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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...

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    #1 - A Rash Decision

    S1:E5

    Tony 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. Angela must then decide if she wants to market a soap whose makers are not completely honest about its potentially harmful side effects

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    #2 - Dinner For Two

    S1:E6

    Tony 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 last minute, Tony reluctantly stays in Connecticut to keep her company, while attempting to keep, but slightly postpone, his date.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Samantha's Growing Up

    S1:E11

    Forced 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 help in buying Samantha new clothes. He is less than thrilled, however, when Samantha comes home looking a bit too grown up. (Note: This episode was originally titled ""Samantha's First Bra"" but was later changed due to censoring problems.)

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    Director:Linda Day
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Paint Your Wagon

    S1:E12

    It'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 enraged and forbids him from future decision-making, proclaiming that he is just the maid. He then takes this declaration to the extreme by dressing, speaking, and behaving like a prim and proper butler.

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    Director:Jim Drake
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Guess Who's Coming Forever?

    S1:E14

    Mona 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 happy about the new arrangements.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Angela's Ex (1)

    S1:E15

    Angela'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 longer a need for Tony, who is given two weeks' notice by Michael.

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    #7 - Angela's Ex (2)

    S1:E16

    While 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 they are eventually reminded of the professional and personal differences that drove them apart the first time.

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    #8 - Eye on Angela

    S1:E17

    A 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's camera crew is waiting in the hall to capture the scene. Bobbi thinks she has a juicy story for her show, but Mona has other ideas.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Double Date

    S1:E18

    Samantha 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 getting caught kissing her teacher in front of the entire class.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Sports Buddies

    S1:E9

    Angela 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.

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Angela's First Fight

    S1:E3

    During 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 way to resolve a dispute, Angela ends up in a cat fight with the waitress in Tony's old hangout.

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - First Kiss

    S1:E22

    Angela 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 they end up kissing.

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    5.6/10(116 votes)

    #13 - Charmed Lives

    S2:E26

    Angela has found a model to play the part of a princess in a series of pasta commercials. But the client instead chooses a shy photographer, who didn't even want the job.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
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    6.1/10(98 votes)

    #14 - There's No Business Like Shoe Business

    S2:E23

    After hearing a colleague from the shoe factory describe his boredom with his life, Mona encourages him to be spontaneous and pursue a new life. He takes her advice a little too far when he leaves his wife and infant in search of Hollywood stardom.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.6/10(79 votes)

    #15 - Mrs. Rossini's Uncle

    S5:E10

    Mrs. Rossini visits Tony. Accompanying her is her young uncle Al.Al is attending the nearby Beauty College and Tony should take care of him. In the course of this Sam and Al come closer.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
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    6.6/10(104 votes)

    #16 - Living Dolls

    S5:E19

    Sam visits a beauty school run by Angela's friend. While there, she meets Charlie, a friend of hers from the old neighborhood, who is living there. Charlie is unhappy with her life there, and is considering running away.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.6/10(83 votes)

    #17 - Inherit the Wine

    S7:E11

    The family fly to Italy to visit Tony's relatives, who have a surprise for him. He is now the owner of a vineyard there.

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    Director:Unknown
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    6.7/10(106 votes)

    #18 - Mona

    S3:E23

    Mona's brother has bought a seedy hotel in New York City and used Mona's money for it.

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    6.7/10(74 votes)

    #19 - Life With Father

    S5:E7

    Samantha wants to go to Vermont ski lodge for the weekend, but Tony forbids her. Sam goes anyway. Along the way, she remembers everything her father did, even the embarassing moments!!

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
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    6.7/10(89 votes)

    #20 - Your Grandmother's a Bimbo

    S5:E11

    Mona has saved the order for Angela and designs now the new get-up for the magazine 'Mature Woman'. Jonathan runs for treasurer in his school. For the magazine's cover Mona let herself photograph scantily dressed. When Jonathan schoolfellows see this cover, his chances getting elected seem to be gone.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.7/10(79 votes)

    #21 - Dear Landlord

    S6:E15

    Angela 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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    6.7/10(88 votes)

    #22 - Four Alarm Tony

    S7:E9

    Tony becomes a volunteer fireman. His dedication is a little too extreme, and he ends up getting kicked out of the squad.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.7/10(76 votes)

    #23 - Tony Bags a Big One

    S8:E5

    While Angela is away on business, Mona begins dating one of her biggest clients. She finds him thoroughly uninteresting and promptly dumps him. In an attempt to prevent from withdrawing his account from the agency, Tony accompanies him on a duck hunt. An accidental gunshot only makes things worse.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.8/10(87 votes)

    #24 - Jonathan the Gymnast

    S3:E7

    Jonathan, because he takes life too serious, should do something else than always studying. He decides in favor of gymnastics and Tony should teach him. During a competition he falls due to his overzealousness and breaks his shoulder. And this is something Angela really isn't happy about.

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    Director:Asaad Kelada
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Diet in Cell Block 11
    6.8/10(92 votes)

    #25 - Diet in Cell Block 11

    S3:E19

    Nick is released of jail and parks himself at Angela's garage. He has now become a writer and has already finished a book which everyone likes. Angela has also found a publisher for Nick's work

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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Rash Decision" is the worst rated episode of "Who's the Boss?". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Linda Day and written by Robert Sternin, Prudence Fraser, it aired on 11/13/1984. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Dinner For Two".