WHO'S THE BOSS? (1984 - 1992)

 

Created by: Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter
Starring: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Abercrombie, Ann Abernathy, Jean Adams, Marla Adams, Wil Albert, Grant Aleksander, David James Alexander, Sandra Alexander, Lisa Aliff, Kristian Alfonso, Michael Alldredge, John Allen, Angela Alvarado, Frank Annese, Shiri Appleby, Vinny Argiro, Debra Armani, Dylan Arrants, John Mallory Asher, Fred Asparagus, Curnal Aulisio, Jeff Austin, Leah Ayres, Candice Azzara, Thomas Babson, Sondra C. Baker, Nova Ball, Brenda Ballard, Doug Ballard, Debrae Barensfeld, Chris Barnes, Mary Kathryn Barnes, Suzanne Barnes, Eileen Barnett, Christy Barrett, Allison Barron, Victoria Bass, Jennifer Bassey, Jack Battersby, Jeffrey Baum, Frances Bay, Billy Beck, Dayna Beilenson, Patricia Belcher, Christine Belford, Chad Bell, Cliff Bemis, Jeff Benson, Marc Bentley, Marisa Berenson, Greg Berg, Bibi Besch, Ivy Bethune, Mary Betten, Lackey Bevis, Leslie Bevis, Ray Bickel, Beau Billingslea, Peter Billingsley, Billie Bird, Brendon Blincoe, Scott Bloom, Alan Blumenfeld, Lloyd Bochner, Earl Boen, Zachary Bostrom, Kevin Bourland, John Braden, Jonathan Brandis, Alicia Brandt, Jordan Brady, Dori Brenner, Eve Brent, Bobby Brett, Randi Brooks, Mary Broussard, Argentina Brunetti, Scott Bryce, Katisse Buckingham, Ray Buktenica, Betty Bunch, Richard Burgi, Carlease Burke, Delta Burke, Brandi Burkett, Dennis Burkley, Justin Burnette, Christopher Burton, Steve Burton, Jerry Buteyn, Dean Butler, Pat Buttram, Sarah Buxton, Scotch Byerley, Anne Gee Byrd, Josh Byrne, Mary Cadorette, Randall Caldwell, Bennett Cale, Thomas Callaway, Bill Calvert, James Calvert, Candace Cameron Bure, Erinn Canavan, Jeff Caperton, Twink Caplan, Jaime Cardriche, Adam Carl, Joel Carlson, Julie Carmen, Jak Castro, Larry Cedar, Leslie Chain, Charles Champion, Estee Chandler, Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Charmaine Charles, Ray Charles, Anthony Charnota, Kim Chase, Betsy Chasse, Molly Cheek, Dick Christie, Julian Christopher, Elizabeth Chumley, Lenny Citrano, Dale Clancy, Blake Clark, Bryan Clark, Dan Clark (Nitro), Lana Clarkson, Mark Clayman, Robert Clotworthy, David Coburn, James Coco, Todd Coconato, Lisa Cohen, David Colby, Tim Colceri, Gil Colon, Jeff Conaway, Julie Condra, Craig Connor, Sid Conrad, Jennifer Convy, Ben Cooper, Stephanie Cornish, David Correia, Joe Costanza, Robert Costanzo, Mark Costello, Nicolas Coster, John Cothran, Franklin Cover, Erika Cox, Larry Cox, Melissa Cox, Kathleen Coyne, Mimi Cozzens, Ellen Crawford, Pat Crawford Brown, Marcia Cross, Tonya Crowe, Robert Culp, Patrick Cupo, Michael Cutt, Concetta D'Agnese, Victoria Dakil, Doug Dale, Jane Daly, Blackie Dammett, Gabriel Damon, Matty Danza, Kenneth Danziger, Cory Danzinger, Linda Darlow, Lewis Dauber, Charles Gideon Davis, Chris Paul Davis, Joe Davis, Ted Davis, Cristy Dawson, Freddie Dawson, Lois de Banzie, E. Brian Dean, Rick Deats, John Del Regno, Diane Delano, Kimberly B. Delfin, Alfred Dennis, Bettina Devin, Frank Dicopoulos, Dean Dittman, Donna Dixon, Phil Donahue, Gloria Dorson, Jim Doughan, Yunoka Doyle, Don Draper, Fran Drescher, Helen Duffy, Michael Durrell, Colette Duvall, Rodney Eastman, Kenny Eckman, J. Trevor Edmond, Duane Edwards, Nicole Eggert, Paul Eiding, Alison Elliott, Andrea Elson, Cliff Emmich, Shawn Ora Engemann, Richard Epcar, Bill Erwin, Robert Briscoe Evans, Janice Falconer, Richard Fancy, Shannon Farrara, Valerie Fedi, Lou Felder, Tanya Fenmore, Conchata Ferrell, Lori Fetrick (Ice), Robert Fiscella, Sloan Fischer, Fern Fitzgerald, William Flatley, John Fleck, Dave Florek, Lois Foraker, Michael Forest, Richard Foronjy, Jackie Forrest, Samantha Forrest, Paul Forsyth, Vivica A. Fox, Ben Frank, Charles Frank, Abigail Franken, Cherie Franklin, Bruce French, Brooke Friedman, Troy Fromin, John Furey, Loretta Fury, Steven M. Gagnon, Billy Gallo, Pamela Galloway, Denise