Charles first worked for the Pembroke family: wife Jill, husband Stan, and their three children, Lila, Douglas and Jason. When the show ended its run on CBS and entered syndication in early 1987, the story was explained so that the Pembrokes moved away and the Powells moved into their house, allowing Charles to live downstairs yet again. This time the family consisted of grandfather Walter, mother Ellen (whose husband was in the military and could only visit his family sporadically), and her three kids, Jamie, Sarah and Adam.
The now infamous line from one of the final episodes, "Lost Resort," has become a insidious pop-culture reference: "packing the magnet". The phrase is akin to "jumping the shark", but denotes the period at which a show should clearly no longer be on the air. Buddy utters the phrase while hiding a listening device in Mr. Powell's suitcase. Mr. Powell had been looking for his lucky magnet throughout the episode, and suspected that Buddy had it all along. The listening device was later used to learn information about Mr. Powell's secret girlfriend.
The theme song was one of the songs Brian Griffin and Stewie Griffin sing in their TV medley on the Family GuyLive in Vegas album. It was also sung by Peter Griffin during a flashback scene in which he was a security guard at the estate of George Harrison. Peter sang it, staring at the television, while George Harrison's attacker climbed the fence and entered the house.
The theme song was one of the songs on Relient K's debut, self-titled album.
The theme song was performed by The Blanks on the episode "My Nightingale" (2.02) of the sitcom Scrubs and appear on their debut album, Riding the Wave.
Conan O'Brien often breaks into the chorus when discussing TV themes, his own singing voice, or Scott Baio. O'Brien sings the theme song in an operatic tone.
Charles's mother was played by Ellen Travolta, John Travolta's sister. She had previously played the mother of Chachi Arcola, Scott Baio's character on Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi. Chachi's real name, incidently, was also Charles.
Charles' last name was never revealed in the series; in fact the writers sometimes went out of their way to avoid revealing it.
Nicole Eggert went on to star in Baywatch as Summer Quinn. Another actress who appeared on this show and later went on to star in Baywatch was Erika Eleniak. Baio reportedly dated both actresses during the late-1980s and 1990s; however, both he and Eggert, though admitting they were attracted to each other, have denied that they ever dated.[1]
Scott Baio directed many episodes of the show and is credited with his full name Scott Vincent Baio.
Universal Home Video released a 3-disc set of the complete first season of Charles in Charge on DVD in Region 1 on February 14, 2006. Due to poor sales, it is unknown if Universal will ever release the remaining four seasons.
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