Growing Pains

The upwardly mobile, suburban Seaver family experiences some growing pains when Maggie Seaver (JOANNA KERNS) returns to work as a newspaper reporter, Jason Seaver (ALAN THICKE) moves his psychiatric practice into the home, and 15-year-old son Mike (KIRK CAMERON) asks for more freedom and gets it.

Mike (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.

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.

Maggie 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.

Working mother Maggie Seaver (JOANNA KERNS) begins to feel edged out of her children's lives and excluded from family affairs by none other than husband Jason (ALAN THICKE). Teenage daughter Carol (TRACEY GOLD) starts confiding in her father about her boyfriend problems, and son Mike (KIRK CAMERON) tries to trick his girlfriend and replace her dog with another one.

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 plotting to make him her next seduction.

When 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.

Mike 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.

When the son of a family friend visits, Carol (TRACEY GOLD) becomes enamored of him and learns the meaning of heartache.

Ben (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.

Jason (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.

While the Seaver family prepares for Christmas, one of Jason's (ALAN THICKE) patients contemplates suicide by jumping down the Seaver chimney.

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).

After a fistfight with Ben's (JEREMY MILLER) hockey coach, Jason (ALAN THICKE) is left with the task of explaining that fighting is not the way to get the job done, while Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) endures the hardship of teaching Mike (KIRK CAMERON) ballroom dancing.

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 weekend and Carol (TRACEY GOLD) is enchanted with Richie's (EVAN ARNOLD) romanticism.

Jason (ALAN THICKE) and Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) are displeased after being labeled unacceptable parents by prim P.T.A. member June Hinckley (ANNETTE FUNICELLO).

Sibling 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.

Mike (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?

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.

While Jason (ALAN THICKE) tries to save Maggie's parents' house from being sold, Mike (KIRK CAMERON) tries to save the Seaver house from the ravages of a wild party.

Maggie (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.

Nightmares involving his deceased Uncle Bob (JAMES CALLAHAN) begin haunting Mike (KIRK CAMERON) soon after the man's death.