elspeth ballantyne played the part of the homeless person who came to live with siblings mike carol ben and chrissy.
who played the part of the homeless person who came to live with siblings mike carol ben and chrissy?
elspeth ballantyne
dr. jason seaver (portrayed by alan thicke), a psychiatrist, works from home because his wife, maggie (joanna kerns), has gone back to work as a reporter. jason has to take care of the kids: ladies' man mike (kirk cameron), bookish honors student carol (tracey gold), and rambunctious ben (jeremy miller). a fourth child, chrissy seaver (twins kelsey and kirsten dohring; ashley johnson), is born on october 27, 1988, a day after ben's 12th birthday. in the fourth season's second episode, "the birth of a seaver," she was first played in her newborn/infant stage by two uncredited sets of twin sisters for the rest of season four (1988-89). by season five (1989–90), she was played in her toddler stage by alternating twins kirsten and kelsey dohring. in seasons six and seven (1990–92), chrissy's age was advanced to five years old. by the seventh and final season (1991-92), homeless teen luke brower (leonardo dicaprio) is brought into the seaver family to live with them until nearly the end of season seven.
growing pains
the seaver kids have left the nest and have children of their own. mike, carol, and chrissy have no place to go when kate is at a spa, scott is out on a campaign, and chrissy claims to have gotten evicted. jason and maggie plan to sell their house to a childhood friend of mike and carol's named richie flanscopper. acting as the realtor, ben is dead set on selling the house, but the rest of the seaver kids object. mike and carol (who is pregnant) take matters into their own hands and sabotage the house so their little brother can't sell it to richie and his wife fiona. meanwhile, mike's oldest child, michelle, is sad about her dad going to tokyo for a job promotion. in the end, ben realizes that his siblings and parents don't want to sell the house, so he makes the house unsellable by driving mike's car through the garage door. the seavers rejoice, until carol goes into labor. carol gives birth to a son, named seaver malone johnson.
growing pains: return of the seavers