Mike feels abandoned when Boner joins the Marines after failing his first semester at college.
Growing Pains: “Jealousy”
Season 1: Ep. 3 (23:58)
Late 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.
Growing Pains: “Mike's Madonna Story”
Season 1: Ep. 6 (23:49)
A 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 ...
Growing Pains: “The Love Song Of M. Aaron Seaver”
Season 1: Ep. 13 (23:58)
The 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).
Growing Pains: “Slice Of Life II”
Season 1: Ep. 15 (23:56)
Jason (ALAN THICKE) is ecstatic over the news that wife Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) may be having another baby. Ben (JEREMY MILLER) is pleased that brother Mike (KIRK CAMERON) is his slave for the ...
Growing Pains: “The Anniversary That Never Was”
Season 1: Ep. 19 (23:34)
Thanks 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.
Growing Pains: “Long Day's Journey Into Night”
Season 2: Ep. 3 (23:32)
Carol is used by her friend Annie (Guest star Katie Boyer) to win Mike's affection. Andrew Koenig appears as recurring character Richard "Boner" Stabone in this episode.
Growing Pains: “Call Me”
Season 2: Ep. 4 (23:24)
Ben lets his fingers do the walking right into trouble when he passes out a pornographic telephone number at school and then blames it on his best friend.
Growing Pains: “Dream Lover”
Season 2: Ep. 6 (21:46)
While Carol (TRACEY GOLD) does her best to alter her saintly reputation, Mike (KIRK CAMERON) gets physical to protect his sister's honor.
Growing Pains: “Choices”
Season 2: Ep. 11 (22:19)
Carol is given the opportunity to skip a grade in school, while Mike eagerly looks forward to a date with an older woman . . . a 22-year-old stewardess.
Growing Pains: “Higher Education”
Season 2: Ep. 12 (23:54)
When the teacher's student assistant changes Mike's grade from a "D+" to an "A"so that she can be his date on a ski trip, Mike must figure out a way to change her mind. Andrew Koenig appears as ...
Growing Pains: “The Awful Truth”
Season 2: Ep. 19 (22:04)
When 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.
Growing Pains: “Born Free”
Season 2: Ep. 20 (23:49)
None 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 ...
Growing Pains: “Confidentially Yours”
Season 2: Ep. 22 (22:22)
Jason confronts his professional ethics when Maggie receives a job offer from a big time newspaper editor with ulterior motives, and the Seaver children learn that glue won't fix everything.
Growing Pains: “Not Necessarily The News”
Season 3: Ep. 4 (24:30)
After being turned down for a job again and again, Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) thinks she wasn't meant to have a career. Maybe, she should just stay home and cook meals for the family.
Growing Pains: “Michaelgate”
Season 3: Ep. 5 (22:05)
Scandal erupts at Dewey High School after class clown Mike Seaver (KIRK CAMERON) is nominated for high school student body president.
Growing Pains: “A Star Is Born”
Season 3: Ep. 7 (22:17)
When the girl he likes is chosen as leading lady in the high school play, Mike Seaver (KIRK CAMERON) auditions for leading man--and wins the part. He knows nothing about acting and can't recall ...
Growing Pains: “Who's Zoomin' Who?”
Season 3: Ep. 9 (24:24)
The road to romance gets a little rocky for Carol Seaver and her boyfriend Bobby when her head is turned by a handsome new student. BRAD PITT guest stars.
Growing Pains: “Broadway Bound”
Season 3: Ep. 11 (24:35)
After starring in last year's hit play at Dewey High School, Mike Seaver (KIRK CAMERON) decides to skip the auditions for this year's production and head straight for Broadway stardom.
Growing Pains: “The Scarlet Letter”
Season 3: Ep. 12 (23:26)
When Carol Seaver (TRACEY GOLD) turns in an exam paper that she bluffed her way through because she didn't study and gets an A+ on it, she has serious doubts about the importance of grades and ...
Growing Pains: “Reason To Live”
Season 3: Ep. 13 (24:33)
Jason Seaver (ALAN THICKE) feels dispirited and useless until he meets a sad, scruffy young girl who needs his help.
Growing Pains: “The Marrying Kind”
Season 3: Ep. 15 (24:13)
Jason and Maggie (ALAN THICKE and JOANNA KERNS) are shocked when Carol (TRACEY GOLD) announces her engagement to Bobby (KEVIN WIXTED).
Growing Pains: “State Of The Union”
Season 3: Ep. 16 (24:39)
Jason and Maggie (ALAN THICKE and JOANNA KERNS) drift further apart when Maggie's new job demands more and more of her time.
