i dont know how many of you have seen the last episode of charles in charge...but i just watched it and it was great..it was touching how they thanked scott baio and played the theme at the end and hugged eachother then after that the crowd sung the theme song...it was really great....what did u guys think....i really miss that show

that was a sad episode, but the funniest part was when Charles woke up from his "dream" and he was an actor named Scott Baio. LMAO. "haven't you noticed the hands on that clock never move? haven't you noticed you have no last name?" that was genius on the part of the writers. LOL.

however, the worst part of the show was when the camera panned the audience singing the theme song and who do we see but bimbo Pamela Anderson. UGH! puke: there goes my dinner.

I've seen many episodes of Charles In Charge but never the last episode. :(

i have a tape on ebay with the last episode on it

If the order of episodes is correct according to production numbers at tvtome.com, then the Denver Fox affliate that airs charles in charge weekday mornings should be showing the last episode this monday morning. (in just a few hours) I've been taping all of season 5 that nick at night didn't air, and I got some of season one the first go around. I'm hoping they will start over with season one after tomorrow so I can get the rest that I missed.

Ok, what episode is the last episode? I just watched "Almost Home" which is listed as the last episode on Tvtome.com in production order, but it had nothing happen like described here. I'm just wondering what episode you recently watched roaddawg71.

the last episode is when Sarah has volunteered Charles (she was always doing that!) to direct her school follies and then he has to drop out to prepare for an interview with a guy from Princeton (a Ronald Reagan lookalike) for his scholarship. Buddy steps in to replace Charles as director (Funny stuff!) but during his interview Charles realizes what's important and makes it on time the night of the performance. The show ends with Scott talking to the audience and thanking them for watching and then the theme song plays.

But the funniest part was after the credits roll, we see Charles sleeping on the couch and he wakes up and says "wow, what a dream!" Then we hear Lillian's and Buddy's voice saying that the whole show was a dream...he's an actor named Scott Baio. "Haven't you noticed the hands on that clock never move? Haven't you noticed you have no last name?" Then they tell him that if he ever wanted to see them again, all he has to do is close his eyes and say "I don't want to wake up." Scott does that and then the cast shows up and Buddy says "we're back!" :lol:

funny stuff. I hope you get to see it. It's classic!

I haven't seen this episode. I think it's coming up on the station it's on here in Canada.

I just saw it. It was VERY touching. I had a tear in my eye when everyone was hugging. I think it may have been the best finally I've ever seen.

I still haven't seen it.

YOU FINALLY SAW IT...i had tears in my eyes too...it was very touching how they did the last episode and i give it an A+...god i miss that show

Originally posted by roaddawg71
YOU FINALLY SAW IT...i had tears in my eyes too...it was very touching how they did the last episode and i give it an A+...god i miss that show

:lol:. I agree it was a A+ work!

With Pamela Anderson I always need Alcazelza!!

When Was The Last Episode of Charles in Charge

aired in 1990

Cool! I'm glad you guys got to see the last episode. That's awesome! I have every episode on tape (and catalogued) but I know if it were to ever be on syndication again, I would definitely watch. Even though the quality waned in the later years (the first season was the best), I still loved the show.

btw, how disgusting was it to see Pam Anderson in the audience? UGH!!puke:

Lori

80schick, I'm glad to hear that you thought the first season was the best! I'm also a big fan of the Pembrokes. Did you watch the show when it was first on CBS 20 years ago? I'm starting to feel like the old man out around here in that at 28 I am one of the few folks around here old enough to remember when the show was first on the air. However, seasons two and three were also great. I have to agree with you that the quality of the episodes began to drop in seasons four and five, but there was still some great episodes in those last two seasons.

Dukey, LOL. If you think you're old at 28, get a load of this....I'm 39. LOL. So, yes, did watch CIC when it was on CBS. I was very disappointed when it was cancelled, but I'm grateful that CBS did give it a whole season. It had a chance, the audience just didn't find it.

But I loved those kids, Michael Pearlman especially, although April Lerman and Jonathan Ward were also adorable. I loved the chemistry all three kids had with Scott.

and yeah, I agree, even though the quality of the last two seasons were overall poor, there were a few stand-out episodes that I loved. I liked that ones that Scott directed, the last being his best.

It is not so much that I feel old, it is just that I've noticed that over the past five or six months the people who used to visit the CIC board have stopped dropping by, and most of the posters now are teenagers. All of whom are about ten years younger than me. Of course some of these people like Colonel Juke "N" Jive and roadawg71 are really dedicated to the series and that is great. However, none of them have the experience of having watched the show back when it first aired. Charles In Charge was a big deal for us kids in the eighties. It was one of the few shows that everyone at school loved. And most of the teenage posters don't really like the Pembroke version of the show, which to me was the best, though I love the Powell version very much. There are few excptions though, our good moderator, Colonel Juke "N" Jive, has stated that he in into the Pembrokes. There is also Jill, the young girl who runs an excellent Pembroke web page, but she hasn't posted here in a while. I just wish some of the older posters, who were into the Pembrokes would come back to the board.

