Growing Pains (1990)
The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.
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Episode 1 - Fool for Love
Release Date: 19 Oct. 1988Ben works up the courage to ask a girl to a Halloween party.
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Episode 2 - Birth of a Seaver
Release Date: 26 Oct. 1988Maggie goes into labor on Ben's Birthday, and she gives birth to a baby girl, meanwhile Ben wanders around the hospital and befriends a old guy named Chris. At the end Ben names his baby sister Christy.
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Episode 3 - Family Ties: Part 1
Release Date: 2 Nov. 1988In a showdown over his rights as an 18-year-old college student who is too old to play by the house rules established when he was a child, Mike moves out of the house and into his car.
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Episode 4 - Family Ties: Part 2
Release Date: 9 Nov. 1988Mike converts the storage space above the garage into an apartment. In so doing, he must choose whether he wants to be tenant or family member. Second of a two-part episode.
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Episode 5 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Release Date: 16 Nov. 1988Jason sends his mother on a cruise to get her mind off her dead husband, but when she returns with a fiancé in tow, Jason finds it hard to accept the man who will "replace" his father.
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Episode 6 - Homecoming Queen
Release Date: 23 Nov. 1988Carol is shocked to learn she is among the nominees for homecoming queen.
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Episode 7 - Nude Photos
Release Date: 30 Nov. 1988When the family learns that a photo Mike took for a photography class he was taking is being honored, he didn't want them to know about it. So he tries to weave a tale but they know that Mike took the class so that he could take naked pictures of girls. So they go to the exhibit and discover what his photo is.
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Episode 8 - Ben's First Kiss
Release Date: 7 Dec. 1988Ben wants to score a date with a classmate who is not allowed to date. He throws himself a spontaneous birthday party at home and invites her. With help from Mike and Carol, they concoct a scheme to make it all happen.
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Episode 9 - The Nanny
Release Date: 4 Jan. 1989When Maggie goes back to work after the birth of her baby, Jason hires a young, pretty co-ed to serve as a nanny. Only problem is, Maggie feels threatened and wants the girl fired.
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Episode 10 - Mandingo
Release Date: 11 Jan. 1989A trip to Martha's Vineyard goes wrong when Mike and Julie are the only ones who make the ferry, and they end up alone together for the night.
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Episode 11 - In Carol We Trust
Release Date: 18 Jan. 1989Carol gets away with her late-night return home from the library where she met a guy but the next night, her date with the guy ends poorly when her parents come home early. MATTHEW PERRY guest stars.
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Episode 12 - Mom of the Year
Release Date: 25 Jan. 1989Maggie is set to receive a prestigious award from a local women's group only to be called out to cover a garbage strike instead. Meanwhile, Carol tries dating a guy 11 years her senior.
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Episode 13 - Semper Fidelis
Release Date: 1 Feb. 1989Mike gets upset at Boner after he decides to drop out of college to join the Marines.
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Episode 14 - Feet of Clay
Release Date: 8 Feb. 1989When Ben's favorite rock star, Johnathan Keith, comes to town, Maggie pulls some strings through her television station to get him a backstage pass and tickets to the show. Jason accompanies Ben and quickly realizes that Ben's idol is not what he seems.
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Episode 15 - Anniversary from Hell
Release Date: 15 Feb. 1989Jason and Maggie are in for a surprise when an anniversary party is planned without their knowledge. As things get out of hand, desserts start flying.
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Episode 16 - Fortunate Son
Release Date: 22 Feb. 1989Mike is tired of his job at the car wash. While playing video games with Ben at a neighborhood convenience store, he inquires about working there. The manager immediately hires him for the graveyard shift. The store has many minorities working there. When he asks his boss to be let off the graveyard shift, his boss complies. It makes him feel uncomfortable being that he just started there, and that his wish was only granted because he is white. So Mike sets out to prove his boss is a racist.
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Episode 17 - Double Standard
Release Date: 1 Mar. 1989Charges of sexism are heard when Jason and Maggie dole out punishments to the kids according to gender. Meanwhile, Mike keeps a new relationship a secret.
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Episode 18 - The Recruiter
Release Date: 15 Mar. 1989Carol tries to fail in her interview for Boston College, her parents' alma mater, because she doesn't want to go there. Mike helps her by hiring someone to play her dad for the interview.
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Episode 19 - Show Ninety: Who Knew?
Release Date: 22 Mar. 1989After Jason tries to help Mike with his psychology homework, both are surprised to find that Jason does even worse than his son.
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Episode 20 - Second Chance
Release Date: 12 Apr. 1989Carol disobeys Maggie and Jason by sneaking out to a bar with her college-age boyfriend Sandy. She learns a valuable lesson when Sandy gets into an accident and ends up in the hospital.
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Episode 21 - The Looooove Boat: Part 1
Release Date: 26 Apr. 1989Wally and Irma invite everyone to a cruise wedding on the same ship they first met on, but the trip is marred by fighting and arguing. First of a two-part episode.
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Episode 22 - The Looooove Boat: Part 2
Release Date: 3 May 1989Jason apologizes to everyone, and Irma and Wally are married. Meanwhile, Mike and Julie reveal their secret relationship and Mike makes a surprise announcement. Second of a two-part episode.