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24 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Tue, Sep 22, 198724 mins
Tony and his girls attend the Brooklyn fair. Tony lets Mrs. Rossine put him up on bachelor auction and gets snapped up by foxy lawyer Frankie, an old acquaintance who this tile wants to go all the way to the altar. Angela won't admit that makes her anxiously jealous until a therapist makes that clear. meanwhile Samantha rages about being stood up by latest boyfriend Elvis, without verifying the innocent facts.
Episode 2
Tue, Sep 29, 198724 mins
Samantha lies to her father in order to go out with a college guy. While she realizes that this guy - Mason - is a major geek, Tony finds out the truth on Sam's whereabouts and makes a scene. He later tries to apologize by bringing Mason back home.
Episode 3
Tue, Oct 6, 198724 mins
Tony and Angela host a blind date for his friend, sports physician Lyle Everett, and her even shyer cousin, teacher Christy Bower Everett. Mona and the kids are disappointed it's no home romance. The blind date bores everyone nearly to death, so it's a complete surprise when the couple calls by the next morning- engaged to marry ASAP. Tony successfully reminds Angela they shouldn't take each-other for granted. Alas Angela convinces Chrissy to expect even more from Lyle, which ends up making her cancel the wedding at the Bower residence.
Episode 4
Tue, Oct 13, 198724 mins
Angela proudly accepts when straights AAs Jonathen is offered to skip a year. Tony warns her against intervening when his now all older classmates bully the boy and advices making a friend. When Jonathan does, half-wit Walter soon proves an effective protector but a bad behavioral influence, as Tony's old principal points out.
Episode 5
Tue, Oct 27, 198724 mins
Samatha complains she has no date for the party of the year, so Tony is delighted to find his new supermarket fresh produce clerk, Jesse Nash, is an idealist to his heart and brings him over. She doesn't get on with the far less shallow bright boy. The silver-spoon date she meanwhile snapped up, Bill Weston, is however greatly impressed by Jesse's environmentalist plea against the country club and cancels.
Episode 6
Tue, Nov 3, 198724 mins
PTA chairman Tony raises a telethon record sum by spending 48 'camping' on a bill board for a campaign to stimulate reading. He refuses on the spot when the national chairman offers him a Washington, D.C. job. Angela feels he should give the opportunity serious consideration. Once on the billboard to reason with him, she realizes to suffer from acrophobia.
Episode 7
Tue, Nov 10, 198724 mins
Tony allows Sam to spend a holiday with her grandpa Nick in Florida, but is informed by his girlfriend Same had to take the flight back as he died meanwhile. Initially Sam acts flippantly unconcerned about Nick, just regretting to have missed out on a beach blast. Later Tony finds her moody and works out, when the last will names her sole heir and recommends a memorial dinner, a deeper fear.
Episode 8
Tue, Nov 17, 198724 mins
Tony remains a perfect gentleman after clumsy Angela caused him to break a foot during a golf game. He insists to keep doing the household and resents the idea of help, until Angela accidentally makes him fall and break the other foot. She now insists to take time off to help the wheelchair-victim, but he won't lower any standard, which to her feels as nitpicking. She leaves the 'ingrate' to agency nurse Doreen, who proves a wining novice he can neither bring himself to fire nor does any right.
Episode 9
Tue, Nov 24, 198724 mins
When Angela hears Mrs. Rossini's marital breakup risks also compromising her fish shop, she volunteers Tony's services. He excels as salesman in no time, but the Bower-Sam home front can't do without him long and Mrs. Rossini seems to make to effort at recuperating. Tony comes up with an ideal permanent candidate, but he's rejected on account of an accidental blood link with her husband's floozy. Tony has to leave her on bad terms, still feeling terribly guilty, but needn't.
Episode 10
Tue, Dec 1, 198724 mins
Tony trusts Jesse to drive his truck while delivering meals to seniors, but unlicensed Sam seduces him into letting her drive far less responsibly. The kids keep quiet about their switch after being hit by adolescent speed-devil Freddie Smith, whom Tony and Angel recognize and hate enough to start a court case. With Jesse in the stand, Sam confesses, causing further mayhem in judge Franklin Kresheck's normally quiet court.
Episode 11
Tue, Dec 8, 198724 mins
Angela's latest possible client Max becomes a close friend of the family, and Mona even considers giving up her bachelorette lifestyle to be with him. Then, one day, he breaks off contact, and leaves Tony to deliver Angela and Mona the bad news.
