Episode
Growing Pains: Honest Abe
Overview
Luke's homeless friend steals a Seaver momento.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1992-01-17
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Honest Abe is Episode 15 in Season 7 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1992-01-17. The runtime is 30 min.
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