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Be a Good Girl

CAPSULE: Melissa must deal with her aging grandmother who wants her to take over her business. Melissa is preparing to go to her parents for a birthday dinner for herself, her mother Elaine and her beloved grandmother Rose, or Nana, who has runs a dress store for fifty-five years. Elaine thinks her mom needs to move in with her and her husband Murray, but Melissa thinks her mom treats Nana ""like Grandma Moses"", even though she has congestive heart failure! Ellyn, who is therapy now, comes to Melissa with a job offer from City Hall and Melissa takes it, even though she's quite busy. At her parents house, Melissa is taking a family portrait with a couple of other aunts included when Nana has a vivid flashback of a young girl skating. Her behavior worries the others, and they call a doctor. Soon, though, Nana is back at work, critiquing customers, when she has a pain attack. She asks Melissa not to call Elaine, but she does call her, along with a doctor. Nana also has another flashback of

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  • Originally Aired April 25, 1989
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Production Code 8216
  • Network ABC (US)
  • Created October 26, 2017 by
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Name Type Role
Richard Kramer Writer
Madelyn Cates Guest Star
Sylvia Sidney Guest Star
Estelle Reiner Guest Star
Kathleen Garrett Guest Star
Herb Edelman Guest Star
Shirley Alter Guest Star
Phyllis Newman Guest Star
Cynthia Frost Guest Star
Richard Kramer Director