Gallup, Dian Gallup, Hope Garber, Lee Garlington, Christopher Gartin, Dan Gauthier, Zena Gaynes, Danny Gellis, Rhoda Gemignani, Mike Genovese, Denise Gentile, David Gibbs, Louan Gideon, Steve Gilborn, Rebecca Gilchrist, Hugh Gillin, Kip Gilman, Dan Gilvezan, Rick Giolito, Kelly Lynn Gitter, Maria Giuliani, Ria Giullani, Mary Pat Gleason, Lani Golay, Michael Goldfinger, Peter Gonneau, Michael Goodwin, Lecy Goranson, Dana Gordon, Bobby Governale, Rob Grader, Cynthia Graham, George C. Grant, Jamie Lynn Grenham, Richard Grieco, Tim Griffin, Anthony Griffith, Scott Grimes, Carla Gugino, Louis Guss, Marianne Hagan, Tim Haldeman, Michael Keys Hall, Jonathan Halyalkar, James Hampton, John Hancock, Anne Haney, Jerry Hardin, Dona Hardy, Mark Hardy, Dale Harimoto, Bob Harks, Michael Harrington, Pat Harrington, Richmond Harrison, Schae Harrison, Patricia Harty, Alan Haufrect, Dennis Hayden, Christine Healy, Thomas Hearns, Dan Hedaya, David Hedison, Kyle T. Heffner, Randee Heller, Marilu Henner, Chelsea Hertford, Roger Hewlett, Gerald Hiken, Dean Hill, Tommy Hinkley, Jan Hoag, Peter Hobbs, I.M. Hobson, Jimmy Hodson, Christian Hoff, Dennis Holahan, Jennifer Holmes, James Hong, Nicholas Hormann, James Hornbeck, David Hoskins, John Hostetter, Keri Houlihan, D.D. Howard, Linda Hoy, Kenneth Hoyt, Leann Hunley, William Dennis Hunt, Jana Marie Hupp, Conrad Hurtt, Peter Iacangelo, John Ingle, Jay Ingram, Richard Israel, Stan Ivar, Jill Jacobson, Bobby Jacoby, Seth Jaffe, Michael James, Robin Jameson, Jim Jansen, Tony Jay, Donnie Jeffcoat, Todd Jeffries, Harry Johnson, Lamont Johnson, Kim Johnston Ulrich, Claude Earl Jones, Jessie Jones, Mick E. Jones, Gordon Jump, Shanti Kahn, Brian Kaiser, Sean Kanan, Ivan Kane, Tom Kane, John Kapelos, Ron Karabatsos, James Karen, Tara Karsian, Eric Kay, Christopher J. Keene, Christine Kellogg, Michael Andrew Kelly, Janice Kent, Brad Kepnik, Sandra Kerns, Craig Kiley, Matthew Kimbrough, Carol King, Cynthia Marie King, Barry Kivel, Helen Kleeb, Richard Louis Klein, Eric Kohner, Frank Kopyc, BJ Korros, Robert Krantz, J. David Krassner, Ric Krause, Richard Kuhlman, Clyde Kusatsu, Tom La Grua, John LaMotta, Wilfred LaVoie, Zachary La Voy, Deborah Lacey, Joe Lala, Nancy Lane, Shana Lane-Block, Harris Laskawy, Tommy Lasorda, Matthew Laurence, Bryan Law, Heidi Lawson, John LeFleur, Michael Learned, Gracia Lee, Lesa Lee, Stephen Lee, Jane Leeves, Lillian Lehman, Ursula Lentine, Lu Leonard, Ken Lerner, Greg Lewis, Lightfield Lewis, Michael Gilbert Lewis, Lou Liberatore, Paul Lieber, Rick Lieberman, Gary Lieberthal, Philip Linton, Kari Lizer, Gerry Lock, Vera Lockwood, Rick Lohman, Tony Longo, Michael Lopez, Nathan Lorch, Justin Lord, Donna Lowre, Silvio Luciano, Michael Lundberg, John Lupton, Raymond Lynch, Janice Lynde, Sherry Lynn, Janet MacLachlan, Brandon Maggart, Douglas Maida, Jason Majik, Ross Malinger, Elizabeth Maloney, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, Ric Mancini, Robert Mandan, Lawrence A. Mandley, Anthony Mangano, Peggy Mannix, John Mansfield, Ralph Manza, DeVera Marcus, John Mariano, Mike Marikian, Lily Mariye, Oceana Marr, Heidi Marshall, Mona Marshall, Billy Martin, Marji Martin, Ralph P. Martin, Sarah Jo Martin, Dakin Matthews, Sandra McCabe, Heather McComb, Jennifer McComb, Misty McCoy, Julie McCullough, Kit McDonough, Jamie McEnnan, Mark McGee, Derek McGrath, Marilyn McIntyre, Deck McKenzie, John McKinley Robertson, Ed McMahon, Paul McMichael, Sam McMurray, Terrence E. McNally, Nan McNamara, George McPhee, John Medici, Harriet Medin, Diana Meier, Joey Melore, Arthur Mendoza, Paul Mercier, Michael John Meyer, Al Michaels, Jeanna Michaels, Linda Michaels, Michael Michaud, Diane Michelle, Julianne Michelle, Lynn Milgrim, Allan Miller, Dick Miller, Pat Millicano, Keith Mills, Richard Minchenberg, Geno Mitchelini, Shareen Mitchell, Michael Mitz, Jody Montana, Julia Montgomery, Lisa Marie Moore, Pat Moore, Dan Moriarty, D. David Morin, Mark Morocco, Anita