Episode 12
Tue, Dec 15, 198724 mins
Bored with his housekeeping job, Tony successfully applies as manager in the kids' favorite, Beatles-theme mall diner. More for the cool crowd then for income, Samantha applies as waitress, and gets in because she alone pretends to accept Tony's demanding terms. Both do great, until Tony chases a star jock and thus the in-crowd, followed by the teenage sheep. The owner offers Sam promotion, provided she fires dad.
Episode 13
Tue, Jan 5, 198824 mins
While Sam 'babysits' little Melissa, which actually means paying Jonathen pittance to do all the work, Tony dates her widowed mother Kelly Johnson, yet has a funny feeling about her. That proves justified when Angela works out Mellisa isn't fatherless. Tony guesses right she's a divorcée on the run and insists she must obey court custody orders.
Episode 14
Tue, Jan 12, 198830 mins
Tony's careful efforts to prepare the Bowers for a visit from his Sicialn uncle Aldo's family prove insufficient to avoid unpleasantness. Grumpu, bullish aunt Rosa not only scolds Tony for remaining single, when Angela makes clear matching them is no option she has Aldo 'announce' her engagement to the youngest visitor, Tony's adoring cousin Maurizo.
Episode 15
Tue, Jan 19, 198824 mins
Tony is upset when he finds out that Samantha has gone steady with Jesse. Samantha, meanwhile, feels even worse for not having her father's approval.
Episode 16
Tue, Feb 2, 198824 mins
Tony's Brooklyn high school is in danger of being closed for lack of funds. To help save it, Tony and four mates revive their doo-wop-band, Tony and the Dreamtones. The reason for their early split persists: constant cocky bickering undermines musical close harmony. Tony is ready to sacrifice his second chance at stage-fame for anyhow untalented Angela's dream of such experience.
Episode 17
Tue, Feb 9, 198824 mins
After Tony hears Sam doubts whether to go to college, he and Angela spare no effort to make her go. That includes a campus visit, with Mona who recalls the social side of college life. Tony gets so excited that he decides to enroll himself, that is if he can pass the entrance exam. Angela's help works all but encouraging, and a computer glitch tests his nerves near explosion.
Episode 18
Tue, Mar 1, 198824 mins
Tony's little league player Mason stays in his room to study quietly for exams and escape team bullying. Tony patiently pats up with Mason's countless allergies and fears. When Jesse cancels a date to help out at the animal shelter, Tony convinces Sam to take Mason along instead. To everyone's surprise, she ends up kissing the bright nerd. Tony and Angela counsel her about telling Jesse, who reacts in two stages.
Episode 19
Tue, Mar 15, 198824 mins
After a fellow housekeeper accidentally discovers Angela pays Tony a lot more, albeit he's really best, she gets all colleagues to strike demanding a raise to his level. Tony wouldn't strike, being happy, until Angela convinces him to practice 'solidarity'. When Angela realizes that means no Tony to treat a major Japanese client to the home dinner she promised, he stick to her original logic. The strike develops its own dynamic.
Episode 20
Tue, Mar 22, 198824 mins
Tony expected to talk Sam out of more extravagant clothes expenses by claiming she can't spend more the she earns. But when she gets a shot at applying for an advertisement campaign Angela produces, she enjoys it and earns more then Tony, who despairs how to make college still seem attractive. However the competitive reality of the fashion world catches up.
Episode 21
Tue, Mar 29, 198824 mins
Mona rejects a marriage proposal of Max Muldoon; then changes her mind when Max's 24-year-old ex-wife Suzanne shows up, asking him to get back with her. Angela - unaware of Mona's motives - meanwhile wonders why her mother is suddenly so eager to marry.
Episode 22
Tue, May 3, 198824 mins
As soon as Angela hears that Samantha will go to prom with Jesse, she relives a childhood trauma, and does her best to make prom as perfect as possible for Samantha. Sam, however, is fed up with all the preparations, and calls the prom off.
Episode 23
Tue, May 10, 198824 mins
Tony is grumpy when the others fail to keep his surprise birthday preparations for Angela secret. But she's soon overheard in her sleep uttering a secret even to herself: she has lusting dreams about Tony. Although she does a lousy job covering up, she only realizes everybody knows just before her party and sneaks out, ashamed, to toast alone. Tony finds and reassures her it's all natural and innocent.
Episode 24
Tue, May 17, 198824 mins
Tony runs into an old girlfriend who has married another man named Tony, who turns out to have lived in Micelli's shadow ever since. To help and boost his ego, Tony (Micelli) organizes a pool match which he intends to lose, but there is one problem: he can't stand the other Tony.