Who's the Boss?: The Way We Was

Who's the Boss?: The Way We Was
ABC
January 6, 1987
Sitcom
DVD
B

With the family snowed in, they look back on how they became a family, everyone taking credit.  This story, written by regulars Guylas & Meyers, serves as a prequel, with flashbacks filling in details from before the Pilot up until Angela answers the door and finds Tony.  The kids, Alyssa especially, have a hard time passing as their two-and-a-half-years-younger selves, but Helmond easily goes back to her bicycle and her hair up in its first season style.  Tony doesn't look drastically different, but Angela does not at all look as Light did in the first season, the '83-shot Pilot especially.  (Her hair and her shoulder pads are too late '80s.)  Still, it's a sweet, funny episode, with a title that references what we'll later learn is one of Tony and Angela's favorite movies.

Pre-Tony maid Mrs. Hiller is played by Lu Leonard, who was Lady #1 on Mork & Mindy and who had been playing plump ladies since the '50s.