Who's the Boss?: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Who's the Boss? Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Angela Gets Fired (1)
Sep 23, 1986 · 23 min
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
Angela Gets Fired (2)
Sep 30, 1986 · 23 min
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
Daddy's Little Montague Girl
Oct 21, 1986 · 23 min
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
Mona's Limo
Oct 28, 1986 · 23 min
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.
The Hickey
Nov 4, 1986 · 23 min
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.
Wedding Bells?
Nov 11, 1986 · 23 min
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
Jonathan the Gymnast
Nov 18, 1986 · 23 min
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
Semi-Private Lives
Nov 25, 1986 · 23 min
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
Forgive Me, Tony
Dec 2, 1986 · 23 min
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
Spud Micelli
Dec 9, 1986 · 23 min
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.
The Christmas Card
Dec 16, 1986 · 23 min
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
The Way We Was
Jan 6, 1987 · 23 min
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
Jonathan Kills Tony
Jan 13, 1987 · 23 min
Jonathan has a new girlfriend: Jenny. But Jenny has fallen more for Tony. When Jonathan finds this out he gets really upset.
Marie's Secret
Jan 20, 1987 · 23 min
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
Tony, the Patchmaker
Jan 27, 1987 · 23 min
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
Hit the Road, Chad
Feb 3, 1987 · 23 min
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
Raging Housekeeper
Feb 10, 1987 · 23 min
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
The Proposal
Feb 17, 1987 · 23 min
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.
Diet in Cell Block 11
Feb 24, 1987 · 23 min
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
Older Than Springtime
Mar 3, 1987 · 23 min
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
Walk on the Mild Side
Mar 17, 1987 · 23 min
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
Reconcilable Differences
Mar 31, 1987 · 23 min
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
Mona
May 12, 1987 · 23 min
Mona's brother has bought a seedy hotel in New York City and used Mona's money for it.
A Moving Episode
May 19, 1987 · 23 min
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