Morris, Garrett Morris, Leslie Morris, Kenny Morrison, Joe Morton, Senta Moses, Tahj Mowry, Oliver Muirhead, Patrick Muldoon, David Michael Mullins, Louis Mustillo, Margaret Nagle, Najwa, Rob Narita, James Naughton, Marr Nealon, Chris Nelson, Steve Nevil, Kristin Newman, Michelle Nicastro, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Leslie Nielsen, Suzanne Niles, Eddy Nix, Chelsea Noble, Russell Nype, Raymond O'Connor, Brad O'Hare, Milo O'Shea, Billy O'Sullivan, James O'Sullivan, Ken Ober, Ana Obregon, Merritt Olsen, Lupe Ontiveros, Alan Oppenheimer, Richard C. Oprison, Jerry Orbach, Gretchen Palmer, Jonathan Palmer, William Palmieri, Stuart Pankin, Bobbi Panter, F. William Parker, Lindsay Parker, James R. Parkes, Lawrence Parks, Lisa Passero, Joe Paterson, Georgie Paul, Richard Paul, Ria Pavia, David Paymer, Julie Payne, Kiblena Peace, Paula Pecerni, Anthony Peck, Thaao Penghlis, Paige Pengra, Valerie Perri, Matthew Perry, Frank Pesce, Robert Petkoff, John Petlock, Ian Petrella, George Petrie, Christina Pickles, Kane Picoy, Drew Pillsbury, Mariangela Pino, Jessica Player, Tom Pletts, Vic Polizos, Kevin Pollak, Tory Polone, Donna Ponterotto, Antony Ponzini, Alf Powers, Benito Prezia, Jody Price, Nicholas Pryor, Wolfgang Puck, Al Pugliese, John Randolph, Larry Randolph, Lori Randolph, Dale Raoul, Garette Ratliff Henson, Hal Rayle, Michelle Reese, Joe Regalbuto, John Reilly, Ray Reinhardt, Leah Remini, John Rensenhouse, Antonia Rey, John Rice, Richard Roat, Mark Roberts, Diane Robin, Stan Rodarte, Matt Roe, Roberto Roman, Bert Rosario, Richie Rosati, Clive Rosengren, Gene Ross, Sherri Lynn Rothman, Phil Rubenstein, Jonathan Rubin, Jennifer Runyon, Al Ruscio, Jeri Ryan, Mitchell Ryan, David Sage, Sierra Samuel, Stephen Samuels, Paul Sand, Casey Sander, John Sanderford, Richard Sanders, Pamela Santini, Al Sapienza, Lisa Savage, Gary Sax, Steve Sax, Kevin Scannell, Sam Scarber, Florence Schauffler, Vincent Schiavelli, William G. Schilling, Dawn Schneider, Frank Schuller, Jessie Scott, Vito Scotti, Mik Scriba, Mindy Seeger, Eileen Seeley, Marian Seldes, Naomi Serotoff, Raymond Serra, Tracy K. Shaffer, Doug Shanklin, Shari Shattuck, Scott Shaw, Lin Shaye, Justin Shenkarow, Michael Shepard, Liz Sheridan, Harvey Shield, Armin Shimerman, John K. Shull, James B. Sikking, Frank Sinatra, Jean Sincere, Mark Sivertsen, Troy W. Slaten, Angela Lee Sloan, Chuck Sloan, James Sloyan, Bubba Smith, Lionel Mark Smith, Ken Smolka, Marcus Smythe, Don Sparks, Walter Spear, Wendie Jo Sperber, Larry Spinak, Hart Sprager, Nancy Stafford, Richard Stahl, Todd Starks, Craig Stepp, Anna Stuart, Howard Stevens, Billy Stevenson, Ryan Stiles, Diane Stilwell, Debra Stipe, Jesse Stock, Dan Stockenberg, Robert Stoeckle, Pat Sturges, Bunny Summers, Nicolas Surovy, Amber Susa, Carol Ann Susi, Todd Susman, Cynthia Szigeti, Lyle Talbot, Jeffrey Tambor, Karla Tamburrelli, Mary Tanner Bailey, Rosie Taravella, David Taylor, Marshall R. Teague, Krista Tesreau, Lauren Tewes, Earl Theroux, Robin Thomas, Rosemarie Thomas, Kenneth Tigar, Heather Tom, Nick Toth, Paula Trickey, Tom Troupe, Kristen Trucksess, Myra Turley, Tracy Tweed, Mike Tyson, Bob Uecker, William Utay, Jerry Vale, Gwen Van Dam, Andrew Van Wey, Brenda Varda, Harley Venton, Kate Vernon, Tom Villard, Rey Vincenty, Melanie Vincz, Lee Ving, Sal Viscuso, Nedra Volz, Patrick Waddell, Jill Wakewood, Charles Walker, Matthew Walker, Paul Walker, Billye Ree Wallace, Sydney Walsh, Angela Walters, Susan Walters, Jonathan Ward, Laura Waterbury, Annabelle Weenick, John Welsh, Lori Werner, Riley Weston, Shonda Whipple, Betty White, Carole White, Peter White, Melissa Willis, David Patrick Wilson, Rita Wilson, Victor Wilson, Lance Wilson-White, William Winckler, Edward Winter, Sean Wohland, Lenny Wolpe, Sherilyn Wolter, Clare Wren, Max Wright, Gretchen Wyler, Adam Wylie, Eric Wylie, Meg Wyllie, Nick Wyman, Erica Yohn, Kenneth Zane, John Zarchen, Elias Zarou, Efrem Zimbalist Jr

