Who's the Boss?: Tony's Father-in-Law

Who's the Boss?: Tony's Father-in-Law
ABC
March 5, 1985
Sitcom
DVD
C+

The title character, Nick Milano (55-year-old James Coco in his first of three appearances in the role), visits in this Ellen Guylas story.  While Coco of course gives a good performance, the problem is it's hard to warm up to a character that makes all three adults think he's dying, rather than tell them he's going to prison in a couple weeks.  Not only that, he wants Mona to sleep with him as a "last request."  Still, I do like the parts where Nick and Tony talk about Marie.

Julian Christopher (under the name of Jim Watkins) played Phil Bender on The Bob Newhart Show, while here (under the name of James Louis Watkins) he plays Nick's lawyer, the punningly named Thomas Retain (as in "lawyer on retainer").