Episode
Growing Pains: Pilot
Overview
Maggie goes back to work as a journalist, prompting psychologist Jason to move his office into their home so he can keep his eye on the kids. Things don't get off to a great start: the first night he gets a call from the police that Mike has been picked up for illegally driving a car.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 1985-09-24
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Pilot is Episode 1 in Season 1 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1985-09-24. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 10: Dirt Bike
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