Who's the Boss?

E01

Episode 1

★ 8.0

In Search of Tony

1989-09-19 · 23m

Holidays on Jamaica. And everyone enjoys the life there.Angela, too, dives right into the holiday-action and has a lot of fun. As it's not Tony, with whom she has that fun, he gets jealous.

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E02

Episode 2

★ 7.0

Life's a Ditch

1989-09-26 · 23m

Charlie, Sam's female friend from Brooklyn, visits while Angela is preparing for a dog food commercial. Charlie talks Sam into ditching school for the day and going to the beach, but Tony catches them before they leave the house. When Tony calls Charlie's mother to tell her, he learns that her mother doesn't care about Charlie and doesn't want her in her life.

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E03

Episode 3

In Your Dreams

1989-10-03 · 23m

Tony and Angela are apartment-sitting for Mrs. Rossini. After meeting two couples Tony used to be friends with, Angela dreams that she and Tony are married, living in Brooklyn, and expecting a baby.

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E04

Episode 4

★ 8.0

Sam's Novel Romance

1989-10-10 · 23m

Sam joins a book discussion group when she develops a crush on the instructor, a young college professor, unaware that he is married.

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E05

Episode 5

Tony and the Professor

1989-10-24 · 23m

On the spur of the moment, Tony accepts a date with a woman he meets at a bar. Having second thoughts, he cancels the date the next day, only to learn later that the woman is the professor of his new class.

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E06

Episode 6

★ 7.0

Mother and Child Disunion

1989-10-31 · 23m

Angela has reached the goal of her dreams when Braden, a V.I.P. in the advertising branch, offers her the merger. Suffering from this is Mona who gets fired by Angela. After some days has passed Angela realizes that she isn't really happy about this merger.

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E07

Episode 7

★ 7.0

Sam Can Manage

1989-11-07 · 23m

Al has founded a rock band and Sam becomes, as she has some quite good ideas, the group's manager. But she has problems getting gigs because everyone just sees the 'cute girl' in her.

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E08

Episode 8

★ 8.0

Supermom Burnout

1989-11-14 · 23m

Angela brings the family to a psychiatrist for counseling when she thinks Sam and Jonathan's fighting is getting to be too much. The psychiatrist reassures the family that their family is emotionally healthy. But his evaluation of Tony's busy life prompts him to ask Tony to continue counseling with a group of parents who risk burning out.

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E09

Episode 9

★ 8.0

Sex, Lies and Exercise Tape

1989-11-21 · 23m

Angela joins a health club, where she quickly makes friends with a group of three women. After they meet Tony, Angela tells them they are a couple. Tony learns of Angela's lie, and she explains that, just like in high school, she felt pressured to do it, in order to fit in.

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E10

Episode 10

To Tony, With Love

1989-11-28 · 23m

To fill out his semester class schedule, Tony takes an independent study course, expecting it to be an easy A, and that he won't have to do any work. The course puts him in a third-grade class, where the teacher orders him to assist her on the first day. After an initial struggle, he finds he is able to work well with the students, and is soon considering becoming a teacher.

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E11

Episode 11

The World According to Jonathan

1989-12-05 · 23m

Some bad experiences at school, including being assigned to play the accordion, have Jonathan's self-esteem at rock bottom. Tony helps him overcome his depression by introducing him to an old friend of his, who is now an accordion player. Jonathan soon enjoys playing the accordion, but when Tony encourages him not to restrict himself to one activity, Jonathan misinterprets Tony's intentions as disapproval for the accordion, and bans Tony from his first recital.

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E12

Episode 12

★ 7.0

Gambling Jag

1989-12-12 · 23m

To put up Mona after she has been stood up by a man, Tony and Angela decide going to Atlantic City. There Mona first gamble away Angela's diamond necklace and then the car. To win back those things Angela sits down at the poker table.

