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Who's the Boss? : Season 6
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Air date: 19 Sep '89 - 26 episodesWho's the Boss? is an American sitcom created by Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter, which aired on ABC from September 20, 1984 to April 25, 1992. Produced by Embassy Television, in association with Hunter-Cohan Productions, and Columbia Pictures Television, the series starred Tony Danza as a retired major league baseball player who relocates to Fairfield, Connecticut to work as a live-in housekeeper for a divorced advertising executive, played by Judith Light. Also featured were Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. The show received positive reviews throughout most of its run, becoming one of the most popular sitcoms of the mid-to-late-1980s. The series was nominated for more than forty awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning each one. Also very successful in the ratings, Who's the Boss? consistently ranked in the top ten in the final primetime ratings between the years of 1985 and 1989, and has since continued in syndication...
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List of Episodes (26)
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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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1. In Search of Tony
19 Sep '89Holidays 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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2. Life's a Ditch
26 Sep '89Charlie, 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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3. In Your Dreams
03 Oct '89Tony 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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4. Sam's Novel Romance
10 Oct '89Sam 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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5. Tony and the Professor
24 Oct '89On 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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6. Mother and Child Disunion
31 Oct '89Angela 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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7. Sam Can Manage
07 Nov '89Al 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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8. Supermom Burnout
14 Nov '89Angela 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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9. Sex, Lies and Exercise Tape
21 Nov '89Angela 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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10. To Tony, With Love
28 Nov '89To 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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11. The World According to Jonathan
05 Dec '89Some 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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12. Gambling Jag
12 Dec '89To 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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13. Sam Accelerates
02 Jan '90Due 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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14. Tony Kills
09 Jan '90When 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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15. Dear Landlord
16 Jan '90Angela 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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16. Mona & Walter & Sam & Eric
23 Jan '90Sam 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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17. Micelli's Marauders
30 Jan '90Angela 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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18. Her Father's Daughter
06 Feb '90Sam 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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19. Take Me Back to the Ballgame
13 Feb '90A 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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20. I Dream of Genealogy
20 Feb '90After 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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21. Couple Trouble
27 Feb '90Tony 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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22. Operation Mona
13 Mar '90After 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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23. Road Scholar
27 Mar '90Sam 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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24. Beautician Heal Thyself
10 Apr '90Al 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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Who's the Boss? (1984)
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25. Sit Down and Be Counted
01 May '90A 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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