Charles in Charge (1984)
Charles in Charge is an American sitcom series starring Scott Baio as Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who worked as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board. Baio directed many episodes of the show, and was credited with his full name, Scott Vincent Baio. It was first broadcast on CBS from October 3, 1984 to April 3, 1985, when it was cancelled due to a struggle in the Nielsen ratings. It then had a more successful first-run syndication run from January 3, 1987 to November 10, 1990, as 126 original episodes were aired in total. The show was produced by Al Burton Productions and Scholastic Productions in association with Universal Television, and distributed by NBCUniversal Television Distribution and New Line Cinema Corporation.
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Episode 1 - Summer Together, Fall Apart
Release Date: 1989-12-30After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
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Episode 2 - Get Thee to a Nuttery
Release Date: 1990-01-06Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
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Episode 3 - Three Dates & a Walnut
Release Date: 1990-01-13Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
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Episode 4 - Out with the in Crowd
Release Date: 1990-01-20Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
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Episode 5 - There's a Girl in My Ficus
Release Date: 1990-01-27Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
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Episode 6 - Judge Not Lest Ye Beheaded
Release Date: 1990-02-03Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
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Episode 7 - Baby Bummer
Release Date: 1990-02-10Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
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Episode 8 - Paper Covers Rock
Release Date: 1990-02-17A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
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Episode 9 - Child Hoods
Release Date: 1990-02-24Charles' old friends come to visit.
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Episode 10 - Advice and Contempt
Release Date: 1990-03-03Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
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Episode 11 - Daffy Doc
Release Date: 1990-04-28Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
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Episode 12 - Buddy Flips a Disc
Release Date: 1990-05-05Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
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Episode 13 - Brain Man
Release Date: 1990-05-12Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
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Episode 14 - Don't Rock the Vote
Release Date: 1990-05-19Jamie and Sarah run for class president against each other. Buddy and Charles start fighting again which leads to a food fight erupting in the diner.
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Episode 15 - Let's Quake a Deal
Release Date: 1990-05-26Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
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Episode 16 - Up Your IQ
Release Date: 1990-06-02When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
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Episode 17 - All That Chaz
Release Date: 1990-06-09An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
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Episode 18 - Frankie and Mommy
Release Date: 1990-08-25Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
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Episode 19 - Lost Resort
Release Date: 1990-09-01Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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Episode 20 - Dead Puck Society
Release Date: 1990-09-08Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
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Episode 21 - La Cage Aux Fools
Release Date: 1990-09-15Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
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Episode 22 - Teacher's Pest
Release Date: 1990-09-22Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
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Episode 23 - Almost Family
Release Date: 1990-10-20Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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Episode 24 - Seeing Is Believing
Release Date: 1990-10-27Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
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Episode 25 - Fair Exchange
Release Date: 1990-11-03Sarah visits her relatives in Albuquerque and a foreign exchange student that is living with them. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
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Episode 26 - Charles Be DeMille
Release Date: 1990-11-10Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.