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E13

Episode 13

★ 8.0

Sam Accelerates

1990-01-02 · 23m

Due to good scholastic work Sam is admitted to a special program which allows her to skip her last year in High School and go directly to college. But she fears that Tony then is left back alone.

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E14

Episode 14

★ 8.0

Tony Kills

1990-01-09 · 23m

When the neighbor Fred picks up Tony to go playing tennis, he makes up to Angela and Tony gets angry. During the tennis match Fred suffers a heart attack and dies. Now Tony blames himself of Fred's death. When Fred's brother Ed shows up Tony let himself be used because of his feelings of guilt.

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E15

Episode 15

Dear Landlord

1990-01-16 · 23m

Angela buys, due to tax reasons, a house in the neighborhood and Tony helps her shaping it up. A lodger already seems to be found but when Angela returns from a business trip she finds a young actress moving in instead.

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E16

Episode 16

★ 8.0

Mona & Walter & Sam & Eric

1990-01-23 · 23m

Sam and her boyfriend Eric want to attend a concert. But Eric usually spends the evenings with his (widowed) grandfather. So Tony gets an idea: Mona should instead spend the evening with him. But then when it turns out that Eric's grandfather is the man, who Mona let down 40 years ago at the wedding, the general feeling is at zero level.

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E17

Episode 17

★ 8.0

Micelli's Marauders

1990-01-30 · 23m

Angela persuades Tony to train her volleyball team. Doing this Tony takes care more about the other, poorer team members and when the important game is due, Angela quits the team.

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E18

Episode 18

Her Father's Daughter

1990-02-06 · 23m

Sam and Bonnie take part in a school trip to Fort Lauderdale. And the supervisor is: Tony. Mona and Sam are able to persuade Angela to go with them to look after Tony. In Florida Sam realizes that she's more similar to Tony than she has ever thought.

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E19

Episode 19

★ 8.0

Take Me Back to the Ballgame

1990-02-13 · 23m

A client of Angela's, a baseball player, upsets Tony when he demonstrates that he is only in baseball for the money and the fame. Tony wonders whatever happened to pride in the game.

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E20

Episode 20

★ 7.0

I Dream of Genealogy

1990-02-20 · 23m

After researching her family tree, Sam discovers that her great-grandfather, assumed to be deceased, is still alive in Italy. He is flown to Connecticut to meet the family. Tony soon discovers that the man is not who they believe he is.

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E21

Episode 21

★ 3.3

Couple Trouble

1990-02-27 · 23m

Tony and Angela make friends with another couple at the country club. The couple is about to become engaged, but their relationship with Tony and Angela may pose a problem.

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E22

Episode 22

Operation Mona

1990-03-13 · 23m

After a fire at Mona's apartment which hospitalizes her, Angela's attempts to find her a new place to live are met with hostility.

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E23

Episode 23

Road Scholar

1990-03-27 · 23m

Sam has her heart set on attending Tate College, but Tony insists she keep an open mind, so the two take a road trip to visit some schools. Sam eventually gets a letter from Tate requesting an interview, but things don't go as she hoped.

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E24

Episode 24

★ 8.5

Beautician Heal Thyself

1990-04-10 · 23m

Al has graduated beauty school, and Tony helps him set up his own salon in Brooklyn. Al's behavior to the customers upsets them, and when Tony explains that Al will never make it unless he changes his ways, Al decides to close the shop.

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E25

Episode 25

★ 8.0

Sit Down and Be Counted

1990-05-01 · 23m

A census taker visits Tony and Angela, just as they are hoping to leave for the movies. Using flashbacks from previous episodes, Mona gives the man a brief run-down of the history of Tony and Angela's relationship.

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E26

Episode 26

★ 8.0

The All-Nighter

1990-05-08 · 23m

Tony must move with his studying group from the living room into a motel room. After an evening full of studying the others go home leaving Tony and Kathleen back alone. The both want to spend some more time learning but instead they are getting closer.

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