A Family for Joe
A Family for Joe | |
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Genre | Sitcom |
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 | |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | Grosso-Jacobson Productions NBC Productions |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | March 24 – August 19, 1990 |
External links | |
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A Family for Joe is an American television movie and subsequent series, both starring Robert Mitchum in the title role. The half-hour show premiered on NBC on March 24, 1990.[2] Nine episodes of the series were filmed.[3]
Contents
Plot
A Family for Joe is about the Bankston children, 15-year-old Holly (Juliette Lewis), 16-year-old Nick (David Lascher & Chris Furrh), 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.
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.
References
External links
- A Family for Joe at TV.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). A Family for Joe at IMDb
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