Episode
Growing Pains: Paper Tigers
Overview
Jason and Maggie compete to write a newspaper column; Ben hates his glasses.
Details
- Series
- Growing Pains
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 1991-10-05
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
Paper Tigers is Episode 4 in Season 7 of Growing Pains. It aired on 1991-10-05. The runtime is 30 min.
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