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All of Maggie's hard work as wife and mother seems to have paid off when she is chosen as "Working Mother of the Year." Alas, on the evening of the awards banquet, Maggie (Joanna Kerns) is swamped with extra duties that prevent showing up to make her speech. This is one of those classic "Everything Goes Wrong Big-Time" episodes which fans of Growing Pains have come to know and adore--and as a bonus, there's a guest appearance by Jane Kean, the immortal "Trixie Norton" from the 1960s version of The Honeymooners.