Family Ties

Family Ties is a American comedy series, that of 1982 to 1989 was created. The series was broadcast in Netherlands by Veronica, and repeated by SBS 6.

Family Ties was the break-through for Michael j. Fox, who played student-son of the conservative and a hippie couple. The combination of Alex (Fox), Mallory (Justine Bateman) if not so smart sister and Jennifer (Tina Yothers) as the wisecracking youngest sister resulted in hilarious situations on.

Steven and Elyse Keaton are two leftist hippies who are married in the 1960s . Now they have a family with three teenage children: Alex, Mallory and Jennifer. The Keatons were always intended to transfer their ideals and views on their children, but that falls especially when son Alex against: Alex is the prototype of a yup in the making. Alex is an inveterate fan of president Richard Nixon, a member of the Young Republicans Club, and has a poster of William f. Buckley above his bed. He is always dressed in shirt with tie.

Younger sister Mallory is a polar opposite of the intelligent Alex. She is primarily interested in cute guys, clothing and shopping, and has no ambition in life.

Youngest sister Jennifer is the one who like a ' normal ' teen wants to be, and relatively succeed well in.

In the course of the series another son at: Andrew. Alex graduated and gets a friend Ellen Reed (played by Fox's later wife Tracy Pollan). ==Lead Actors[ Edit] == ==Episodes[ Edit] == ==Trivia[ Edit] ==
 * Meredith Baxter -mother Elyse Keaton
 * Michael Gross -father Steven Keaton
 * Michael j. Fox -son Alex p. Keaton
 * Justine Bateman -daughter Mallory Keaton
 * Tina Yothers -daughter Jennifer Keaton
 * Brian Bonsall -son Andrew (Andy) Keaton (from 1986)
 * Tracy Pollan -Ellen Reed, the first girlfriend of Alex
 * Courteney Cox – Lauren Miller, later to become the girlfriend of Alex
 * Marc Price -Erwin ' Skippy Handleman, Alex ' best friend '
 * Scott Valentine -Nick Moore, Mallory's a friend
 * Matthew Broderick was initially cast in the role of Alex p. Keaton, but Broderick refused because his father was terminally ill.