
Michael J Fox catapulted into superstardom--and created one of the most beloved television characters of all time--in the 1980s sitcom FAMILY TIES Created by TV impresario Gary David Goldberg (LOU GRANT THE BOB NEWHART SHOW) the series offered a clever take on the generation gap through the family interactions of two former &60s hippies public television producer Steven Keaton (Michael Gross) & his architect wife Elyse (Meredith Baxter) struggling to retain their leftist ideals while raising three radically divergent children in suburban Columbus Ohio tomboy Jennifer (Tina Yothers); ditzy mallrat Mallory (Justine Bateman); & most notably Wall Street Journal-reading young Republican Alex P Keaton (Fox) who served as the series& main comedic foil A fun & warm-hearted throwback to the greed-is-good decade FAMILY TIES is resurrected in this collection of the show&s debut series