Alan Thicke

Comedian and actor Alan Thicke joins the program to talk about his career and his work with the Alan Thicke Center for Juvenile Diabetes Research. Television audiences know Thicke best as psychiatrist and father Jason Seaver from ABC’s Growing Pains, now syndicated in over 65 countries. Last year’s Growing Pains: The Reunion was one of Disney’s highest-rated TV Movies. From 1980 to 1983, THE ALAN THICKE SHOW became (and remains) the biggest hit in the history of Canadian daytime television. The American late-night entry THICKE OF THE NIGHT followed. Alan is currently starring in CBC Television's monster comedy success J-POD. The Alan Thicke Centre for Juvenile Diabetes Research was established in 1989 at the Robarts Research Institute at the London Health Sciences Centre. The Centre was named for actor Alan Thicke because of his early connection to London while attending The University of Western Ontario, and his special interest in diabetes, as he had a son who developed diabetes as a child