GROANING PAINS

GROWING PAINS
ABC 1985-1992

MAD #266, October 1986
w: Lou Silverstone & Dick Debartolo
a: Angelo Torres

Family sitcom about the Seaver family. Jason (Alan Thicke) is a psychiatrist whose office is at his home and his wife Maggie (Joanna Kerns) is a newspaper reporter. Their three children are Ben (Jeremy Miller), Carol (Tracey Gold), and Mike (Kirk Cameron).

Mike started out as a horny teenager, but as time went on, the more power actor Kirk Cameron had and made the character closer to the evangelical christian he was becoming, making the storylines more wholesome, having one of his co-stars fired for appearing in Playboy, stuff like that.

GROWING PAINFUL
Cracked #230, September 1987
w: Joe Catalano
a: Walter Brogan

Tina Yothers was the youngest child on Family Ties, a TV sitcom on NBC that was similar to Growing Pains.