Family Ties

Season 5 Episode 29: It's My Party (1)

7 SeasonsAug 06, 1987TV-G25m7.3

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 (which includes a traditional puppet show by her father),Jennifer takes drastic action. With Mallory's guidance, she becomes a ""valley girl"", who then deserts her own party. Yet, it's only a matter of time before Jennifer realizes she isn't having an...

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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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