Episode
Growing Pains: Taking Care of Business
Overview
Mike uses double talk to sell stereos.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1987-09-22
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Taking Care of Business is Episode 2 in Season 3 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1987-09-22. The runtime is 30 min.
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