 | 1x01 Pilot (Air Date: Sep. 24, 1985) When Maggie decides to pursue her career in journalism and goes back to work, Jason moves his practice to the house so that he can watch the kids. It's not long before he realizes how difficult ... |  | 1x02 Springsteen (Air Date: Oct. 01, 1985) Mike tries to win tickets to a Bruce Springsteen concert, but to no success. When Jason manages to get him a pair of tickets, he and Mike attend the show together. But when when the two ... |  | 1x03 Jealousy (Air Date: Oct. 08, 1985) When Maggie works long hours on a toxic-waste story with her partner Fred, Jason grows incredibly jealous and begins to assume the worst. |  | 1x04 Carol's Article (Air Date: Oct. 15, 1985) When Carol writes an article for the school paper, she isn't too pleased with Maggie's assessment of it. Meanwhile, Mike and Ben try to earn a little extra cash by betting on horse-race ... |  | 1x05 Superdad! (Air Date: Oct. 29, 1985) Maggie begins to feel as though she's not needed anymore when she notices how well Jason is doing with the children. |  | 1x06 Mike's Madonna Story (Air Date: Nov. 05, 1985) Maggie isn't too thrilled about Lisa, the promiscuous girl who Mike has been spending time with lately. When Mike and Lisa end up having the house to themselves, Maggie's concern grows even ... |  | 1x07 Weekend Fantasy (Air Date: Nov. 12, 1985) Jason and Maggie take a trip to Vermont and reluctantly leave the kids in charge of the house. When they phone home to check on the kids and nobody answers, they immediately assume the very ... |  | 1x08 Slice of Life (Air Date: Nov. 19, 1985) Maggie and Jason take a compatibility test only to realize that their answers don't match up at all. Meanwhile, Mike fakes interest in a karate class to get closer to a girl. |  | 1x09 Carol's Crush (Air Date: Nov. 26, 1985) When old family friends come visit the Seavers, Carol falls for their son, Jeff, but is heartbroken when she learns that he doesn't feel the same way about her. |  | 1x10 Dirt Bike (Air Date: Dec. 03, 1985) When Mike disobeys his parents and goes dirt bike-riding in the woods, he gets severely injured and tries to hide it from his parents. Meanwhile, Carol analyzes Ben's dreams for a school ... |  | 1x11 Standardized Test (Air Date: Dec. 05, 1985) While taking an Intelligence aptitude test, Mike doesn't take it seriously and just bubbles in his answers to form a drawing. When he scores a 27 on the test, his parents are called in to ... |  | 1x12 A Christmas Story (Air Date: Dec. 10, 1985) One of Jason's patients, Walter, is a department store Santa contemplating suicide. |  | 1x13 The Love Song of M. Aaron Seaver (Air Date: Jan. 07, 1986) When Mike falls for an artsy girl, he puts up an act and tries to change his image, as well as his family's to try and impress her. When she falls for the act and invites Mike to a show, ... |  | 1x14 First Blood (Air Date: Jan. 14, 1986) When Jason learns that Ben's hockey coach (Dan Lauria) is pushing the kids to play tough and win by any means possible, he decides to have a word with him. However, when he ends up getting ... |  | 1x15 Slice of Life II (Air Date: Jan. 21, 1986) When Mike breaks a window while skateboarding inside the house, he agrees to be Ben's servant for the weekend if he takes the fall. Meanwhile, Maggie discovers that she may be pregnant and ... |  | 1x16 The Seavers vs. the Cleavers (Air Date: Jan. 28, 1986) When Maggie and Jason find out that the reason they were rejected as chaperons for the school dance was because the PTA considers them to be "unfit parents", they take matters into their ... |  | 1x17 Charity Begins at Home (Air Date: Feb. 18, 1986) When Ben gives Jason an expensive birthday gift, the family is stunned as to how he could afford such a thing, but soon learn that he went around the neighborhood tricking people into donating ... |  | 1x18 Reputation (Air Date: Feb. 25, 1986) Mike prepares for an upcoming test by writing the answers on the soles of his shoes. When he goes to take the test, he realizes that while writing