
Life Goes On
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known...
Life Goes On
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.
Life Goes On
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known...

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Episode 1: Pilot
Corky tries to mainstream into the 9th grade, the same grade as Becca. Becca worries that Corky may...

Episode 2: Corky for President
Corky runs for freshman class president with the help of an unpopular, smart student,Lester Fishbein...

Episode 3: The Baby-Sitter
Corky gets a babysitting job; his classmates barge in at the house where he is babysitting. The intr...

Episode 4: Break a Leg, Mom
An episode showcasing the singing talents of Patti LuPone. A Tony winner for the musical ""Evita"",...
Episode 5: Becca's First Love
Becca falls for the lead singer (Gabe) in a neighborhood band. She stays out with Maxine to listen t...
Episode 6: Paige's Date
Drew sets up Paige with a charmer whose head is in the clouds; unfortunately his sense of responsibi...
Episode 7: Paige's Mom
Paige's mom comes back. They have a great time, and make plans for a trip to New England. Paige's mo...
Episode 8: Call of the Wild
Drew works on a construction project at an Indian burial ground. A wolf who mysteriously gaurds the...
Episode 9: Corky Witnesses a Crime
Corky tries out for the football team. The footbal coach hits a student, one of his former players,...
Episode 10: Ordinary Heroes
A frustrated Drew decides to quit his construction job and go into the restaurant business; and he j...
Episode 11: Pets, Guys and Videotape
Paige goes to work for a veteranarian who is very kind with suffering animals but kind of insufferab...
Episode 12: Corky's Crush
Becca and Corky (in the same class somehow) do a classroom exercise in which paired students must pr...
Episode 13: Thacher and Henderson
At the high school football reunion, Drew finally makes peace with his best friend after a falling o...
Episode 14: The Return of Uncle Richard
Drew's younger brother Richard, a lovable family black sheep, breezes in at a time when Corky is beg...
Episode 15: Brothers
The Special Olympics, a time for warmhearted competition and fun, also bring love to Corky and a cha...
Episode 16: Corky Rebels
At 18, Corky wants out from under his parents' wings-- even if it just means taking the bus to schoo...
Episode 17: It Ain't All It's Cracked up to Be
Becca enters a Miss Teen contest and finds out that she is sharing a room with none other than Rona...
Episode 18: Pig o' My Heart
Drew finally gets a chance to own his own restaurant, but it's Corky who brings home the bacon: a hu...
Episode 19: Becca and the Underground Newspaper
As a reporter for an underground newspaper, Becca zealously pens an expose of the school janitor's c...
Episode 20: Save the Last Dance for Me
Becca's aged dance teacher (Viveca Lindfors) must enter a nursing home.
Episode 21: With a Mighty Heart
Drew is sure that his father, who stops by on his way to join the Peace Corps in the Solomon Islands...
Episode 22: The Spring Fling
Becca finally gets asked to the dance by Tyler. Only had already accepted an invitation with someone...
Episode 1: Honeymoon from Hell
The Thatchers win a problem-plagued church raffle trip to Hawaii.
Episode 2: Corky and the Dolphins
While in Hawaii, Corky goes dolphin-riding and Becca falls for a surfer. (Part 2 of 2)
Episode 3: The Visitor
Libby discovers she's expecting again, and the family fears the consequences of a pregnancy at her a...
Episode 4: Becca and the Band
Rona and Tyler break up because Rona lied to him and went to a frat party. Becca becomes manager of...
Episode 5: The Banquet Room Renovation
Drew decides to turn the back room of the restaurant into a banquet room in hopes of bringing in mor...
Episode 6: Halloween
Halloween scares up a bad time for all: Libby and Drew at Jerry's big party, Corky at the school mas...
Episode 7: Chicken Pox
Becca dreams about figure skating with a man. She wakes up with the chicken pox and has to stay hom...
Episode 8: La Dolce Becca
Becca gets a crush on a French student and Maxi with this French guy's friend. They have high hope...
Episode 9: A Thacher Thanksgiving
Corky pictures the family at the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving; Drew, opening the restaurant for the...
Episode 10: Libby's Sister
Tension between Becca and Drew isn't helped by the arrival of Libby's sister Gina (Mary Page Keller)...
Episode 11: The Buddy
A fun-loving old buddy brightens up Drew's life, but the man has a shady side. Meanwhile, Becca and...
Episode 12: The Bicycle Thief
Corky resolves to enter a 50k bike race despite his father's objections, and makes friends with anot...
Episode 13: Isn't It Romantic
Cupid is shooting arrows at almost everyone. First Hans gets a crush on a lady that delivers newspap...
Episode 14: The Bigger Picture
Gina despairs when nothing she does is right in the eye of her mother, and Corky despairs when his s...
Episode 15: Last Stand in Glen Brook
Becca organizes a '60s-style protest in support of a record store owner (Quincy Jones) arrested for...
Episode 16: Head over Heels
Becca does a double flip over her gymnastics coach-as does Gina over a handyman (Michael St. Gerard)...
Episode 17: Corky's Travels
Corky gets lost and wanders around the mean streets of Chicago. He meets a kindhearted, young hooker...
Episode 18: Thanks a Bunch, Dr. Lamaze
Drew confronts his feelings about them having yet another child. He comes through in the end when an...
Episode 19: Ghost of Grandpa Past
