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| Season 1, Episode 1: PilotOriginal Air Date—3 October 1984
Charles has his hands full as he tries to entertain his dream girl Gwendolyn who has come over for a date while also maintaining order in the house. |
| Original Air Date—10 October 1984
Charles encourages Lila to join the cheerleading squad and Douglas to join to soccer team and needs to boost their spirits when they do not succeed. |
| Original Air Date—17 October 1984
Charles feels like he has to choose between Buddy and Gwendoline when they get into an argument about how Charles should spend his Saturday night. |
| Season 1, Episode 4: WarOriginal Air Date—24 October 1984
Mrs. Pembrooke sets Charles up to show a cute girl who is interested in child care a day in the life of taking care of the kids. The same day, Douglas and Michael decide to have a war. |
| Original Air Date—7 November 1984
When the kids' 'fun' cousin shows up, Charles feels threatened and has difficulty keeping control of the cousin's irresponsible ways. |
| Original Air Date—14 November 1984
After a fight with Gwendolyn, Charles decides to take a night off from women because he can't understand them. Unfortunately for him, Lila is having a slumber party at the house the same night. |
| Season 1, Episode 7: DisciplineOriginal Air Date—21 November 1984
Douglas gets and "F" on his book report and Charles has to go to the school to talk to the teacher. He is in for a surprise when she turns out to be young, smart, and very pretty. |
| Original Air Date—28 November 1984
It's Halloween and Charles helps the kids prepare for the night. He also helps out Buddy who is lacking confidence over a date and wants Charles to 'accidentally' run into the girl and learn what she likes. |
| Original Air Date—5 December 1984
Douglas discovers love when he meets a strange friend of Lila's named Enid. He likes her the way she is and gets upset when Lila tries to give her a makeover. |
| Original Air Date—12 December 1984
In an attempt to improve their relationship, Charles and Gwendolyn decide to see other people. This arrangement works well until Gwendolyn gets a date and Charles finds himself jealous. |
| Original Air Date—19 December 1984
Charles plans to go home for Christmas are canceled so he stays at the Pembroke house where he has to deal with a jealous grandmother. Meanwhile, Lila gets asked out on her first date. |
| Original Air Date—26 December 1984
Charles finds himself in a bind when he wins two tickets for a Bruce Springsteen concert and both Buddy and Gwendolyn want to go with him. He also has to deal with doing the right thing with a dog that the boys brought home. |
| Original Air Date—2 January 1985
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke are fighting and Charles needs to get a term paper done by the next morning while avoiding the many distractions that the house provides. |
| Original Air Date—16 January 1985
The Pembroke's irresponsible cousin Elliot has decided to run for student body president on campus. With Gwendolyn's urging, Charles runs against him in an effort to do the responsible thing. |
| Original Air Date—23 January 1985
Mrs. Pembroke gets a promotion at work leaving less time to spend time at home with the children and more responsibility for Charles who has a date. |
| Original Air Date—30 January 1985
Grandma Irene comes to the house while Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke go out of town and she tries to convince Charles to work for her in the lucrative business of selling pizza. |
| Season 1, Episode 17: Snowed InOriginal Air Date—6 February 1985
The Pembroke house is snowed in while Mr. & Mrs. Pembroke are at the movies. Things go from bad to worse for Charles when the furnace goes off and he has to deal with the kids as well as a group of Lila's friends. |
| Original Air Date—13 February 1985
Charles and Buddy join forces to start a new business venture that will have them screen potential live-in house helpers to be trained by Charles himself. Not all candidates are quite up to their standards. |
| Original Air Date—20 February 1985
Charles, Buddy, and Gwendolyn head to Florida with some friends for spring break but things get complicated when they are all stuck in one room and then Charles and Buddy are arrested. |
| Original Air Date—27 February 1985
Lila is asked out on a date by a guy that her parents do not approve of and she must decide whether to go on the date and betray the trust of her parents and Charles. |
| Original Air Date—13 March 1985
Charles invites an old friend of Mrs. Pembroke's to the house for dinner but regrets what he has done when the guest turns out to be a condescending jerk. |
| Original Air Date—3 April 1985
Charles and Buddy prepare to leave town for summer jobs while Douglas tries to figure out which summer camp to attend. An appearance from the kids' grandfather surprises everybody. |
| Season 2, Episode 1: AmityvilleOriginal Air Date—3 January 1987
Charles comes back after his summer trip to find that the Pembrokes are gone and that a new family named the Powells is now occupying the house. |