the answers on his shoes the information ... |  | 1x19 The Anniversary That Never Was (Air Date: Mar. 04, 1986) On Jason and Maggie's 17th anniversary, they have trouble finding time to spend together due to interfering work and other mix-ups. |  | 1x20 Be a Man (Air Date: Mar. 11, 1986) When his family goes to visit Maggie's parents, Mike, who stays behind, decides to take advantage of the empty house and throw a party. |  | 1x21 Career Decision (Air Date: May. 06, 1986) Jason gets a job offer at a hospital, while a careless mistake gets Maggie in trouble at work. |  | 1x22 Extra Lap (Air Date: May. 13, 1986) The kids are excited when their fun-spirited Uncle Bob comes for a visit. However, their fun comes to an abrupt end when he dies in his sleep one night. |
 | 2x01 Jason and the Cruisers (Air Date: Sep. 30, 1986) After the family gets together to watch old home movies, Jason begins to think he's gotten too old and goes through a mid-life crisis of sorts. Maggie, trying to lift his spirits plans to ... |  | 2x02 Fast Times at Dewey High (Air Date: Oct. 21, 1986) Mike, Carol and Ben each deal with the first day of school in differently. Carol tries to change her image for the new school year, while Mike tries to impress an attractive girl named Becky. ... |  | 2x03 Long Day's Journey Into Night (Air Date: Oct. 28, 1986) The Seavers learn that Carol's new friend, Annie, who is spending the night, only befriended Carol to get closer to Mike. |  | 2x04 Call Me (Air Date: Nov. 11, 1986) Ben is caught in a web of lies trying to keep the truth from his parents, when he calls a sexual fantasy hotline number, and his parents find out. |  | 2x05 Employee of the Month (Air Date: Nov. 18, 1986) When Mike's parents reluctantly allow him to get a job at a fast food restaurant, he tries to keep his getting fired a secret as to not disappoint them. |  | 2x06 Dream Lover (Air Date: Nov. 25, 1986) When Carol becomes tutor to Bobby, the captain of the football team, she begins to spread rumors about how the two spend their time together. |  | 2x07 Do You Believe in Magic? (Air Date: Dec. 02, 1986) The Seavers scheme up the ultimate plan to get back at Mike for all the cons he's pulled on them. |  | 2x08 Jason's Rib (Air Date: Dec. 09, 1986) Maggie and Jason have a marital spat because of their opposing views on a school dress code policy. |  | 2x09 The Kid (Air Date: Dec. 16, 1986) Jason's advice to Ben about giving to others backfires when Ben brings home a homeless girl for Christmas dinner. |  | 2x10 The Breakfast Club (Air Date: Jan. 06, 1987) When Maggie and Jason ground Mike for lying to them, Maggie is then forced to ground herself as well once Mike catches her lying to her boss. |  | 2x11 Choices (Air Date: Jan. 13, 1987) When Carol is given the opportunity to skip a grade, her family responds with mixed reactions. |  | 2x12 Higher Education (Air Date: Jan. 20, 1987) When a teacher's aid raises Mike's grade so that he may attend a ski trip, she expects a little something from him in return. |  | 2x13 Some Enchanted Evening (Air Date: Jan. 27, 1987) Carol's winter formal doesn't go the way she planned when she has a little trouble reading Bobby. |  | 2x14 Thank You, Willie Nelson (Air Date: Feb. 03, 1987) Maggie's squabbling parents pay a visit to the Seavers. It turns out that Ed, Maggie's father, sold the house and bought a camper without consulting it with his wife, which leads to a big ... |  | 2x15 Thank God It's Friday (Air Date: Feb. 10, 1987) Mike, Boner and Eddie attend a party and must make an important decision when they are offered drugs. |  | 2x16 My Brother, Myself (Air Date: Feb. 24, 1987) When Ben begins to reach puberty, he goes to big brother Mike for advice on girls. |  | 2x17 Jimmy Durante Died for Your Sins (Air Date: Mar. 03, 1987) Carol confronts her parents about the want of a nose job. While at first they are against it, they later tell her she can have the procedure if she can come up with the money by herself, ... |  | 2x18 Carnival (Air Date: Mar. 10, 1987) While the family