As of July 2026, Life Goes On Season 1 aired in 1989 with 22 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Life Goes On Season 1

1989 22 Episodes Drama · Family ⭐ 7/10

Life Goes On Season 1 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it uses the format for more than just a visual hook. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 30 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The visual style is immediately recognisable, but the writing is what keeps you watching. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Life Goes On Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Life Goes On Season 1 treats animation as a medium, not a limitation. Season 1 of Life Goes On includes 22 episodes. It aired from September 1989 to May 1990. This season stars Bill Smitrovich, Patti LuPone and Chris Burke. Bill Smitrovich and Patti LuPone lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1989. Life Goes On Season 1 uses the freedom of animation to tell stories live-action could not attempt. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Genuinely enjoyable for a wide range of viewers, Life Goes On Season 1 treats animation as a delivery mechanism, not a limitation. It rewards viewers regardless of what else is in their watch history. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. Bill Smitrovich brings more to the role than the format usually demands. A harder one to justify skipping than to start.

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🎬 Life Goes On Season 1 — Episode Guide

Corky tries to mainstream into the 9th grade, the same grade as Becca. Becca worries that Corky may stop her from getting to the boy she really wants, Tyler Benchfield, a star on the football team. Corky dreams of being King at the homecoming dance with Ron Lieberman. Corky is accused of cheating of...

Corky for President

Corky runs for freshman class president with the help of an unpopular, smart student,Lester Fishbein. He has a crush on Rona and really believes that Rona likes him as well. Rona encourages him to run and Corky doesn't realize she's just joking with him.

The Baby-Sitter

Corky gets a babysitting job; his classmates barge in at the house where he is babysitting. The intrusive folks include Tyler, who regrets the whole thing, and ""Russo"", who is basically a jerk/nemesis.

Break a Leg, Mom

An episode showcasing the singing talents of Patti LuPone. A Tony winner for the musical ""Evita"", actually centers around Corky, for whom nothing seems to be going right. First, he has an accident in driver's ed. Moreover, he's not doing well in his remedial arithmetic class, and if he doesn't pas...

Becca's First Love

Becca falls for the lead singer (Gabe) in a neighborhood band. She stays out with Maxine to listen to the band past curfew. Gabe encourages her to stay late and she gets in trouble with her parents.

Drew sets up Paige with a charmer whose head is in the clouds; unfortunately his sense of responsibility seems to be mired in quicksand.

Paige's mom comes back. They have a great time, and make plans for a trip to New England. Paige's mom winds up living without Paige. A lot of flashbacks to when Paige's mom, an actress, originally left. Tearful ending with Paige calling Libby mom.

Call of the Wild

Drew works on a construction project at an Indian burial ground. A wolf who mysteriously gaurds the grounds saves Corky from Dobermans pursuing him in a nearby wooded area.

Corky Witnesses a Crime

Corky tries out for the football team. The footbal coach hits a student, one of his former players, and all the team stands up for the coach except Corky who is compelled to tell the truth. The coach claims that he was hit first. He cuts Corky from the team, but later when the team comes out with tr...

Ordinary Heroes

A frustrated Drew decides to quit his construction job and go into the restaurant business; and he joins Libby in counseling a couple whose newborn daughter has Down's Syndrome. As it turns out in the end, the guy who owns the restaurant doesn't sell the restaurant to Drew because Corky has Down's. ...

Pets, Guys and Videotape

Paige goes to work for a veteranarian who is very kind with suffering animals but kind of insufferable with humans. The vet is divorced and has a child. Meanwhile, Becca videotapes a hectic day in the life of her working mother.

Becca and Corky (in the same class somehow) do a classroom exercise in which paired students must pretend to be married for a week to investigate issues of marriage and family life. Becca is first paired with Lester Fishbein, then switches to Tyler. Neither works out terribly well. Corky, on the oth...

Thacher and Henderson

At the high school football reunion, Drew finally makes peace with his best friend after a falling out over a business deal that caused Drew to lose $10,000 after 10 years. Becca watches Paige who is with her vet boyfriend and then her ex (the motorcycle man) shows up and Paige has to choose between...

The Return of Uncle Richard

Drew's younger brother Richard, a lovable family black sheep, breezes in at a time when Corky is beginning to wonder who'll look after him when his parents die. Drew and Richard don't get along, but needless to say, the kids love him. The culmination of Drew's mending relationship with Richard comes...

The Special Olympics, a time for warmhearted competition and fun, also bring love to Corky and a challenge to Tyler, whose father won't permit Tyler's Down-syndrome brother to participate.

At 18, Corky wants out from under his parents' wings-- even if it just means taking the bus to school. Unfortunately, he ends up with the bad crowd. The height of this episode comes when ""bad boy"" Corky auditions for the community talent show with a hip-hop dance routine to "" Fight the Power"" fr...

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 Lieberman. Scholarship money is at stake in this pageant. Becca gets know Rona a little better after Rona's mother shows up at the pageant drunk and makes a fool of Rona during her piano performance. ...

Pig o' My Heart

Drew finally gets a chance to own his own restaurant, but it's Corky who brings home the bacon: a huge runaway porker that hogs Corky's affections. Corkt adopted it to fill the void of Paige's leaving ( so this must be when Monique Lanier left the show). How Drew got the restaurant bears discussion....

Becca and the Underground Newspaper

As a reporter for an underground newspaper, Becca zealously pens an expose of the school janitor's criminal past for the that's the truth- but not the whole truth. The janitor's name was Kominsky. He had a minor criminal infraction years ago when he broke into a house to steal money to feed himself ...

Save the Last Dance for Me

Becca's aged dance teacher (Viveca Lindfors) must enter a nursing home.

🎭 Cast of Life Goes On Season 1

Bill Smitrovich

Bill Smitrovich

Andrew "Drew" Thatcher

Patti LuPone

Elizabeth 'Libby' Thacher

Chris Burke

Charles "Corky" Thatcher

Kellie Martin

Rebecca 'Becca' Thacher

Chad Lowe

Tracey Needham

Elizabeth Berkley

Elizabeth Berkley

Josh Lucas

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