Maggie Seaver’s ‘The Meaning of Life’

When Mike decides to pursue a career in acting instead of going to college, Jason gives him a final ultimatum: get an education or move out.

Mike finds it tough living in New York, but thinks things might improve when his sister Carol joins him.

Mike and Carol have huge arguments with their parents and move to New York, sharing an apartment.

Mike meets a single-parent mother and pretends he’s a single parent too, and Chrissy is his.

In an effort to be more popular, Ben starts dating a girl he doesn’t even like.

When Mike sees Jason flirting with a female fitness instructor, he immediately tells Maggie, who responds with a little flirtation of her own.

While trapped at home by a storm, the Seavers take turns telling scary stories. First of a two-part episode.

On a stormy Halloween night, the Seavers gather round to tell scary stories. And the scariest story belongs to Mike.

Mike gives his parents a trip to Paris for their anniversary, but Maggie’s appendix bursts in France. Mike also gets to go to Europe, and meets a girl he fights and travels with from Madrid to Paris. First of a three-part episode.

Mike gives his parents a trip to Paris for their anniversary and gets to go to Europe himself as a rep for the travel agency he works for. He meets and fights with a girl named Amy. Second of a three-part episode.

Jason and Maggie are in Paris, thanks to Mike, for their anniversary, but Maggie’s appendix has other plans. Mike himself manages to get to Europe, where he fights and travels with a girl named Amy. Third of a three-part episode.

Jason’s stepfather and mother are having marital difficulties–and Jason’s happy about it.

When Mike doesn’t show her enough attention, Chrissy decides to invent an imaginary playmate.

Mike can’t stand the thought of his ex-girlfriend, Kate, dating his best friend, Eddie.

A psychiatric session in role reversal brings new understanding between Mike and Jason.

Ben convinces Jason to be his partner in the management of a teenage rap group.

Maggie’s father, Ed, arrives suddenly with heartbreaking news–he’s dying.

After the death of her father, Maggie questions the meaning of life.

To everyone’s astonishment, Mike lands a leading role in a soap opera.

Jason thinks Carol’s too distant from poor people, so he takes her along to the clinic where he volunteers. There she befriends an ex-con and helps him with a story he’s written, but a man recognizes him as the mugger who robbed him two years ago. Leonardo DiCaprio guest stars as Luke Brower.

Ben wishes that his family could be as perfect and forgiving as a family on a television show. And he gets his wish.

A blind date leads Carol to a carnival, where she has a magical evening.

Maggie starts tutoring Ben at home when he gets bad grades and is suspended.

Eddie and the girl of his dreams travel to Las Vegas to get married, and Mike and Kate go with them.