| Original Air Date—10 January 1987
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| Original Air Date—17 January 1987
When Adam gets bullied by a neighbor, Charles and Mr. Powell have different ideas on how he should retaliate. |
| Original Air Date—24 January 1987
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| Original Air Date—31 January 1987
Charles fears that his future is in doubt when he gets a letter in the mail saying that his student loans might be canceled. |
| Original Air Date—7 February 1987
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| Original Air Date—14 February 1987
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| Original Air Date—21 February 1987
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| Original Air Date—28 February 1987
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| Season 2, Episode 10: Trade OffOriginal Air Date—7 March 1987
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| Season 2, Episode 11: DatingOriginal Air Date—14 March 1987
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| Original Air Date—21 March 1987
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| Original Air Date—28 March 1987
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| Original Air Date—9 May 1987
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| Season 2, Episode 15: Mama MiaOriginal Air Date—16 May 1987
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| Original Air Date—23 May 1987
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| Original Air Date—1988
When Sarah tries to get closer to a boy that she likes by inviting him over to study, she is upset when he pays more attention to Charles than her. Buddy's girlfriend seems more attracted to Charles than him. |
| Season 2, Episode 19: Getting InOriginal Air Date—1987
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| Original Air Date—1 August 1987
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| Original Air Date—8 August 1987
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| Original Air Date—10 October 1987
Charles, already tired of having no time away from the Powell kids, is upset when Jamie starts working as a waitress at Sid's Pizza, his off-work hangout. |
| Original Air Date—7 November 1987
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| Original Air Date—31 October 1987
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| Original Air Date—24 October 1987
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| Original Air Date—22 August 1987
The Powell house is turned upside down when the kids and Charles believe that they've seen UFOs. |
| Original Air Date—26 September 1987
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| Original Air Date—3 October 1987
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| Season 3, Episode 3: Baby DollOriginal Air Date—17 October 1987
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| Season 3, Episode 4: SpeechlessOriginal Air Date—1987
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| Season 3, Episode 5: Yule LaffOriginal Air Date—1987
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| Original Air Date—1988
With Commander Powell coming home, Charles must bake a cake, pick up the Commander's clothes at the cleaners, buy party supplies, attend Adam's boy scout meeting, meet with the plumber, and counsel Jamie. |
| Season 3, Episode 8: Role ModelOriginal Air Date—1988
When Jamie decides to enroll at a modeling school which appears to be a scam, it is up to Charles to find out the truth even if it means hurting her. |
| Original Air Date—1988
Charles and Buddy are surprised to find out that the boy who is going out on a date with Sarah is the same person who overcharged them on playoff tickets. So they decide to spy on Sarah's date. |
| Original Air Date—7 May 1988
When Buddy is not himself after being dumped by his girlfriend, Charles and Mr. Powell decide to build his confidence back up by sending him to a self-improvement program. However, it gives him too much confidence and he becomes very rude to everyone. |
| Original Air Date—1988
After one of his childhood friends dies, Mr. Powell gets worried about his own mortality. To cheer him up, Charles decides to invites Mr. Powell's father to the house, unaware that they are estranged. |
| Original Air Date—1988
When Charles is unsure about what to major in, he gets a visit from his uncle from Brooklyn who tries to get him to quit school, leave the Powells and join the pickle business. |
| Original Air Date—1988
Buddy is nervous when his shy sister, with whom he is not very close to, comes to visit from California. When she all of a sudden becomes the life of the party, it is quickly found out that alcohol abuse is to blame. |
| Original Air Date—1988
When Charles is assigned to be a teacher's aide at Jamie's school, Jamie is apprehensive about him further intruding on her life and embarrassing her. Her fears are realized when she misbehaves and Charles gives her detention. |
| Original Air Date—1988
