Who's the Boss?: Season 6

1989 · 26 episodes · ★ 7.5

What Season 6 of Who's the Boss?

Tony Micelli, a former baseball player forced to retire due to a shoulder injury, settles in Fairfield, Connecticut, with his teenage daughter Samantha. Wanting to keep her away from an environment he considers unsuitable in Brooklyn, he takes a job as a house manager at the home of Angela Bower, a divorced advertising executive. He cooks, cleans, and looks after the kids, while Angela financially supports the household. Neither of them wants to give up control, and friction quickly builds: Tony's jealousy when Angela enjoys herself without him, Sam's escapades with her friend Charlie, and Angela's career, which leads her to accept a merger that leaves Mona out of a job. Jonathan and his grandmother complete a household where everyone is searching for their place.

26episodes

Sep 19, 1989premiered

May 8, 1990latest episode

10 hrtotal runtime

Season 6 Episodes

6x01 In Search of Tony
Sep 19, 1989 · 23 min
Holidays on Jamaica. And everyone enjoys the life there.Angela, too, dives right into the holiday-action and has a lot of fun. As it's not Tony, with whom she has that fun, he gets jealous.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Gene Braunstein, Bob Perlow
6x02 Life's a Ditch
Sep 26, 1989 · 23 min
Charlie, Sam's female friend from Brooklyn, visits while Angela is preparing for a dog food commercial. Charlie talks Sam into ditching school for the day and going to the beach, but Tony catches them before they leave the house. When Tony calls Charlie's mother to tell her, he learns that her mother doesn't care about Charlie and doesn't want her in her life.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Leah Remini, Michael Learned
6x03 In Your Dreams
Oct 3, 1989 · 23 min
Tony and Angela are apartment-sitting for Mrs. Rossini. After meeting two couples Tony used to be friends with, Angela dreams that she and Tony are married, living in Brooklyn, and expecting a baby.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Daniel Palladino · Starring: Rhoda Gemignani
6x04 Sam's Novel Romance
Oct 10, 1989 · 23 min
Sam joins a book discussion group when she develops a crush on the instructor, a young college professor, unaware that he is married.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Shana Lane-Block
6x05 Tony and the Professor
Oct 24, 1989 · 23 min
On the spur of the moment, Tony accepts a date with a woman he meets at a bar. Having second thoughts, he cancels the date the next day, only to learn later that the woman is the professor of his new class.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Christine Kellogg
6x06 Mother and Child Disunion
Oct 31, 1989 · 23 min
Angela has reached the goal of her dreams when Braden, a V.I.P. in the advertising branch, offers her the merger. Suffering from this is Mona who gets fired by Angela. After some days has passed Angela realizes that she isn't really happy about this merger.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Clay Graham · Starring: Marcia Cross
6x07 Sam Can Manage
Nov 7, 1989 · 23 min
Al has founded a rock band and Sam becomes, as she has some quite good ideas, the group's manager. But she has problems getting gigs because everyone just sees the 'cute girl' in her.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Daniel Palladino · Starring: Billy Gallo
6x08 Supermom Burnout
Nov 14, 1989 · 23 min
Angela brings the family to a psychiatrist for counseling when she thinks Sam and Jonathan's fighting is getting to be too much. The psychiatrist reassures the family that their family is emotionally healthy. But his evaluation of Tony's busy life prompts him to ask Tony to continue counseling with a group of parents who risk burning out.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Eric Gilliland · Starring: Allan Miller
6x09 Sex, Lies and Exercise Tape
Nov 21, 1989 · 23 min
Angela joins a health club, where she quickly makes friends with a group of three women. After they meet Tony, Angela tells them they are a couple. Tony learns of Angela's lie, and she explains that, just like in high school, she felt pressured to do it, in order to fit in.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Ralph P. Martin
6x10 To Tony, With Love
Nov 28, 1989 · 23 min
To fill out his semester class schedule, Tony takes an independent study course, expecting it to be an easy A, and that he won't have to do any work. The course puts him in a third-grade class, where the teacher orders him to assist her on the first day. After an initial struggle, he finds he is able to work well with the students, and is soon considering becoming a teacher.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Clay Graham
6x11 The World According to Jonathan
Dec 5, 1989 · 23 min
Some bad experiences at school, including being assigned to play the accordion, have Jonathan's self-esteem at rock bottom. Tony helps him overcome his depression by introducing him to an old friend of his, who is now an accordion player. Jonathan soon enjoys playing the accordion, but when Tony encourages him not to restrict himself to one activity, Jonathan misinterprets Tony's intentions as disapproval for the accordion, and bans Tony from his first recital.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Gene Braunstein, Bob Perlow
