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.
Seasons & Episode
After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
Charles' old friends come to visit.
Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
Jamie 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.
Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
Sarah 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.)
Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.