I would not go so far as to call the last two seasons poor, I just don't think they were as good as the first three seasons. But all shows drop in quality in their later years. There was still some great episodes though during those last two years like "No Nukes In Good Nukes," when Sarah protests her father's ship, "Ladies' Night Out," where Jamie convinces Sarah to sneak out to Club Dread with her. However, there were some episodes like the three when Charles turns into Chaz, which were not so good.

I think that if CBS had stuck with the show that it would have been a big hit. April Lerman, Jonathan Ward and Michael Pearlman were terrific.

havent been here in a while...i only wish i was alive to see charles in charge when it was on...well i born in 86 so i was 4 when the show was off the air, i think i watched it reruns when i was older because from time to time i would get this theme song stuck in my head...i could only remember on part and i had no idea what show it was from....wouldnt you know a few days later nick at nite has the charles not so in charge marathon...i was like well hot dam thats the show, and thats when i became "obsessed" (if you will) with the show....i think it would have been cool to have been a teenager during the 80's b/c nicole eggert is so dam hot but she is 14 years my senior...anyway charles in charge was good no matter what season (except when anthony came on...god did he suck) but i can sit down and watch any episode and not care what it is...pembroke or powell...the show was and still is awesome

i ment to say i could only remember ONE part not on part

roaddawg71, there is a couple of advantages to not being alive when CIC first aired. CBS had no respect for the show at all. They changed the time slot several times during the season. On some weeks they would not show the series at all. During May 1985 ratings sweeps they didn't show the show for a whole month. And one wonders why the show didn't get the ratings the network wanted. And critics were very nasty when it came to Charles In Charge. I remember the television critic for the Chicago Tribune doing a piece in December 1984 in which he picked the"hits" and "misses" for the 84-85 season, and CIC was picked as a "miss", the critic said the show was a poor imitation of Who's The Boss, that Scott Baio could not act, that there was no chemistry between Scott and April, Jonathan and Michael. And then when CBS cancelled the series, none of us ever thought it would ever return. I had taped the episodes, so I could watch them when ever I wanted, but as far as I knew when the new season started in fall 1985 CIC was a thing of the past.

I think it was about a year later in August or Sepetmber of '86 that I first heard that the show would be returning but because they couldn't get Julie Cobb and Jonathan Ward back they were finding a new supporting cast. Though I was let down that the Pembrokes would be gone, I was still happy that the show was coming back. Though I watched CIC from day one, I do not remember why I decided to watch it. I had no idea at that point who Scott Baio even was. Though Happy Days had been a very popular show, it's hight of popularity was during the mid and late seventies, and considering that I was born in 1976, I wasn't watching it. Though my parents did. Happy Days was still on in the early eighties, but it wasn't all that popular anymore. To this very day I have never seen an episode of Happy Days. As I've mentioned in other posts I am amazed at how young some of you are, but at the same time I think that it is great that people who were only babies when the show first aired are watching it now, proves that the series had something that CBS and that bonehead critic from the Chicago Tribune seemed to miss.

I feel your pain when it comes to Nicole. I've mentioned that when the show first ran on CBS I was a 8 year old boy with a big crush on April Lerman, who is seven years older than me. Also, the actress I've always had a crush on, Jami Gertz, was born in 1965, which makes her eleven years older than me.

thanks for the story!!!

Great story!

Thank you.
One other intersting note. Some might be in the know that Jill Pembroke was called "Jillybean" by her father. I had a friend at the time named Jill who we often called Jillybean. And we started calling her this before CIC had ever aired!

oh dear now I feel young. i was born the year it was cancelled! :lol: and i love scott who is 29 years older than me!! :rofl:

Originally posted by monni d
oh dear now I feel young. i was born the year it was cancelled! :lol: and i love scott who is 29 years older than me!! :rofl:
roaddawg, you need not feel bad that Nicole Eggert is 14 years older than you now. Not when Scott Baio is 29 years older than monni! :)

but too bad ill never meet nicole...maybe one night ill get so drunk and somehow end up in clifornia and meet her on the street...haha oh well, i can always see her on tv
CIC REUNION 04 (i wish)

gee thanx now i feel really good thanx for that dukey:angryfire lol:joke:

I have a question about the last episode of the CBS version.

