Episode
Growing Pains: Charity Begins at Home
Overview
Ben gives Jason a very expensive birthday present, causing speculation on how he can possibly afford it.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 17
- Air date
- 1986-02-18
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Charity Begins at Home is Episode 17 in Season 1 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1986-02-18. The runtime is 24 min.
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