Who's the Boss?
1984
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Blake Hunter (born January 17, 1934) is an American television producer and writer. He is best known as the co-creator of the sitcom Who's the Boss?, which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992 and which co-starred Tony Danza and Judith Light, in 1984 with business partner Martin "Marty" Cohan.
Apr 16, 2024 · Blake Hunter (born January 17, 1934) is an American television producer and writer. He is best known as the co-creator of the sitcom Who's the Boss?, which aired on ABC from 1984 until 1992 [1] and which co-starred Tony Danza and Judith Light, in 1984 [2] with business partner Martin "Marty" Cohan. [1]
Created by Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter. With Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro. Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York.
Producer. Music Department. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Blake Hunter is known for Who's the Boss? (1984), WKRP in Cincinnati (1978) and Diff'rent Strokes (1978). Add photos, demo reels. Add to list. More at IMDbPro. Contact info. Agent info. Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmys. 4 wins & 3 nominations total. Known for. Who's the Boss? 6.6. TV Series.
- Writer, Producer, Music Department
- Blake Hunter
- Plot
- Cast
- Background
- Influence
- Theme Song
- Distribution
- Spin-Offs
- Reboot/Sequel Series
- International Versions
Widower Anthony Morton "Tony" Micelli is a former Major League Baseball player who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. Wanting to move out of Brooklyn to find a better environment for his daughter, Samantha, he takes a job in the upscale suburb of Fairfield, Connecticut, as a live-in housekeeper for divorced advertising executiveAngela B...
Who's the Boss? was created by television producers and business partners Martin Cohan and Blake Hunter in 1983. In early development, the series was titled You're the Boss, about Angela employing Tony and the gender role reversal. Before the fall 1984 premiere, the producers changed it to Who's the Boss?, an open-ended title which hinted that any ...
Critical reception
Early reviews of the series were lukewarm. Jerry Buck, writing for Ocala Star-Banner, noted that while the series "doesn't have the same impact [as The Cosby Show], it's not bad, either." He compared Danza and Light's on-screen chemistry to Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. The Pittsburgh Press criticized that "the show may have a universal theme [but] it's hard to find," while Duane Dudek of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel summed the series as a "pleasant little sitcom" which was not a "strugg...
Awards and nominations
Who's the Boss? was nominated for more than forty awards, including ten Primetime Emmy Award and five Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one each; Katherine Helmond received the 1989 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, while Mark J. Levin was awarded the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lighting Direction for a Comedy Series for his work on the episode "Two on a Billboard." Frequently nominated at the annual Young Artist Awards, Milano e...
The show's theme song, "Brand New Life", was written by series creators and executive producers Cohan and Hunter, with music composed by Larry Carlton and Robert Kraft. Three versions were used throughout the series' run, which were performed by Larry Weiss (1984–86), Steve Wariner (1986–90), and Jonathan Wolff (1990–92).The third version was first...
Syndication
ABC aired reruns of Who's the Boss? at 11:00 A.M. (EST) during its daytime schedule from June 1, 1987, until July 1, 1988; it was replaced by Growing Pains on the daytime schedule. The series entered off-network syndication to premiere in September 1989; the show was a success in syndication and was offered to KTTV Fox 11 local stations (including Atlanta-based Superstation TBS and Secaucus, NJ-based WWOR-TV/Channel/UPN 9) throughout the 1990s. TBS premiered the show in October 1994 for one f...
Home media
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment released the first season of Who's the Boss? on DVD in Region 1 on June 8, 2004.The remaining seven seasons have yet to be released due to copyright issues.
The first attempted Who's the Boss? spin-off had its origins in the second to final episode of season two, "Charmed Lives", a backdoor pilot for a program about two women up for the same job as well as overall being a series about the lives of single career women in the '80s. Starring Fran Drescher and Donna Dixon, it was not picked up as a series....
In August 2020, a revival/sequel of the series was announced. It is slated to premiere on Amazon Freevee.
Several versions of Who's the Boss?have been produced for foreign television markets. Some are dubbed and others are remakes. In many cases the names of the lead characters were changed: 1. Aired in India, Samne wali khidki starred Archana Puran Singh as Sanjana and Akshay Anand as Rohit. Here, the housekeeper was a struggling actor living as payin...
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- 196 (list of episodes)
- September 20, 1984 –, April 25, 1992
- ABC
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Jul 6, 2020 · Nosh. Oakland’s newest bagel business sells out in seconds. Good luck scoring Hella Bagels. Only 100 are made a week by chef-owner Blake Hunter out of his Oakland home. He launched the new endeavor amid the coronavirus pandemic. by Alix Wall July 6, 2020, 12:00 p.m.
