- Dates: October 3, 1984 - November 10, 1990
- Type: Television Series
This Television Series is referred to by Father Knows Worst part of The Simpsons Season 20
The school cafeteria has old TV sitcom writers working in the kitchen. One of the men is a former writer on the series 'Charles in Charge'. He tells the other guys that there was one rule on 'Charles in Charge' and that rule was that Charles was always in charge.
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 first-run syndication in 1987, the story explained that the Pembrokes sub-leased their house and moved to Seattle, and the Powells moved in instead, thereby allowing Charles to live downstairs yet again. This time, the family consisted of grandfather Walter, mother Ellen (whose husband was in the navy, and consequently could only visit his family sporadically), and her three children, Jamie, Sarah, and Adam.