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S7.E1 ∙ Ridiculous Liaisons

Mon, Sep 17, 1990

Angela's latest date, slick Christopher, instantly wins and impresses everybody, especially females and service staff. He drives Tony crazy. Finally Tony he takes his own date, Kathleen, to a restaurant just to spy on Christopher's date with Angela, but that goes wrong.

7 /10

S7.E2 ∙ Hey Dude

Mon, Sep 24, 1990

Tony is appalled to hear Sam plans to prolong her summer receptionist job on a holiday horse ranch and thus 'delays' college. So he and the Bowers fly to New Mexico, where they meet the charming real reason: hunky 'cowboy' Matt, a local student and her secret fiancé. Tony nor Angela can remain calm while arguing, but Mona's sneaky remarks may do the trick to reach a compromise.

7.5 /10

S7.E3 ∙ The Fabulous Robinson Sisters

Mon, Oct 01, 1990

Tony discovers Angela faked a date with Peter, but in fact is single again, and convinces Mona to take her clubbing. Before anyone realizes, Angela is neglecting business and partying like Mona, who now becomes responsible. Such an unnatural situation can't last, Tony realizes.

7 /10

S7.E4 ∙ Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?

Mon, Oct 08, 1990

Tony meets Kathleen's father. The father wants to know if he is going to marry Kathleen. Tony realizes he has to talk to Kathleen because he still cares for Angela and probably always will. Tony and Kathleen break up.

7.2 /10

S7.E5 ∙ One Flew Over the Empty Nest

Mon, Oct 15, 1990

Tony is so popular with Sam's dorm-mates, for both practical and social reasons, that he sees her more there then he used to at home. Jealous of the attention, the tells him to butt out. He does gracefully, but when everyone realizes how hard that's on him, the home gang gathers, supposedly interested in the boxing match he watches on TV.

7.1 /10

S7.E6 ∙ The Kid

Mon, Oct 22, 1990

When Mrs. Rossini's neighbor Mrs. Napoli is hospitalized, Tony takes care of her beloved grandson Billy. Tony does great and accepts when she asks him to take care of him permanently just before her surgery. Afterwards, he has cleared it with the Bower household, but Mrs. Napoli doesn't even remember asking him.

7.1 /10

S7.E7 ∙ Parental Guidance Suggested

Mon, Oct 29, 1990

Tony is confident, given his excellent parenting record, his new Brooklyn-bred ward Billy Napoli has settled in. However when the angelic rascal starts at school, things go badly wrong. What seemed a case of snobbish newbie-bullying turns out to be all-round aggression from Billy. Tony and Angela, whose boyfriend loses his patience having to take a backseat to her 'mothering', take a parenting course with senior softies Herb and Willa, who recommend a fully 'positive' approach. Billy however thrives only under selfish Mona's childishly simple terms.

6.9 /10

S7.E8 ∙ Roomies

Mon, Nov 05, 1990

Tony agrees that Sam should move out of her noisy dorm. As she won't return home, he grudgingly accepts her moving into an absent professor's house with student couple, Benjamin and Beth. Even more shocked than Tony is Sam's boyfriend, Matt, when they find out Beth dumped Benjamin, who is now attracted by Sam.

7.5 /10

S7.E9 ∙ Four Alarm Tony

Mon, Nov 12, 1990

Taking Billy to chief Baxter's fire department's open day, Tony fulfills a boy's dream, but also revives his own to slide down with those heroes. Tony joins as voluntary fireman, but his unquenchable enthusiasm doesn't go down well with the rather lazy veterans, even the home front soon tires of his stories.

6.8 /10

S7.E10 ∙ Starlight Memories

Mon, Nov 19, 1990

At a prestigious club's last night after 65 years, Tony and Angela wanted to be asked by the other but end up double dating with third parties. They meet an elderly couple, which met there 46 years ago and reminisces how they met and got married during the world war as a result of Navy sailor Nick's naughty, horny date move lies.

7.6 /10

S7.E11 ∙ Inherit the Wine

Mon, Nov 26, 1990

Tony is delighted to take Billy and the Bowers along to his family's Sicilian home when summoned for the reading of an uncle's will. Tony is pleasantly surprised to learn he inherited a vineyard. But to his astonishment, he also inherits the locals' hate because the late owner was a tyrannical scrooge. Tony makes a brave stand for family honor and justice.

6.7 /10

S7.E12 ∙ Who's Minding the Kid?

Mon, Dec 03, 1990

Just when a social worker comes to check on Tony's guardianship of Billy, the rascally angel seems missing. So Tony and Angela try to stall, but they end up telling how each of them tried to mind the kid, yet couldn't. When Mona, who was supposed to take over, arrives without Billy, it turns out he's with Jonathan.

6.9 /10

S7.E13 ∙ Broadcast Blues

Mon, Dec 17, 1990

Tony and Sam independently enter a sports commenting contest for their college's TV broadcasts. Apart from their different styles, they worry whether to compete ruthlessly but fairly or give way. Tony does great in every sense, despite the manager's shameless overrating of Sam's 'female charms', especially thanks to improvisation.

