

Who's the Boss?
“Father doesn't always know best!”
A former professional baseball player, along with his preteen daughter, moves into New York advertising executive Angela Bower's house to be both a housekeeper and a father figure to her young son. Tony 's laid-back personality contrasts with Angela's type-A behavior.
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Seasons

1.Pilot
8.320-09-198423mSingle dad Tony Micelli and his street smart young daughter Samantha decide to leave the mean streets of their poor neighbourhood for a chance at a better life in Connecticut. Ton...

2.Briefless Encounter
8.727-09-198423mPart of settling into his new home has Tony using Angela's personal bathroom and getting an eyeful when she steps out of the tub. Neither of the two stubborn housemates accept res...

3.Angela's First Fight
6.023-10-198423mDuring a trip to Tony's old neighbourhood to find runaway Samantha, Angela must stand up for Tony who is criticized for being a housekeeper. After proclaiming that fighting is no...

4.Mona Gets Pinned
8.030-10-198423mMona meets Jason, the man of her dreams, but she's old enough to be his mother! After much hiding the truth comes out and Angela, who previously stated that age had no part in lov...

5.A Rash Decision
13-11-198423mTony visits Angela at the filming of a soap commercial, and ends up the star of the ad. Soon after, Tony develops an itchy rash that turns out to have been caused by the soap. Ange...

6.Dinner For Two
20-11-198423mTony is greatly anticipating his dinner date with a girl in Brooklyn, just as Angela is preparing for a business dinner for two with a client. When Angela's guest cancels at the la...

7.Sorority Sister
8.027-11-198423mAngela's sorotory sister from college comes around and takes an interest in Tony.

8.Truth in Dating
7.004-12-198423mAt the market, Tony picks up a woman who believes that he is the owner of Angela's house and Jaguar. Meanwhile, Angela accepts a date with a man who believes that she is Rosie, Ang...

9.Sports Buddies
4.511-12-198423mAngela becomes involved with a gentleman who is quite the sports fanatic. He becomes more interested in hanging out with Tony and talking sports than in spending time with Angela.

10.Requiem
8.018-12-198423mTony is moonlighting to raise extra money, which Mona believes is to take care of a secret girlfriend in Brooklyn. Soon the truth comes out: Tony is still paying rent on his recent...

11.Samantha's Growing Up
08-01-198523mForced to confront the fact that Samantha is not a little girl any more, Tony buys her her first brassiere. When it turns out not to be the kind she wanted, Tony enlists Angela's h...

12.Paint Your Wagon
15-01-198523mIt's time to paint the Jaguar, and Angela wants the new color to be sandalwood. Tony overrides her decision and has it painted diablo red. When Angela discovers this, she is enrage...

13.Protecting the President
7.522-01-198523mDuring a company party at Angela's house, Tony throws out one of her vice-presidents for saying unprofessional things about her.

14.Guess Who's Coming Forever?
29-01-198523mMona has been evicted from her apartment and begins looking for a new home. She takes Tony's suggestion to convert the loft above Angela's garage into an apartment. Angela is not h...

15.Angela's Ex (1)
05-02-198523mAngela's ex-husband, Michael, visits so that they can sign the final divorce papers. Instead, they find themselves back together again. With Michael back in the house, there's no l...

16.Angela's Ex (2)
12-02-198523mWhile Tony and Samantha live it up at the lavish estate of Tony's new boss, a wealthy older woman, Michael and Angela enjoy their reunion. But the celebration is short-lived, as th...

17.Eye on Angela
19-02-198523mA local news reporter, Bobbi Barnes, wants to do a story on the daily life of Angela. But when a series of innocent mix-ups leads Tony and Angela to wake up in the same bed, Bobbi'...

18.Double Date
26-02-198523mSamantha is looking forward to the upcoming school dance, but Tony spoils her evening by constantly taking pictures of her and her date, working at the dance as a chaperone, and ge...

19.Tony's Father-in-Law
7.005-03-198523mNick, Tony's father-in-law, visits. He cannot bring himself to tell everyone that he will soon be imprisoned, so he instead claims that he is dying, then milks the sympathy.

20.Just Like Tony
7.512-03-198523mStories of Tony's rebellious youth are rubbing off on Jonathan, particularly when Jonathan brings home a hubcap stolen from a police car. Angela then decrees that from now on, she...

21.Keeping Up With Marci
8.009-04-198523mTony fears he can't afford the ski club Samantha wants to join with her friends, but he lets her sign up anyway. When his attempt to economize by cleaning Angela's chimney himself...

22.First Kiss
4.816-04-198523mAngela comes home from a rowdy birthday party, just as Tony returns home from a police-sponsored demonstration of the effects of alcohol on the mind. Both are in a woozy state, and...
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