Mel (Jack Lemmon) and Edna (Anne Bancroft) Edison are a middle-class, middle-aged, middle-happy couple living in a Manhattan high rise apartment building. Mel loses his job, the apartment is robbed, Edna gets a job, Mel loses his mind, Edna loses her job . . . to say nothing of the more minor tribulations of nosy neighbours, helpful relatives and exact bus fares. The couple suffers indignity after indignity (some self-inflicted) and when they seem on the verge of surrender, they thumb their noses defiantly and dig the trenches for battle.

2nd Avenue and East 87th Street, Manhattan

The Edison's Apartment, 245 East 87th Street and 2nd Avenue, Manhattan

5th Avenue and East 68th Street, Manhattan.

Bethesda Terrace, (Mid-Park at 72nd Street) Central Park, Manhattan.

5th Avenue (btw East 66th and 67th Streets) Manhattan.