Template:Use mdy dates. Template:Infobox television. Family Ties is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, premiering on September 22, , and concluding on May 14, The series, created by Gary David Goldberg , reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the s and s to the conservatism of the s.
Keaton portrayed by Michael J. The show won multiple awards, including three consecutive Emmy Awards for Michael J. Set in suburban Columbus, Ohio , during the Reagan administration , Steven and Elyse Keaton Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter are baby boomers , liberals and former hippies , [1] raising their three children: ambitious, would-be millionaire entrepreneur Alex Michael J.
Married in , Elyse is an independent architect and Steven, a native of Buffalo, New York, is the station manager of WKS, a local public television station. Much of the humor of the series focuses on the cultural divide during the s when younger generations rejected the counterculture of the s and embraced the materialism and conservative politics which came to define the s.
Jennifer, an athletic tomboy and the youngest child, shares more the values of her parents and just wants to be a normal kid. Steven and Elyse had a fourth child, Andrew or "Andy", for short , who was born in early Andy is the youngest, on whom Alex doted and quickly molded in his conservative image.
Regarding the concept, show's creator Goldberg observed, "It really was just an observation of what was going on in my own life with my own friends.
We were these old kind of radical people and all of a sudden you're in the mainstream They don't understand what's wrong with having money and moving forward. Sign In.
Episode guide. Play trailer Comedy Drama Family. Creator Gary David Goldberg. Michael J. Fox Michael Gross Meredith Baxter. Top credits Creator Gary David Goldberg. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Trailer The Birth of Alex P. Video The Photo Shoot. It Happened. The Grass is Greener. I'm Outta Here. It's My Life. Photos Top cast Edit. Despite its success, Goldberg decided to call it quits after seven seasons. Family Ties 's series finale aired 30 years ago, on May 14, , with Alex moving to New York City to take a job—though not before giving his family a heartfelt goodbye.
Goldberg saw Michael J. But casting director Judith Weiner kept hounding Goldberg to cast him, and finally Goldberg agreed to see Fox again. He just played who he was, he played another side. He was Mike. And then the fun was watching him react to that and recover from that and hoist himself back up to that place where he thought he was.
Fox said he saw a lot of himself in Alex, and that the role taught him quite a bit about acting. During an interview with Emmy TV Legends, Fox said he also based the character on his smart-ass brother, who had great timing.
So later, all that became a part of Alex. Finally, some good news on bipartisanship: Republicans and Democrats both loved Alex.
It was one of the shows where it just caught a time. It just found its niche. So it was unifying in that sense. The primal dig, the date from hell. It was a lot of fun, but literally there were times where I only had to utter two guttural utterances in a show and they paid me a bundle of cash for it. I like that guy! Baxter: "Gary Goldberg and his wife, Diana, came to our house for dinner many months before the actual casting of the show. So they were talking to a fellow I was married to at the time about a project.
And then some months later, they called me and asked if I would like to be in Family Ties. I had no idea what they saw or what happened, but I got the job and he didn't.
Yothers said that she was "just a kid being a kid" when she chose doing Family Ties over Disney show. I was just a kid being a kid. And he brought me into his big office with his big chair and his big desk and I sat there and I had just shot a pilot for Disney for a Disney western and it was so much fun, with horses and a stagecoach and, you know, all the fun you could ever have.
And he asked me, 'Would be interested in doing this family sitcom? When the co-hosts asked Gross if he was given the clapperboard or took it, Yothers chimed in: "We stole this s! I had just always been a bicycle rider. Honest to God They said, 'You can't bring that bike.
It was so weird. For two years, I was a bicycle commuter. And she would show up — and of course, if we were supposed to leave at , she would pick me up at , I woke up at She would honk the horn and I'd get in the shower," he recalled.
Once he got outside, "this beautiful Mercedes" was waiting for him, "and this beautiful movie star, television star, actress, driving me to work every day.
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