I noticed on the episode guide that the last episode was rescheduled. That it was originally supposed to air as the 2nd to last episode that season. Anyone know the reason why it got re-scheduled?

I'm gonna do my best not confuse people, but the reason I ask is in this episode everyone is basically saying goodbye to everyone, yet it originally wasn't gonna be the last episode. And in the episode that originally was going to be the last episode no one's saying goodbye. So why is everyone saying goodbye in what was supposed to be the 2nd to last episode of the season?

The only thing I can think of is this: That when they filmed what ended up being the series-ending episode they thought they were coming back for a 2nd season. But then after they had filmed that they got word they were cancelled. And that they went back and re-filmed part of that episode to make it the series-ending episode.

The reason I think that is because there was such a wide gap in the airing of the last 3 episodes. Another reason I think that is I've had a chance to watch what ended up being the last episode and the first part of it and the last part of it doesn't seem to match up too well. As if the last part was re-filmed.

Anyone else have any thoughts on why this may have happened? Again, I'm not talking about the last episode of the syndicated version. I'm talking about the CBS version.

In addition, I apologize in advance if I confused people with this.

i remember something weird where everyone was saying goodbye even tho it wasnt the last episode...but i have no idea why, tv is just like that sometimes

That is an intersting point that I've never thought of before. What you say makes sense though, becuase I too remeber that the final episode was posponed for some reason, though I do not remember why. I f you remember though, CBS was always finding some reason to not show CIC. Everytime they had a movie to show or a special of some sort, they put it on Mondays when CIC should have been on. And then they wondered why the show was pulling in such low ratings. Your theory about the refilming of the ending seems very possible.

Originally posted by dukey
That is an intersting point that I've never thought of before. What you say makes sense though, becuase I too remeber that the final episode was posponed for some reason, though I do not remember why. I f you remember though, CBS was always finding some reason to not show CIC. Everytime they had a movie to show or a special of some sort, they put it on Mondays when CIC should have been on. And then they wondered why the show was pulling in such low ratings. Your theory about the refilming of the ending seems very possible.

Thanks for the reply.

The following is from the sitcomsonline Charles in Charge episode guide

20. The Wrong Guy (02/27/85)
21. Mr. Brilliant (03/13/85)
22. Meet Grandpa (04/03/85 - postponed from 03/06/85)

If the last episode didn't get postponed, the last 3 episodes of the season would've aired on February 27, March 6 and March 13. In other words for 3 straight weeks. Furthermore, episode 22 would've aired with everyone saying goodbye and episode 21 would've aired the following week with everyone back all of a sudden. As we know, that wouldn't have made much sense.

But as you see, the way things turned out with the postponement, there were 3 weeks between the 2nd to last episode and the last episode. And I believe that time between episodes was because they went back and re-filmed parts of the "Meet Grandpa" episode to make it the final episode. It could've been a case where they couldn't find a way to make a series-ending tie in to the "Mr. Brilliant" episode.

Every episode has what I would call the "mid-show commercial break." And in "Meet Grandpa," in the part before the mid-show commercial break, there's very little mention of anyone going away. But on the part after the mid-show commercial break, suddenly there's sudden talk about Charles, Buddy and Gwendolyn going away for whatever reason.

In other words, it looked to me like the "Meet Grandpa" episode was filmed and ready for air on March 6 before they got their cancellation notice from CBS. But then when that got handed down they had to postpone the airing of that episode and go back and re-film parts of it.

On a side note, as I look back on the TV ratings from that season, I don't know what CBS was thinking. The 2 shows it went up against in the 1984-85 season was "Fall Guy" on ABC and "Highway to Heaven" on NBC. Both of which ended up being top 20 shows for the season. Yet Charles in Charge didn't do that bad itself, right around the mid-30s. To go up against 2 shows that finished in the top 20 and still manage to finish in the mid-30s tells me the show had a following of its own, and it would've been interesting to see how it would've fared in a more favorable time slot.

The only thing I can think of is when I look at the prime time lineup a year later (1985-86) for CBS there was a lot of turnover with their sitcoms. Of the 6 half-hour sitcoms that CBS had at the start of the 1984 TV season, only 2 of those (Newhart & Kate and Allie) were still on the air a year later when the 1985 TV season began. In fact, when the 1985 season began, CBS only had 3 half-hour sitcoms on the air. It was as if they had shifted their focus away from airing sitcoms.

Again, thanks for your replies.

Michael, please see the thread called Jason Vs. Adam: Who Is Better. This thread includes several posts by Michael Pearlman, who dropped by to talk about the show. He gives some insights into why CBS cancelled the series and some other interesting things.

I was able to find that thread, Dukey. Thanks.

I didn't realize he had posted on here. That's awesome.