Who's the Boss?: Season 3

1986 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 3 of Who's the Boss?

Season 3 opens with Angela fired from her agency after losing a major account and answering her boss rudely. Out of work, Tony and Mona push her to open her own agency. Meanwhile, Sam wants to get into the exclusive Montague Academy, but Tony isn't thrilled about his daughter studying so far from home. At home, Jonathan becomes obsessed with gymnastics, and Tony rekindles contact with his former girlfriend Tanya. Mona and Fiona, the secretary Tony gets for the agency, clash again and again. Every character claims their own share of authority in a household where no one gives up control.

24episodes

Sep 23, 1986premiered

May 19, 1987latest episode

9.2 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Angela Gets Fired (1)
Sep 23, 1986 · 23 min
Overworked Angela goes to Mexico with the family, but when Angela's business loses an important account, Tony never gave Angela the message. When Angela comes home, she goes to the agency to learn that they lost the account. After sassing to her boss and telling him to chill, Angela loses her job.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writing: Howard Meyers · Starring: Earl Boen, John Braden
3x02 Angela Gets Fired (2)
Sep 30, 1986 · 23 min
Angela tries desperately to find a new job but no one of her old friends or partners has one for her.The only job she can find is one of a copy writer.Eventually,Tony and Mona convince her to open her own agency.
Directing: Asaad Kelada
3x03 Daddy's Little Montague Girl
Oct 21, 1986 · 23 min
Marci applies for the elite-school Montague. Sam also wants to do so and finds an advocate in Angela, a Montague Academy graduate. But Tony doesn't like the idea that Sam visits a school so far away.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Nicole Eggert
3x04 Mona's Limo
Oct 28, 1986 · 23 min
With a trick Jim Petersen snatches away Angela's first customer. Tony and Mona try, with a similar trick, to get him back to Angela.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: James Hong, Paul Eiding
3x05 The Hickey
Nov 4, 1986 · 23 min
After a party Sam comes home with a love bite and Tony, beside himself, forbids her seeing Todd again. In the evening Sam sneaks out of the house to meet Todd anyway.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Nicole Eggert, Shana Lane-Block, Angela Lee Sloan
3x06 Wedding Bells?
Nov 11, 1986 · 23 min
Dr. Ferguson, Marci's Dad, marries and Tony and Angela should be best man and maid of honor. In the course of this both have to face the question whether the want to marry again. At the wedding party they meet Geoffrey.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Nicole Eggert, Fern Fitzgerald, Dean Dittman, Robin Thomas
3x07 Jonathan the Gymnast
Nov 18, 1986 · 23 min
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.
Directing: Asaad Kelada
3x08 Semi-Private Lives
Nov 25, 1986 · 23 min
For the weekend Angela goes to Maine with her friend Geoffrey. Tony now alone at home, the kids are on a school trip to Washington, invites his old flame Tanya. Angela and Geoffrey couldn't manage to go to Maine and return unexpected.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Robin Thomas
3x09 Forgive Me, Tony
Dec 2, 1986 · 23 min
Sam has had a big argument with Bonnie. Tony wants to see them both together again but Sam only agrees if he for his part makes it up with his old foe from high school, Mickey. Therefore Tony invites Mickey who has in the meantime become a Father. But when Tony annoys him too much Mickey strikes a blow.
Starring: Nedra Volz, Lyle Talbot, Joe Regalbuto, Shana Lane-Block
3x10 Spud Micelli
Dec 9, 1986 · 23 min
Sam has got into the school's basketball team. Her friend Todd hasn't and as she don't want to bother him she also goes without the team.Angela beats Tony in Miniature Golf.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Garette Ratliff Henson
3x11 The Christmas Card
Dec 16, 1986 · 23 min
As Tony doesn't want to sell his only 'Tony Micelli Baseball card', he tells Mr. Ferguson he has none. Angela, who has listened, now wants to get one for Tony. The trader Angela has asked calls Tony shortly after and offers him a lot of money which he really could need to buy Angela a christmas present.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Robin Thomas
3x12 The Way We Was
Jan 6, 1987 · 23 min
Due to heavy snowfall life in Fairfield is down. To pass the time stories are told. Topic: Who has brought together the two families - Sam, cause she's the reason Tony wanted to move; Tony, cause he wanted to make life better for Sam; Jonathan, cause he needed someone who takes care of him; Angela, who needed someone for the household;or Mona, who has 'found' Tony ?
