Episode
Growing Pains: Carol's Article
Overview
Maggie gives an honest assessment of Carol's writing of an article for her school magazine; Mike and Ben discover track betting.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1985-10-15
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
Carol's Article is Episode 4 in Season 1 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1985-10-15. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 9: Carol's Crush
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Episode 10: Dirt Bike
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