When his mom goes away for the weekend, she puts Charles in charge of the pizza parlor. When it is learned that the Roving Gourmet, a newspaper food critic, might make an appearance, Charles and Buddy do everything they can to find out who he/she is and impress him/her despite having a shortage of pizza. |
| Original Air Date—1988
When Charles gives advice involving Jamie and her love life and it doesn't work out, she gets upsets and blames him. |
| Original Air Date—1988
Charles must find a way to speak to Sarah's class, chaperon Jamie's birthday party, and go out on a double date with Buddy, all in the same night. |
| Original Air Date—1988
When the Powell children feel that Charles does not have enough time to do things for them, they decide to own him, by buying him in a charity slave auction. |
| Season 3, Episode 26: BarbellesOriginal Air Date—1988
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| Original Air Date—1988
When the Powell's old babysitter comes to visit, Charles begins to feel unneeded when the children are more attentive toward her. His fears are worsened after he loses a pearl necklace that Mr. Powell entrusted him to hide. |
| Original Air Date—21 January 1989
When Adam needs help on what to do on a date with a woman, he decides to hide downstairs and study Charles on his date with Stephanie. When he uses the same techniques on his date, he and Charles end up in hot water. |
| Original Air Date—1989
Charles and Buddy are shocked when they learn that one of Jamie's favorite teachers is wanted for torching a federal building when she was in college. |
| Original Air Date—1989
When Jamie joins a cult which tells it members to give all their money away and quit school, Charles must try to prove to her that the leader, Abba-Kahn, is a phony. |
| Original Air Date—1989
When Mr. Powell has a date with a woman who shares his love of World War II, Charles must deal with several crises at the last minute to make sure everything is in place for the special night. |
| Original Air Date—1989
When a film crew decides to shoot a commercial at his mom's restaurant, Charles tells Jamie that she was chosen as a model. However, when it is realized that it is Sarah that they want, Charles must find a way to not hurt Jamie's feelings. |
| Original Air Date—1989
Charles uses one of Sarah's poem to try and impress a girl. When the girl publishes the poem in a magazine under Charles' name, Sarah's teacher sees it and accuses her of plagiarism. |
| Original Air Date—1989
Charles uses a digital electronic organizer to help plan out his schedule. However, he finds out that it cannot come close to solving all of the Powell's problems. |
| Season 4, Episode 23: Bad BoyOriginal Air Date—1989
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| Season 4, Episode 24: Big BangOriginal Air Date—1989
Charles has to write an essay about growing up. Buddy uses the Powell's house to do a chemistry experiment. Sarah is reluctant to part with her childhood doll. Adam cannot get rid of the hiccups. Jamie has a date with a guy who is a college classmate of Charles and Buddy. |
| Original Air Date—1989
When Buddy's dad comes to visit from California, Buddy is surprised to learn that his parents are near divorce. |
| Original Air Date—1989
After a near-death experience, Buddy considers becoming a priest. Sarah tries to become a cheerleader so she can be popular like Jamie. |
| Original Air Date—28 December 1989
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| Original Air Date—1990
When Charles' obnoxious childhood friends come to visit, Charles begins to neglect the kids and Buddy to hang out with them. |
| Original Air Date—1990
Jamie gets upset with Charles when she feels that he is trying to interfere too much with her life. |
| Season 5, Episode 11: Daffy DocOriginal Air Date—1990
When Charles drives Buddy to a psychiatric hospital to do research, they hold him for observation and Charles must find a way to get him out. |
| Season 5, Episode 14: Brain ManOriginal Air Date—1990
When Charles and Buddy get tested for ESP, it is determined that Buddy may have it. Soon, he starts making predictions about what will happen in Charles's life. |
| Original Air Date—1990
Jamie gets upset when her boyfriend dumps her because she is shallow. So Charles does her a "favor" by allowing her to follow his sophisticated girlfriend around in hopes of getting him back. |
| Original Air Date—1990
When Charles substitute teaches one of Sarah's classes, he gives them a project where he assigns her the cutest guy in class, who uses Sarah to do all his homework. |
| Original Air Date—1990
While picking up a cake for Mrs. Powell's birthday, Charles gets stuck in an elevator with an attractive woman. He is initially excited about a possible romance with her until he finds out that she is blind. |
| Original Air Date—1990
Charles faces a tough choice when he must decide whether to help the Powell children by directing their fund-raising play or to study for a test that will get him into graduate school at Princeton. |
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