Growing Pains

Carol moves out of her unfriendly dorm, Mike has a tough first day teaching at the health clinic, and Chrissy gets into trouble on her first day of school when she follows Ben's advice.

Mike tries to help one of his students, Luke, who's been living in the school basement, but just ends up getting the kid kicked out.

Luke stays at the Seavers' until he gets a new host family. Worried that they won't like him, Luke lies about his past.

Maggie and Jason are in direct competition to write a column for the "Long Island Sentinel."

Luke decides to leave, making Mike jeopardize his soap-opera role.

Jason acts odd at a psychiatric banquet, confusing the boys.

Chrissy gets lice, and Jason, Ben, Mike and Luke have to clean house while Maggie and Carol are away.

Chrissy believes that adults start partying every night after she goes to bed, so Jason lets her stay up one night, as long as she wants, so she can see that doesn't happen.

Ben uses and hurts the vacuum cleaner Maggie's supposed to test for her column.

The Seavers go to Maggie's mom's house to get the place ready to be sold.

Mike's skeptical when Luke's dad reappears wanting his son back. Ben pretends to be Luke so Mike can check the man out.

Ben wants to take a college entrance exam, and gets mad when he hears his dad make a disparaging remark about his intelligence.

Jealous Mike follows Kate to a Jamaican shoot.

Kate wants to go skiing, and Mike doesn't have the money. He finds a bargain - if twenty rooms are booked, the twenty-first is free.

Luke runs into an old friend, Barney, the only honest three-card monte player.

The Seavers ground Luke when he keeps breaking his curfew at night, but Mike lets him out to go to a big party - on the condition he return early. Luke again breaks his curfew.

Cheryl has a crush on Ben, who's only interested in Sasha. Sasha refuses Ben, who is furious to find that Cheryl's transferred her affection to Luke.

Ben takes karate lessons to deal with a school bully.

Eddie drops by to visit Mike, and he hasn't changed a bit. His irresponsible ways don't exactly mesh with Mike's ideals for raising Luke.

Luke's dad's back acts up, so Mike and Jason take over his tour.

Maggie tries to beat her fears by facing them - and ends up hanging off the side of a mountain.

A blackout traps Carol, Dwight, Kate, and Mike in Dwight's loft amidst the ruins of their banquet. It also ruins Jason's surprise for Maggie.

Maggie is offered a great new job in Washington, which would mean moving. Jason and Carol are enthusiastic, but Ben is against it, and Mike thinks they're all kidding him.

Mike proposes to Kate, realizing he wants someone to cook and clean when his mom moves, but she furiously turns him down.