereotypes, bad and pretty boring. The 70s were full of such short-lived garbage -- now with Pat Morita gone (a pretty good actor when given appropriate roles), maybe it will be released in a "best of..." DVD!