The BEST episodes of Who's the Boss? season 3

Every episode of Who's the Boss? season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Who's the Boss? season 3!

When Tony Micelli takes a job as housekeeper for Angela Bower, a successful businesswoman, he and his daughter, Samantha, move into Angela's home. Now Tony and Sam must adjust to their new lives with the Bowers- Angela, her son Jonathan, and her mother, Mona.

Last Updated: 9/25/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Jonathan the Gymnast
star
8.33
78 votes

#1 - Jonathan the Gymnast

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1986

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 falls due to his overzealousness and breaks his shoulder. And this is something Angela really isn't happy about.

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Semi-Private Lives
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8.30
79 votes

#2 - Semi-Private Lives

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1986

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 couldn't manage to go to Maine and return unexpected.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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Walk on the Mild Side
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8.10
21 votes

#3 - Walk on the Mild Side

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/17/1987

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 Tony and Mona, Angela realizes that she has missed a lot. Now she wants to catch up on some 'action'. So she makes up a list what to to: Among these is a meeting with Jake 'The Snake' and a trip to his 'Rock of Inspiration'.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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The Proposal
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7.78
18 votes

#4 - The Proposal

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/1987

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.

Writer: Ellen Guylas
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Diet in Cell Block 11
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7.70
20 votes

#5 - Diet in Cell Block 11

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/1987

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 for Nick's work

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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A Moving Episode
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7.68
19 votes

#6 - A Moving Episode

Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/1987

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 environment.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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Older Than Springtime
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7.67
21 votes

#7 - Older Than Springtime

Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/3/1987

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 'experienced' (equals being old) should advertise fashion for the young generation.

Writer: Alan Mandel
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Raging Housekeeper
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7.58
19 votes

#8 - Raging Housekeeper

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/10/1987

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 for the bout.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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Reconcilable Differences
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7.55
20 votes

#9 - Reconcilable Differences

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/31/1987

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 argument between Mona and Angela Fiona quits because she doesn't want to stand in the way of the both. But Mona quits, too.

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Hit the Road, Chad
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7.52
23 votes

#10 - Hit the Road, Chad

Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/3/1987

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 recording it for her ad agency. When rat Chad starts seeing another girl, Samantha is so infuriated she demands the recording not take place. It takes a stellar performance of the song by Ray to make Samantha see that her friendship with Angela is more important than getting back at Chad.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
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The Way We Was
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7.39
49 votes

#11 - The Way We Was

Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/6/1987

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 move; Tony, cause he wanted to make life better for Sam; Jonathan, cause he needed someone who takes care of him; Angela, who needed someone for the household;or Mona, who has 'found' Tony ?

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Tony, the Patchmaker
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7.36
47 votes

#12 - Tony, the Patchmaker

Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/1987

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 down hits the car and causes a write-off.

Daddy's Little Montague Girl
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7.31
52 votes

#13 - Daddy's Little Montague Girl

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1986

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 school so far away.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Marie's Secret
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7.31
49 votes

#14 - Marie's Secret

Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/20/1987

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 painter Christos should portray Sam. Tony meets him and Christos tells him that a Marie Micelli once took painting lessons at him. This message causes a little crisis for Tony who now thinks he hasn't known his wife well enough.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Angela Gets Fired (1)
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7.24
83 votes

#15 - Angela Gets Fired (1)

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1986

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 agency to learn that they lost the account. After sassing to her boss and telling him to chill, Angela loses her job.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Wedding Bells?
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7.23
77 votes

#16 - Wedding Bells?

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1986

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. At the wedding party they meet Geoffrey.

Directors: Asaad Guylas
Writer: Ellen Guylas
Angela Gets Fired (2)
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7.21
107 votes

#17 - Angela Gets Fired (2)

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1986

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 convince her to open her own agency.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Spud Micelli
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7.19
74 votes

#18 - Spud Micelli

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1986

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.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Alan Mandel
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The Christmas Card
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7.15
72 votes

#19 - The Christmas Card

Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1986

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 has asked calls Tony shortly after and offers him a lot of money which he really could need to buy Angela a christmas present.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Writer: Mindy Glazer
Mona
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7.13
46 votes

#20 - Mona

Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/1987

Mona's brother has bought a seedy hotel in New York and used Mona's money for it, too. Because the hotel means a lot for him, Mona goes to New York to help him shape it up again.

Directors: Asaad Kelada
Mona's Limo
star
7.12
78 votes

#21 - Mona's Limo

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1986

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.

Forgive Me, Tony
star
7.11
75 votes

#22 - Forgive Me, Tony

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1986

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. Therefore Tony invites Mickey who has in the meantime become a Father. But when Tony annoys him too much Mickey strikes a blow.

Jonathan Kills Tony
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7.10
77 votes

#23 - Jonathan Kills Tony

Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/1987

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

The Hickey
star
7.08
77 votes

#24 - The Hickey

Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1986

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.

Directors: Asaad Kelada