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    Comedy TV Shows - 1970s 2 Mins Read

    Joe and Sons

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    Widowed sheet-metal worker Joe Vitale (Richard Castellano) is raising his teenage boys Mark (Barry Miller) and Nick (Jimmy Baio) in Hoboken, New Jersey.

    Proudly Italian-American, he hangs out with his numbskulled pal Gus (Jerry Stiller), his earthy neighbour, waitress Estelle (Bobbi Jordan) and his know-it-all sister Josephine (Florence Stanley).

    joe andsons

    In just a few episodes, the show managed to cover quite a few topics which were new to television:

    Mark doubted the existence of God; Nick’s school biology book contained some unusually explicit pictures in its sex education section; Mark was dating a girl whose mother had “a reputation”; Nick wanted to study ballet which caused Josephine to doubt his masculinity; a long-haired friend of Mark’s gave the Vitales a gift house plant which had an uncanny resemblance to marijuana; Nick made continued attempts to hide his bedwetting problem, and so on.

    The edgy material seemed to repel rather than attract viewers and Joe and Sons was gone from the CBS primetime lineup early in 1976.

    In the pilot, the show took place in Erie, Pennsylvania, but the setting was changed for the rest of the series.

    Joe Vitale
    Richard S. Castellano
    Mark Vitale
    Barry Miller
    Gus Duzik
    Jerry Stiller
    Josephine Molonaire
    Florence Stanley
    Nick Vitale
    Jimmy Baio
    Estelle
    Bobbi Jordan

    Episodes

    Pilot | Mark’s Doubt | Nick’s Book | Joe’s Date | Carmela | Joe’s Cruise | A Real Lady | Uncle Charlie’s Problem | The Desperate Minutes | Clothes Don’t Necessarily Make the Man | Pot Luck | Nick’s Problem | Thou Shalt Steal | Jimmy Flynn’s Wake

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