• Air date: 25 Dec '89 26 episodes
      Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series starring Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board. Baio directed many episodes of the show, and was credited with his full name, Scott Vincent Baio. It was first broadcast on CBS from October 3, 1984 to April 3, 1985, when it was cancelled due to a struggle in the Nielsen ratings. It then had a more successful first-run syndication run from January 3, 1987 to November 10, 1990, as 126 original episodes were aired in total. The show was produced by Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television, and distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution and New Line Cinema Corporation.
  • List of Episodes (26)
    • 1. Summer Together, Fall Apart

      25 Dec '89
      After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
    • 2. Get Thee to a Nuttery

      26 Dec '89
      Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
    • 3. Three Dates & a Walnut

      27 Dec '89
      Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
    • 4. Out with the in Crowd

      28 Dec '89
      Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
    • 5. There's a Girl in My Ficus

      29 Dec '89
      Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
    • 6. Judge Not Lest Ye Beheaded

      18 Jun '90
      Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
    • 7. Child Hoods

      21 Jun '90
      Charles' old friends come to visit.
    • 8. Baby Bummer

      19 Jun '90
      Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
    • 9. Paper Covers Rock

      20 Jun '90
      A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
    • 10. Advice and Contempt

      22 Jun '90
      Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
    • 11. Daffy Doc

      28 Apr '90
      Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
    • 12. Buddy Flips a Disc

      05 May '90
      Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
    • 13. Don't Rock the Vote

      12 May '90
      Jamie and Sarah run for class president against each other. Buddy and Charles start fighting again which leads to a food fight erupting in the diner.
    • 14. Brain Man

      19 May '90
      Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
    • 15. Frankie and Mommy

      25 Aug '90
      Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
    • 16. Let's Quake a Deal

      26 May '90
      Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
    • 17. Up Your IQ

      02 Jun '90
      When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
    • 18. All That Chaz

      09 Jun '90
      An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
    • 19. Dead Puck Society

      08 Sep '90
      Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
    • 20. Lost Resort

      01 Sep '90
      Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
    • 21. La Cage Aux Fools

      15 Sep '90
      Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
    • 22. Seeing Is Believing

      08 Dec '90
      Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
    • 23. Teacher's Pest

      22 Sep '90
      Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
    • 24. Charles Be DeMille

      10 Nov '90
      Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.
    • 25. Fair Exchange

      30 Jun '90
      Sarah visits her relatives in Albuquerque and a foreign exchange student that is living with them. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)