Growing Pains (1990)
The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.
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Episode 1 - Jason and the Cruisers
Release Date: 30 Sep. 1986When Jason starts to feel old, Maggie decides to surprise him with a reunion of his former band The Wild Hots.
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Episode 2 - Fast Times at Dewey High
Release Date: 21 Oct. 1986On the first day of school, Mike finds himself with two dates to the school dance; Ben is intimidated by a school bully; Carol is bored with her classes.
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Episode 3 - Long Day's Journey Into Night
Release Date: 28 Oct. 1986Carol is excited when one of the most popular girls in school starts hanging around with her. However, it becomes evident that she is only after one thing- Mike.
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Episode 4 - Call Me
Release Date: 11 Nov. 1986Maggie and Jason recall how Ben got himself into hot water by calling a pornographic hotline and then lying by putting the blame on a neighborhood kid for giving out the number.
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Episode 5 - Employee of the Month
Release Date: 18 Nov. 1986Maggie and Jason allow Mike to take a job at World of Burgers to prove he's ready for the responsibility of a car. When Mike gets fired, he can't bring himself to tell his parents.
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Episode 6 - Dream Lover
Release Date: 25 Nov. 1986Carol tutors the captain of the varsity football team, and is insulted that her parents trust them to be alone in her room, so she starts a rumor about herself.
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Episode 7 - Do You Believe in Magic?
Release Date: 2 Dec. 1986After being conned out of $10 by Mike, Carol and Ben, along with the help of Jason and Maggie, hatch an elaborate scheme to recoup their money.
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Episode 8 - Jason's Rib
Release Date: 9 Dec. 1986Maggie feels belittled by Jason when they disagree about a school dress code.
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Episode 9 - The Kid
Release Date: 16 Dec. 1986Ben brings a homeless girl home for Christmas dinner, and Jason thinks the family should try to help her, but Maggie is worried.
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Episode 10 - The Breakfast Club
Release Date: 6 Jan. 1987Maggie insists that Mike be grounded for lying and then is caught in a lie of her own. Jason suggests that in order to teach Mike a lesson Maggie should ground herself, and she agrees. Meanwhile, Carol accompanies Jason to Atlantic City so concert tickets from Maggie's parents don't go to waste.
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Episode 11 - Choices
Release Date: 13 Jan. 1987Maggie is thrilled when Carol is offered a chance to skip a grade in school, but then discovers that she may have sent her daughter the wrong message about her own life choices.
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Episode 12 - Higher Education
Release Date: 20 Jan. 1987Mike is blackmailed by a girl who helped change his grade on an English test so he'd be allowed to go on a ski trip; Jason and Maggie have colds, and Carol runs the house a little too well for Jason's liking.
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Episode 13 - Some Enchanted Evening
Release Date: 27 Jan. 1987Carol is eager for Bobby to invite her to the Dewey High winter formal, but he doesn't seem interested. Meanwhile, Mike has three girls courting him to be their date for the dance.
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Episode 14 - Thank You, Willie Nelson
Release Date: 3 Feb. 1987When Carol has a slumber party, Ben and Mike can't resist scaring her friends; meanwhile, Maggie and Jason try to keep peace between her parents who've just made a dramatic lifestyle change.
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Episode 15 - Thank God It's Friday
Release Date: 10 Feb. 1987While the rest of the Seavers spend the evening at home watching TV, Mike and his pals Eddie and Boner get invited to a party where cocaine is offered.
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Episode 16 - My Brother, Myself
Release Date: 24 Feb. 1987When Ben hits puberty he gets advice from Mike and tries to hit on his babysitter; Maggie and Jason go on a date.
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Episode 17 - Jimmy Durante Died for Your Sins
Release Date: 3 Mar. 1987Carol is determined to get a nose job even without her parents' permission, and Mike is surprised when he finds out his teasing may be responsible.
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Episode 18 - Carnival
Release Date: 10 Mar. 1987Maggie feels guilty about not spending enough time with Ben, so she helps organize his school carnival, and doesn't notice that Ben feels more neglected than before.
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Episode 19 - The Awful Truth
Release Date: 17 Mar. 1987When Ben (JEREMY MILLER) must research his family's history for a school project, he uncovers evidence that both his mother and father have been divorced.
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Episode 20 - Born Free
Release Date: 31 Mar. 1987None of his father's lectures on the value of an education seem to effect Mike until he talks to a distraught expectant father; meanwhile, Jason delivers the baby -30,000 feet up. Dan Lauria ("The Wonder Years") guest stars.
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Episode 21 - The Long Goodbye
Release Date: 5 May 1987When the furnace needs to be repaired, Jason insists on using Jimmy, their handyman, but Maggie feels he's too old. Then as things around the house start to fall apart it appears it's Jimmy's fault and Maggie insists that Jason let him go.
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Episode 22 - Confidentially Yours
Release Date: 19 May 1987Maggie's offered a job so she and Jason goes out with the man and his wife. But when his wife arrives, she's shocked to see Jason. It seems she's been seeing Jason and using her maiden name. It seems her husband has ulterior motives for wanting to hire Maggie but because doctor-patient confidentiality Jason can't say anything.