In a television movie based on NBC-TV's comedy series "Family Ties," the Keaton family visits histor...

Alex escorts a pretty socialite to a dance at her country club.

Alex heads the household when Elyse and Steven go away for the weekend.

Jennifer gets picked on when she befriends a boy at school.

Seduced by an "older woman" of twenty-one, the hitherto inexperienced Alex is devastated to learn th...

A visit from Steven's father evokes confrontation between the two.

Mallory is horrified and confused when a close family friend and older business associate of her fat...

As the new editor of his school paper, Alex uncovers a cheating scandal and to everyone's chagrin, p...

To the dismay of the Keaton children and their equally conservative grandparents, Steven and Elyse t...

Though Alex loves working at Mr. Adler's "Mom and Pop" grocery store, to the old man's dismay, he qu...

The Keatons consider buying a gun for protection after getting burglarized.

When a blizzard forces the Keatons to spend Christmas at home, Elyse's gift to Steven, an album fill...

Mallory resents Elyse for the advice she gives her pregnant friend.

When popular sorority girl Sherry Marshall befriends Mallory to get close to Alex, Mallory brings th...

Elyse's younger brother and Alex's idol, Ned, makes a surprise visit. However, everyone is puzzled b...

With the FBI hot on Ned's heels for embezzling 4.5 million dollars in corporate funds, Elyse's ethic...

Alex amasses a bundle by playing the stock market on paper for his economics class, and courts disas...

Mallory's handsome but shy French tutor, Jeff, finally musters up the nerve to ask her out and then...

As ""Big Brother"" to a 10-year-old Vietnamese boy, Alex tries to mold Ming into his own image, and...

Soon after free lance architect Elyse Keaton hires her friend Suzanne Davis to handle clerical chore...

Alex gets stuck babysitting for his little sister Jennifer, who is fed up with feeling in the way at...

While gearing up to face the TV cameras as captain of his high school's team on "Quiz Off," Alex pan...

In her zeal for good causes Elyse devotes so much energy to committee work that a neglected Steven f...

When pretty Carrie Newman and her mother Julia come to visit the Keaton's, Carrie's forward behavior...

When Mallory's boyfriend Jeff arrives home from college and wants to go steady, she's elated, but it...

Alex anxiously awaits a crucial college recommendation from his English teacher and urges Steven and...

After Mallory secretly submits a picture of Elyse and herself to an ad agency for a mother-daughter...

Steven's assistant at the station is bright, talented, funny, witty...and in love with him. And it l...

When Alex takes diet pills for a lift during mid-terms, his dependency level increases daily. Alex...

While working as a DJ at the school radio station, Alex strikes up a telephone friendship with calle...

Steven and Elyse worry that Alex, who is the new coach of Jennifer's softball team, is pushing the g...

A cynical Alex finds the spirit of Christmas in a dream, when he's shown shocking visions of the pas...

Steven and Elyse realize how lucky they are when their friends come over for a visit, but are unawar...

On his 18th birthday, Alex defies his mother and goes off with some of his buddies to celebrate at a...

Alex is both amazed and furious when a critical admissions interview at Princeton University is shat...

Elyse is chocked by her soon-to-be-divorced mother's quick and free-spirited plunge into the singles...

Alex discovers that his idol, young Uncle Ned, has a serious drinking problem when the bright, but i...

Alex pretends to support the Equal Rights Amendment to impress a pretty feminist and winds up behind...

Mallory turns to Alex for some advice when she begins to fear she'll lose her new boyfriend unless s...

Alex courts disaster when he invites two dates to the senior prom and devises an elaborate scheme fo...

Excited at the prospect of reviving her folk-singing career at a local niteclub, Elyse faces the ske...

When Alex's pal Skippy discovers he's adopted, Alex helps him cope with the shocking news and accomp...

Alex is so sure that he will be named valedictorian of his class that he can't cope with the thought...

In the hospital awaiting a tonsillectomy, Jennifer fears she may never see her family again and, whi...

When Elyse lands a job with a top architectural firm, the load begins to get to her at work and at h...

Elyse is stricken with gambling fever on a business trip to Atlantic City, and while on a roll with...

The news that their mother is pregnant sends the three Keaton kids into an angry outburst resulting...

Alex is thrilled to be taking a college course taught by one of his personal heroes, Professor Ephra...

Little Jennifer is thrilled about a visit from Scott, a former neighborhood pal she hasn't seen in f...

Alex reluctantly accepts a part-time job with his father at the non-profit station, and his dad is b...

Mallory's enthusiasm for her part-time job at a boutique causes her school grades to slip even lower...

Alex is teamed with long-time rival James Jarrett and assigned to work at a ""hotline"" crisis cente...

While Steven and Elyse are away on vacation, the Keaton house becomes a hotel for the weekend after...

When his best friend, Doug, meets and falls in love with Eleanor, and decides to marry her, Alex res...

Steven and Elyse plan a nostalgic weekend with the kids before the baby arrives, and are crushed to...

Alex plays Cupid to help his shy pal Skippy get together with Jane, the girl of his dreams, but his...

Because of Elyse's pregnancy, the family decides to get a housekeeper, so Alex hires the lovely Kare...

Alex's chances or acceptance into a smug college fraternity are dependent upon his having a knockout...

Alex becomes involved with Donna, a young, unwed expectant mother from Elyse's natural-childbirth cl...

Mallory is crushed when her favorite aunt dies suddenly, but her feelings of sadness turns to anger...

The Keaton family is transported back in time when Alex dreams he is at the Constitutional Conventio...

