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Welcome to Family Ties Online, devoted to the popular 1982-1989 NBC sitcom which starred
Meredith Baxter Birney, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman,
Tina Yothers, Brian Bonsall, Marc Price, Tracy Pollan, Scott Valentine, and Courteney Cox.
Family Ties Online - all Family Ties, all the time...
Established: August 31st, 1999
Last Updated: February 19th, 2008
Site of the Day for October 7th, 1999!
Family Ties on DVD News:
Loving parents Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney) raise their kids
with open hearts and open minds. Growing up in the 1960s, Mom and Dad share a liberal point
of view, and guide their family with the ideals and convictions of flower power at its best.
Their offspring, however, have different ideas. Eldest son Alex P. Keaton is an over-achieving,
hard-core Republican, and clashes with his parents at every turn. Mallory is a fashion-loving,
boy-crazy teen stuggling through high school, while little sister Jennifer is the precocious tomboy
who always speaks her mind. Together, they share the moments that make them laugh, make them cry...and
make them family.
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Family Ties flipped the typical sitcom dynamic on is head. Instead of conservative parents butting heads with rebellious kids, the heart of the series is the
generation gap between former hippie parents and their square offspring. The second season highlights the culture gap between Steven (Michael Gross) and
Elyse Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney) and their three children: staunchly Republican Alex (Michael J. Fox), fashion-mad Mallory (Justine Bateman) and
precocious Jennifer (Tina Yothers), as they tackle pre-marital sex, women's rights, and alcoholism. Get reacquainted with the Keatons and their nurturing
blend of politics and punchlines in Family Ties: The Second Season.
Special Features: The Making of Family Ties, Michael J. Fox: The Best Gig In The World, The Year of The Beard, Episodic Promos
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The mellow 1960s still clash with the conservative 1980s in the "generation gap" comedy Family Ties.
But by Season Three, the Keatons of Ohio finally agree on one thing - their joy at the birth of baby brother
Andrew! The hit series gives us the funniest season yet as Elyse (Meredith Baxter Birney) tells
Steven (Michael Gross) she is pregnant, and the family suffers through food cravings, Lamaze classes,
and Elyse going into labor in television during Pledge Week! Plus, Alex (Michael J. Fox) starts college,
Mallory (Justine Bateman) gets a job she is actually good at, and Jennifer (Tina Yothers) discovers
boys! Now with the new baby around, no one minds being bound for Family Ties!
Special Features: Gag Reel, Episodic Promos
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Our good buddy Eric from JustMyShow.com
continues to get noteworthy guests for his show. On Feb. 5, Emmy winning producer Gary David Goldberg celebrated the
release of his new autobiography "Sit, Ubu, Sit" by
taking part in a panel discussion at the Paley Center alongside
cast members of his most successful shows. But before he spoke to his sold out audience, he sat down with Just My Show
to talk about his seven years as creator and executive producer of Family Ties.
You can listen to the very interesting podcast by clicking HERE!
The cast of NBC's Family Ties all gathered for the first time in 18 years on Thursday on NBC's Today show to help promote
a new memoir, titled "Sit, Ubu, Sit," by the creator of the iconic 1980's television sitcom, Gary David
Goldberg. Joining Gary David Goldberg were Michael J. Fox, Michael Gross, Meredith Baxter, Justine Batemen and Tina Yothers.
"Had it not been for this book, we would not have had this reunion. This is the first time in about 18 years that we have
all been on the same piece of real estate at the same time," said Michael Gross.
You can read more about this reunion that took place this morning, and watch the entire video of it by clicking HERE!
Read our review of Family Ties - The Third Season on DVD
The special features on the Third Season set are a gag reel and episodic promos (similar as to
what was on the second season set). 24 Episodes are included. The running time is 9 Hours, 33 Minutes.
Michael J. Fox: 'I Was A Secret Casanova'
Michael J. Fox Makes TV Land's 50 Greatest TV Icons List
If you haven't picked up the First Season on DVD, now is a good time. Amazon.com
is offering that at only $11.99! That is $27 off the original list price.
Steve and Elyse Keaton (Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter Birney), once 1960s radicals, now find themselves in Reagan-Era American trying to raise a traditional suburban family. Son Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) is an ambitious Young Republican and his sister Mallory (Justine Bateman) is a shallow victim of the corporate culture, obsessed with music, clothes and boys. Their only normal kid is young Jennifer (Tina Yothers), a bit of a tomboy.
