Barnard Hughes plays up his affable codger routine as a devoted physician in New York City. The first year focused on Dr. Joe Bogert's family and friends in a cozy Manhattan environment, while a brief second season placed him at a clinic in one of the city's poorer neighborhoods.
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.