Growing Pains

Name: S01:E05 - Superdad
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1985-01-01T00:00:00.000Z
Duration: 23 min 50 s
Cast: Alan Thicke, Joanna Kerns, Kirk Cameron, Jeremy Miller, Tracey Gold

Season 1 Episode 5 - Superdad

1985 · 24 min

TV-PG

Comedy

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.

Subtitles: English

Starring:Alan Thicke Joanna Kerns Kirk Cameron Jeremy Miller Tracey Gold

Directed by:Nick Havinga

S01:E01 - Pilot

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.Outstanding Episode

S01:E02 - Springsteen

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.

S01:E03 - Jealousy

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.

S01:E04 - Carol's Article

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.

S01:E05 - Superdad

S01:E06 - Mike's Madonna Story

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.

S01:E07 - The Weekend Fantasy

When Jason and Maggie leave Mike in charge for the weekend while they return to a romantic hide-away they found 15 years ago, they can't stop worrying about their children. Dennis Haysbert guest stars.

S01:E08 - Slice of Life

Mike tries to convince his parents to provide him karate lessons to impress a girl. Ben attempts to get into a world record book, and Maggie and Jason take a compatibility test.

S01:E09 - Carol's Crush

When the son of a family friend visits, Carol (TRACEY GOLD) becomes enamored of him and learns the meaning of heartache.

S01:E10 - Dirt Bike

Ben (JEREMY MILLER) sells his dreams to his sister Carol (TRACEY GOLD) for a school research project. Mike (KIRK CAMERON) disobeys his parents and rides a dirt bike, but gets injured in an accident.

S01:E11 - Standardized Test

Jason (ALAN-THICKE) and Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) encounter a case of sibling rivalry between Carol (TRACEY GOLD) and Mike (KIRK CAMERON), who's upset over his sister's higher scholastic achievements.

S01:E12 - A Christmas Story

While the Seaver family prepares for Christmas, one of Jason's (ALAN THICKE) patients contemplates suicide by jumping down the Seaver chimney.

S01:E13 - The Love Song of M. Aaron Seaver

The Seavers are depending on Mike (KIRK CAMERON) for the annual bowling tournament against the Koosman Family, but are let down when Mike "Romeo" Seaver finds his "Juliet" (APRIL LERMAN).

S01:E14 - First Blood

After a fistfight with Ben's (JEREMY MILLER) hockey coach, Jason (ALAN THICKE) is left with the task of explaining that fighting is not the way to get the job done, while Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) endures the hardship of teaching Mike (KIRK CAMERON) ballroom dancing.

S01:E15 - Slice of Life II

Jason (ALAN THICKE) is ecstatic over the news that wife Maggie (JOANNA KERNS) may be having another baby. Ben (JEREMY MILLER) is pleased that brother Mike (KIRK CAMERON) is his slave for the weekend and Carol (TRACEY GOLD) is enchanted with Richie's (EVAN ARNOLD) romanticism.