Jason and Maggie want to go to a mountain lodge for a weekend, but are reluctant to leave the kids alone.

Coming across a compatibility test in Jason's office, Maggie decides she and Jason should fill it out, but her answers don't tab with his. Meanwhile, Mike feigns interest in karate when his real goal is a girl attending the course.

Carol develops a crush on a family friend, who thinks of her as his little sister.

Mike hurts more than his pride when he takes a nasty fall off a dirt bike that he promised his parents he wouldn't go near.

A depressed department store Santa consulting Jason decides to commit suicide by leaping down the Seavers' chimney.

Mike backs out of the family-bowling match so he can date a snobbish girlfriend.

Jason faces off against Ben's hockey coach, who's teaching the boys to play dirty; Mike learns ballroom dancing.

The PTA head rejects the Seavers as dance chaperones.

Ben gives Jason a very expensive birthday present, causing speculation on how he can possibly afford it.

Mike writes test answers on his shoe soles.

Maggie's assignment interferes with anniversary plans.

Custodian Mike watches a wild party explode in his home.

Reporter Maggie and psychiatrist Jason both face important career decisions.

Mike's practical-joker uncle Bob visits from the hereafter.

Maggie plans a surprise reunion for Jason's college rock band.

A cheerleader befriends Carol solely to meet Mike.

Ben has been calling an X-rated phone service.

Fired Mike hides the truth from his parents.

Carol spreads rumors about herself and a "hunk".

A con man sells Mike a "magic" rock.

A proposed school dress code puts Maggie and Jason at odds.

Ben invites a street girl home for the holidays.

Grounded liar Mike hears Maggie fibbing to her boss.

A girl raises a grade for Mike, then demands payment.

The winter formal causes opposite problems for Carol and Mike.

Mike and his friends go to a college party and have to decide whether to use drugs or not.

Mike plays Cupid for smitten Ben and his baby sitter.

Carol wants to use radio-contest winnings on a nose job.

Maggie's busy schedule leaves Ben feeling neglected.

Airlines passengers Jason and Mike must deliver a baby.

Maggie wants Jason to fire the elderly handyman he hired to fix the furnace, but he refuses because the man is a friend.

Jason knows the editor offering Maggie a dream job is a notorious womanizer.

The family is stranded in Maui.

Ben videotapes Mike and Carol's Hawaiian romances.

Mike uses double talk to sell stereos.

The family scrambles to help find an out-of-work Maggie a job after she turns into Super Mom, preparing oversize meals and assigning new chores.

Mike is unaware that he's been nominated for student-body president because he's "a sure loser."

Ben asks Carol's advice on getting a new bike from their parents.

A star is born when Mike lands a leading role in the school play opposite the lovely Monica.

Bobby's annoying habits make Carol look elsewhere for the man of her dreams -- just in time for her to notice a new student.

During a tonsillectomy, Ben has an out-of-body experience, dreaming that he escapes with a friendly cabbie, only to find a new Ben has replaced him at home.

After their success in the school play, Mike and Monica set their sights on a Broadway audition for ""Our Town.""

An unearned "A" makes Carol doubt her academic record.

A troubled student named Jill volunteers to work on a school project with Mike and Boner. This, however, is a subterfuge: Jill has been contemplating suicide due to some very serious problems at home, and she hopes to get some free counseling from Mike's psychiatrist dad Jason. But as it turns out, Jason is presently weighed down with a few self-pity issues of his own.

Reason flies out the window when Bobby and his parents arrive at the Seavers' for dinner and a special announcement -- that Bobby and Carol are engaged.

Maggie fumes over the many irritants that seem to be driving her and Jason apart -- until unexpected news sheds light on the situation.

Maggie and Carol share confidences at the beauty salon, but later Carol learns to her chagrin that a secret isn't safe with Maggie.

A letter from the girl he met in Hawaii has Mike scheming to fly to Los Angeles to see her without his parents' knowing.

At the school dance, Mike gets a girl and Carol gets raked over the coals. Meanwhile, Ben's adventure goes awry.

Great expectations turn sour at the Dewey High dance after Mike hears Lydia's voice; and Ben and Stinky find themselves in a seedy diner eyeing a pinball machine that pays real money.

The Seavers begin to make room for baby, relegating Ben to the guest quarters and making the others lament the changes bound to come. Meanwhile, Maggie grasps for a way to tell her boss she is pregnant.

Mike and Boner learn that Coach Lubbock has been fired, prompting them to organize a protest.

Jason, Carol, Mike and Boner are arrested in the demonstration over the dismissal of Coach Lubbock.

At Mike's high-school graduation, family members recall moments when it seemed like his graduation would never take place.

Ben gets spooked at the prospect of asking a girl to a Halloween party; Jason becomes a disruptive force at Lamaze class.

