8.4/1059 votes#1 - Summer Together, Fall Apart
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 12/30/1989
After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1058 votes#2 - Get Thee to a Nuttery
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 1/6/1990
Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.5/1059 votes#3 - Three Dates & a Walnut
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 1/13/1990
Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.4/1066 votes#4 - Out with the in Crowd
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 1/20/1990
Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.6/1068 votes#5 - There's a Girl in My Ficus
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 1/27/1990
Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.4/1059 votes#6 - Judge Not Lest Ye Beheaded
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 2/3/1990
Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.8/1059 votes#7 - Baby Bummer
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 2/10/1990
Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.3/1063 votes#8 - Paper Covers Rock
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 2/17/1990
A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
7.8/1063 votes#9 - Child Hoods
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 2/24/1990
Charles' old friends come to visit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/1065 votes#10 - Advice and Contempt
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 3/3/1990
Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.7/1061 votes#11 - Daffy Doc
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 4/28/1990
Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
Director: Willie Aames
Writer: N/A
8.5/1059 votes#12 - Buddy Flips a Disc
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 5/5/1990
Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.6/1067 votes#13 - Brain Man
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 5/12/1990
Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.4/1060 votes#14 - Don't Rock the Vote
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 5/19/1990
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/1060 votes#15 - Let's Quake a Deal
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 5/26/1990
Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.4/1062 votes#16 - Up Your IQ
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 6/2/1990
When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.5/1062 votes#17 - All That Chaz
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 6/9/1990
An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.3/1061 votes#18 - Frankie and Mommy
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 8/25/1990
Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
7.5/1061 votes#19 - Lost Resort
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 9/1/1990
Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.3/1065 votes#20 - Dead Puck Society
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 9/8/1990
Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.8/1058 votes#21 - La Cage Aux Fools
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 9/15/1990
Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.5/1060 votes#22 - Teacher's Pest
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 9/22/1990
Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1062 votes#23 - Almost Family
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 10/20/1990
Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
8.6/1064 votes#24 - Seeing Is Believing
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 10/27/1990
Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.4/1063 votes#25 - Fair Exchange
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 11/3/1990
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.)
Director: Scott Baio
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Charles in Charge Season 5
Every episode of Charles in Charge Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Charles in Charge Season 5!
Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.
Genre:Comedy
Season 5 Ratings Summary
"Summer Together, Fall Apart" is the best rated episode of "Charles in Charge" season 5. It scored 8.4/10 based on 59 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 12/30/1989. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Get Thee to a Nuttery".