6x12 Gambling Jag
Dec 12, 1989 · 23 min
To put up Mona after she has been stood up by a man, Tony and Angela decide going to Atlantic City. There Mona first gamble away Angela's diamond necklace and then the car. To win back those things Angela sits down at the poker table.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Michael Forest
6x13 Sam Accelerates
Jan 2, 1990 · 23 min
Due to good scholastic work Sam is admitted to a special program which allows her to skip her last year in High School and go directly to college. But she fears that Tony then is left back alone.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Shana Lane-Block
6x14 Tony Kills
Jan 9, 1990 · 23 min
When the neighbor Fred picks up Tony to go playing tennis, he makes up to Angela and Tony gets angry. During the tennis match Fred suffers a heart attack and dies. Now Tony blames himself of Fred's death. When Fred's brother Ed shows up Tony let himself be used because of his feelings of guilt.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Clay Graham · Starring: Jeffrey Tambor
6x15 Dear Landlord
Jan 16, 1990 · 23 min
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.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Daniel Palladino · Starring: Ralph P. Martin, Sherilyn Wolter
6x16 Mona & Walter & Sam & Eric
Jan 23, 1990 · 23 min
Sam and her boyfriend Eric want to attend a concert. But Eric usually spends the evenings with his (widowed) grandfather. So Tony gets an idea: Mona should instead spend the evening with him. But then when it turns out that Eric's grandfather is the man, who Mona let down 40 years ago at the wedding, the general feeling is at zero level.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Gene Braunstein, Bob Perlow · Starring: Chris Gartin
6x17 Micelli's Marauders
Jan 30, 1990 · 23 min
Angela persuades Tony to train her volleyball team. Doing this Tony takes care more about the other, poorer team members and when the important game is due, Angela quits the team.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Adam I. Lapidus
6x18 Her Father's Daughter
Feb 6, 1990 · 23 min
Sam and Bonnie take part in a school trip to Fort Lauderdale. And the supervisor is: Tony. Mona and Sam are able to persuade Angela to go with them to look after Tony. In Florida Sam realizes that she's more similar to Tony than she has ever thought.
Starring: Steve Burton, Shana Lane-Block
6x19 Take Me Back to the Ballgame
Feb 13, 1990 · 23 min
A client of Angela's, a baseball player, upsets Tony when he demonstrates that he is only in baseball for the money and the fame. Tony wonders whatever happened to pride in the game.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Sean Kanan
6x20 I Dream of Genealogy
Feb 20, 1990 · 23 min
After researching her family tree, Sam discovers that her great-grandfather, assumed to be deceased, is still alive in Italy. He is flown to Connecticut to meet the family. Tony soon discovers that the man is not who they believe he is.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Clay Graham · Starring: Rhoda Gemignani
6x21 Couple Trouble
Feb 27, 1990 · 23 min
Tony and Angela make friends with another couple at the country club. The couple is about to become engaged, but their relationship with Tony and Angela may pose a problem.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Daniel Palladino
6x22 Operation Mona
Mar 13, 1990 · 23 min
After a fire at Mona's apartment which hospitalizes her, Angela's attempts to find her a new place to live are met with hostility.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
6x23 Road Scholar
Mar 27, 1990 · 23 min
Sam has her heart set on attending Tate College, but Tony insists she keep an open mind, so the two take a road trip to visit some schools. Sam eventually gets a letter from Tate requesting an interview, but things don't go as she hoped.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Gene Braunstein · Starring: Shana Lane-Block
6x24 Beautician Heal Thyself
Apr 10, 1990 · 23 min
Al has graduated beauty school, and Tony helps him set up his own salon in Brooklyn. Al's behavior to the customers upsets them, and when Tony explains that Al will never make it unless he changes his ways, Al decides to close the shop.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Starring: Rhoda Gemignani, Billy Gallo
6x25 Sit Down and Be Counted
May 1, 1990 · 23 min
A census taker visits Tony and Angela, just as they are hoping to leave for the movies. Using flashbacks from previous episodes, Mona gives the man a brief run-down of the history of Tony and Angela's relationship.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Danny Kallis
6x26 The All-Nighter Season Finale
May 8, 1990 · 23 min
Tony must move with his studying group from the living room into a motel room. After an evening full of studying the others go home leaving Tony and Kathleen back alone. The both want to spend some more time learning but instead they are getting closer.
Directed by: Asaad Kelada · Written by: Clay Graham