Tony Micelli es un antiguo jugador de béisbol profesional que se muda junto con su hija adolescente Samantha a Connecticut. Allí, desafiando las tradiciones, Tony trabajará como "amo de casa", preparando la comida, limpiando y cuidando la casa de Angela Bower, una ejecutiva que vive con su hijo Jonathan y su alocada madre Mona.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-09-24
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: The family visit Jonathan's summer camp when his counselor calls Angela to say he is homesick. While there, Angela and Tony realize they both attended camp in the same area many years earlier. Their individual stories of their first kiss seem to coincide, and they soon suspect they may have met each other a long time ago.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-10-01
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: After visiting the site in the woods where each remembers from their past, a thunderstorm prevents Tony and Angela from returning to the campsite in time. They end up having to share a room at a cheap hotel. Meanwhile, Mona and the campers tell scary stories and play pranks on the counselor.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-10-08
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Samantha has just begun junior high school, and has little trouble becoming friends with the popular girls. Since they are all from wealthy families, Samantha is afraid they will not like her if they know of her true past, so she tells them that Tony owns Angela's house and is an advertising executive.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-10-15
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: The family is thrilled when a recently deceased stranger leaves Mona a sizable chunk of money in his will. Mona soon realizes who the man was, and suddenly doesn't want the money. The man turns out to be a former family friend with whom Mona had an affair many years ago.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-10-29
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Wally, a recently dumped friend of Tony's, is down on his luck, so Tony convinces Angela to go out with him. She is not interested in seeing him again, until Mona dates him. Then a mother-daughter rivalry begins for Wally's attention
Fecha de emisión: 1985-11-05
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Michael, Angela's ex-husband, returns to announce he is going to be married again soon, and invites everyone to California for the wedding. Jonathan takes an instant liking to Heather, his father's new wife-to-be, and to the California lifestyle. Michael tells Angela that he thinks their son would have a better life in California, and that he wants custody of Jonathan.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-11-12
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: While everyone prepares for the wedding, Angela and Michael plan for a legal battle for custody of Jonathan. Soon, Angela is ready to give up, but a messy incident at the ceremony proves to Michael and Heather that they are not ready to be parents.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-11-19
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: After posing for a calendar, Tony becomes the object of a seductive woman's affections. Angela doesn't want him to date her, but her views change when one of the calendar's other stars takes an interest in her.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-11-26
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: The family go to Mrs. Rossini's apartment for Thanksgiving. Angela is disgusted by the antiquated custom of women waiting on men, hand and foot. She also feels threatened by one of the guests, an attractive young girl who used to know Tony and is interested in him romantically. Meanwhile, Mona appears in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade as one of Santa's elves.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-12-03
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Nick, Samantha's grandfather, is denied parole from prison, so he breaks out and prepares to run from the law. First, though, he must confront Samantha, who refuses to speak to him for what he is doing.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-12-10
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Recent college graduate Mona is asked to secretly participate in a sting against age discrimination by applying for a job, then getting turned down. But when Angela learns that her mother has this job interview, she pulls some strings to get Mona hired.
Fecha de emisión: 1985-12-17
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: A distant relative of Tony's comes to town to meet the man she is to marry through an arranged marriage. Upon learning that the intended groom is a male chauvinist, Tony throws him out of the house and forbids him to marry his cousin. But this infuriates her father, who flies from Italy to confront Tony.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-01-07
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: When Samantha needs more money to participate in activities with her basketball team, Angela hires her to work for her on Saturdays. But Samantha soon realizes that, by working weekends, she is missing all the events she wanted money for. So she decides to do a poor job, hoping to get fired.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-01-14
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Angela is teaching a class on advertising, and Tony is one of her students. For the students' first assignment, they are to make a commercial for a laundry detergent. Tony is overbearingly proud of his ad, but Angela despises it and give him an F.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-01-21
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Tony signs up Samantha for ballet lessons. He is pleased when her instructor tells him she has great potential, but the compliment may not have been sincere.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-01-28
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: A sitter's last-minute cancellation leaves Samantha to watch Jonathan while Angela and Tony go to a parents' meeting at school. Samantha panics when Jonathan inadvertently tosses a piece of jewelry down the sink drain. Although Tony had told her not to have any guests, the house is soon full of her friends: Chad, a boy who thinks he can retrieve the missing jewelry, and four of Samantha's friends who come to admire Chad. Tony and Angela return home just as the kids are sneaking out.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-02-11
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Jonathan's friend gets him worrying that, one day, Tony may no longer be part of his life. Hoping to ensure against Tony leaving, Jonathan arranges for him and Angela to meet on Valentine's Day at a restaurant for a romantic dinner for two. But they think that the ""Mr. Bower"" behind this evening is really Michael, Angela's ex-husband.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-02-18
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Tony's poker game has run late, and Angela hurries him to clean up the house in time for her friend who will soon be arriving. Just as his last guest (a raucous Brooklynite) is ready to leave, Angela's friend (a quiet, straight-laced woman) arrives, and the two end up as an item.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-02-25
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Tony is excited about his bowling trophy. But his victory is overshadowed when Angela, who was quite certain she would win an advertising award for which she'd been nominated, comes home empty-handed. Tony suggests that Angela might feel better about her loss if she congratulated the winner.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-03-04
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Tony's campaign for PTA president is clouded by his opponent's mudslinging. He attempts to justify her accusations by explaining some past misunderstandings (this is done through clips of earlier episodes).
Fecha de emisión: 1986-03-18
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: A wealthy international client of Angela's sends his daughter to handle his affairs. She takes a liking to Tony, who agrees to be her escort. But Angela soon feels that she forced the woman on Tony, and goes to break them up.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-03-25
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Arrogant, obnoxious neighbor Diane is devastated by her husband's recent decision to leave her for their maid. She temporarily moves in with the Bowers and Micellis, and nobody in the family enjoys her company.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-04-01
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: 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.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-04-08
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: One of Tony's old baseball friends visits and the two end up in a competition to organize a team of players, then play each other. Tony wants to have Angela play for his team, but when he turns out to be a demanding coach, she decides to play for the other team.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-05-06
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: Angela had planned a special dinner for five, in honor of Tony and Samantha's two-year anniversary in Connecticut, but Tony is the only one who doesn't have other plans. During the meal, Tony falls ill and is rushed to the hospital in need of surgery. After he has been given sedatives, but just before he falls asleep, he says ""I love you"" to Angela.
Fecha de emisión: 1986-05-13
Duración: 23 min
Sinopsis: 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.