Here is the artwork:
Some more news from recent months:
Justine Bateman is currently appearing on the ABC Drama "Men in Trees"
Tina Yothers: I'm Ready to Wear a Bikini (10/08/06)
Visit Marc Price's (Skippy) Website
http://www.eonline.com/On/Holly/Shows/Fox/index.html
Short in Stature but Tall in Strength, America's Favorite Son Stays on Top
Debuts: Sept. 4, 8p
In Michael J. Fox: The E! True Hollywood Story, learn how this winner overcomes every setback--from alcoholism to family deaths to a horrible diagnosis--all with a signature smile.
Born into a working-class family, the "five-foot nothing" Fox dreamt of becoming a professional hockey player. But his love for music gave him a taste of drama. Already flying out to L.A. for acting gigs in the 12th grade, the Canadian Army brat decided to drop his books permanently and head west.
Turned down from Family Ties after his first audition, Fox rebounded, nailed his second shot and became the show's break-out star. Listen to his progression from beer, cigarettes and mac 'n' cheese to a Ferrari and a Hollywood Hills home. Watch as he bounced out of a depression and into Spin City, finally deciding to retire after a Caribbean snorkel chase with a turtle. But first, how tied are you to Fox's Family? Get your THS I.Q. and find out!
Celebrity Fit Club is back for a fourth season as a one-hour reality show in which eight celebrities compete in two
teams of four to lose weight and get in shape. In each episode, the celebrities attend a `Fit Camp' where they take part in
a range of physical and motivational activities designed to shed pounds, increase team spirit and win prizes. The next day, they
face the scales at a `Weigh-In Ceremony' where they'll be individually weighed in by our panel of experts: a doctor, a
psychologist and fitness trainer.
This season's contestants include:
Internet Movie Database entry for Tina Yothers
Marc Price (Skippy) appeared on NBC's Last Comic Standing in May.
Michael J. Fox on Dateline Transcript (04/16/06)
Michael J. Fox Finds Acting Challenge
View a Michael J. Fox Pepsi Commercial from 1985 from
Lifeinthe80s.com
We're Dyin' For...'Family Ties'
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NANiversary!
Thursday, June 23
10:30PM Family Ties “Go Tigers” - Mallory goes to Princeton with Alex for a college interview to surprise
Jeff, and finds him with another girl. At the same time, Steven must
contain his hostility to babysit his obnoxious cousin.
The same "Go Tigers" episode will also air on TV Land as part Nick at Nite’s 20th Anniversary
on Sunday, June 26th at 10:30PM ET/PT (and repeated at 4:30AM ET/PT)
NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 has crowned Gary Coleman, of "Diff'rent Strokes" fame, the number one kid star. Macaulay Culkin, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, Jodie Foster, Drew Barrymore, Emmanuel Lewis, Ron Howard, Corey Feldman, Maureen McCormick and Danny Bonaduce round out the top ten on the list.
Premiering on Monday, June 13 at 9 P.M.* and hosted by Christopher Knight, "100 Greatest Kid Stars" is a five-night special that follows the tradition of VH1's successful "100 Greatest ... " franchise. VH1 has assembled the definitive list of child stars, and counts them down using new, exclusive interviews with many of the stars themselves and that golden footage from way back when ...
VH1 "100 GREATEST KID STARS"
Effective Saturday, August 14 on TV Land
Michael Gross has recently appeared on ER
The Hollywood Mom's Mystery – August 2004 on the Hallmark Channel
Home For Christmas – December 2004 on the Hallmark Channel
Bateman most recently starred in Showtime's original series Out of Order. She was also a cast member on NBC's Men Behaving Badly.
Michael J. Fox to Appear on Scrubs
Starting in January, Family Ties will air on TV Land at (times ET/PT):
Mon-Sat 11 p.m.
TV Land will be airing all three Christmas episodes this year in it's annual 48 hour Merry-thon.
Sunday, December 21
4:00PM Family Ties #14 "A Christmas Story" (aka Christmas Show) When their ski trip is postponed by a snowstorm, the Keatons sit home by the fire, where Steven and Elyse share memories of their children's births.
4:30PM Family Ties #37 "A Keaton Chrismas" Carol Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" inspires this episode featuring Alex as the Keaton Scrooge.
5:00PM Family Ties #145 "Miracle In Columbus" The Christmas spirit has come to the Keaton house, where the family is busy baking Christmas cookies when Skippy stops by to ask a favor. He wants Alex to pinch-hit for him as Santa at the mall, and Alex agrees after hearing about the excellent hourly wage.
11:00PM Family Ties #14 "A Christmas Story" (aka Christmas Show) When their ski trip is postponed by a snowstorm, the Keatons sit home by the fire, where Steven and Elyse share memories of their children's births.
11:30PM Family Ties #37 "A Keaton Chrismas" Carol Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" inspires this episode featuring Alex as the Keaton Scrooge.
