Joe's Life aired from September until December 1993 on ABC.
A blue-collar family faced hard times in the 90's in this rather bland sitcom. Joe ( Peter Onorati) was an aircraft plant worker who had just made it to management when he was laid off, so now he became Mr. Mom during the day while his perky wife Sandy ( Mary Page Keller) worked as an office temp. At night, the roles were reversed; Sandy stayed home and Joe worked as a chef at big brother Stan's ( George DiCenzo's) restaurant. Squabbles alternated with hugs as stubborn Joe and understanding Sandy delt with their 3 kids, self-absorbed Amy ( Morgan Nagler), smart-mouthed operator Paul ( Robert Hy Gorman), and cute little Scotty( Spencer Klein). A bigger problem was Stan's irresponsible son Leo ( Danny Masterson) who idolized Uncle Joe. Barbara ( Mimi Kennedy) was Stan's earthy wife and Ray ( John Marshall Jones), an effete black chef at the restaurant.
A Review from Variety
Joe's Life Abc, Wed. Sept. 22, 8:30 p.m.
By TONY SCOTT
Powered By Taped before an audience at CBS TV City, L.A., by Bob Myer Prods. Inc. and ABC Prods. Exec producer-writer-creator, Bob Myer; supervising producers, Nat Bernstein, Mitchel Katlin; producers, Lee Aronsohn, Rita Dillon, Andrew D. Weyman; co-producers, Michael Poryes, Tom Szollosi; director, Weyman.
Cast: Peter Onorati, Mary Page Keller, George DiCenzo, Mimi Kennedy, Robert Hy Gorman, Spencer Klein, Danny Masterson, Morgan Nagler, John Marshall Jones, Al Ruscio.
Not the funniest sitcom to come along, "Joe's Life" could be tabbed one of the more human among the new entries. Peter Onorati is ideally cast as the temporary Mr. Mom, Joe Gennaro, with Mary Page Keller as wife Sandy. The concept is old hat, but the genial personalities (and the slot after "Thea") could help in the ratings.
Sandy works days since Joe, laid off from his management job, works nights. Dad daywatches the youngsters -- Amy (Morgan Nagler), Paul (Robert Hy Gorman) and Scott (Spencer Klein).
Director Andrew D. Weyman keeps the couple lively and, even when quarreling, attractive. The youngsters occasionally slip into banal sitcom behavior, but creator-writer Bob Myer and Onorati's Joe ably work the situations.
Keller's pert as Sandy, and George DiCenzo, playing Joe's brother Stan, makes his way through the unchallenging role. As his wife, Mimi Kennedy, whose role in the opener is too small, offers a welcome tartness.
The soft sitcom's major hurdle is getting people to watch nice, 1950s-type neighbors down the way. Writer Myer better dig up more original angles if Joe's going to have a life.
A Review from USA TODAY
TV PREVIEW/BY MATT ROUSH
Bland 'Joe's Life'
Joe's Life isn't much of a life. What's more, Joe's Life is even less of a show.
Here's the concept, and just try to imagine network exects staying awake during this pitch: Joe gets laid off, so he stays at home during the day with three quarrelsome kids while his wife takes a job. At night, she takes over the raucous roost while he works in his older brother's restaurant.
Joe has a self-esteem problem. " I'm like ,lost." says Joe , who's unlikely to be found. Not in this age of remote control.
Peter Oneratti, who shown in two Steven Bochco dramas ( Cop Rock and Civil Wars), plays Joe, and at least he's an actor, not an overstretched stand-up comic like so many other new sitcom stars. His pugnacious personality brings some zip and heft to tired scenes of laugh-track parenting, as he sets rules of the house while worrying about losing his family's respect.
In support of Joe: the ever-winsome Mary Page Keller as his distracted wife, George DiCenzo ( Equal Justice) as his understanding brother, and Homefront's terrific Mimi Kennedy thoroughly wasted as his seen-it-all sister-in-law.
Hey, if this were Mimi's Life, maybe we'd have a hit. But no, this is about that schmo Joe.
You're in luck if your tastes run toward scenes of a teenage girl sarcastically gabbing on the phone or bratty brothers braying at dinner, " You shut up!" " No, you shut up."
Otherwise get a life. It's bound to be better than Joe's.
A Review From Entertainment Weekly
TV Review
MR. MOM BOMB
-- Credits
Genre: Comedy; With: Peter Onorati By Ken Tucker
Peter Onorati is a gloomy house husband in 'Joe's Life' Peter Onorati, so charming as a lawyer with a conscience in Civil Wars, squanders his talent in joe's life (ABC, Wednesdays, 8:30-9 p.m.), piffle about an unemployed family man. Onorati is Joe,father of three, husband to Sandy (Camp Wilder's Mary Page Keller). He was recently laid off; Sandy has a job, so Joe becomes an unenthusiastic homemaker. His two boys (Robert Hy Gorman and Spencer Klein) squabble incessantly, while his daughter (Morgan Nagler) talks to her friends about boys who want to ''feel (her) up.'' There's some twisted feminist message embedded in Joe's Life, symbolized by Joe's new fondness for reading Ladies' Home Journal, but it's buried beneath dismal jokes and pessimism. D+
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