Episode
Growing Pains: Be a Man
Overview
Custodian Mike watches a wild party explode in his home.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1986-03-11
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Be a Man is Episode 20 in Season 1 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1986-03-11. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 12: A Christmas Story
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