Joe's Life

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 11
Original Language EN
Creator Bob Myer

Joe's Life (1993)

Created by Bob Myer
⭐ 5.0 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 11 Episodes 🏷️ Comedy 📡 Ended
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'Rating Consensus & Critics'

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Synopsis

Joe Gennaro is a laid-off executive who can't find work, so he decides to stay at home and take care of the children while his wife goes to work as a temp secretary. Later, Joe takes a job as a chef at his brother's restaurant.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 A Tail to Remember

Debut: Family man Joe Gennaro (Peter Onorati) is a laid-off defense worker who has to deal with the problems of running the house while his wife, Sandy (Mary Page Keller), works as an office temp. In the opener, Joe faces a hairy issue: son Scott (Spencer Klein) wants to wear a ""Rat Tail.""

E2 Mind If I Smoke?

Stan (George DiCenzo) is burned up when he finds out that his son has been smoking—and that Joe knew about it.

E3 He Ain't Working, He's My Brother

Stan stews because Joe won't work full time as a chef, but Joe tells him to put a lid on it.

E4 Shop in the Name of Love

Joe wants to buy Sandy a birthday gift, but to him, ""shop"" is strictly a four-letter word.

E5 The Bad Influence

Despite Sandy and Stan's misgivings, Joe sticks up for Leo's bad-news buddy Josh—Until Josh dates Amy.

E6 The Invisible Man

Joe gets the awful feeling that Sandy's taking him for granted—but she takes no notice; meanwhile, Paul's doing poorly in algebra because of his sexual attraction to his teacher.

E7 You Can't Take This Job ... Period

Sandy's offered a full-time job that will take her away from the family even more so than now. Can she take it? Can they?

E8 Dear Grandpa

Sandy's not happy to see her long-estranged father again, but he's a big hit with the kids.

E9 Parental Guidance Not Suggested?

After Thanksgiving dinner, Sandy talks Joe into going to a movie, where they unexpectedly get to observe Amy with a date.

E10 Nightmare on Joe's Street

Joe refuses Stan's offer of half-ownership of the restaurant.

E11 Yule Be Sorry

The last thing Barb wanted for Christmas is just what Leo brings home: a 21-year-old girlfriend with a baby, and a husband—somewhere.