What About Joan Joan Sets Up Alice (Season 1, Episode 12)
TV Episode | Comedy

What About Joan

Joan Sets Up Alice (Season 1, Episode 12)

TV Episode | Comedy

Joan comes to regret setting Alice up with a chef whose restaurant Jake is investing in. Meanwhile, Mark takes a second job and Jake loses thousands of dollars of Joan's money on a bad investment.

Director

Lee Shallat Chemel

Writers

Gwen Macsai (created by) | Charleen Easton (written by) | Gloria Ketterer (written by)

Producers

James L. Brooks (produced by) | David Richardson (produced by) | Richard Sakai (produced by)

Casting Director

Claire Simon

Production Designer

Gary Baugh

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Edit Released

Updated Dec 31, 2001

Release date

2001 (United States)

Awards

Series awards

1 win & 1 nomination

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Cast	+ Add Cast
9 cast members

Name	Known for
Joan Cusack Joan Gallagher Joan Gallagher See fewer	In & Out (1997)
Kyle Chandler Jake Evans Jake Evans See fewer	Argo (2012)
Jessica Hecht Betsy Morgan Ludlow Betsy Morgan Ludlow See fewer	Whatever Works (2009)
Donna Murphy Dr. Ruby Stern Dr. Ruby Stern See fewer	The Gilded Age (2022)
Kellie Shanygne Williams Alice Adams Alice Adams See fewer	Family Matters (1989)
Wallace Langham Mark Ludlow Mark Ludlow See fewer	Perry Mason (2020)
Christian Felix Paul Paul See fewer	Blindspot (2015)
Kadeem Hardison Ben Ben See fewer	A Different World (1987)
Paul Vato Michael Michael See fewer	The Trust (2016)