Alan Thicke's character Dr. Jason Seaver (far left), was one of the first in television characters to play a stay-at-home dad. Jason often struggled to juggle family disputes alongside his practice as a psychiatrist, while his wife Maggie, played by actress Joanna Kerns, worked as a journalist outside the home. The theme of women going out to work while men stayed at home become more common in the mid-1980s, when the show was created
Alan Thicke's character Dr. Jason Seaver (far left), was one of the first in television characters to play a stay-at-home dad. Jason often struggled to juggle family disputes alongside his practice as a psychiatrist, while his wife Maggie, played by actress Joanna Kerns, worked as a journalist outside the home. The theme of women going out to work while men stayed at home become more common in the mid-1980s, when the show was created
