About this season
Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and board.
Episodes (26)
1. Summer Together, Fall Apart
Aired 30 December 1989 • 30 min
After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
2. Get Thee to a Nuttery
Aired 6 January 1990 • 30 min
Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
3. Three Dates & a Walnut
Aired 13 January 1990 • 30 min
Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
4. Out with the in Crowd
Aired 20 January 1990 • 30 min
Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
5. There's a Girl in My Ficus
Aired 27 January 1990 • 30 min
Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
6. Judge Not Lest Ye Beheaded
Aired 3 February 1990 • 30 min
Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
7. Baby Bummer
Aired 10 February 1990 • 30 min
Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
8. Paper Covers Rock
Aired 17 February 1990 • 30 min
A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
9. Child Hoods
Aired 24 February 1990 • 30 min
Charles' old friends come to visit.
10. Advice and Contempt
Aired 3 March 1990 • 30 min
Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
11. Daffy Doc
Aired 28 April 1990 • 30 min
Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
12. Buddy Flips a Disc
Aired 5 May 1990 • 30 min
Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
13. Brain Man
Aired 12 May 1990 • 30 min
Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
14. Don't Rock the Vote
Aired 19 May 1990 • 30 min
Jamie and Sarah run for class president against each other. Buddy and Charles start fighting again which leads to a food fight erupting in the diner.
15. Let's Quake a Deal
Aired 26 May 1990 • 30 min
Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
16. Up Your IQ
Aired 2 June 1990 • 30 min
When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
17. All That Chaz
Aired 9 June 1990 • 30 min
An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
18. Frankie and Mommy
Aired 25 August 1990 • 30 min
Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
19. Lost Resort
Aired 1 September 1990 • 30 min
Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
20. Dead Puck Society
Aired 8 September 1990 • 30 min
Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
21. La Cage Aux Fools
Aired 15 September 1990 • 30 min
Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
22. Teacher's Pest
Aired 22 September 1990 • 30 min
Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
23. Almost Family
Aired 20 October 1990 • 30 min
Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
24. Seeing Is Believing
Aired 27 October 1990 • 30 min
Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
25. Fair Exchange
Aired 3 November 1990 • 30 min
Sarah visits her relatives in Albuquerque and a foreign exchange student that is living with them. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
26. Charles Be DeMille
Aired 10 November 1990 • 30 min
Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.