Growing Pains: “The Mom Who Knew Too Much”
Season 3: Ep. 17 (24:25)
Carol (TRACEY GOLD) is furious with Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) after she tells Jason (ALAN THICKE) one of Carol's most intimate secrets.
Growing Pains: “Bringing Up Baby”
Season 3: Ep. 21 (24:05)
Pregnant, tired and overworked, Maggie tries to muster the courage to tell her bossthat she's having a baby. Meanwhile, the Seaver children try to understand why they weren't consulted about this ...
Growing Pains: “How The West Was Won, Part 1”
Season 3: Ep. 24 (24:25)
Coach Lubbock's contract is up at the end of the semester, and Mike decides to help him out by organizing a strike to keep him at Dewey High School. First of a two-part episode that was a pilot ...
Growing Pains: “How The West Was Won, Part 2”
Season 3: Ep. 25 (24:21)
After staging a sit-in to protest the firing of his favorite teacher, Coach Lubbock, Mike is suspended from school and the coach refuses to talk to him--blaming him for all his problems. Second ...
Growing Pains: “Birth Of A Seaver”
Season 4: Ep. 2 (24:11)
Maggie goes into labor on Ben's birthday. Ben's bothered by all the talk about the baby, the usurping of his birthday, and his losing the role of youngest. He leaves the others in the hospital, ...
Growing Pains: “Family Ties, Part 2”
Season 4: Ep. 4 (24:20)
Mike 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.
Growing Pains: “Guess Who's Coming To Dinner”
Season 4: Ep. 5 (24:31)
Jason 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.
Growing Pains: “Homecoming Queen”
Season 4: Ep. 6 (24:21)
Carol is nominated for Homecoming Queen but questions if she belongs in the contest.
Growing Pains: “Nude Photos”
Season 4: Ep. 7 (24:14)
Mike's embarrassed by the prize-winning picture he took for a photography class. His parents don't understand until they visit the exhibition where the photo's on display. Andrew Koenig appears ...
Growing Pains: “The Nanny”
Season 4: Ep. 9 (24:28)
When 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.
Growing Pains: “In Carol We Trust”
Season 4: Ep. 11 (24:23)
Carol 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.
Growing Pains: “Semper Fidelis”
Season 4: Ep. 13 (24:28)
Mike feels abandoned when Boner joins the Marines after failing his first semester at college.
Growing Pains: “Feet Of Clay”
Season 4: Ep. 14 (20:37)
BRAD PITT guest stars as Ben's idol, rock star Jonathan Keith. Keith is giving a concert in New York, and Maggie manages to get Ben backstage to meet him.
Growing Pains: “Anniversary From Hell”
Season 4: Ep. 15 (23:53)
Jason 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.
Growing Pains: “Fortunate Son”
Season 4: Ep. 16 (23:42)
Mike gets a part-time job, and is bothered to realize his boss favors him because he's white. Maggie's upset when she learns Mike's volunteered for the night shift as a way of protesting his ...
Growing Pains: “Double Standard”
Season 4: Ep. 17 (23:58)
Charges 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.
Growing Pains: “The Recruiter”
Season 4: Ep. 18 (23:12)
Carol 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.
Growing Pains: “Show Ninety -- (Who Knew?)”
Season 4: Ep. 19 (23:52)
After Jason tries to help Mike with his psychology homework, both are surprised to find that Jason does even worse than his son.
Growing Pains: “Second Chance”
Season 4: Ep. 20 (23:51)
Carol's new boyfriend Sandy doesn't show for a date, and his friend calls to say he's been in an accident and is in the hospital, seriously injured.
Growing Pains: “Mike, Kate And Julie”
Season 5: Ep. 18 (22:42)
When Mike (KIRK CAMERON) takes his new girlfriend, Kate (CHELSEA NOBLE), for a romantic Valentine's Day dinner, he never anticipates that their waitress will be his former fiancée.
AshleyL123 (Thursday, 03 Jun 2010)
I loved watching the Seaver family growing up! That Mike was always getting into trouble. But remember the episode where Ben gets in trouble for calling the erotic phone line? What a good one
Wally86 (Thursday, 03 Jun 2010)
The seasons with Leo are cool, but I've always liked Kirk Cameron...Mikey Seaver is the best!
lauren546 (Thursday, 03 Jun 2010)
To me this is the one of the best shows to come out of the 80s. I love the episodes with Leo Dicaprio -- he was such a small, cute kid!
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