Joan of Arcadia: Season 1
Episodes
Pilot
Sep 26, 2003 · 45 min
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 t
The Fire and the Wood
Oct 3, 2003 · 45 min
Joan enrolls in advanced-placement chemistry, after God asks her to stop being an underachiever; Will ruffles feathers during an arson investigation.
Touch Move
Oct 10, 2003 · 45 min
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.
The Boat
Oct 17, 2003 · 45 min
Helen fears Joan is becoming eccentric when she enthusiastically tackles her boat-building project; Will encourages Kevin to join a wheelchair basketball team.
Just Say No
Oct 24, 2003 · 45 min
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
Bringeth It On
Oct 31, 2003 · 45 min
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
Death Be Not Whatever
Nov 7, 2003 · 45 min
Joan baby-sits for a 6-year-old boy who is obsessed with death; officers assault a black man at a gas station.
The Devil Made Me Do It
Nov 14, 2003 · 45 min
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. Elsewher
St. Joan
Nov 21, 2003 · 45 min
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 di
Drive, He Said
Dec 5, 2003 · 45 min
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 af
The Uncertainty Principle
Dec 12, 2003 · 45 min
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 gov
Jump
Jan 9, 2004 · 45 min
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, an
Recreation
Jan 16, 2004 · 45 min
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 little
State of Grace
Feb 6, 2004 · 45 min
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, Hele
Night Without Stars
Feb 13, 2004 · 45 min
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; K
Double Dutch
Feb 20, 2004 · 45 min
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.
No Bad Guy
Feb 27, 2004 · 45 min
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 jo
Requiem for a Third Grade Ashtray
Mar 12, 2004 · 45 min
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 stu
Do the Math
Apr 2, 2004 · 45 min
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 s
Anonymous
Apr 30, 2004 · 45 min
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 bon
Vanity, Thy Name Is Human
May 7, 2004 · 45 min
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' flatteri
The Gift
May 14, 2004 · 45 min
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 backpac
Silence
May 21, 2004 · 45 min
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