Family Ties

  • : 1982
  • : 177
  • : 72
  • NBC
  • 20
  • Comedy Drama Family

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5x1
Be True to Your Preschool
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25, 1986
Alex shocks his parents when he visits his 3-year-old brother Andrew's very special preschool class, decides the wrong values are being stressed and withdraws him from the .. show full overview
5x2
Starting Over
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02, 1986
Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship, Alex desperately tries to find someone to take her place, but finally realizes that falling in love again .. show full overview
5x3
The Freshman and the Senior
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09, 1986
Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and fins that she has a lot to learn about honesty, sensitivity and older people when she almost .. show full overview
5x4
My Back Pages
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16, 1986
When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left-wing political magazine they had worked on 20 years before, Steven realizes he is no longer in tune with the .. show full overview
5x5
Beauty and the Bank
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30, 1986
Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vice president to whom he reports is Ms. Ryan, a beautiful, smart and self-confident woman and that he's .. show full overview
5x6
Mrs. Wrong (1)
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06, 1986
Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently oppose their marriage plans and threaten to ground their teenaged daughter. During a quiet evening together, .. show full overview
5x7
Mrs. Wrong (2)
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13, 1986
Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours to elope, and unable to stop them, follows them to New Jersey where he finds the young couple taking a hard .. show full overview
5x8
The Big Fix
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17, 1986
When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse's, confides that he has broken up with his girlfriend, Elyse decides to fix him up with a family friend, the beautiful Liz Obeck. What Elyse .. show full overview
5x9
My Brother's Keeper
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20, 1986
Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his college fraternity when Theta Pi Sigma pledges Skippy with the idea of making him the object of a cruel .. show full overview
5x10
High School Confidential
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04, 1986
Nick faces a serious dilemma when he learns that to teach an art class he must have a high school diploma. Mallory volunteers to tutor him, but it takes the skills of another Keaton to .. show full overview
5x11
Paper Lion
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11, 1986
While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important research paper, Alex faces a serious moral dilemma when he finds that his mentor's conclusions are not .. show full overview
5x12
My Mother, My Friend
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18, 1986
When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, little does she expect that Allison will find a kindred spirit in Elyse. Bound together by their love of .. show full overview
5x13
O'Brother (1)
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08, 1987
It's bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announces that he and his wife, Maureen, have split up. News of Robert and Maureen's separation throws the whole .. show full overview
5x14
O'Brother (2)
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15, 1987
The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Uncle Rob's estranged wife. It seems like Rob has been less than candid when he told his .. show full overview
5x15
Higher Love
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22, 1987
Mallory's relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry reading group and becomes infatuated with its handsome and sophisticated leader, English grad student Colin .. show full overview
5x16
Architect's Apprentice
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29, 1987
Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents when they invite him to compete with other local artists to create a sculpture for the .. show full overview
5x17
A Tale of Two Cities (1)
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05, 1987
The Keaton's are a house divided over a "major" domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kitchen. Elyse, Mallory and Jennifer think the time has come to leave .. show full overview
5x18
A Tale of Two Cities (2)
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12, 1987
While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicago with his boss, Rebecca Ryan, attending an important banking conference. Forced to .. show full overview
5x19
Battle of the Sexes (1)
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19, 1987
When Alex plays "gentleman" to his mother and two sisters and orders for them at a restaurant without even asking them what they want, the battle begins with Elyse, Mallory and Jennifer .. show full overview
5x20
Battle of the Sexes (2)
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19, 1987
As the battle continues, more clips from past shows reveal the true nature of the Keaton family relationships. The clips includes Jennifer's jealousy over a boy who only has eyes for .. show full overview
5x21
Band on the Run
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26, 1987
As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunion, Alex has big plans, which include hiring some great bands to impress attending alumni in the music .. show full overview
5x22
Keaton vs. Keaton
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05, 1987
Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his station, WKS. A confident Alex scoffs as the family encourages a reluctant Mallory to .. show full overview
5x23
“A”, My Name is Alex (1)
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12, 1987
When Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to seriously question the meaning and purpose of his own life. Having been asked to .. show full overview
5x24
“A”, My Name is Alex (2)
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12, 1987
When Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to seriously question the meaning and purpose of his own life. Having been asked to .. show full overview
5x25
“D” is for Date
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20, 1987
Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, the handsome star pitcher of the school baseball team. When Tim comes over to work on their science project, .. show full overview
5x26
Love Me Do
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30, 1987
When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory's new college friend, Amy Sussman, he's both startled and overjoyed to find himself in his first real romantic relationship. Just .. show full overview
5x27
The Visit
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07, 1987
When Elyse's sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, Elyse is overjoyed, while the rest of the Keaton clan brace themselves for a long hard week of .. show full overview
5x28
Matchmaker
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23, 1987
When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries to comfort and then help. He will find her a new and perfect boyfriend using a computer that the Keaton's have .. show full overview
5x29
It's My Party (1)
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06, 1987
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bored and begin grumbling at her "lame" party .. show full overview
5x30
It's My Party (2)
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13, 1987
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bored and begin grumbling at her "lame" party .. show full overview

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