194 episodes
(TV-G - adult themes)

PLOT:
Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. Together, they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathan Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother.

season 1 - 

Tony has a date and, thinking Angela won't be home for hours, decides to take a bath in her tub. Angela firmly and Tony mildly lecture Sam for fighting in the park and thus causing Jonathan to trade his first punches. Instead of learning a lesson, Sam tells Jonathan all about "cool, exciting" Brooklyn life. When she decides to run away, Jonathan insists on tagging along. Tony and Angela set out to get them back. Mona is dating a much younger man. Angela has landed an account with a commercial, so Tony and Mona "invite" themselves to come along. Client Mr. Larson insists Tony must replace the actor scheduled for the Machismo shaving scream shower scene. He does great, but gets a terrible rash afterward. Larson wants Angela's agency and Tony for an even bigger account, but refuses to retract the cream, which lab tests say irritate 2 to 3 percent of users. With Mona and the kids away for a couple of days, Tony makes a date. Angela also has a guy coming in to see her so she arranges for a meal to be catered. When the guy doesn't show up, and when the caterer does, he convinces Tony not to leave Angela alone. In town for a reunion, Angela's sorority sister, who's used to taking everything of Angela's, sets her sights on Tony. Tony is dating a woman who thinks he's very rich while Angela is seeing a guy who thinks she's a secretary. Angela's new boyfriend upon meeting Tony and knowing he's a former player latches on to him. And they hang out a lot. But when Tony sees him pick up another woman, he doesn't know whether to tell Angela or not. When Mona discovers Tony spends time and seems to need an extra income, she follows him to Brooklyn. Assumptions he either has mob debts or a New York lover are found false, he actually pays for the apartment where he was raised by his deceased father. Angela tries to convince him to cut the emotional tie to the past. A baffled and unprepared Tony protests the actions of Angela, Mona and Mother Nature as his tomboy daughter, Sam, slips subtly into womanhood. Angela has her car painted and left instructions of what color she wants. But Tony thinking her choice is dull, decides on a different color. And when she sees what he did, she lays down the law on who is the boss and who is the maid. That's when Tony becomes subservient. And her neighbor upon learning the friction between them decides to make Tony an offer to work for her. When Angela hears her firm's owner is retiring, she fears competent colleague VP Jim Petersen will maneuver to replace her as president. She tries to win the board's sympathy by staging a party when Jim has a family function, but he turns up, sports talk stirs the old boys network and unrepentant Tony's temper makes things worse. Mona has been evicted from her apartment for keeping a dog. Tony's family sense practically forces Angela to invite her mother to move in. Tony hires father and son Battaglia from Brooklyn to convert an old barn into a separate apartment, but mother and daughter bicker endlessly and bitterly over every concept and every detail. Tony intervenes again when they are on non-speaking terms. Angela's husband, Michael, a researcher in the jungle, shows up after she sent him divorce papers. After leaving Angela, Tony finds a new job. And the old problems between Angela and Michael resurface. Angela announces proud as a peacock she has been chosen as the next guest subject on regional TV star presenter Robert "Bobby" Barnes' show, which is renowned for scandal, which the host has found with Tony and Angela's living arrangement. School coach Tony opposes Sam attending the school dance, suspicious of boys, until he realizes the suitor is utter klutz Bobby Michaelson. However, the kids are increasingly annoyed and embarrassed as Tony and his camera hover around every step of the dance, horrified to hear his surprise: he volunteered last minute as a chaperon. Even that is topped by Tony being seen dancing and kissing with "Old Lady Scranton", their foxy teacher. Tony is suspicious of his father-in-law's motives and means when, out of nowhere, he arrives on Angela's doorstep and lavishes Samantha with expensive gifts. Angela is worried that the stories Tony has been telling about his childhood pranks are the cause of Jonathan's strange behavior changes. Tony and Samantha must come to grips with the affluence of their community when Samantha desperately wants to go on a ski trip that Tony can't afford. Temptation threatens to singe employer/employee relationships when Angela and Tony find themselves alone "celebrating" Angela's birthday.  

