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Who's the Boss?: Season 3

24 episodes Premiered Sep 23, 1986
Previously on Who's the Boss?

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Who's the Boss? Season 2.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (21): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Angela Gets Fired (1)

Sep 23, 1986

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

S3·E2 Core

Angela Gets Fired (2)

Sep 30, 1986

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 conv

S3·E3 Core

Daddy's Little Montague Girl

Oct 21, 1986

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

S3·E4 Core

Mona's Limo

Oct 28, 1986

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.

S3·E5 Core

The Hickey

Nov 4, 1986

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.

S3·E6 Core

Wedding Bells?

Nov 11, 1986

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. A

S3·E7 Core

Jonathan the Gymnast

Nov 18, 1986

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 fal

S3·E8 Core

Semi-Private Lives

Nov 25, 1986

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

S3·E9 Core

Forgive Me, Tony

Dec 2, 1986

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. The

S3·E10 Core

Spud Micelli

Dec 9, 1986

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.

S3·E11 Core

The Christmas Card

Dec 16, 1986

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 h

S3·E12 Core

The Way We Was

Jan 6, 1987

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 mo

S3·E13 Core

Jonathan Kills Tony

Jan 13, 1987

Jonathan has a new girlfriend: Jenny. But Jenny has fallen more for Tony. When Jonathan finds this out he gets really upset.

S3·E14 Core

Marie's Secret

Jan 20, 1987

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 p

S3·E15 Core

Tony, the Patchmaker

Jan 27, 1987

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 d

S3·E16 Core

Hit the Road, Chad

Feb 3, 1987

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 re

S3·E17 Core

Raging Housekeeper

Feb 10, 1987

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

S3·E18 Core

The Proposal

Feb 17, 1987

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.

S3·E19 Core

Diet in Cell Block 11

Feb 24, 1987

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 fo

S3·E20 Core

Older Than Springtime

Mar 3, 1987

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 'exper

S3·E21 Core

Walk on the Mild Side

Mar 17, 1987

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 Ton

S3·E22 Core

Reconcilable Differences

Mar 31, 1987

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 argum

S3·E23 Mytharc

Mona

May 12, 1987

Mona's brother has bought a seedy hotel in New York City and used Mona's money for it.

S3·E24 Mytharc

A Moving Episode

May 19, 1987

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

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