Growing Pains

The upwardly mobile, suburban Seaver family experiences some growing pains when Maggie Seaver (JOANNA KERNS) returns to work as a newspaper reporter, Jason Seaver (ALAN THICKE) moves his psychiatric practice into the home, and 15-year-old son Mike (KIRK CAMERON) asks for more freedom and gets it.

Mike (KIRK CAMERON) is mercilessly teased by his friends after Jason and he attend a Bruce Springsteen concert and a TV interviewer captures Jason's overzealous show of affection for his son.

Late hours and rapt attention to her newspaper work by Maggie convince her husband Jason that she's having an affair with her handsome co-worker.

Maggie and Jason face the challenge of parenthood when daughter Carol tries to follow her mother's career as a reporter and sons Mike and Ben start gambling.

Working mother Maggie Seaver (JOANNA KERNS) begins to feel edged out of her children's lives and excluded from family affairs by none other than husband Jason (ALAN THICKE)., Teenage daughter Carol (TRACEY GOLD) starts confiding in her father about her boyfriend problems, and son Mike (KIRK CAMERON) tries to trick his girlfriend and replace her dog with another one.

A Madonna-styled teenage seductress (DANA PLATO) wreaks havoc in the Seaver household when she appears at their doorstep in some rather revealing clothing looking for Mike (KIRK CAMERON) and plotting to make him her next seduction.