season 2 - 
While retrieving a homesick Jonathan from summer camp, Angela wistfully reminisces about her romantic awakening there some twenty years ago, but is shocked to realize that it may have been a younger Tony that may have been her first kiss. Tony and Angela's teenage summer camp encounter at "kissing rock" creates unexpected friction when a sudden thunderstorm thrusts them together again, this time in a secluded motel room. Samantha's desperation to become a member of her new junior high school's "in-crowd" places Tony in a difficult, and high-paying, position. Mona delights at the prospect of spending her inheritance from a mysterious benefactor until Tony's innocent diligence confirms Angela's worst suspicion about the philanthropist. Tony's attempt at arranging a date between Angela and his recently divorced buddy leads to a battle royal when the lively Mona intervenes. Tony frolics with the legendary California beach beauties while Angela slugs it out with her ex-husband, whose imminent marriage brings the gang to sunny California. Tony's and Mona's scheme to thwart Michael from gaining custody of Jonathan backfires, but Jonathan's own surprising behavior at his father's wedding saves the day in Angela's favor. Tony poses for Mona's Hunk-of-the-Month calendar, and catches the fancy of a purring beauty whose unusual love for felines proves to be his undoing on their first date. Tony takes Angela and the kids on a pilgrimage to Brooklyn for Thanksgiving, but Angela's not so grateful when the feast includes a heavy helping of male chauvinism. Tony's jailbird former father-in-law flies the coop after his unsuccessful bid for parole when he learns that Samantha has disowned him. Mona's undercover role in a sting operation to expose age discrimination backfires when Tony and Angela pull strings to help her get a foot inside the door of a shoe company. Tony gets an offer he can't refuse when his Italian uncle entrusts him with engaged cousin Anna, but her arranged marriage may be "rubbed out" after Angela, Mona and Samantha "Americanize" her. Tony and Angela cheer Samantha for landing a coveted position on her school's drill team, but jeer at her for intentionally dropping the ball in her new job as Angela's Saturday secretary. Tony's use of female mud wrestlers in a homework assignment for Angela's advertising class creates a sensation, but clouds his chances to become teacher's pet. Samantha's "discovered" talents as a ballerina has Tony ready for them both to pirouette up the ladder of success, until Mona steps on his toes and suggests he hang up his tutu before becoming an overbearing stage parent. Samantha's babysitting days are over when Tony catches her sweetheart with his hand stuck in the kitchen plumbing and her girlfriends romping through the house while Jonathan is supposed to be sleeping. Two timely blind date proposals help soothe the Valentine's Day blues for both Tony and Angela, until they discover that it's Jonathan who's shooting Cupid's arrow. Angela's dealt a full house when she agrees to host Tony's poker party with one condition: that he keeps his roughneck buddies away from her "seemingly" prudish friend. Tony tones down his celebration after winning a bowling tournament when Angela veers into the losers lane of an advertising awards competition, but he has plans to salvage a classy victory for her. Tony becomes embroiled in a mudslinging campaign when he accepts the nomination for Fairfield School PTA president, but it's manager Angela's reputation that takes the beating when Tony publicly defines their "relationship". When a perfume heiress is sent by her father to secure an advertising deal, executive Angela goes all-out to court the account, but little does she know that the sophisticate is doing some courting of her own, with an unsuspecting Tony. The sultry neighborhood siren, on the outs with her husband, persuades Angela to take her in, then upsets the Bower household by singing her song for Tony. Mona advises a disgruntled shoe employee to chase his dreams and pursue an acting career, but when he chases it out to Hollywood, his wife is forced to retrieve him, leaving Tony to act as surrogate father to the couple's eight-month-old son. Tony's old baseball rival challenges him to a game that brings former Yankee manager Billy Martin, Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Sax and "Mr. Baseball" Bob Uecker off the bench for a closer look when Angela plays for the opposing team. Angela and Tony celebrate their second anniversary as her housekeeper with her romantic home-cooked meal, but Angela fears that she has poisoned him when he succumbs to stomach cramps and is rushed to the hospital. Angela picks the perfect Italian Princess Vionelli Foods Girl, but her overly enthusiastic advertising associate comes up with a blonde bombshell who wows the client and forces a battle for the job.

season 3 - 
Tony tells Angela that she has been working too hard, and has a right to a vacation. So the combined Bower-Micelli clan flies to Puerto Vallarta for some fun in the sun, but all the while Angela is obsessed with events back at the office. Uncertainty fills the Bower-Micelli household as Tony confesses the unwitting role he played in Angela's firing, and Angela brings her resources to bear in seeking another spot at the top. When Samantha decides to apply to a live-away school, and Angela, being an alumna of the school, backs up the effort 100%, Tony starts making noises like a dispossessed father. When Mona starts her own limousine rental service, it sets the wheels in motion for new business for Angela's ad agency. When Samantha returns from a party with a hickey on her neck, she considers it a romantic status symbol, while her dad regards it as an ominous portent of things to come. While serving as members of a wedding party, Tony and Angela envision themselves as the bride and groom. Tony decides that Jonathan has become an intellectual wimp, and against Angela's better judgment, enrolls him in gymnastics competition designed to heighten the youngster's machismo, and his own self-image. When Tony and Angela engage in separate dating, thoughts of each other creep into their minds and play havoc with their romantic reflexes. Tony has a reunion with a former classmate he has held a grudge against for many years and finds, to his astonishment, that the man is a priest. Samantha finds that trying out for the girls' basketball team puts a damper on her love life, while a friendly game of miniature golf escalates into an all-out war between Tony and Angela. It's a comedy of errors when Tony and Angela exchange Christmas gifts and Tony receives a very special card. The family reminisces about how Tony came to take on the job as Angela's housekeeper. A timid Jonathan goes on his very first date with a girl, only to have his hopes for a relationship dashed when the young lady falls for Tony instead. When Tony learns of a facet of his late wife's personality he never knew existed, he doubts his worth as a husband. Tony wrestles with his conscience over whether to try to patch things up after Angela and Geoffrey call it quits. Angela talks Ray Charles into recording a love song written by Samantha's boyfriend as a jingle for an important account, but when the young couple splits up, Samantha insists that Angela call the whole thing off. Tony is pitted against a typing teacher from Brooklyn, nicknamed "The Terminator", in a charity boxing match. Geoffrey pops "the big question", but it's not quite what Angela or anyone else, for that matter expected. Tony's recently released-from-prison father-in-law has a new moneymaking idea: a prison diet book. Angela feels old when she works on an ad account for a designer who has a staff of young and beautiful women. Angela impulsively asks the wildest guy from her high school days out on a date. Angela hires another secretary to help Mona with the office workload, but Mona can't tolerate her work habits, efficiency and perfectionism. Mona discovers that her brother, Cornelius Rockwell, has used her nest egg to buy a seedy Manhattan hotel. Tony moves into Mona's vacant apartment as he tries to relive his fun-filled bachelor days.