Maggie goes into labor on Ben's 12th birthday and Ben confesses to a patient at the hospital that he's already feeling crowded.

Mike has a showdown with Jason over his rights as an 18-year-old college student, and declares his freedom from parental rule.

Carol is chosen for homecoming court.

Mike's photography course includes nude studies.

Ben throws a party to get to know a girl.

The Seavers hire a nanny for Chrissy.

A travel snafu strands Julie with Mike.

Carol sneaks out of the house for a date.

Maggie prepares her "Working Mother of the Year" acceptance speech.

Boner flunks out of college and joins the Marines.

Maggie arranges for Ben to meet his favorite rock musician.

Guests bicker at the Seavers' 20th-anniversary party.

When Mike takes a job at a convenience store, his mother is worried about him working the dangerous night shift; but Mike is more concerned about the favoritism his racist boss shows him as one of the few white employees.

Carol doesn't want to attend her parents' alma mater.

Jason intervenes when Mike gets bad grades in psychology.

Carol's boyfriend is injured drinking and driving.

Jason's mother plans to wed aboard a cruise ship.

Jason tries to mend his mother's broken wedding plans.

Julie and Mike suffer prenuptial jitters.

Jason tells Carol to get a job.

His drama teacher and classmates intimidate Mike.

An angry Jason confronts Ben and Mike, who gives conflicting versions of how Ben came to sell Carol's old term papers to students at Dewey High -- and to date a seductive 18-year-old.

Mike is over the moon when he attends an open casting session and wins a part on a TV cop show -- and crushed when his single line is cut in the editing.

Jason gets a promising job offer.

Jason can't tell Maggie about the job offer.

Ben assumes Mike's paper route for half the money.

Their grandparents give Mike, Carol and Ben $5,000 each.

Promoted at work, Carol decides against college.

Mike takes Ben girl chasing.

Mike falls for his leading lady.

David turns to Mike for help with Kate.

The Seavers' reception to raise money for a free mental-health clinic spells disaster when they forget the date of the party and must scramble at the last minute for a caterer.

While on a Valentine's Day dinner date with Kate, Mike runs into Julie at the restaurant.

Mike goes to work as a substitute teacher.

Carol lands in jail after a minor traffic violation.

Chrissy becomes a teenager in Maggie's dream, which is influenced by her fear of being an older parent in a sea of youngsters taking their kids to preschool.

Ben weighs the pros and cons of cheating after he learns the tricks of the test-passing trade from sly schoolmate Vito.

In a moment of introspection as he prepares to graduate, Mike wrestles with self-doubt about his ability as a director.

With Jason's wallet missing, the Seavers must rely on others to provide them with room and board while their house is being fumigated.

Ben casts a girl he likes as the lead in his home movie.

Jason and Mike head off together to inspect the mountain cabin Jason has inherited from his Uncle George.

When Mike lands a role in an off-Broadway play, he leaves college to pursue acting full-time in New York City.

Mike is broke and homeless in New York City.

Mike becomes roommates with sister Carol, now a Columbia University student.

Mike and his friend Eddie schemingly join "Parents Without Mates" to meet women.

At the school's Parents Night, the Seavers learn Ben's been telling his friends that the girl he's dating is promiscuous.

A flirty Jason gets jealous when Maggie turns the tables.

The Seavers spend a rainy Halloween night telling ghost stories.

Jason buys an anniversary trip to Paris from travel agent Mike, who himself wins a European tour that falls apart; Maggie, in Paris, is struck with appendicitis.

Maggie is hospitalized in Paris, while Mike finds himself stuck on the road with an angry customer.

Mike and Amy continue to bicker their way toward Paris.

Jason, happy to see his mother's second marriage crumbling, doesn't want to provide her with professional help.

Chrissy starts spending much time with her imaginary friend, a six-foot-tall mouse named Ike.

Mike's friend Eddie shows up for a double date with Mike's ex-girlfriend.

An an intrafamily communications seminar, Mike and Jason discover just how alike they are.

Jason becomes Ben's business partner in the management of a rap group, but uses the money he's invested to control Ben.

Maggie's dad drops in for an unexpected visit, with news of his imminent death.

Jason takes Maggie on a tropical getaway to lift her spirits after her father's death, trusting Chrissy to Mike and Carol.

Mike competes with a well-established actor for a role in a soap opera, learning how tenuous an acting career can be.

Though Jason had an insensitive Carol pitch in at the clinic, he objects to her dating an ex-con she meets there.

In an homage to The Twilight Zone, Ben awakens to discover he's Jeremy Miller, an actor on the set of ""Meet the Cleavers"".

On a blind date shaping up as a disaster, Carol goes to the carnival, and finds unexpected fun and excitement.

Mike and Kate accompany the eloping Eddie and a hat-check bimbette to Las Vegas, giving Mike and Carol the wrong idea.