Drew is having doubts about the restaurant and keeps having conversations with his Grandfather. I th...
Episode 20: Arthur
Corky befriends an older man with Down Syndrome who leads a kind of life that Corky would like to le...
Episode 21: Lighter Than Air
Libby cooks up a great ad for a line of diet frozen foods; Corky and Zoe paly Sherlock Holmes and sn...
Episode 22: Proms and Prams
Expectations run high as Becca awaits Tyler's invitation to the prom, and Libby expects her baby. Pa...
Episode 1: Toast
The Thatcher's toast a third season by reopening their renovated grill, but their dreams go up in sm...
Episode 2: Hello, Goodbye
The Thatcher's rise from the ashes of the restaurant: exchange student Becca prepares to take wings...
Episode 3: Out of the Mainstream
Corky is nearly swamped when he tries to help Tyler's younger brother, who also has Down Syndrome, m...
Episode 4: Armageddon
New roles with Libby as the primary bread-winner and Drew as the homemaker, create new friction in t...
Episode 5: Sweet 16
At 16, Becca retains her innocence-but maybe not for long. Throughout this episode Becca records her...
Episode 6: Life After Death
Becca is devastated to learn that Jesse has tested HIV-positive, and during a scuffle between him an...
Episode 7: Dueling Divas
Libby's vivacious cousin Gaby ( also played by Patti Lupone) breezes in from Sicily like a whirlwind...
Episode 8: Invasion of the Thacher Snatchers
Corky imagines that his family is turning into Venusians after seeing a B-movie called ""Body Snatch...
Episode 9: Loaded Question
The thatcher household is burglarized. Suspicions center on an Africa-American welder named Marquis...
Episode 10: Triangles
Corky takes a tumble for the new assistant manager; Becca is torn between Tyler and Jesse: Tyler say...
Episode 11: The Smell of Fear
Christmas brings anxieties to all, but most of all to Becca, who fears the worst when Jesse is hospi...
Episode 12: Struck by Lightning
The thatcher house is struck by lightening. As a result, Corky predicts the future, Arnold the semi-...
Episode 13: Jerry's Deli
Jerry's dad shows up at the ad agency, and starts pushing Jerry around, so Jerry quits and starts to...
Episode 14: The Room
Becca, Libby, and Paige have entered the ""man zone"". They tear down a wall in the Thatcher house t...
Episode 15: The Wall
It's just a graffiti-covered wall that the students are ordered to repaint, but it becomes a symbol...
Episode 16: The Blues
Jesse gets hired to work as a waiter at Drew's place, but declining patronage forces Drew to let him...
Episode 17: The Fairy Tale
Libby writes a fairy tale about Corky, and Corky enters it in a contest. Libby then gets an offer to...
Episode 18: Hearts and Flowers
Inspired by her grandparents' upcoming 50th wedding anniversary, Becca proposes to Jesse, and he agr...
Episode 19: Corky's Romance
Romance blossoms between Corky and a girl with Down Syndrome (palyed by Andrea Friedman who has Down...
Episode 20: More Than Friends
Drew and Libby leave the kids to watch over the house. Becca and Jesse decide to have a party there....
Episode 21: Confessions
Corky, somehow rendered mute by the accident, does not speak up until Becca bears her soul to him. T...
Episode 22: Consenting Adults
Paige has a great heart-to-heart with Drew about her upcoming marriage with Kenny. Drew takes matter...
Episode 1: Bec to the Future
A 40-something Becca (Pamela Bellwood) looks back on the summer of '92. ( In the future, Becca is no...
Episode 2: Exposed
Jesse paints a nude painting of Becca. (It is never determined if she posed nude or if the nudity wa...
Episode 3: Premarital Syndrome
Corky and Amanda's ""trial marriage"" gets off to a rocky start. ( or crunchy, as in the crunchy mac...
Episode 4: The Whole Truth
Paige fends off an attempted rape by Becca's poetry teacher ( Leigh J. McCloskey). But their account...
Episode 5: Love Letters
Becca and Co. find old World War II letters at the bookstore. (Martin, Smitrovich, and Burke read se...
Episode 6: Windows
Amanda's angry parents vow to annul her marriage to Corky and try to regain custody of Amanda. They...
Episode 7: Babes in the Woods
Becca, Goodman, Ray Nelson Jr., Jesse and two other students from their English class go on a weeken...
Episode 8: Udder Madness
Ray nominates Becca ( against her wishes) for Homecoming Queen; Goodman nominates a cow in protest o...
Episode 9: Happy Holidays
The holidays take on a whole new meaning for Corky, who's celebrating his first Christmas as a marri...
Episode 10: Choices
Paige finds that she is carrying Michael's baby, and is at first delighted to know this. So's the wh...
Episode 11: Incident on Main
Gay-bashing skinheads beat up Jesse outside the AIDS hospice. Becca gets his blood on her hands afte...
Episode 12: Lost Weekend
In her quest to get Becca out of her shell, Goodman takes her and Jesse on a double date. But Jesse...
Episode 13: Visions
Shortly after his 18th birthday, a feverish Jesse collapses in extreme pain at school and is rushed,...
Episode 14: Five to Midnight
Jesse's insurance runs out, and he gets transferred to County Hospital (which is like being transfer...
Episode 15: Bedfellows
A fellow AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to live rather than gi...
Episode 16: Last Wish
Becca and Jesse go to see the ocean, after Jesse says that i's something that he wants to do. Jesse...
Episode 17: Life Goes On (and On and On)
The series finale, it leaps 4 years into the future to see Becca and Jesse marry, and 10 years when...
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