Or at least not until much later in his life.....................
Would this series have gone longer, perhaps another season or two?
Not sure if the series would have lasted any longer but would think Julie McCullough would not have been fired.
shareThe show was renewed for 6 more seasons after its first year. It had nothing to do with his Christianity - but it's nice to know he is saved.
shareCarl Reiner once said that if you get 5 years out of a TV show, that was success. I think that had Kirk not converted to Christianity that the show might have chugged along for another couple of seasons, but by the early 1990s, tastes were changing and the family sitcoms were disappearing. "Family Ties" got cancelled in '89, "The Cosby Show" in '92 and "Full House" in '95. By that point, "Roseanne" was THE sitcom and represented a change in the family sitcom, moving away from the wholesome, traditional ones like "Growing Pains" into more grittier, snarky fare.
I think that GP still would've run for about seven seasons had Kirk Cameron not turn into a major pain in the ass. Family sitcoms like GP (about functional families and heavy-handed morals at the end of each episode) were pretty much on their way out. Also, the kids were getting older and were young adults (well, at least Mike and Carol) now. GP was already running on fumes when they added Ashley Johnson and later Leonardo DiCaprio.
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