Joan of Arcadia

Joan of Arcadia

2003 2 Seasons ⭐ 7.341
Sci-Fi & Fantasy Mystery Drama

Joan Girardi has begun acting a little strange since her family moved to the city of Arcadia. No one knows that various people keep introducing themselves as God, and then giving the teenager specific directions to do things. Unsure of what God wants, and if she's even sane, Joan tentatively begins to follow God's cryptic directives, all the while trying to retain a "normal" teen-aged existence.

Seasons

1. Pilot

2003-09-26 • ⭐ 4.5

16 year old Joan Girardi is approached by someone claiming to be God. He gives her a mission, get a job. Will Girardi, Joan's dad and new chief of police for Arcadia, is trying …

2. The Fire and the Wood

2003-10-03 • ⭐ 6.0

Joan enrolls in advanced-placement chemistry, after God asks her to stop being an underachiever; Will ruffles feathers during an arson investigation.

3. Touch Move

2003-10-10 • ⭐ 6.0

God encourages Joan to learn how to play chess; Will must work with a psychic on a missing toddler case; Helen hopes a miracle will enable Kevin to walk again.

4. The Boat

2003-10-17 • ⭐ 6.0

Helen fears Joan is becoming eccentric when she enthusiastically tackles her boat-building project; Will encourages Kevin to join a wheelchair basketball team.

5. Just Say No

2003-10-24

Joan learns from God that she's holding a garage sale on Saturday, which doesn't leave her much time to sort through her family's unwanted belongings. Among the items she unearths…

6. Bringeth It On

2003-10-31

Joan gets a lesson in popularity when God tells her to try out for the cheerleading squad, and her efforts to impress two pom-pom girls pay off with an invite to hang out together…

7. Death Be Not Whatever

2003-11-07

Joan baby-sits for a 6-year-old boy who is obsessed with death; officers assault a black man at a gas station.

8. The Devil Made Me Do It

2003-11-14

God's mysterious ways once again bewilder Joan, when He asks her to volunteer at the high-school art show, so that she can keep Adam Rove's sculpture from being exhibited. Elsewhe…

9. St. Joan

2003-11-21

God wants Joan to score an ""A"" on a test about French saint Joan of Arc. As the teen hits the books, she draws comparisons to the life of the young heroine who claimed to hear d…

10. Drive, He Said

2003-12-05

Each of the Girardis deal with crises of varying seriousness, the worst of which puts Will at the mercy of a crazed gunman. The day also finds Helen reacting with mixed emotions a…

11. The Uncertainty Principle

2003-12-12

God instructs Joan to ask a troublemaker to the winter formal. Will uncovers secrets that could prove unfavorable to the former Chief of Police and other members of the city's go…

12. Jump

2004-01-09 • ⭐ 1.0

Joan is saddened when she learns Rocky (Death Be Not Whatever) has passed away, causing her to further question God about life and death. Will loses his job when his discovery, a…

13. Recreation

2004-01-16

At Helen's insistance, she and Will take a getaway to a spa, but all does not go well when Will cannot forget about his job. And with the parents away, the kids are up to a littl…

14. State of Grace

2004-02-06

God tells Joan to join the debate team, where her partner has a stuttering problem. A new security system is implemented at Arcadia High School. After the art teacher quits, Hel…

15. Night Without Stars

2004-02-13

Joan's newest mission from God is to work with kids, so she volunteers to help babysit children of abused mothers; Joan becomes jealous when Adam falls for one of the volunteers; …

16. Double Dutch

2004-02-20

God tells Joan to learn to jump rope with a group of inner-city teens, one of whom Joan discovers is homeless. Kevin goes on a date, but not with who you think.

17. No Bad Guy

2004-02-27

After Joan stands up for one of her classmates being bullied, an embarrassing picture of Joan, taken with a picture phone, is rapidly spread around school. God instructs Joan to j…

18. Requiem for a Third Grade Ashtray

2004-03-12

God instructs Joan to help out with the a chaotic Girardi household; Adam has his first art show; Will and Toni witness a carjacking. Will and Toni, while making an arrest, get st…

19. Do the Math

2004-04-02

God tells Joan to take piano lessons; Joan helps her piano teacher deal with her past; Joan learns a painful secret Will and Helen have been keeping from the family; Iris becomes …

20. Anonymous

2004-04-30

Joan joins the yearbook staff, per God's request, and decides to use this assignment as a means of impressing Adam... Feeling threatened that Iris and Adam continue to share a bo…

21. Vanity, Thy Name Is Human

2004-05-07

Joan takes a cosmetics class, per God's request, and Kevin doesn't react well to crossing paths with the last girlfriend he dated before his disabling accident... Glynis' flatter…

22. The Gift

2004-05-14

After God tells Joan to give Adam a gift, she finds something that leads her to wonder if God's suggesting she have sex with him... While secretly searching through Adam's backpa…

23. Silence

2004-05-21

When the hospitalized Joan is diagnosed with Lyme disease, she begins to question if she's been seeing God or merely experiencing the hallucinations that can be symptomatic of her…

Top Cast

Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn
Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter
Michael Welch
Michael Welch
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Becky Wahlstrom
Becky Wahlstrom

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