Joan of Arcadia
Sci-Fi & Fantasy • Series

Joan of Arcadia

7.3/10 2003 2 Seasons 45 Episodes Canceled

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.

Season: 1 2

Season 1 Episodes

S1E1
E1
Pilot
45 min 2003

16 year old Joan Girardi is approached by someone claiming to be God. He gives her a mission, get a job. Will Girardi,…

S1E2
E2
The Fire and the Wood
45 min 2003

Joan enrolls in advanced-placement chemistry, after God asks her to stop being an underachiever; Will ruffles feathers d…

S1E3
E3
Touch Move
45 min 2003

God encourages Joan to learn how to play chess; Will must work with a psychic on a missing toddler case; Helen hopes a m…

S1E4
E4
The Boat
45 min 2003

Helen fears Joan is becoming eccentric when she enthusiastically tackles her boat-building project; Will encourages Kevi…

S1E5
E5
Just Say No
45 min 2003

Joan learns from God that she's holding a garage sale on Saturday, which doesn't leave her much time to sort through her…

S1E6
E6
Bringeth It On
45 min 2003

Joan gets a lesson in popularity when God tells her to try out for the cheerleading squad, and her efforts to impress tw…

S1E7
E7
Death Be Not Whatever
45 min 2003

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

S1E8
E8
The Devil Made Me Do It
45 min 2003

God's mysterious ways once again bewilder Joan, when He asks her to volunteer at the high-school art show, so that she c…

S1E9
E9
St. Joan
45 min 2003

God wants Joan to score an ""A"" on a test about French saint Joan of Arc. As the teen hits the books, she draws compari…

S1E10
E10
Drive, He Said
45 min 2003

Each of the Girardis deal with crises of varying seriousness, the worst of which puts Will at the mercy of a crazed gunm…

S1E11
E11
The Uncertainty Principle
45 min 2003

God instructs Joan to ask a troublemaker to the winter formal. Will uncovers secrets that could prove unfavorable to th…

S1E12
E12
Jump
45 min 2004

Joan is saddened when she learns Rocky (Death Be Not Whatever) has passed away, causing her to further question God abou…

S1E13
E13
Recreation
45 min 2004

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 …

S1E14
E14
State of Grace
45 min 2004

God tells Joan to join the debate team, where her partner has a stuttering problem. A new security system is implemente…

S1E15
E15
Night Without Stars
45 min 2004

Joan's newest mission from God is to work with kids, so she volunteers to help babysit children of abused mothers; Joan …

S1E16
E16
Double Dutch
45 min 2004

God tells Joan to learn to jump rope with a group of inner-city teens, one of whom Joan discovers is homeless. Kevin goe…

S1E17
E17
No Bad Guy
45 min 2004

After Joan stands up for one of her classmates being bullied, an embarrassing picture of Joan, taken with a picture phon…

S1E18
E18
Requiem for a Third Grade Ashtray
45 min 2004

God instructs Joan to help out with the a chaotic Girardi household; Adam has his first art show; Will and Toni witness …

S1E19
E19
Do the Math
45 min 2004

God tells Joan to take piano lessons; Joan helps her piano teacher deal with her past; Joan learns a painful secret Will…

S1E20
E20
Anonymous
45 min 2004

Joan joins the yearbook staff, per God's request, and decides to use this assignment as a means of impressing Adam... F…

S1E21
E21
Vanity, Thy Name Is Human
45 min 2004

Joan takes a cosmetics class, per God's request, and Kevin doesn't react well to crossing paths with the last girlfriend…

S1E22
E22
The Gift
45 min 2004

After God tells Joan to give Adam a gift, she finds something that leads her to wonder if God's suggesting she have sex …

S1E23
E23
Silence
45 min 2004

When the hospitalized Joan is diagnosed with Lyme disease, she begins to question if she's been seeing God or merely exp…

Cast

Amber Tamblyn
Amber Tamblyn
Joan Girardi
Joe Mantegna
Joe Mantegna
Will Girardi
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen
Helen Girardi
Jason Ritter
Jason Ritter
Kevin Girardi
Michael Welch
Michael Welch
Luke Girardi
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Christopher Rodriguez Marquette
Adam Rove
Becky Wahlstrom
Becky Wahlstrom
Grace Polk

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