Once Shepherd noticed the amount of money he was making from reruns of "A Christmas Story" (which was slowly becoming a television tradition), he abandoned television; in 1994, he and "A Christmas Story" director Bob Clark returned to the same working-class Cleveland street neighborhood to film a sequel, "It Runs in the Family" (later known as "My Summer Story"), released by MGM in 1994 and (because the 11-year span between films caused almost all the actors to age out of their roles) featuring an almost entirely different cast from the previous film.