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15 Mar, 1986

Tony Danza interview

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Danza talks about being more than just the star of Who’s the Boss? He gets to try his hand at directing, as well as acting to every aspect of the show.

That’s my responsibility because if the show ever gets canceled, they ain’t gonna remember Marty Cohan or Blake Hunter, they’ll remember Tony Danza got canceled—that’s why I’m involved.

3 Jul, 1988

Katherine Helmond interview

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Helmond talks with The Associated Press and says that her role on Who’s the Boss? was originally supposed to be the sister of Angela, not the mother. They decided a mother-daughter duo would be better.

They read a lot of young ladies. But they felt it turned out to be kind of sour grapes. Each sister seemed a little envious of the other.

11 Jan, 1989

Judith Light interview

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Light talks about her love for Who’s the Boss? and how she would love to launch a film career after the series eventually ends.

I’m putting the energy out there.

Nov 1989

Receives Fairfield, CT, support

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The show, which is set in Fairfield, Connecticut, receives free sweatshirts, buttons, mugs, bumper stickers and a complimentary subscription of the town newspaper for the show’s cast and production crew. It is the town’s and Citizen-News appreciation for setting the show in Fairfield and also in celebration of the town’s 350th anniversary. Studio publicity director, Libby Gill:

We’re delighted that the real-life citizens of Fairfield enjoy their fictional counterparts.

2 Dec, 1990

Katherine Helmond interview

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Helmond talks with The Associated Press, about how she is not quite like her Who’s the Boss? alter ego, Mona Robinson. Helmond is strong and confident and is in a marriage that has lasted 28 years.

In a lot of ways I’m like Mona. I’m not quite as blunt . . . not as wild as she is, but I’m straightforward and willing to take a risk.

11 Sep, 1991

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ABC-TV talks with USA Today about Who’s the Boss? as it drops from its top twenty position, despite that it is still popular and is renewed for an eighth season.

We see a major star in Tony Danza. Someone who is still immensely popular with the public. As you get into the sixth and seventh year, an aging process does occur, and we admit that the show doesn’t force you to watch like it used to.

28 Sep, 1991

Tony and Angela finally get together

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Tony and Angela finally get together after an eight-year will-they-won’t-they relationship.  Danza exclaims:

We thought this would be a nice way to tie up the knot.

Tony Danza interview

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Danza talks with USA Today about Who’s the Boss? and how Tony and Angela finally get together after an eight-year will-they-won’t-they relationship.

We thought this would be a nice way to tie up the knot.

19 Mar, 1992

Martin Cohen interview

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Cohen tells USA Today that the series finale of Who’s the Boss? will be a happy one.

We will deliver on this romance. Tony and Angela are headed down the road to marriage.

25 Apr, 1992

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Who’s the Boss? ends after an eight-year run on ABC. Tony and Angela’s will-they-won’t-they relationship finally has become a they-are relationship earlier this season, when the duo became an official couple. Will they marry in tonight’s episode? Executive producer, Martin Cohen:

We’ve been on a roller coaster for eight years.

Martin Cohen interview

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Screen-Shot-2013-12-07-at-20.01.59Although Who’s the Boss? ends its eight-year run, across the pond in Britain, another version of the show called The Upper Hand is being produced.

The Upper Hand is now in its fourth season, using the original Who’s the Boss? scripts with only minor cultural and semantic changes.

7 Oct, 2000

Martin Cohen interview

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Cohen talks to Entertainment Tonight about how the show changed television, based on how things were changing in society in 1984, with more women going out into the workforce.

The idea in those days of role reversal was happening.  I mean women were going out into the workforce, men were staying home with the kids.

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16 Jul, 2005

Alyssa Milano interview

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Milano talks on The Tony Danza Show, about how their show Who’s the Boss? broke a lot of new grounds, at the time it was first released.

In watching all these clips it make me realize we crossed a lot of lines that weren’t crossed in that time in television

Who's the Boss Reunion *part3*

26 Jul, 2005

The Tony Danza Show Interview

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Light appears on the talk show of her former Who’s the Boss? co-star, Danza, The Tony Danza Show and responds to a clip he shows from the series opener, where Light’s character, tells Danza’s character, he’s the wrong sex. Light says to Danza upon entering the stage:

I just wanted to say something to you honey. You’re not the wrong sex!

Who's The Boss Reunion *part1*

The Tony Danza Show Interview

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Danza and Light talk on The Tony Danza Show about the time he and Light shot the bathtub scene on Who’s the Boss? where his character is supposed to walk in on Light’s character nude. Light, unbeknownst to Danza, actually came out of the tub nude just to get an authentic reaction from Danza. Light:

God, I was gutsy.

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8 Sep, 2005

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Danza talks about taking up professional boxing in 1983, and how he turned back to acting with Who’s the Boss? not too long after.

I still think boxing is where I had the most natural ability. But other fighters were working at it full time and I wasn’t.