Who's the Boss?: Just Mona and Me

Who's the Boss?: Just Mona and Me
ABC
December 8, 1987
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Mindy Glazer wrote this story which introduces the character of Max Muldoon, played by 61-year-old Leslie Nielsen.  He's a new client of Angela's, and he and Mona are instantly smitten.  This is the most serious Mona has been about anyone in a very long time, and Angela is thrilled.  However, he has a secret, although not the one that the audience is misled into thinking.  He's not married but recently divorced, with a baby daughter, played by (as the fandom concluded years ago, although it has not been officially verified) by Katherine Danza.  (There are internal clues in the episode, and she was born in '87.)  Note that Sam and particularly Jonathan seem immediately fond of Max, unlike their reaction to Geoffrey.  This may be because they sense that Max would not break up their family, as Geoffrey would've, but overall Max is presented much more sympathetically here and later.  (Until, spoiler, he dumps Mona.)