Growing Pains (1990)
The misadventures of a family with a home business father and a journalist mother.
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Episode 1 - Back to School
Release Date: 18 Sep. 1991Mike begins teaching remedial at an inner city community center. Chrissy dislikes kindergarten.
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Episode 2 - Stop, Luke and Listen
Release Date: 25 Sep. 1991Mike tries to help when he learns that is best remedial student is homeless.
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Episode 3 - In vino veritas
Release Date: 28 Sep. 1991A homeless remedial student comes under suspicion when Jason's wine collection starts to disappear.
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Episode 4 - Paper Tigers
Release Date: 5 Oct. 1991Writing a newspaper column puts Maggie in competition with Jason. Ben tries to lose his new glasses.
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Episode 5 - The Young and the Homeless
Release Date: 12 Oct. 1991Mike risks his television career to help Luke. Carol enjoys her new popularity at college.
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Episode 6 - Jason Sings the Blues
Release Date: 19 Oct. 1991Mike, Ben and Luke are hard pressed to explain Jason's unusual behavior at his own psychiatry banquet.
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Episode 7 - The Kid's Still Got It
Release Date: 26 Oct. 1991Maggie and Carol visit a health club Mike and Jason find out that Chrissy has live.
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Episode 8 - There Must Be a Pony
Release Date: 2 Nov. 1991Jason uses psychiatry when Chrissy refuses to go to bed. Luke achieves instant popularity in high school.
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Episode 9 - The Big Fix
Release Date: 9 Nov. 1991Ben uses and hurts the vacuum cleaner Maggie's supposed to test for her column. She doesn't know what he did, so when it runs poorly, she prepares to blast the company for misleading advertising. Meanwhile, Luke lies about his life to a girl he wants to impress.
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Episode 10 - Home Malone
Release Date: 16 Nov. 1991The Seavers go to Maggie's mom's house to get the place ready to be sold. Kate's moving to Florida, and hasn't seen the house, which is full of memories and her husband's presence, since Ed died.
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Episode 11 - Bad Day Cafe
Release Date: 23 Nov. 1991Mike's skeptical when Luke's dad reappears wanting his son back. Ben pretends to be Luke so Mike can check the man out.
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Episode 12 - B=MC2
Release Date: 30 Nov. 1991Ben wants to take a college entrance exam, and gets mad when he hears his dad make a disparaging remark about his intelligence. Carol's feelings for Dwight take a blow when she meets the young girl living at his place.
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Episode 13 - It's Not Easy Being Green
Release Date: 21 Dec. 1991Jealous Mike follows Kate to a Jamaican shoot.
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Episode 14 - The Call of the Wild
Release Date: 4 Jan. 1992Kate wants to go skiing, and Mike doesn't have the money. He finds a bargain - if twenty rooms are booked, the twenty-first is free. He gets Ben, Carol, Dwight, and Luke to go, and the others are supposed to be Ben's chess club. But, Ben takes the school rowdies instead.
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Episode 15 - Honest Abe
Release Date: 18 Jan. 1992Adam learns that money isn't everything. His parents want him to visit a truant orphanage, but he leaves the door wide open for moral support when he goes off to buy chewing gum and candy instead.
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Episode 16 - Vicious Cycle
Release Date: 1 Feb. 1992Jason and Maggie have no luck reining in Luke, so they put Mike in charge of disciplining him.
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Episode 17 - Menage a Luke
Release Date: 8 Feb. 1992Ben has his eye on a girl who is constantly rebuffing. He's planning to ask her out. At the same time, he treats a girl who worships him like dirt. Luke makes a connection with her. He's hesitant to make a move because of Ben but Mike convinces to. When the girl Ben was planning to ask out shoots him down, he decides to ask out the one who follows him, but she's already with Luke and Ben doesn't take it well.
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Episode 18 - The Five Fingers of Ben
Release Date: 22 Feb. 1992Ben takes karate lessons to deal with a school bully.
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Episode 19 - Don't Go Changin'
Release Date: 29 Feb. 1992Eddie drops by to visit Mike, and he hasn't changed a bit. His irresponsible ways don't exactly mesh with Mike's ideals for raising Luke. Ben makes a home movie for Carol, who's studying in London.
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Episode 20 - The Truck Stops Here
Release Date: 21 Mar. 1992Luke's trucker father comes and tries to reach out to Luke but Luke rebuffs him. When he's about to leave his back goes out so they take him and Mike is incredulous as to if he's really hurt. But Maggie tells him that according to the doctor he is and that if he continues to drive a truck it could get worse. Jason and Ben deliver his load which proves to be no easy task.
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Episode 21 - Maggie's Brilliant Career
Release Date: 4 Apr. 1992Maggie tries to beat her fears by facing them - and ends up hanging off the side of a mountain.
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Episode 22 - The Wrath of Con Ed
Release Date: 11 Apr. 1992Maggie and Jason get stuck in traffic after a city wide power failure. Ben is stuck at home babysitting Chrissy who is afraid if the dark.
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Episode 23 - The Last Picture Show: Part 1
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1992Maggie Gets a job offer she can't refuse. But, it will changes her whole families lives.
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Episode 24 - The Last Picture Show: Part 2
Release Date: 25 Apr. 1992Mike proposes to Kate, realizing he wants someone to cook and clean when his mom moves, but she furiously turns him down. Maggie wants to refuse the job since Ben is against moving, but Mike talks to his little brother and they strike a deal.