season 4 - 
When Tony donates his cooking and cleaning services to a neighborhood charity auction, Angela must bid against Frankie, whole interest in Tony goes far beyond his housekeeping skills. Samantha lands herself a date with a "college man" but fails to tell her dad, sending Tony on a rampage through the university library to track down the guy. Angela and Tony play matchmakers, fixing up her shy cousin with his best buddy, the team doctor for the New York Rangers, but no one knows what to do when the unlikely pair decides to get married. When Jonathan skips sixth grade, taking a giant leap from grade school to junior high, he's not the only one who has to grow up fast. Samantha bristles when Tony tries to fix her up with Jesse, a kid with a social conscience who is always crusading for one cause or another. When the Parents Association embarks on a fund raising drive, President Tony volunteers to camp out on a billboard for donation pledges. When Samantha's grandfather Nick passes away suddenly, Tony is concerned about her unusual reaction to the loss. A series of accidents temporarily confines Tony to a wheelchair, but things get worse when Angela declares that she's going to nurse him back to health. When Tony's neighborhood pal Mrs. Rossini suddenly finds the responsibility of the family fish market dumped in her lap, Tony steps in and runs the store for her. When Tony vows to get even with the obnoxious kid who rear-ended his prized van, he's unaware that Samantha and her boyfriend, Jesse, have kept from him one very important fact about the accident. While Angela courts Max Muldoon, a prospective client for her agency, Mona is also interested in him as well, but for very personal reasons. Samantha cuts the apron strings when her boss forces her to fire her father in order to keep her own job at a popular, trendy restaurant. When Tony and Angela befriend Kelly, a new-in-town single mother, they become suspicious when she deliberately avoids discussing her past. When Tony's family from Italy comes to Connecticut for a visit, they are determined to get Angela married off, if not to Tony then to Cousin Maurizio. When the new man in Samantha's life wants her to be his steady girl, the old man in her life, Tony, feels more than just a little neglected. Friendship is put to the test when Tony's old singing group gets together once more for a benefit performance to save their old high school from the demolition crew. Diligently trying to sway Samantha to include college in her future, Tony is infected by his own enthusiasm and decides to enroll. Tony invites Mason, the 15-year-old "college man" who once had a crush on Samantha, to stay after he gets kicked out of his dorm during finals. But when Samantha, who's going steady with her new boyfriend finds herself attracted to Mason, the sparks fly. When the housekeepers in his neighborhood discover that Tony's salary far exceeds theirs, they decide to strike, with Tony's help. Samantha is thrilled when a modeling job for one of Angela's campaigns leads to more work and money, but Tony is terrified at the prospect of his model daughter living "life in the fast lane". When Max pops the "big question" and asks Mona to marry him, Mona shies away from a wedding, until she is faced with a little competition. When Jesse invites Samantha to the prom, Angela's over-eagerness to make it a night to remember leaves Samantha wishing she could just forget the whole thing. Waiting for her special birthday in restless anticipation, Angela reveals some secrets of her heart during a fit of sleep talking. When Tony has an unexpected reunion with his high school sweetheart, his patience is tried by her husband, who tries too hard to prove his superiority.

season 5 - 

When Tony buys Samantha her first car, they discover their ideas of the perfect automobile are miles apart. Tony takes a speech class at college and learns the old adage that it is always best to be yourself. When Tony enrolls in college and escorts Angela to his first fraternity party, the "spiked" punch transforms usually conservative Angela into the life of the party. After reminiscing with Angela about his late grandfather, Tony attempts to have him posthumously declared an American citizen. When Angela hires a charming creative director for her advertising agency, Tony's imagination starts working overtime. When Mona and Samantha are both dumped by their boyfriends, they try to raise their spirits with a "girls night out". Samantha disobeys Tony and angrily drives off for a Vermont weekend. Her defiance prompts both father and daughter to reminisce about times they have spent together. Tony helps an angel earn her wings by reuniting Mona and her long-estranged brother in a special celebration of the Christmas spirit. Mason, who is a student teaching one of Tony's college courses, exercises such blatant favoritism toward Tony, his "star pupil", that Tony decides to teach his teacher an important lesson. Tony wonders whether he has turned into a suburban snob when Samantha falls for Mrs. Rossini's nephew-age uncle from the old neighborhood. Jonathan attempts to sway schoolmates to vote for him for class treasurer, but Mona's sexy pose for a magazine cover may cool his chances. Tony challenges Angela to a t-shirt selling competition when she claims that she is the better salesperson. When Tony takes Angela to a Cardinals' reunion, a voluptuous baseball groupie from the old days throws him a few new curves. Tony's good intentions of spending a weekend skiing in Vermont alone with Samantha gets snowed under when he meets a pretty instructor and Jonathan makes a grown-up decision to help his sick mom at home. After Angela is forced to hire an escort to accompany her to an agency function because she can't find a suitable date, Mona persuades Tony to ask her out on a "real date". The chance to meet none other than Frank Sinatra himself at a lavish gala sends Tony and Mona scrambling to compete for an invitation to attend with Angela, but when Angela finds that she can't go, Tony and Mona decide to crash the event anyway. After Tony grounds Samantha for becoming intoxicated at a party, he is forced to re-examine his own views on social drinking. Angela's and Tony's warm welcome to the new family next door turns down right chilly after Angela catches the neighbor's precocious little girl kissing Jonathan and Tony sees his beloved herb garden uprooted. Angela arranges for Samantha to stay with her friend Trish Curtis, owner of a New York modeling agency, so that she can interview her four top models for a feature story in her school newspaper. Mona mends her flirtatious ways after Tony admonishes her for dumping an old friend of his after one date. During career week, Bonnie is such a hit at Angela's firm that Sam begins to think Angela likes her more. Mona pressures Tony to set up a business meeting for Angela with his big-shot golf partner, never realizing that it could spoil Tony's new friendship. Angela is shocked when an old boyfriend from college shows up to inform her that the Mexican divorce from their spur-of-the-moment marriage 20 years ago was never finalized. Samantha learns a valuable lesson when Tony catches her cheating on an exam and grounds her for two weeks. When Angela buys Tony a new car for his birthday, he realizes how attached he is to his beat up old van.

