Who's the Boss?: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
In Search of Tony
Sep 19, 1989 · 23 min
Holidays on Jamaica. And everyone enjoys the life there.Angela, too, dives right into the holiday-action and has a lot of fun. As it's not Tony, with whom she has that fun, he gets
Life's a Ditch
Sep 26, 1989 · 23 min
Charlie, Sam's female friend from Brooklyn, visits while Angela is preparing for a dog food commercial. Charlie talks Sam into ditching school for the day and going to the beach, b
In Your Dreams
Oct 3, 1989 · 23 min
Tony and Angela are apartment-sitting for Mrs. Rossini. After meeting two couples Tony used to be friends with, Angela dreams that she and Tony are married, living in Brooklyn, and
Sam's Novel Romance
Oct 10, 1989 · 23 min
Sam joins a book discussion group when she develops a crush on the instructor, a young college professor, unaware that he is married.
Tony and the Professor
Oct 24, 1989 · 23 min
On the spur of the moment, Tony accepts a date with a woman he meets at a bar. Having second thoughts, he cancels the date the next day, only to learn later that the woman is the p
Mother and Child Disunion
Oct 31, 1989 · 23 min
Angela has reached the goal of her dreams when Braden, a V.I.P. in the advertising branch, offers her the merger. Suffering from this is Mona who gets fired by Angela. After some
Sam Can Manage
Nov 7, 1989 · 23 min
Al has founded a rock band and Sam becomes, as she has some quite good ideas, the group's manager. But she has problems getting gigs because everyone just sees the 'cute girl' in h
Supermom Burnout
Nov 14, 1989 · 23 min
Angela brings the family to a psychiatrist for counseling when she thinks Sam and Jonathan's fighting is getting to be too much. The psychiatrist reassures the family that their fa
Sex, Lies and Exercise Tape
Nov 21, 1989 · 23 min
Angela joins a health club, where she quickly makes friends with a group of three women. After they meet Tony, Angela tells them they are a couple. Tony learns of Angela's lie, and
To Tony, With Love
Nov 28, 1989 · 23 min
To fill out his semester class schedule, Tony takes an independent study course, expecting it to be an easy A, and that he won't have to do any work. The course puts him in a third
The World According to Jonathan
Dec 5, 1989 · 23 min
Some bad experiences at school, including being assigned to play the accordion, have Jonathan's self-esteem at rock bottom. Tony helps him overcome his depression by introducing hi
Gambling Jag
Dec 12, 1989 · 23 min
To put up Mona after she has been stood up by a man, Tony and Angela decide going to Atlantic City. There Mona first gamble away Angela's diamond necklace and then the car. To win
Sam Accelerates
Jan 2, 1990 · 23 min
Due to good scholastic work Sam is admitted to a special program which allows her to skip her last year in High School and go directly to college. But she fears that Tony then is l
Tony Kills
Jan 9, 1990 · 23 min
When the neighbor Fred picks up Tony to go playing tennis, he makes up to Angela and Tony gets angry. During the tennis match Fred suffers a heart attack and dies. Now Tony blames
Dear Landlord
Jan 16, 1990 · 23 min
Angela buys, due to tax reasons, a house in the neighborhood and Tony helps her shaping it up. A lodger already seems to be found but when Angela returns from a business trip she f
Mona & Walter & Sam & Eric
Jan 23, 1990 · 23 min
Sam and her boyfriend Eric want to attend a concert. But Eric usually spends the evenings with his (widowed) grandfather. So Tony gets an idea: Mona should instead spend the evenin
Micelli's Marauders
Jan 30, 1990 · 23 min
Angela persuades Tony to train her volleyball team. Doing this Tony takes care more about the other, poorer team members and when the important game is due, Angela quits the team.
Her Father's Daughter
Feb 6, 1990 · 23 min
Sam and Bonnie take part in a school trip to Fort Lauderdale. And the supervisor is: Tony. Mona and Sam are able to persuade Angela to go with them to look after Tony. In Florida S
Take Me Back to the Ballgame
Feb 13, 1990 · 23 min
A client of Angela's, a baseball player, upsets Tony when he demonstrates that he is only in baseball for the money and the fame. Tony wonders whatever happened to pride in the gam
I Dream of Genealogy
Feb 20, 1990 · 23 min
After researching her family tree, Sam discovers that her great-grandfather, assumed to be deceased, is still alive in Italy. He is flown to Connecticut to meet the family. Tony so
Couple Trouble
Feb 27, 1990 · 23 min
Tony and Angela make friends with another couple at the country club. The couple is about to become engaged, but their relationship with Tony and Angela may pose a problem.
Operation Mona
Mar 13, 1990 · 23 min
After a fire at Mona's apartment which hospitalizes her, Angela's attempts to find her a new place to live are met with hostility.
Road Scholar
Mar 27, 1990 · 23 min
Sam has her heart set on attending Tate College, but Tony insists she keep an open mind, so the two take a road trip to visit some schools. Sam eventually gets a letter from Tate r
Beautician Heal Thyself
Apr 10, 1990 · 23 min
Al has graduated beauty school, and Tony helps him set up his own salon in Brooklyn. Al's behavior to the customers upsets them, and when Tony explains that Al will never make it u
Sit Down and Be Counted
May 1, 1990 · 23 min
A census taker visits Tony and Angela, just as they are hoping to leave for the movies. Using flashbacks from previous episodes, Mona gives the man a brief run-down of the history
The All-Nighter
May 8, 1990 · 23 min
Tony must move with his studying group from the living room into a motel room. After an evening full of studying the others go home leaving Tony and Kathleen back alone. The both w