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A Family for Joe

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  • 1990-1990
  • 1 Season
  • NBC
  • Comedy
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The premise was that four cute upper-middle-class kids had been suddenly orphaned. About to be split up and sent to foster homes, they located a cranky old homeless man and offered him food, a home, and a decent life-style if he would live in their nice house and pose as their grandfather (this could only happen in a sitcom!). Of course he took his new responsibilities more seriously than they expected, and amid the quips, little lessons in life were learned by all around the sunny kitchen table. Roger was the helpful next-door neighbor, an air traffic controller turned homemaker.

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Robert Mitchum
Joe Whitaker
Jessica Player
Mary Bankston
David Lascher
Nick Bankston

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Episode 0

A Family for Joe

Sun, Feb 25, 1990100 mins

4 foster children, Nick, Holly, Chris, and Mary Bankston are about to be orphans when they find a homeless man, Joe Whitaker and try to convince him to become their legal guardian. The Bankston kids bond with Joe over many things such as TV, meals, and many more activities. Conflict ensues between Nick and Joe as they start to drift farther apart as each back-stab each other.

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