Special Guest Stars

Joan Cusack As Sheila Recurring

Guest Stars

Joel Murray As Eddie Jackson Recurring	Laura Slade Wiggins As Karen Jackson Recurring
Marguerite Moreau As Kash's Wife Recurring	Pej Vahdat As Kash Recurring

Co-Guest Stars

Sam Doumit As Sonny Recurring	Tyler Jacob Moore As Tony Recurring
Ben Cornish As Customer 1	Charin Alvarez As Rita
Leslie Thurston As Woman	Matt Eyde As Delivery Guy
Noel Arthur As Bouncer	Patrick Sarb As Aston Martin Guy
Sabah El-amin As Waitress	Thomas F. Duffy (1) As Tommy
Yves Bright As Customer 2

Main Cast

William H. Macy As Frank Gallagher	Emmy Rossum As Fiona Gallagher
Justin Chatwin As Steve	Ethan Cutkosky As Carl Gallagher
Shanola Hampton As Veronica	Steve Howey As Kev
Emma Kenney As Debbie Gallagher	Cameron Monaghan As Ian Gallagher
Jeremy Allen White As Lip Gallagher

Recap

A block party complete with burn barrels, beer and dancing people of all ages was the scene in which Frank Gallagher, a middle aged alcoholic man on disability, introduced himself and his six children in New York city one evening. The police, alerted to the impromptu gathering, raided the party, breaking up the congenial chaos, telling the partiers to go to bed. Fiona, the eldest, was shown putting the youngest children to bed and falling into a messy bed herself late that night. Frank had lost his wife just a year previous, saying that she had been a colossal bitch, but what a lover! Frank himself was wont to take his disability check and disappear into his favorite alcoholic haunt just down the street, signing the entire check over to the barkeep just to pay the previous bar tab and intoning that the drinks were on the house to which cheers were heard, then his sarcastic, "Not!" resounded throughout the bar. After drinking his dinner, his habit was to stagger home or his friend would bring him home in a wheelbarrow and help him into the house and leave him on the kitchen floor to sleep it off and sober up...

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• Executive Producer	John Wells  |  Paul Abbott  |  Andrew M. Stearn
• Producer	Barbara Hall
• Associate Producer	Dieter Ismagil
• Production Designer	Stephen Altman
• Editor	David Moritz
• Casting	Melanie Burgess  |  John Levey (1)
• Unit Production Manager	Barbara Hall
• First Assistant Director	Princess O'Mahoney
• Second Assistant Director	Molly Rodriguez
• Music Supervisor	Ann Kline
• Costume Designer	Lyn Paolo
• Set Decorator	K.C. Fox
• Property Master	Don Miloyevich
• Production Sound Mixer	James Clark
• Production Coordinator	Joanne Oboyski
• Assistant Editor	Marc Jozefowicz
• Director of Photography	J. Michael Muro
• Art Director	Nina Ruscio
• Department Head Hair	Frances Mathias
• Department Head Make-up	John E. Jackson
• Supervising Re-recording Mixer	Jason Brennan  |  Matt Vowles
• Based On The Series Created By	Paul Abbott