works on the carnival for Ben's school, Ben overwhelms Maggie with guilt when he begins to feel neglected. |  | 2x19 The Awful Truth (Air Date: Mar. 17, 1987) While searching the basement to help Ben with a school assignment, Mike and Carol discover a secret about their parents' marriage. |  | 2x20 Born Free (Air Date: Mar. 31, 1987) When Jason takes an unmotivated Mike with him on a flight to Boston where he has to deliver a speech, the two end up having to deliver a baby on the plane. |  | 2x21 The Long Goodbye (Air Date: May. 05, 1987) Jason has trouble firing an old handyman because of his years of loyal service. Meanwhile, Ben and his friend Jenny film the family for a school project. |  | 2x22 Confidentially Yours (Air Date: May. 19, 1987) When Maggie gets the job offer of a lifetime, Jason learns that the man offering the job is a slime-ball, but can't tell Maggie. Meanwhile, the children who are left home alone have a series ... |
 | 3x01 Aloha (1) (Air Date: Sep. 18, 1987) The Seaver family vacations in Maui, but no one besides Jason seems to want to be there. While stranded on a boat, the family reminisces about how they wound up on this vacation in the first ... |  | 3x02 Aloha (2) (Air Date: Sep. 18, 1987) As the family vacation continues, Jason gives up on trying to get the family to spend time together, while Ben follows around his siblings and observes their vacation romances. |  | 3x03 Taking Care of Business (Air Date: Sep. 22, 1987) Jason and Maggie don't approve of Mike's new job at a stereo store, which requires him to use unorthodox methods to cheat people out of their money. |  | 3x04 Not Necessarily the News (Air Date: Sep. 29, 1987) When Maggie has difficulty finding a new job, she decides to stay at home and take care of her family. However, she goes a little overboard and ends up driving everybody nuts. She eventually ... |  | 3x05 Michaelgate (Air Date: Oct. 06, 1987) When Mike is nominated for student-body president, Carol is envious at first because she believes she deserved to be nominated; however, she soon finds out what's really going on behind ... |  | 3x06 Big Brother is Not Watching (Air Date: Oct. 13, 1987) When Ben enlists Carol for help in getting a new bike, the plan that the two hatch up ends up severely backfiring. |  | 3x07 A Star is Born (Air Date: Oct. 27, 1987) In order to impress a girl, Monica, Mike takes part in the school production of Our Town. He at first doesn't take his duties seriously, but then realizes that acting might actually be his ... |  | 3x08 Gone But Not Forgotten (Air Date: Nov. 03, 1987) When the Seavers return home after celebrating Maggie's birthday, they discover that their home has been invaded by burglars, which causes them to deal with the tragedy in different way ... |  | 3x09 Who's Zoomin' Who? (Air Date: Nov. 10, 1987) Carol who isn't satisfied with her current relationship with Bobby, begins spending a lot of time with a charming new transfer student named Jeffery (Brad Pitt). |  | 3x10 This is Your Life (Air Date: Nov. 17, 1987) Ben who is incredibly nervous about the tonsillectomy he is about to undergo, dreams that he sneaks out of the hospital right before the operation, only to discover that his role in the ... |  | 3x11 Broadway Bound (Air Date: Nov. 24, 1987) Still reeling from their success in the high school production of Our Town, Mike and Monica decide to audition for the same play on Broadway, only to discover that they are in way over their ... |  | 3x12 The Scarlet Letter (Air Date: Dec. 01, 1987) When Carol receives an A+ on a pop quiz she believed to have failed, she begins to wonder if she had actually earned all the past grades which made up her flawless academic record, or if ... |  | 3x13 A Reason to Live (Air Date: Dec. 08, 1987) Jason tries to help a suicidal girl named Jill, who also happens to be a classmate of Mike's. |  | 3x14 Nasty Habits (Air Date: Dec. 15, 1987) When Jason and Maggie learn that Mike, the king of procrastination, has had four weeks to complete the English paper that is due