- Release Date: 1985
- Runtime: 30 min
- Genre: Comedy, Family
- Starring: Kirk Cameron, Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Jeremy Miller ... see all
- Director: Burt Brinckerhoff, Nick Havinga, Renny Temple, John Pasquin, Jack Shea,
- Plot: It's hard enough to raise a kid nowadays but when you have to cope with THESE kids, things tend to get out of hand! Dr Seaver, a psychologist and his... Read more
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| Sep 24, 1985Fandango
By the final season, Carol was studying abroad in London, a plot development created to compensate for the fact that actress Tracey Gold had been forced to drop out of the series due to her debilitating struggle with anorexia.
The original three Seaver children were Mike ( Kirk Cameron ), 15 years old when the series began; Carol ( Tracey Gold ), initially age 13; and Ben ( Jeremy Miller ), aged 9 at the outset.
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This plot development was necessitated by the ongoing serious health problems of actress Tracey Gold , whose battle with anorexia had forced her to drop out of the series.
Of the season's guest stars, special attention should be paid to the actress playing the haughty Sasha Serotsky in the episode "Menage a Luke.
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As season five of Growing Pains gets under way, neither psychiatrist Jason Seaver ( Alan Thicke ) nor his TV-journalist wife Maggie ( Joanna Kerns ) are pleased that their son Mike ( Kirk Cameron ) has become engaged to Julie ( Julie McCullough ), the young woman whom the Seavers had hired as nanny for their infant daughter, Chrissy. ... Full Review
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2009-02-20
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2008-10-11
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