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writing: Howard Meyers · Starring: Julie McCullough
3x13 Jonathan Kills Tony
Jan 13, 1987 · 23 min
Jonathan has a new girlfriend: Jenny. But Jenny has fallen more for Tony. When Jonathan finds this out he gets really upset.
Directing: Asaad Kelada
3x14 Marie's Secret
Jan 20, 1987 · 23 min
Angela gives a surprise party for Tony because for the first time Angela's agency is in the black and it was Tony who persuaded her to open an agency of her own. As a present the painter Christos should portray Sam. Tony meets him and Christos tells him that a Marie Micelli once took painting lessons at him. This message causes a little crisis for Tony who now thinks he hasn't known his wife well enough.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Rhoda Gemignani, Robin Thomas
3x15 Tony, the Patchmaker
Jan 27, 1987 · 23 min
Geoffrey keeps his brandnew Porsche at Angela's while he's in Boston. After Angela has gone shopping using the car, she let the car outside. There the tree the neighbor's cutting down hits the car and causes a write-off.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Robin Thomas
3x16 Hit the Road, Chad
Feb 3, 1987 · 23 min
Samantha thinks her boyfriend Chad is the cat's meow when he writes a song just for her. Word gets around, and the tune is heard by legend Ray Charles whom Angela cooerses into recording it for her ad agency. When rat Chad starts seeing another girl, Samantha is so infuriated she demands the recording not take place. It takes a stellar performance of the song by Ray to make Samantha see that her friendship with Angela is more important than getting back at Chad.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writer: Howard Meyers · Starring: Beau Billingslea, Julie Condra, Ray Charles, Scott Grimes
3x17 Raging Housekeeper
Feb 10, 1987 · 23 min
The parents' councils of Fairfield and Brooklyn organize a boxing match for charity causes. But Fairfield's boxer has to cancel - and Tony has to take his place. Angela coaches him for the bout.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Thomas Hearns, Dori Brenner
3x18 The Proposal
Feb 17, 1987 · 23 min
Geoffrey invites Angela to a trip into the mountains. There he would like to ask her 'a question, which would change both's life'. But it's not the proposal Angela expected.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Robin Thomas
3x19 Diet in Cell Block 11
Feb 24, 1987 · 23 min
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
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writer: Howard Meyers · Starring: James Coco
3x20 Older Than Springtime
Mar 3, 1987 · 23 min
Through Tony's new girlfriend Casey Angela's got a new commercial order for Armando-Fashionwear. But she couldn't think of any spot.Age, too, is a matter because she as the 'experienced' (equals being old) should advertise fashion for the young generation.
Starring: Julia Montgomery, Thaao Penghlis, Gretchen Palmer, Angela Alvarado
3x21 Walk on the Mild Side
Mar 17, 1987 · 23 min
Sam wants to queue for cards for the Beastie Boys concert overnight.Tony allows it not without remarking he has done much wilder things in his youth. During the stories told by Tony and Mona, Angela realizes that she has missed a lot. Now she wants to catch up on some 'action'. So she makes up a list what to to: Among these is a meeting with Jake 'The Snake' and a trip to his 'Rock of Inspiration'.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writing: Clay Graham · Starring: Twink Caplan, Lee Ving
3x22 Reconcilable Differences
Mar 31, 1987 · 23 min
Tony has met Fiona at the dentist and get her a job as secretary at Angela's agency. The tidy-minded perfectionist Fiona is Angela's dream but also Mona's nightmare. After an argument between Mona and Angela Fiona quits because she doesn't want to stand in the way of the both. But Mona quits, too.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writing: Howard Meyers · Starring: Richard Epcar, Lois de Banzie
3x23 Mona
May 12, 1987 · 23 min
Mona's brother has bought a seedy hotel in New York City and used Mona's money for it.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Writing: Blake Hunter, Martin Cohan · Starring: Billie Bird, Beau Billingslea, Joe Regalbuto, Gabriel Damon
3x24 A Moving Episode Season Finale
May 19, 1987 · 23 min
Mona moves to New York to her brother and Tony gets her apartment so he can live up his bachelor's life. But after the opening party the normal life returns and Tony misses his old environment.
Directing: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Walter Olkewicz