A Family for Joe

A Family for Joe
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Arnold Margolin
Written by	Philip Rosenthal [1]; Oliver Goldstick [1]
Starring	Robert Mitchum; Juliette Lewis; Ben Savage; Jessica Player; David Lascher; Barry Gordon
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	9
Production
Executive producer(s)	Sonny Grosso; Larry Jacobson;
Running time	30 minutes
Production company(s)	Grosso-Jacobson Productions; NBC Productions Feature Films For Families
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	March 24 –; August 19, 1990

A Family for Joe is an American sitcom that starred Robert Mitchum in the title role. It started out as a television movie that aired NBC on February 25, 1990, before turning it into a series that lasted from March 24 until August 19, 1990.[2] Nine episodes of the series were filmed.[3]

Plot

A Family for Joe is about the Bankston children, 15-year-old Holly (Juliette Lewis), 16-year-old Nick (David Lascher), 9-year-old Chris (Ben Savage), and 7-year-old Mary (Jessica Player) who have been recently orphaned. Rather than have themselves split up into foster care, they find a homeless man, Joe (Robert Mitchum), to live with them and act as their grandfather.

Cast

Robert Mitchum as Joe Whitaker
Juliette Lewis as Holly Bankston
David Lascher as Nick Bankston
Barry Gordon as Roger Hightower
Ben Savage as Chris Bankston
Jessica Player as Mary Bankston

Episodes

TV Movie

Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
"A Family for Joe"	Jeff Melman	Arnold Margolin	February 25, 1990 (1990-02-25)

Episodes

No.	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	"A Little Romance"	TBA	TBA	March 24, 1990 (1990-03-24)
2	"The Medium"	TBA	TBA	March 31, 1990 (1990-03-31)
3	"Nick's Heart"	TBA	TBA	April 7, 1990 (1990-04-07)
4	"An Earful"	Alan Rafkin	Oliver Goldstick & Phil Rosenthal	April 14, 1990 (1990-04-14)
5	"Life of the Party"	TBA	TBA	April 28, 1990 (1990-04-28)
6	"Law and Order"	TBA	TBA	May 5, 1990 (1990-05-05)
7	"Once a Bum"	TBA	TBA	August 5, 1990 (1990-08-05)
8	"Night School"	TBA	TBA	August 12, 1990 (1990-08-12)
9	"Having a Baby"	Alan Rafkin	Renee Phillips & Carrie Honigblum	August 19, 1990 (1990-08-19)

Response

Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly rated the series a D, stating that "the kids are leering little creeps, the jokes are moronic, and Joe's homelessness is already absent from the show's current scripts".[4]

In the DVD series, "The Write Environment", writer Philip Rosenthal (who would go on to create Everybody Loves Raymond) talks about being a staff writer on the series.

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References

"'Raymond' creator pacts for $16 mil deal". Variety. July 30, 1997. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
"Capsules". Entertainment Weekly. March 23, 1990. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
Klein, Alvin (April 22, 1990). "Theater; A Scarsdale Student 'Ready For Prime Time'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
Tucker, Ken (April 13, 1990). "TV reviews for the week of April 13". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

External links

A Family for Joe at TV.com
A Family for Joe on IMDb

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[variety-1] "'Raymond' creator pacts for $16 mil deal". Variety. July 30, 1997. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

[2] "Capsules". Entertainment Weekly. March 23, 1990. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

[3] Klein, Alvin (April 22, 1990). "Theater; A Scarsdale Student 'Ready For Prime Time'". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-04-01.

[4] Tucker, Ken (April 13, 1990). "TV reviews for the week of April 13". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2009-04-01.