7 /10

S7.E14 ∙ Days of Blunder

Mon, Jan 07, 1991

Tony takes Angela along to a hateful man's funeral. On his way out, the kids are rebuked for fighting and lacking in mutual helpfulness. Good boy Jonathan, whom Tony advised firmness in heart matters, is lead astray by Goth girlfriend Patricia, who convinces him to go for a drive in Tony's pick-up, which gets lightly scratched. Billy and Sam now consider whether and how to help Jonathan cover up. They fail, so Mona takes the blame.

7.3 /10

S7.E15 ∙ You Can Go Home Again

Mon, Jan 21, 1991

Because of a simple cold, Sam moves back home, enjoying excessive pampering from Tony and Angela. After days, only Jonathan realizes she is shamelessly milking sympathy and shirking college work. Sneaking out with airhead high-school buddy Bonnie and getting caught after a school party, she proves Jonathan's point.

7.1 /10

S7.E16 ∙ Ms. Mom

Mon, Jan 28, 1991

Tony is ready to start his teaching apprenticeship, but can't combine that full-time job with his college study and the household, so he auditions candidates to fill his domestic post meanwhile. Nobody passes muster, not even with royal references, until Angela volunteers. She soon finds spending her rare free days on endless household chores, none of which ever compares favorably to Tony's way, is far from rewarding. And then there's minding Billy, quite a handful.

7 /10

S7.E17 ∙ The Unsinkable Tony Micelli

Mon, Feb 04, 1991

Fearing Billy may turns into a couch potato like Mona, Tony urges him to pick a sport, but to his disappointment it's no team ball game but swimming, the only discipline Angela every excelled in. Tony's real trouble, which he told nobody yet, is that he never learned to swim, suffering from aquaphobia after being crushed by a fat woman as a kid. Still, Billy takes to it and needs a partner for the father-son relay. Tony takes private lessons with Angela.

7.2 /10

S7.E18 ∙ Tony and Angela Get Divorced

Mon, Feb 11, 1991

Tony and Angela discover that because of a mistake they are listed as being married to each other. So they set out to correct this error.

7.6 /10

S7.E19 ∙ Let Her Tell You 'Bout the Birds and the Bees

Mon, Feb 18, 1991

Tony is enthusiastic about his first assignment as science teacher in a boys school. When he needs to slip out for a while unexpectedly because Mona abused the plumber until he left, he can only ask Mona to watch the class so long. To his horror, she used that time to give his pupils the school's first-ever sex education class. The school board however is delighted with the initiative and charges Tony with such classes for all kids, without telling him that even includes the sister school's girls.

7.1 /10

S7.E20 ∙ Party Politics

Mon, Feb 25, 1991

Tony and Angela find out last-minute their neighbors, the Harpers, are planning an early birthday-party for Joey on Billy's real birthday. Talking doesn't help, even escalates in bragging about a party to lure all kids. Angela spares no expense, Tony no efforts to identify and book all imaginable entertainment. On the party day, things get further out of hand repeatedly.

6.8 /10

S7.E21 ∙ Choose Me

Mon, Mar 11, 1991

Tony gets the Bowers to put up Mrs. Carmella Rossini during work on her Brooklyn apartment. Everyone has grumbling doubts about her domineering attitude, but her cooking is up to Tony's standard. The real trouble starts when Tony catches Mona's latest, uncharacteristically regular date, surgeon Clifford, kissing Carmella in the kitchen. The rivals fight for Clifford, supported by Tony viz. Angela.

7 /10

S7.E22 ∙ Tony and the Princess

Mon, Mar 25, 1991

Bumping into generally feared Brooklyn mobster Gus Stone, Tony dares not refuse retuning an old favor by hiring his spoiled-rotten daughter Claudia as assistant-housekeeper. Only her attitude is worse than her housekeeping, until Tony loses his patience and gives her a piece of his mind. The results are surprising for Tony, the Bowers and the Stone family.

7.1 /10

S7.E23 ∙ Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Mon, Apr 15, 1991

Sam, already in a killer mood after a romantic breakup, foolishly undertakes organizing her first local 'rock concert' but can't contract any artist. Angela can't help, but Tony appeals to his youth mate Steve Mueller (now a professional agent working with some big names). Sam's ingratitude peaks when Steve fails to deliver, yet Tony comes up with a last-minute alternative.

7.3 /10

S7.E24 ∙ The Road to Washington: Part 1

Mon, Apr 29, 1991

Tony agrees, indignant about old baseball veteran Chappy's financial predicament, to campaign on behalf of the Silver Society for funding of medical care for senior citizens. That means addressing the US Senate, and Angela decides to bring the whole family along. It's a long and perilous train journey to DC. As a result, he's so stressed that he makes a fool of himself in the Senate and makes public that sharing a bed on the train with Angela was 'innocent', which gives entirely the opposite impression.

7.3 /10

S7.E25 ∙ The Road to Washington: Part 2

Mon, May 06, 1991

After his deluded performance in the US Senate, Tony expected to be ridiculed nation-wide. In fact, a senator assigns foxy assistant Christine Morrison to recruit Tony for his own campaign for senior citizens medical aid funding. Angela acts jealous of the trappings of DC and her 'rival'. In time, Tony learns that all fun comes at a price when he's asked to betray the cause as part of the senator's dealing.

7.3 /10