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Charles in Charge

Season 5

1989
26 Episodes
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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.

Episode 1 : ‎ Summer Together, Fall Apart

After complaints from the family, Charles tells the children there are no more rules in the house.
30 Mins
30-12-1989

Episode 2 : ‎ Get Thee to a Nuttery

Buddy decides to become a priest after a near-death experience.
30 Mins
06-01-1990

Episode 3 : ‎ Three Dates & a Walnut

Walter makes plans with three women on the same night.
30 Mins
13-01-1990

Episode 4 : ‎ Out with the in Crowd

Jamie tries to join an exclusive group of girls.
30 Mins
20-01-1990

Episode 5 : ‎ There's a Girl in My Ficus

Charles' girlfriend Jennifer (Tiffani-Amber Thiessen) tells a lie about Buddy in order to get rid of him.
30 Mins
27-01-1990

Episode 6 : ‎ Judge Not Lest Ye Beheaded

Charles is the judge of a beauty pageant where Jamie, Sarah, and both of Charles' girlfriends are contestants.
30 Mins
03-02-1990

Episode 7 : ‎ Baby Bummer

Buddy offers to help out Adam with babysitting, but he ends up forgetting the little girl at the diner.
30 Mins
10-02-1990

Episode 8 : ‎ Paper Covers Rock

A tabloid shows pictures of Charles with a rock star (Samantha Fox), and everyone thinks they're in a relationship.
30 Mins
17-02-1990

Episode 9 : ‎ Child Hoods

Charles' old friends come to visit.
30 Mins
24-02-1990

Episode 10 : ‎ Advice and Contempt

Jamie gets upset when she thinks Charles is trying to make her boyfriend stop seeing her.
30 Mins
03-03-1990

Episode 11 : ‎ Daffy Doc

Buddy enters a mental hospital to do research, but they make him a patient.
30 Mins
28-04-1990

Episode 12 : ‎ Buddy Flips a Disc

Buddy wins a contest to be a disc jockey for a day at the diner.
30 Mins
05-05-1990

Episode 13 : ‎ Brain Man

Buddy gets tested for ESP and starts to predict the future.
30 Mins
12-05-1990

Episode 14 : ‎ Don't Rock the Vote

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.
30 Mins
19-05-1990

Episode 15 : ‎ Let's Quake a Deal

Charles invents a device that will help people prepare for earthquakes.
30 Mins
26-05-1990

Episode 16 : ‎ Up Your IQ

When a boy thinks Jamie is shallow, she talks to Charles' intelligent girlfriend.
30 Mins
02-06-1990

Episode 17 : ‎ All That Chaz

An accidental bump on the head turns Charles into Chaz again.
30 Mins
09-06-1990

Episode 18 : ‎ Frankie and Mommy

Lillian sees an old boyfriend.
30 Mins
25-08-1990

Episode 19 : ‎ Lost Resort

Charles works at a hotel in Hawaii with Buddy's cousin. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
30 Mins
01-09-1990

Episode 20 : ‎ Dead Puck Society

Charles is the substitute teacher in Sarah's class, and Sarah's partner lets her do all the work on an assignment
30 Mins
08-09-1990

Episode 21 : ‎ La Cage Aux Fools

Charles and Buddy protest animal testing at their college.
30 Mins
15-09-1990

Episode 22 : ‎ Teacher's Pest

Walter takes a history class that Charles teaches.
30 Mins
22-09-1990

Episode 23 : ‎ Almost Family

Charles visits his aunt Sally at her car wash. (A pilot to a possible spin-off which never materialized.)
30 Mins
20-10-1990

Episode 24 : ‎ Seeing Is Believing

Charles gets trapped in an elevator with a blind woman.
30 Mins
27-10-1990

Episode 25 : ‎ Fair Exchange

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.)
30 Mins
03-11-1990

Episode 26 : ‎ Charles Be DeMille

Sarah puts on a show to raise money, and Charles directs while preparing for an interview to get into Princeton.
30 Mins
10-11-1990