Growing Pains (1990)
The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.
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Episode 0 - Unaired Pilot
Release Date: 24 Sep. 1985Add a Plot
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Episode 1 - Pilot
Release Date: 24 Sep. 1985The upwardly mobile, suburban Seaver family experiences some growing pains when Maggie Seaver returns to work as a newspaper reporter, Jason Seaver moves his psychiatric practice into the home, and 15-year-old son Mike asks for more freedom and gets it.
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Episode 2 - Springsteen
Release Date: 1 Oct. 1985Mike (KIRK CAMERON) is mercilessly teased by his friends after Jason and he attend a Bruce Springsteen concert and a TV interviewer captures Jason's overzealous show of affection for his son.
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Episode 3 - Jealousy
Release Date: 8 Oct. 1985Late hours and rapt attention to her newspaper work by Maggie convince her husband Jason that she's having an affair with her handsome co-worker.
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Episode 4 - Carol's Article
Release Date: 15 Oct. 1985Maggie and Jason face the challenge of parenthood when daughter Carol tries to follow her mother's career as a reporter and sons Mike and Ben start gambling.
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Episode 5 - Superdad
Release Date: 29 Oct. 1985Working mother Maggie Seaver begins to feel edged out of her children's lives and excluded from family affairs by none other than husband Jason.
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Episode 6 - Mike's Madonna Story
Release Date: 5 Nov. 1985A Madonna-styled teenage seductress (DANA PLATO) wreaks havoc in the Seaver household when she appears at their doorstep in some rather revealing clothing looking for Mike (KIRK CAMERON) and plotting to make him her next seduction.
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Episode 7 - Weekend Fantasy
Release Date: 12 Nov. 1985When Jason and Maggie leave Mike in charge for the weekend while they return to a romantic hide-away they found 15 years ago, they can't stop worrying about their children. Dennis Haysbert guest stars.
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Episode 8 - Slice of Life
Release Date: 19 Nov. 1985Mike tries to convince his parents to provide him karate lessons to impress a girl. Ben attempts to get into a world record book, and Maggie and Jason take a compatibility test.
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Episode 9 - Carol's Crush
Release Date: 26 Nov. 1985The 23-year-old son of family friends stays with the Seavers and 14-year-old Carol gets a crush on him and mistakenly believes he asked her for a date.
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Episode 10 - Dirt Bike
Release Date: 3 Dec. 1985Ben (JEREMY MILLER) sells his dreams to his sister Carol (TRACEY GOLD) for a school research project. Mike (KIRK CAMERON) disobeys his parents and rides a dirt bike, but gets injured in an accident.
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Episode 11 - Standardized Test
Release Date: 5 Dec. 1985Jason (ALAN-THICKE) and Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) encounter a case of sibling rivalry between Carol (TRACEY GOLD) and Mike (KIRK CAMERON), who's upset over his sister's higher scholastic achievements.
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Episode 12 - A Christmas Story
Release Date: 10 Dec. 1985While the Seaver family prepares for Christmas, one of Jason's (ALAN THICKE) patients contemplates suicide by jumping down the Seaver chimney.
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Episode 13 - The Love Song of M. Aaron Seaver
Release Date: 7 Jan. 1986The Seavers are depending on Mike (KIRK CAMERON) for the annual bowling tournament against the Koosman Family, but are let down when Mike "Romeo" Seaver finds his "Juliet" (APRIL LERMAN).
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Episode 14 - First Blood
Release Date: 14 Jan. 1986After a fistfight with Ben's hockey coach, Jason is left with the task of explaining that fighting is not the way to get the job done, while Maggie endures the hardship of teaching Mike ballroom dancing.
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Episode 15 - Slice of Life II
Release Date: 21 Jan. 1986Jason is ecstatic over the news that wife Maggie may be having another baby. Ben is pleased that brother Mike is his slave for the weekend and Carol is enchanted with Richie's romanticism.
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Episode 16 - The Seavers vs. the Cleavers
Release Date: 28 Jan. 1986Jason (ALAN THICKE) and Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) are displeased after being labeled unacceptable parents by prim P.T.A. member June Hinckley (ANNETTE FUNICELLO).
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Episode 17 - Charity Begins at Home
Release Date: 18 Feb. 1986Sibling rivalry in the Seaver household sends Ben (JEREMY MILLER) soliciting money from the neighbors so he can buy Jason (ALAN THICKE) an expensive birthday present.
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Episode 18 - Reputation
Release Date: 25 Feb. 1986Mike (KIRK CAMERON) is accused of cheating in school after receiving the highest grade in the class. Given his reputation as a scholar, can he convince Jason (ALAN THICKE), Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) or his teacher of his innocence?
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Episode 19 - The Anniversary That Never Was
Release Date: 4 Mar. 1986Thanks to their children, Jason and Maggie have a whole day to spend together for their anniversary. But, all their plans end when Maggie is called away on assignment.
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Episode 20 - Be a Man
Release Date: 11 Mar. 1986Everyone but Mike goes to visit Maggie's parents. But when they arrive, they discover that they are selling their house. Maggie offers to give the money they need to keep them from selling the house. But her dad is too proud and doesn't want anything from Jason. Mike decides to throw a party but when people whom he didn't invite show up, who in turn invite more people, things get out of hand.
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Episode 21 - Career Decision
Release Date: 6 May 1986Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) and Jason (ALAN THICKE) both encounter career decisions that will affect one another; meanwhile, Mike (KIRK CAMERON) makes a philosophical discovery when he's home sick.
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Episode 22 - Extra Lap
Release Date: 13 May 1986Nightmares involving his deceased Uncle Bob (JAMES CALLAHAN) begin haunting Mike (KIRK CAMERON) soon after the man's death.