Charles in Charge. 1987 - 1990
People Weekly. June 26, 2000

Canceled after just one season on CBS, Charles in Charge - about a guy working his way through college as a nanny - returned in syndication. With the title character caring for a diffrent family, the show become a hit, even though the approach hadn't changed. "We always went for the laugh," says series executive producer Al Burton

Josie Davis

SARAH POWELL. Suffering through puberty on television was extraordinarily painful for Josie Davis, who portrayed an unfashionable bookworm. "I would overhear fans say, 'Look, there's the ugly girl from Charles in Charge,' recalls Davis, now 27, noting that viewers often compared her with her onscreen sister, popular pinup Nicole Eggert. "I had a complex for a long time." But not anymore. "I have grown so much, spiritually and emotionally," she says. Her TV grandfather James T. Callahan is proud. "Josie looks like a movie star now," he says. "She's got a gorgeous figure and a gorgeous face." Indeed, Davis - who will play a nightclub owner on Titans, a steamy Aaron Spelling-produced prime-time soap slated to air on NBC this fall - now competes for parts with her TV big sister. "We run into each other at the same auditions," Eggert says. Equally committed to working on her craft ("Acting is why I am here on this Earth") and her body (she exercises 90 minutes a day, six times a week), Davis, who lives alone in an L.A. apartment, isn't sweating her single status. "I don't need a boyfriend," she says. "I'm happy with who I've become."

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"For years, I wouldn't wear a ponytail because I didn't want anyone to recognize me from the show," says Davis (in L.A.).