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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 13575
Released: February 14, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
80's Trivia - Charles in Charge
1. What are the names of the Powell children? A: Jamie, Sarah, Adam
2. What is Buddy Lembeck's full character name? A: Buddins Lembeck
3. What is the name of the college that Charles attended? A: Copeland
4. What was Charles' last name? A: He doesn't have one.
5. What was the name of the FIRST family Charles took care of? A: Pembroke
6. What was the name of the SECOND family Charles took care of? A: Powell
7. What was Charles' mother's name? A: Lillian
8. Where did the show take place? A: New jersey (New Brunswick)
Description of Charles in Charge: The Complete First Season:
Nothing screams the '80s like Charles in Charge, a featherweight but appealing vehicle for the budding dreamboat of Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, Scott Baio. The premise: college guy moves into a household with three young children to work his way through school by being a male nanny (a manny?). Hilarity, of the '80s variety, ensues, with lots of double entendres, big hair and really bad clothes decisions (ever notice how often Charles wore two era emblems together, like suspenders with a tie, or gold neck chain with tie (not to mention the popular maroon sweater vest).
Still, Baio's boyish and earnest appeal surpassed his outfits, and managed to sustain the show through six seasons. The first season contains 22 episodes, highlighted by guest appearances by actors who'd become big later, including Meg Ryan and a truly baby-faced Matthew Perry. Bonus features include a featurette on "The Great '80s TV Flashback" (fun, though not quite up to the standards of, say, a VH1 special) and a bonus preview episode from season 2, when Charles moves in with a new family, the Powells. Baio was sweet as Charles, but really rocked decades later in Arrested Development as sleazy attorney Bob Loblaw. Say that three times, really fast. And now everybody, I'm not kidding: "Go! To! Bed!" --A.T. Hurley
Charles in Charge: The Complete First Season Reviews:
Where it all started. 
2009-04-12 - Charles in Charge - The Complete First Season isn't perfect but it's not a big deal because this classic '80s show is pure joy. Scott Baio stars as Charles, a College student who takes a job as a live-in babysitter. The family in the first season is pretty lame, so glad they get rid of them after this season. I prefer The Powell family, better chemistry I guess. Willie Aames is hilarious as Charles best pal, Buddy. Great show, brings back a lot of bittersweet memories for me.
I love the 80's!! 
2009-02-16 - I love watching all the old episodes. If you were a child of the 80's and loved to watch Happy Days and Charles in Charge, then you will love these... Scott Baio is sooooo cute!! And I love the fact that the corkiness is so innocent and real. Total nostalgia.
Warm, family comedy
2009-01-25 - Scott Baio stars as the title character, a college freshman trying to juggle the costs of school by working as a live-in caregiver for the three adolescent Pembroke children in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Willie Aames provides comedy relief as his constant sidekick, goofy buddy, as well as Charles' beautiful on-again, off-again girlfriend Gwendolyn (Jennifer Runyon).
Memorable episodes include "War," where a very young Meg Ryan guest stars as a potential nanny shadowing Charles around the Pembroke home for the day; "A Date With Enid," where geeky older son Douglas falls head over heels for his sister's shy (and also geeky) classmate; and "Home for the Holidays," where Grandma Irene (guest star Rue McClellahan of "Golden Girls"), not accustomed to having anyone else to vie for the children's affection, clashes with Charles over who's really in charge.
As a bonus feature, the box set includes a sneak peek into Season 2, when the Pembrokes have moved away and been replaced by a new family, the Powells.
Viewers will enjoy this family-friendly show, full of light-hearted humor and coming-of-age lessons, just as relevant today as in the '80s.
Great 80's show
2008-03-23 - The first season i feel was better than season 2 , charles seems to care more about the kids and the family to me in this season of charles in charge, and more like himself than he dose in season 2, all thought buddy i think better in the second season than the first,
To my surpise still great after all the years...
2007-08-16 - I ran into this on Amazon while looking at old t.v. series that had come out on DVD. I added it to my Wish List and ended up getting it for my birthday. I was a little skeptical if I would still enjoy something like this, so many years later. I also couldn't quite remember any episodes, only that I enjoyed it as a kid. After the first episode my fiancée and I were hooked! She is younger than me, so I don't think she had ever seen the First Season. By the end of First Season, we were both looking for more only to be disappointed when we returned to Amazon to see this is the only season out. Also, at the end of the last disc as a bonus is the first episode for the Second Season. It's a new family which is probably the one most people remember. The First Season was a total 5-Star for us. There is plenty of 80s cheese to remember and laugh about as well as some good family values.
