As of July 2026, Life Goes On Season 4 aired in 1992 with 17 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Life Goes On Season 4

1992 17 Episodes Drama · Family ⭐ 7/10

Life Goes On Season 4 has built a real following among viewers who do not usually seek out animation. The 1-season run is exactly the right length for what it is doing. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. 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 4 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Visually distinctive and narratively ambitious, Life Goes On Season 4 operates well above the genre average. Season 4 of Life Goes On includes 17 episodes. It aired from September 1992 to May 1993. 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 1992. The visual gags in Life Goes On Season 4 reward close attention without ever depending on it. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

If you have been sleeping on Life Goes On Season 4 because of the format, the format is not the issue here. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. Visually distinctive and narratively ambitious in ways that hold up regardless of format. Worth watching in order from the beginning.

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🎬 Life Goes On Season 4 — Episode Guide

E1
Bec to the Future
1992-09-20
A 40-something Becca (Pamela Bellwood) looks back on the summer of '92. ( In the future, Becca is now married and is a doctor.) Jesse returns, but the reunion is bittersweet. Through most of this episode, Becca is avoiding Jesse to be with her new friends who don't know Jesse is HIV+. They find out ...
E2
Exposed
1992-09-27
Jesse paints a nude painting of Becca. (It is never determined if she posed nude or if the nudity was solely the product of Jesse's imagination.) Becca decides to let it be shown in the Nevermore Bookstore, and this leads to a nice scandal. Endless date proposals on her answering machine are just th...
E3
Premarital Syndrome
1992-10-04
Corky and Amanda's ""trial marriage"" gets off to a rocky start. ( or crunchy, as in the crunchy macaroni and cheese: they didn't boil the elbows long enough.) Interviews with couples who have Down Syndrome are interwoven throughout.
E4
The Whole Truth
1992-10-18
Paige fends off an attempted rape by Becca's poetry teacher ( Leigh J. McCloskey). But their accounts differ and Becca, at first, believe the teacher. Corky imagines that a calendar swimsuit model ( Shari Shattuck) has come to life, and this imaginary woman explains how men tend to see only the bodi...
E5
Love Letters
1992-11-08
Becca and Co. find old World War II letters at the bookstore. (Martin, Smitrovich, and Burke read selected letters while they palyed, respectively, soldier's girlfriend working at a factory, a soldier working a machine gun in a trench, and another soldier reading a letter in a tent.) Eric gets cozy...
E6
Windows
1992-11-22
Amanda's angry parents vow to annul her marriage to Corky and try to regain custody of Amanda. They then run off to a motel, further angering the Swanson's, not to mention their attorney. Amanda's father also falsely tells Corky that Amanda wanted the annulment. Meanwhile, Becca and Jesse are mad at...
E7
Babes in the Woods
1992-11-29
Becca, Goodman, Ray Nelson Jr., Jesse and two other students from their English class go on a weekend camping trip, chaperones by Harris. Things get bad when Becca gets sprayed by a skunk, knocks over a kerosene lantern, starting a fire at the barn where they are staying, and worse when they find a ...
E8
Udder Madness
1992-12-13
Ray nominates Becca ( against her wishes) for Homecoming Queen; Goodman nominates a cow in protest of beauty pageants in general. The third contestant is a stuck-up cheerleader. Also, Artie (Paige's supervisor from the steelworks in season 3) and Paige redo the restaurant with a bovine motif. (They ...
E9
Happy Holidays
1992-12-20
The holidays take on a whole new meaning for Corky, who's celebrating his first Christmas as a married man-and now how the wishes of a wife and in-laws to consider.
E10
Choices
1993-01-03
Paige finds that she is carrying Michael's baby, and is at first delighted to know this. So's the whole family. But Michael comes back, and decides he does not want the baby. Paige is undecided on whether or not to abort, and Corky and Amanda want to adopt the baby. This all conviently ends with a m...
E11
Incident on Main
1993-01-10
Gay-bashing skinheads beat up Jesse outside the AIDS hospice. Becca gets his blood on her hands after the beating. She gets tested and comes up negative, but has to get tested again in six months. ( This loose end was left untied, but it is generally assumed that she stayed negative.) Jesse draws a ...
E12
Lost Weekend
1993-01-24
In her quest to get Becca out of her shell, Goodman takes her and Jesse on a double date. But Jesse and Becca get pissed off as Goodman and her date, Norman Bates, get kinky at the table. Jesse and Becca decide to test the limits of their passions and try to have ""safe sex"". But their sleepover at...
E13
Visions
1993-02-14
Shortly after his 18th birthday, a feverish Jesse collapses in extreme pain at school and is rushed, unconcious, to the hospital. Jesse's AIDS Related Complex has progressed to AIDS. He has dreams which highlight the show: Ray french-kissing Becca at Jesse's funeral, and one where a healthy Jesse an...
E14
Five to Midnight
1993-02-21
Jesse's insurance runs out, and he gets transferred to County Hospital (which is like being transferred to the Recieving Hospital in Detroit!)Becca goes with him. Jesse nearly dies of AIDS-related cardiac arrest, and doctors apply the ol' shock therapy at-you guessed it-five to midnight. Becca disco...
E15
Bedfellows
1993-02-28
A fellow AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to live rather than give up and die. He holds game shows with the other patients, makes fun of the sugar-coated remarks doctors make every time a new patient comes in, and sings, too. Jesse objects to Becca's inclination n...
E16
Last Wish
1993-03-07
Becca and Jesse go to see the ocean, after Jesse says that i's something that he wants to do. Jesse is not exactly on top of the world, however, as he is jealous of Ray, who has been seeing Becca lately. During an arguement, they flash back a few Glen Brook weeks ( not from old episodes, but stuff t...
E17
Life Goes On (and On and On)
1993-05-23
The series finale, it leaps 4 years into the future to see Becca and Jesse marry, and 10 years when Becca, now about 27 ( and still played by Kellie Martin) tells her son a story about what happened after graduating from high school. Corky doesn't graduate, but says, ""I'll be back."" Ray was the va...

🎭 Cast of Life Goes On Season 4

Bill Smitrovich
Bill Smitrovich
Andrew "Drew" Thatcher
Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone
Elizabeth 'Libby' Thacher
Chris Burke
Chris Burke
Charles "Corky" Thatcher
Kellie Martin
Kellie Martin
Rebecca 'Becca' Thacher
Chad Lowe
Chad Lowe
Jesse McKenna
Tracey Needham
Tracey Needham
Paige Thatcher
ML
Monique Lanier
Paige Thatcher
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley
Selena
Josh Lucas
Josh Lucas
Dylan
AF
Andrea F. Friedman
Amanda Swanson

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