the following day and has yet to start, they force him to ... |  | 3x15 The Marrying Kind (Air Date: Jan. 05, 1988) When Carol accepts Bobby's marriage proposal, she tries to find a way to gently break the news to her parents. She decides to invite Bobby's parents to dinner with her family, where she ... |  | 3x16 State of the Union (Air Date: Jan. 12, 1988) Maggie is not happy when Jason befriends her boss and the two begin to spend a lot of time together, while she can barely even get a word in with him. She also gets some surprising news ... |  | 3x17 The Mom Who Knew Too Much (Air Date: Jan. 26, 1988) When Carol and Maggie share secrets at a hair salon, Carol is outraged to find out that her mother betrayed her confidence and shared the secret with Jason. |  | 3x18 Great Expectations (Air Date: Feb. 09, 1988) When Mike receives a letter from Melia, the girl he met while vacationing in Hawaii, he decides to fly half way across the country to see her and has Carol and Ben cover for him so that ... |  | 3x19 Dance Fever (1) (Air Date: Mar. 01, 1988) Maggie and Jason chaperon Mike and Carol's high school dance much to their children's dismay. |  | 3x20 Dance Fever (2) (Air Date: Mar. 02, 1988) As the dance continues, Maggie finds herself filling in as deejay, while Carol has dance partner troubles and Mike finally hears his date's unique sounding voice. |  | 3x21 Bringing Up Baby (Air Date: Mar. 09, 1988) The Seavers begin to prepare for the arrival of the new baby as they start to decorate the nursery. Mike, knowing that one of the kids will have to give their room to the new baby and move ... |  | 3x22 The Obscure Objects of Our Desire (1) (Air Date: Mar. 30, 1988) In this retrospective episode, the family does a little spring cleaning and prepares for a garage sale, and some of the household objects have stories to tell about events that occurred ... |  | 3x23 The Obscure Objects of Our Desire (2) (Air Date: Mar. 30, 1988) As household objects continue to tell stories through flashback, the children realize that they aren't ready to part with some of their belongings because the memories mean too much to ... |  | 3x24 How the West Was Won (1) (Air Date: Apr. 26, 1988) Carol and Mike stage a sit-in to protest Coach Lubbock being let go at the end of the school year. Matters get serious when the authorities get involved and Maggie has to be the one to report ... |  | 3x25 How the West Was Won (2) (Air Date: Apr. 27, 1988) After all the press the school received because of Mike's protest, the school decides to fire Coach Lubbock immediately rather than at the end of the semester. Coach Lubbock, who is angry ... |  | 3x26 Graduation Day (Air Date: May. 04, 1988) During Mike's graduation ceremony, his family, who are extremely proud of his accomplishment, reminisce about his early years and all the events that led to this moment. |
 | 4x01 Fool for Love (Air Date: Oct. 19, 1988) When Vito throws a Halloween party, Ben who desperately needs a date asks one of his best friends, Jenny to attend the party with him. |  | 4x02 Birth of a Seaver (Air Date: Oct. 26, 1988) Ben's 12th birthday party is cut short when Maggie goes into labor and the family must rush to the hospital. Ben who is feeling neglected and a little down in the dumps, has a chat with ... |  | 4x03 Family Ties (1) (Air Date: Nov. 02, 1988) Father and son butt heads when Mike believes that he, as an 18 year old college student, deserves more freedom than Jason allows him. The argument leads to Mike moving out of the house and ... |  | 4x04 Family Ties (2) (Air Date: Nov. 09, 1988) Jason realizes that the agreement he had with Mike is not working out at all as his son is not even complying with his part of the bargain. The two get into another fight and refuse to speak ... |  | 4x05 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (Air Date: Nov. 16, 1988) Jason is not happy when his mother, Irma, returns home from a cruise with a new boyfriend, Wally, who she intends to marry. |
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