At least here, Walter and Maude don't go under house arrest and have to live in their roach filled Harlem home where dozens of people allegedly are crowded together in one room. Walter has made an investment in a tenement in Harlem, not realizing that it is basically a dump that needs to be torn down and re-built with proper living conditions. One of the tenants (Nolan Bell) finds out who the investors are and chooses Maude and Walter's house to protest outside of. Bell is actually a very sweet older man, and makes repeat visits to the house to use the facilities as Walter and Maude figure a way to get out of this mess. Bell is delightfully deadpan and steals the episode with his constantly cheery personality with the ability to be a Greek chorus to the action going on around him. Writer Susan Harris took ideas from this episode obviously and expanded it later on to have Dorothy an unwilling party to Stan's purchase of a Miami tenement that is just seen, while the apartment building conditions here are just implied.
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One of many "Maude" episodes later re-done as a "Golden Girls" episode.
mark.waltz21 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Ending made no sense and was depressing.
dgmeyer-8087216 April 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Episode is about Stanley trying to get out of his share of slum apartment building. A man is picketing him for being a slumlord.
In the end he sells his share for $1,000 loss. In the end someone else becomes a slumlord and the building is still a slum destined to be torn down. Sure Walter and Maude's problem is solved but does selling the share in the building help the people living there? It doesnt. When a new building replaced it-it would have been doubtful those resident could afford to live in the new building.
Then Maude talks Walter into giving the picketer $60 which he declares will be spent on a horse race - odds are he lost it all. Everyone involved LOSES - Maude/Walter $1,000, picketer and his fellow tenants will have to find another tenement to live in. Ok, I guess we are not supposed to think about them.
In the end he sells his share for $1,000 loss. In the end someone else becomes a slumlord and the building is still a slum destined to be torn down. Sure Walter and Maude's problem is solved but does selling the share in the building help the people living there? It doesnt. When a new building replaced it-it would have been doubtful those resident could afford to live in the new building.
Then Maude talks Walter into giving the picketer $60 which he declares will be spent on a horse race - odds are he lost it all. Everyone involved LOSES - Maude/Walter $1,000, picketer and his fellow tenants will have to find another tenement to live in. Ok, I guess we are not supposed to think about them.
Maude And Walter Are Picketed
Jimmy_the_Gent423 May 2019
A black man is picketing in front of Maude's and Walter's house calling them slumlords. It seems Walter had invested in an apartment building which turns out to be a run down tenement.
A funny Season 1 episode. It begins with a scene involving Maude and her plants, at the time it was popular to talk to plants to help them grow, but it may not help these as Maude mostly yells at them. The funniest scene involve the picketer who is played by an actor name Nolan Bell, this was his only acting role in TV or movies. It's a shame he did not do more since he has great deadpan comic timing. One of his funniest lines is when he says there is a cockroach in his building that's a big as Carole's Volkswagen.
A funny Season 1 episode. It begins with a scene involving Maude and her plants, at the time it was popular to talk to plants to help them grow, but it may not help these as Maude mostly yells at them. The funniest scene involve the picketer who is played by an actor name Nolan Bell, this was his only acting role in TV or movies. It's a shame he did not do more since he has great deadpan comic timing. One of his funniest lines is when he says there is a cockroach in his building that's a big as Carole's Volkswagen.
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