Family Ties

Season 5 (30 Episodes)

7 Seasons 1986 TV-G 30m 7.3

Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew.

Steven and Elyse Keaton, once 1960s radicals, now find themselves in Reagan-era America trying to raise a traditional suburban family. Their three first kids are Alex (a very ambitious Young Republican), Mallory (a ditzy and boy-crazy fashionista), and Jennifer (whom we first get to know as a precocious nine-year-old tomboy). Later on, a fourth child (Andrew) was added to the family. Most of the comedy arose from the conflict between the ex-hippie parents vs. the conservative Alex and the brainless beauty Mallory.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 2 Starting Over

2. Starting Over

Aired: Oct 2, 1986

Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship...

Episode 4 My Back Pages

4. My Back Pages

Aired: Oct 16, 1986

When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left...

Episode 5 Beauty and the Bank

5. Beauty and the Bank

Aired: Oct 30, 1986

Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vi...

Episode 6 Mrs. Wrong  (1)

6. Mrs. Wrong (1)

Aired: Nov 6, 1986

Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently ...

Episode 7 Mrs. Wrong  (2)

7. Mrs. Wrong (2)

Aired: Nov 13, 1986

Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours ...

Episode 8 The Big Fix

8. The Big Fix

Aired: Nov 17, 1986

When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse's, confides that he has broken up ...

Episode 9 My Brother's Keeper

9. My Brother's Keeper

Aired: Nov 20, 1986

Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his col...

Episode 11 Paper Lion

11. Paper Lion

Aired: Dec 11, 1986

While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important r...

Episode 12 My Mother, My Friend

12. My Mother, My Friend

Aired: Dec 18, 1986

When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, lit...

Episode 13 O'Brother  (1)

13. O'Brother (1)

Aired: Jan 8, 1987

It's bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announce...

Episode 14 O'Brother  (2)

14. O'Brother (2)

Aired: Jan 15, 1987

The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arriv...

Episode 15 Higher Love

15. Higher Love

Aired: Jan 22, 1987

Mallory's relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry r...

Episode 21 Band on the Run

21. Band on the Run

Aired: Feb 26, 1987

As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunio...

Episode 22 Keaton vs. Keaton

22. Keaton vs. Keaton

Aired: Mar 5, 1987

Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship compet...

Episode 25

25. "D" is for Date

Aired: Mar 20, 1987

Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, t...

Episode 26 Love Me Do

26. Love Me Do

Aired: Apr 30, 1987

When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory's new college friend, ...

Episode 27 The Visit

27. The Visit

Aired: May 7, 1987

When Elyse's sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, El...

Episode 28 Matchmaker

28. Matchmaker

Aired: Jul 23, 1987

When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries t...

Episode 29 It's My Party  (1)

29. It's My Party (1)

Aired: Aug 6, 1987

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy c...

Episode 30 It's My Party  (2)

30. It's My Party (2)

Aired: Aug 12, 1987

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy c...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: NBC

Production Country: United States

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family

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