season 6 - 
After what appears to be a disastrous trip to Jamaica, Tony and Angela discover their true feelings for each other. Charlie Brisco, Sam's old friend from Brooklyn, drops in to stir up some trouble, but is "discovered" by Trish Carlin, owner of a modeling agency Angela is using for a photo shoot. When Angela and Tony house-sit for Mrs. Rossini, Angela has visions of beer, babies and bowling as she dreams of a life as a Brooklyn housewife. Samantha discovers a new-found passion for books when a cute graduate student asks her to join his literary club. Tony decides to mend his flirtatious ways by breaking a date with a woman he met at a singles bar, unaware that she's his new history professor. Angela considers a lucrative offer to merge with another advertising agency, but Mona is not part of the package. When her friend Al forms a rock & roll band, Samantha jumps at the opportunity to take the music business by storm by becoming their manager. Tension between Samantha and Jonathan leads to a session with a family therapist, but it's a burnt-out Tony who finds himself in a support group of "supermoms". Angela unwittingly sets the neighborhood gossip wheels in motion when she tries to impress the girls at her new health club by implying that she and Tony are having an affair. Tony hopes a student-teaching course will give him the "easy A" he needs to win a business school scholarship, but instead it gives him the inspiration for an entirely new career goal. Tony calls on his old friend Bobby to help Jonathan build his self-confidence after he's forced to trade in his baseball glove for an accordion. After Mona loses Angela's car and diamond necklace to a hustler in Atlantic City, Tony and Angela team up to win them back in a high-stakes poker game. When Sam sees Angela being kissed by her date, she begins to worry about Tony spending the rest of his life alone after she leaves for college. Tony fears that his zealousness to "destroy" obnoxious neighbor Fred Hartwell in a tennis tournament may have had tragic consequences and bends over backwards to make amends when Fred's identical twin, Ed, shows up. Angela invests in a rental house and appoints Tony as the superintendent, but is shocked to find that he has rented it to a beautiful young actress instead of the nice, retired gentleman they'd agreed on. Tony and Angela unwittingly fix up Mona with the grandfather of Samantha's boyfriend, and he turns out to be the fiancee she walked out on 40 years ago. When Tony agrees to coach Angela's volleyball team, his sympathetic ear and winning spirit score points with the girls but Angela feels left out of bounds. Samantha and her friend Bonnie head for Ft. Lauderdale during Spring Break but find themselves in over their heads when two local boys begin to make their move. Angela's prospective client, a famous baseball player, seems to have everyone charmed but Tony, who has some serious concerns about his obsession with money. Tony is delighted to meet his maternal grandfather from Italy for the very first time, but is shocked to discover that his houseguest may not be a member of the "famiglia" after all. Tony and Angela befriend Brad and Jane, a newly engaged couple who seem perfect in every way, until their friendly evenings out become a little too friendly. Angela offers to set Mona up in a condo but is shocked by Mona's reaction, until a trip to the hospital reveals Mona's painful secret. As Samantha gets ready for college, she and Tony take a road trip to check out area universities, but Sam's heart is set on college in California. When Tony's friend Al opens a hair salon, Tony tries to help him improve his "people skills", but is baffled when Al throws in the towel. When the census taker calls on the Bower-Micelli household, his questions prompt the family to revisit their most unforgettable moments. While cramming for an art history exam, Tony finds himself attracted to a fellow student, causing confusion about his feelings for Angela, and forcing them both to make some decisions about their future.

