WHO'S THE BOSS?
Tony Micelli was a former second baseman for the St. Louis
Cardinals and a widower with a young daughter, Samantha (Alyssa
Milano).
 Fed up with the congestion and bustle of New York City, he
sought refuge working as a domestic for Angela Bower,
the high-powered but somewhat disorganised President of the
Wallace and McQuade advertising Agency, who lived in suburban
Connecticut.
Angela, a divorcee with a rambunctious young son named
Jonathan, had doubts about the arrangement, but her mother, Mona,
quickly observed that "a man can do meaningless, unproductive
work as well as a woman."
Tony proved to be very good at his
new job, bringing order to Angela's chaotic household and
providing a needed father figure to Jonathan.
Angela,
who worried constantly about her career, was abruptly fired in
1986, whereupon she opened her own ad agency, with Mona pitching
in.
The running theme of the CBS series was Tony and Angela's
evolving relationship, which must have been one of the longest
courtships in sitcom history.
ABC created a spin-off of sorts called Living Dolls,
starring Michael Learned (The Waltons) as the head of a
small modelling agency in New York.
Living with her were four of
her beauteous young mannequins - Emily (Halle Berry), Martha
(Alison Elliott), Caroline (Deborah Tucker) and Charlie (Leah
Remini), who was a tough kid from the streets.
David Moscow starred as Learned's son. Who's the Boss? stars Tony Danza and Alyssa Milano appeared
from time to time.
The short-lived series debuted in
September 1989 and lasted only three months.
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