Silver Spoons

Rick's the manager of his friend's band, Splat! When Rick gets them on Rock Search, the lead singer has laryngitis. The band convinces Rick to step in for him & sing that tune.

Rick gets grounded, which effectively ends his experience with alcohol, but he soon learns that Greg is still drinking.

Rick's new friend encourages him to try alcohol.

Rick takes part in a marriage with a student, but is shocked when his ""wife"" gets pregnant.

When Edward lectures him about his poor geometry grade, Rick goes crazy trying to improve it.

In an effort to prove that he is athletic, Edward decides to participate in a race up to the top of the Empire State Building.

Rick leads his friends in a picket line against Grandfather Stratton for paying unfair wages to student employees.

Kate's Uncle Harry uses the Stratton family in a deceptive maneuver to impress an old Army buddy.

Grandfather Stratton schemes with Rick to corner the baseball card market.

Rick's girlfriend has something in mind for their relationship that is a serious step for Rick.

Rick coerces Edward into offering his mom a job, after an embezzler takes all her money.

As new wife and mother, Late begins making changes in the Stratton household that Edward supports and Rick resents.

Whitney Houston gets more than she expects during a visit to the Stratton household when Dexter decides to move to Los Angeles with the singing star.

Consumer advocate, David Horowitz helps Rick ""fight back"" against a crooked mail order camera company.

Bruce Jenner helps solve the puzzle of Alfonso's poor school performance - the missing piece is the learning disorder dyslexia.

Rick is estatic when a hip 16-year-old wants to hang around him, but Edward is suspect of his motives - especially when his gold pen suddenly disappears.

Edward and Rick successfully persuade Kate to change her mind, bringing long-awaited wedding bells to the Stratton household, in the conclusion of a special two-part story.

Edward pops the question to Kate when she receives a job offer, in the first of a special two-part story.

Lulu holds the key to solving a rift between Rick and his grandfather.

Rick finds out that he can't ""save the world"" when he gets involved with a peer-counseling program.

Edward, Kate and Rick have their hands full when Grandfather Stratton trades his empire for a beautiful blonde and a powerful Porsche.

Pearl Bailey as Lula Baker, Edward's former governess returns to the Stratton household and becomes the foil in Rick and Alfonso's secret scheme.

Edward's true Christmas spirit is tested when the Strattons welcome Freddy and his family after a tragedy leaves them homeless.

In an effort to save the freshman newspaper, Rick, Alfonso and Freddy create a freshman beauty pageant, hoping everyone will ""read all about it.""

Rick's mom shows up with an ex-pro football player as a boyfriend and a ""new"" outlook on life.

After their plane crashes on a deserted island, Rick Alfonso, Dexter, Edward and Kate must battle Mother Nature to survive, in the conclusion of a two-part story.

Edward, Rick, Dexter, Alfonso and Kate are faced with one small detour on their way to the Caribbean when Kate pilots the plane through the Bermuda Triangle, in part one of a two-part story.

Rick plays Cupid by introducing Grandfather Stratton to his history teacher, played by Barbara Billingsley of ""Leave It To Beaver.""

When the television goes out on a stormy Halloween night, Rick, Alfonso and Freddy use their imaginations to create their own late-night horror story.

Rick exhibits his independence by running away, but he soon begins to appreciate what he's left, in the conclusion of a special two-part story.

Rick is outraged by being treated like a ""child"" when Edward becomes furious with him for breaking his curfew, in part one of a special two-part story.

Ricky starts his first day in high school.

Ricky meets Alfonso, Dexters nephew.

Edward's former girlfriend decides she wants him back.

Ricky thinks that a fellow baseball player likes him when in all actuality it's Edward that she wants.

Against his better judgment Edward agrees to let Ricky go hunting with Grandfather.

After his parents have an argument, Derek hides out at Ricky's. His mother arrives to take him to St. Louis. ** This is Jason Bateman's final appearance.

Ricky turns punk rocker to try to impress a girl.

Dexter gets dragged to the country for a camping trip by the family.

JT's father is offended by how much time Edward is spending with his son.

Ricky manipulates Evelyn into buying him a motor bike after Edward said he couldn't have one.

Ricky gets in over his head when he, Derek and Freddy bet on football games.

Ricky pretends to play in the school orchestra's production of Peter and the Wolf so Edward won't be disappointed that he isn't musical.

The family celebrates Ricky's 13th birthday with an evening of arguments.

To impress a girl, Ricky promises to have the pop group Menudo play at his private party.

While Edward and Kate are away Grandfather tries to teach Ricky to drive.

Ricky daydreams that he is the President of the United States.

Edward is hospitalized when he has a gallstone attack.

Ricky impresses his science teacher by doing a project with laser beams. Kate is promoted to Vice President of Eddie Toys.

Derek and JT put frogs in Freddy's sleeping bag during a slumber party. Ricky hurts Freddy by saying that he isn't his friend.

Derek and Ricky pick up cheerleaders while in Chicago for a Badger Patrol convention.

Edward gives Ricky an ice cream parlor to run for a week as a school assignment.

Ricky volunteers Edward to buy 1000 bags of popcorn to send the band to Washington.

Ricky pretends to like an obnoxious girl so Edward can hire her as a toy consultant.

Ox,the bully,(see Me and Mr.T)takes Ricky to court for whiplash and is in a wheelchair. Ricky insists that the jury be made up of twelve kids.

After Derek saves his life Ricky is forced to pose as his date at a co-ed party.

Edward and Ricky play Santa to a family living in a cave on their property.

Kate goes on a grudge date to make Edward jealous. It works and the two admit their feelings for each other in the middle of Carnegie Hall.

Convinced that Kate is in love with him, Ricky decides to set her up with Edward.

Ricky convinces Edward to take him camping so he can earn his badger paws.

Ricky forces Edward to attend a banquet honoring Edward II.

Ricky and Derek find a lost orangutan and Ricky wants to keep him.

Ricky is interviewed by a school reporter and goes on the run after hacking into a top secret government file.

Rick's mother Evelyn arrives to challenge Edward for custody.

Ricky gets his first taste of puppy love when a new girl named Sally Frumble transfers to his school.

When Ricky is bullied at school, Edward hires a bodyguard to make sure the problem never happens again.

Ricky wants to meet his grandfather.

Rickys friend Derrick moves into the neighborhood and convinces him that the only reason Edward dosent punish him is because he dosent love him.

Edward Stratton III is the epitome of the overgrown child. His lawyer Leonard Rollins has just informed him that his business manager Lou says he is broke and Edward is more interested in playing a game of PacMan. The Stratton mansion looks more like an arcade with video games lining the walls and a scale model train in the middle of the room that actually goes all over the property. Edward is totally taken by surprise when a blonde 12 year old boy arrives and introduces himself as Edward's son Ricky. Edward had been married to Ricky's mother Evelyn for seven days and until that moment he had no clue that he was a father. We meet Edward's assistant Kate Summers during a thoughtful moment of her mentioning that perhaps Edward should hold off on a charity donation until his finances were back in shape. After discovering and proving that Lou had really embezzled Edward's money, Ricky tries to convince his father to let him move in with him instead of making him return to military school.