season 7 - 
Tony becomes obsessed with meeting Angela's new beau, Christopher, who seems to have bewitched the entire household. Tony is shocked when Samantha considers making her summer job at a New Mexico resort, and her new boyfriend, permanent. When Tony and Mona suggest that Angela put her workaholic ways behind her and have some fun, they are shocked at the results. While Tony meets girlfriend Kathleen's father for the first time, Angela fills in as babysitter to Mrs. Rossini's five-year-old neighbor, Billy. When Samantha moves into the Ridgemont College dorm, she excitedly anticipates her new-found freedom, but discovers, to her dismay, that Tony is as much a part of her new life as he was of her old. Tony and Angela must decide if they're ready for the challenge of raising a child when Billy's grandmother can no longer care for him and asks Tony to take him in. When Billy has trouble adjusting to his new pre-school, veteran parents Tony and Angela get some remedial lessons in child-rearing when they take a course in "positive parenting". When dorm life keeps Samantha from her studies, she moves into an apartment off-campus, but her choice of roommates has everyone, especially her boyfriend Matt, up in arms. Tony's childhood dream of becoming a fireman comes true when he becomes a volunteer for the Fairfield Fire Department, but his enthusiasm lands him in hot water. At a dance which Tony and Angela are attending with separate dates, a longtime happily married couple, who reminds them of themselves, indulges in happy reminiscence. Tony is invited to Italy to claim an inheritance from his late Uncle Aldo, which means he'll soon have the proud task of acquainting Samantha and Billy with their ancestral roots. Tony and Angela have some explaining to do when a social worker makes a surprise visit and Billy is nowhere to be found. Tony thinks he's a cinch to become the TV sports announcer for Ridgemont College, but meets his match when Samantha decides to audition. Jonathan "borrows" Tony's prized jeep to impress a trendy girl from school, but returns it with a deep scratch, he then pulls Samantha and Billy into the fray when he enlists their help in covering his tracks before Tony gets home. When term papers, car trouble and boyfriend problems give Samantha a case of the Freshman Blues, she returns home for some tender loving care. When Tony begins a two-week teaching internship and Angela, eager to spend more time with Billy, volunteers to keep house, they both find their changed roles overwhelming. Angela encourages Tony and Billy to take part in an after-school activity, but Tony gets cold feet when Billy opts for swimming lessons. When Tony and Angela learn that they are married, in the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, they begin to act like a married couple, thus changing the entire household's attitude towards them. When Mona inadvertently becomes "guest lecturer" for Tony's science class, he's mortified to discover that she's been teaching her favorite subject. Tony and Angela's plans for a simple birthday party for Billy take a different turn when their pretentious next-door neighbors decide to throw their son's party on the same day. Tony's beloved "second mother", the earthly Mrs. Rossini, and Mona have fallen for the same man, and the competition soon engulfs Tony and Angela, who do everything they can to champion the cause for their respective moms. Tony has his hands full when an "influential businessman" from his old neighborhood asks Tony to take his spoiled daughter under his wing. When music promoter Samantha needs to find a headliner for Ridgemont's rock festival, Tony calls on an old friend with big connections in the music business, who makes promises that seem too good to be true. Tony's determination to protect his elderly friend Chappy from Medicare cutbacks leads him and the entire family to the floor of the Senate. Getting there entails an adventure-filled train ride, and an usually close encounter between Tony and Angela. Tony's Washington D.C. debut is a big hit, but he lets the glamour of politics go to his head when he's courted by an attractive lobbyist.

season 8 - 
When Tony and Angela celebrate the anniversary of their seven years together at a neighborhood carnival, Tony's in for the surprise of his life when a fortune teller forecasts true love, if he can beat the clock. Tony and Angela hesitate to share news of their new romance with the family. When Angela is bedridden with a twisted ankle, she's overwhelmed by her loving, if slightly domineering nursemaid, Tony. Tony gets carried away trying to be supportive of Sam's new relationship with a Wall Street genius. When Angela goes out of town and leaves the Bower Agency in Mona's care, a dangerous flirtation develops between Mona and Angela's biggest client. Tony is forced to do a little moonlighting when, attempting to prove he's not a "kept man", he buys Angela a painting he can't afford. Reeling from the recent death of a childhood friend, Tony drags his family on a series of death-defying adventures until it dawns on him that what's missing in his life might just be marriage to Angela. After promising Angela not to pressure her about getting married, Tony sets up an elaborate stratagem to propose to her at a football game. When Mona's domineering mother crosses the Atlantic to pay the family a visit, Mona is forced to stand up to her for the first time in order to save Tony and Angela's engagement. When Samantha asks Tony to help her land a job at the campus travel agency, Tony recalls the time he got Jonathan a job as ball boy for the New York Mets baseball team, with disastrous results. When Angela is faced with an offer to sell her home, she and Tony must decide whether to hold on to memories of their past together or make new ones in their future dream house. Angela, depressed, because she's losing business, wants to go shopping to feel better. But she runs into tough opposition from Tony, who has imposed a new austerity plan upon the family and taken away all of her credit cards. Samantha poses as her friend Al's wife to help him win over a wary landlord, but Tony decides to expose the marital masquerade. When tony's friends accuse him of letting Angela control his social calendar, Tony feigns illness to avoid attending the ballet with her. Tony is envious of his friend Mike's glamorous life as a professional baseball player, until a household accident causes him to lose consciousness and experience what his life as a major league player could have been like. Angela is concerned that Tony is having doubts about their relationship when he develops a mysterious marriage-related allergy. Already infuriated with Samantha's beau Hank, because the guy can't seem to do anything right, Tony is decidedly not prepared for the arrival of Hank's parents, nor for their mission: to celebrate Sam and Hank's engagement. Tony, Angela and Hank's parents Rush to Vermont to try to forestall the wedding of Samantha and Hank, who have eloped to a chapel there. But Tony has a heart-to-heart talk with Samantha, and finally consents to her marriage. When Tony's temper takes its toll on Angela, she escapes with Mona and Samantha to a posh resort only to run into a guest who is a dead ringer for Tony. Tony's incessant demands for perfection during the remodeling of the master bedroom drive everybody crazy, so he decides to fire the contractor, his new in-law, Joe, and take the tools into his own hands. No sooner does Tony graduate and start hunting for a teaching job than a dream position is offered to him at a distant Iowa college. Now Tony and Angela face the toughest decision to date: what to do about their future together. Tony in Iowa and Angela in Connecticut make valiant efforts to keep their relationship going, but soon come to the heartbreaking realization that it's just too difficult to maintain a long-distance romance. Angela reluctantly returns to her life in Connecticut as Tony begins his new life in Iowa, but her search for a new housekeeper has a surprisingly happy ending.

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