12:00AM Family Ties #145 "Miracle In Columbus" The Christmas spirit has come to the Keaton house, where the family is busy baking Christmas cookies when Skippy stops by to ask a favor. He wants Alex to pinch-hit for him as Santa at the mall, and Alex agrees after hearing about the excellent hourly wage.
Saturday, December 6 and Sunday, December 7, TV Land presents a "Family Ties" 48-Hour Marathon! Tune in to see Alex and the rest of the Keatons in family friendly programming. Starts Saturday at 6 a.m. and ends at 6 a.m. early Monday morning!
This will be a sneak peek, as Family Ties joins the TV Land line-up in January!
Click here for the marathon schedule
Meredith Baxter appears in "A Christmas Visitor" tv movie on
Justine to appear in Hallmark Channel movie "Dead Hollywood Moms"
JUSTINE BATEMAN: THE E! TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORY
PREMIERES ON SUNDAY, MAY 25 AT 9:00 PM ET/PT
Justine Bateman, "I Felt Like In My Real Life I Had To Play A Role. And That's All From Fear. From Fear of Just Behaving The Way I Wanted to Behave.”
Los Angeles, May 21, 2003 –- Starring on the hit TV sitcom, Family Ties, at the tender age of sixteen Justine Bateman turned into America's sweetheart almost overnight. The actress learned quickly, however, that fame was no laughing matter. Bateman found the sudden onslaught of fanfare awkward and even painful. Struggling to find her own identity, Bateman became know off screen for her party girl image. The pressures kept mounting for the star, including a decade-long battle with bulimia, a tumultuous love life that linked her with such actors as Scott McGinnis and Leif Garrett, and a stalker who expressed his love for her with a loaded gun in a theater. This one-hour program reveals how Bateman overcame her early struggle with success. Today, a fashion designer, wife and mother, Bateman still finds time to act in the new Showtime series Out of Order. Will this designing woman finally outgrow her role as flighty teenager Mallory Keaton from Family Ties? Tune in to Justine Bateman: The E! True Hollywood Story premieres Sunday, May 25 at 9:00 PM ET/PT.
The Emmy®-nominated E! True Hollywood Story is a series of one- and two-hour docu-dramas chronicling the lives of some of entertainment’s most celebrated people, places and events. Utilizing E!’s unparalleled access to the entertainment industry, the program provides a true insider’s view of Hollywood, putting the star-making machine under a microscope with each new installment. The E! True Hollywood Story began life as a series of specials with the March 30, 1996 premiere of Dark Obsession: The Stalking and Murder of Rebecca Schaeffer and quickly established itself as the network’s most successful programming franchise.
Additional airings:
Sunday, May 25th at 11PM EST/PST
ABC's 'Hench' Keeps It in the Family
Fri, Mar 28, 2003 12:15 PM PDT
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Michael J. Fox has said "Hench at Home," the sitcom pilot he's producing and writing for ABC, is based somewhat on his own family life.
The actress playing the lead character's wife, then, shouldn't have any problem relating to the role.
Tracy Pollan, Fox's wife, has signed to star opposite Craig Bierko in the pilot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Bierko plays a retired hockey player adjusting to being home all the time with his wife and kids (Michael Charles Roman, Molly Ephriam, Nicholas Reese Art).
Lyndon Byers, a former National Hockey League player turned actor, has also joined the "Hench" cast, playing Hench's best friend.
Pollan and Fox met when she co-starred on "Family Ties" in the mid-1980s; they've been married for almost 15 years. She most recently appeared in the NBC movie "1st to Die."
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - ABC has ordered its first comedy pilot of this development season, and it has a familiar name attached to it: Michael J. Fox.
Fox, who starred on the network's "Spin City" for four seasons in the late '90s, won't be in front of the camera this time. Instead, he wrote the pilot script and will be an executive producer of the show, tentatively titled "Hench at Home."
The show is a family comedy about a newly retired pro hockey player adjusting to being home with his wife and three kids for extended periods of time. It's the result of a production deal Fox struck with ABC and DreamWorks TV; ABC sibling Touchstone TV is also involved.
"The combination of Michael's comedic vision and his unique outlook as a father is so insightful and refreshing," Touchstone TV president Stephen McPherson says.
Fox was an executive producer of "Spin City," but "Hench" is his first attempt at writing. Fellow "Spin" producer Danelle Black and Mitch Hurwitz ("The Ellen Show") are also serving as executive producers.
"Creating and writing a TV comedy is a different kind of adventure in a familiar setting," Fox says. "I'm excited by the chance to do something special here."
Michael J. Fox to Renew Family Ties with ABC
Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox
A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it’s like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he
has an 80-year-old’s disease.
"Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up with a little more crap." --Michael J. Fox
In September 1998, Michael J. Fox stunned the world by announcing he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease -- a degenerative neurological condition. In fact, he had been secretly fighting it for seven years. The worldwide response was staggering. Fortunately, he had accepted the diagnosis and by the time the public started grieving for him, he had stopped grieving for himself. Now, with the same passion, humor, and energy that Fox has invested in his dozens of performances over the last 18 years, he tells the story of his life, his career, and his campaign to find a cure for Parkinson’s.
Combining his trademark ironic sensibility and keen sense of the absurd, he recounts his life -- from his childhood in a small town in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television which made him a worldwide celebrity. Most importantly however, he writes of the last 10 years, during which -- with the unswerving support of his wife, family, and friends -- he has dealt with his illness. He talks about what Parkinson’s has given him: the chance to appreciate a wonderful life and career, and the opportunity to help search for a cure and spread public awareness of the disease. He is a very lucky man, indeed.
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Family Ties
What's New:
Encores: Sept. 5, 12a, 9a; Sept. 7, 9p; Sept. 9, 3p
Playing a teenager in the '80s, he won us over in Family Ties. Then he triumphed at the box office, taking us Back to the Future three times. Today, still just as well known and beloved, Michael J. Fox helps fight a war against Parkinson's Disease.
Wikipedia entry for Tina Yothers
Tina Yothers Photo Gallery
The Gipper himself tuned in to the family-room staple of the Reagan '80s, but a DVD is still MIA. What gives? Snarkier than the Bradys but milder than the Bundys, the Keatons juggled politics and comedy as we lapped up the weekly war of words between flower-power parents Steven and Elyse and power-hungry son Alex (the role that made Michael J. Fox a star). And let's not forget sassy sisters Mallory and Jennifer; shark-jumping stunt, er, baby bro Andy; and nebbishy neighbor Skippy (Urkel who?). Fox is now far removed from his Teen Beat poster-boy days, but surely he has Family anecdotes to share. And since brother Jason has made the ultimate comeback, there's no better time for Justine Bateman to resurface and reunite with fellow where-are-they-nows Marc Price, Tina Yothers, and Scott "Yo, Mallory!" Valentine. "Although there is no release date confirmed," says Michael Arkin, senior VP of marketing at Paramount Home Entertainment, "we are looking into all possibilities
and appreciate hearing from the fans about it." Calling all Republicans--and Democrats...
Tuesday, June 21 through Thursday, June 23
10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. ET/PT each night
This June, take a trip back to 1985 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Nick at Nite. Tuesday through Thursday, June 21-23 from 10pm to 12am each night we’ll feature great shows from the 80’s like Kate & Allie, Silver Spoons, Growing Pains, The Facts of Life, Benson and Night Court! And stay tuned on the weekend of June 25-26, for 48 hours worth of shows from the 20 year history of Nick@Nite on sister network TV Land!
1. Gary Coleman (DIFF'RENT STROKES)
40. Todd Bridges (DIFF'RENT STROKES)
91. Dana Plato (DIFF'RENT STROKES)
11:00AM-1:00PM Thursdays: Family Ties
5:00PM-8:00PM Thursdays: Family Ties
3:00AM Everynight: Family Ties
Starring: Justine Bateman, Andrew McCarthy, Elizabeth Pena, Angie Everhardt, George Hamilton
When a high society Hollywood lady shows up dead in her neighbor Lucy's swimming pool, everyone, including Lucy's husband, is a suspect. Lucy is determined to clear her husband's name and begins digging. What she finds shocks everyone, but is it enough to clear her husband?
Starring: Meredith Baxter, Ronny Cox, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Tracey Needham
Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and a family desperately in need of healing old wounds find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas in which the impossible happens – and makes us all believe that nothing is impossible.
Every morning 4:30 a.m.
Mon-Fri 2:30 p.m.
Mon-Fri 7 p.m.
Sat-Sun 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. (Twice as Nice)
the Hallmark Channel
Society in March 2004
Monday, May 26th at 5PM EST/PST
Wednesday, May 28th at 8PM EST/PST
Sunday, June 1st at 3PM EST/PST
Friday, June 6th at 8PM EST/PST
Thursday, May 8th
8-9pm E/P on ABC
Wondering what ever happened to former kid stars Brian Bonsall (Family Ties), Alison Arngrim
(Little House on the Prairie) and Jeremy Miller (Growing Pains)? Curious for an update on Survivor's Susan Hawk
and Kelly Wigglesworth, original Mole Kathryn Price and first Bachelor Alex Michel? Want to catch a glimpse of the
casts of theatricals Revenge of the Nerds and Stand By Me? Then mark your calendars for ABC, next Thursday, May 8th
at 8 p.m. ET for the latest Favorite Stars: Then & Now 2: An E! Entertainment Television Special. 
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows: 1946-Present (Book)
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