Family Ties is a television sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between Young Republican Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) and his liberal, former hippie parents, Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney and Michael Gross).
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Family Ties is a television sitcom that aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. The sitcom reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between Young Republican Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) and his liberal, former hippie parents, Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney and Michael Gross).
President Ronald Reagan once stated that it was his favorite television show.
The first season of the show (1982–1983) established its central premise. During the early years of the Reagan administration, Elyse and Steven Keaton (Meredith Baxter Birney and Michael Gross) are baby boomers and liberal Democrats raising their three children Alex (Michael J. Fox), Mallory (Justine Bateman), and Jennifer (Tina Yothers) and later Andrew (Brian Bonsall) in suburban Columbus, Ohio. Married in 1964, Elyse, an independent architect, and Steven, the...
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