To help Steven during pledge week at his TV station, the Keatons reluctantly agree to be a part of t...

Still trapped at the television station, Elyse realizes she cannot make it thru the snowstorm to the...

The Keaton family adjusts to life with the new baby but while everyone caters to the new arrival, Je...

Alex and his good friend James go into business together as tutors for their fellow students at Lela...

With two careers, three bickering children and one demanding baby, Steven and Elyse can't seem to fi...

With the rest of the family away for the weekend, Mallory is excited about having the house to herse...

Steven takes a nostalgic trip to his hometown following the death of his father and, with the suppor...

Alex implements a fail-proof, and extremely unromantic, method of meeting the girl of his dreams: He...

Alex realizes he must make Ellen aware of his feelings, but she is on a train on her way to marry an...

Mallory brings home her new boyfriend, Nick, a Rambo-type environmental artist, to meet her family,...

Jennifer takes on the class bully to defend her boyfriend and unwittingly humiliates him by undermin...

Alex does some fancy footwork on the dance floor to impress Ellen when he thinks he is losing her be...

When Mallory informs her parents that she has no intention of going to college after graduation, the...

Alex hires a tutor to help him with math, but his ""teacher"" turns out to be a 13-year-old genius w...

Mallory's boyfriend, environmental artist Nick Moore, swaps his T-shirt, camouflage pants, combat bo...

Steven's old college buddy Richard Schofield is in town for and Steven looks forward to reminiscing...

Alex, who prides himself on being in control of his life, is embarrassed to admit that he is having...

Mallory begins to feel severe guilt after reporting a young girl to the police for shoplifting, espe...

Steven gets the promotion he has been waiting years for, but as the new regional manager of the stat...

Alex offers to help Jennifer with a speech project and winds up creating a monster, the speech is su...

Alex secretly invites Ellen's dad to Parent's Day Weekend at Leland College, thinking that she will...

Skippy's lifetime obsession with Mallory builds to a climax when he refuses to accept that she is in...

A chess tournament between Leland College students and a visiting Soviet team turns into a wrestling...

Elyse enrolls in an auto mechanics class to prove Alex and Steven that women can be just as competen...

The Keaton family fills in his girlfriend, Ellen, on some of the more humorous events in Alex's life...

Mallory suspects there's more involved than ""art appreciation"" when a wealthy and beautiful older...

Alex lands a teaching-assistant position and runs into big trouble when he has to grade a student wh...

Steven has a very difficult time accepting that his youngest daughter, Jennifer,is growing up and no...

Elyse must deal with Paul, a young architect associate who falls in love with her. After working fo...

Mallory discovers that her high school graduation is in jeopardy unless she can pass a very tough hi...

Alex shocks his parents when he visits his 3-year-old brother Andrew's very special preschool class,...

Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship, Alex desperately trie...

Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and fins that sh...

When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left-wing political magazin...

Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vice president to whom he...

Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently oppose their marriage p...

Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours to elope, and unable to...

When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse's, confides that he has broken up with his girlfriend, El...

Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his college fraternity when Th...

Nick faces a serious dilemma when he learns that to teach an art class he must have a high school di...

While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important research paper, Alex fac...

When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, little does she expect tha...

It's bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announces that he and his wife,...

The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Unc...

Mallory's relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry reading group and become...

Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents...

The Keaton's are a house divided over a ""major"" domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fas...

While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicag...

When Alex plays "gentleman" to his mother and two sisters and orders for them at a restaurant withou...

As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunion, Alex has big plans,...

Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his...

When Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to s...

Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, the handsome star pitche...

When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory's new college friend, Amy Sussman, he's both...

When Elyse's sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, Elyse is overjoyed, while...

When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries to comfort and then help...

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirte...

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirte...

As the Keaton household gets ready for the first day of the new school year, Alex reminds Jennifer o...

Mallory is thrilled to follow in ""Dear Abby's"" footsteps when she's tapped to write the personal a...

While Nick entertains the Keatons with a demonstration of the ""salesmanship"" he's using in his new...

Jennifer is appalled when nerdy sophomore Simon Wickerson falls head over heels in love with her. Al...

As Elyse wraps up a major project for her firm, she realizes that her busy architectural career is c...

When Steven arrives home with news of a job opening at his station, an internship position he feels...

Alex and Lauren face the first real test of their budding romance when one of Lauren's former loves...

The Keatons are surprised, but delighted, when Elyse's Aunt Rosemary shows up for a visit. Although...

Fearing the long-term effects of Andy's liberal upbringing with Its lack of strong gender identifica...

When Mallory decides to run for student body president of Grant College, her family is surprised at...

When Steven's recently divorced brother Rob arrives with his son and daughter for a visit, the Keato...

When Uncle Rob's daughter Marilyn stays out all nite with a Marine she meets while visiting the Keat...

When Lauren is required to write a paper on the typical American family, she chooses the Keatons. Fo...

While plans are in full swing for the Keaton's 20th anniversary party, Steven and Elyse are fighting...

The Christmas spirit has come to the Keaton house, where the family is busy baking Christmas cookies...

The Keaton kids are dismayed when the local playhouse agree to stage Steven's radical 60's college p...

Alex is more than a little sceptical when Nick enters his sculpture "Spirit of Columbus", priced at...

Alex becomes a deejay of his own college radio show with a program he calls "Syncopated Money", desi...

Jennifer comes home from school feeling blue because after choosing the American classic "Huckleberr...

While Jennifer steels herself for a showdown with school authorities, Steven and Elyse prepare to ba...

While Andy is inspired by his parents' old love letters to try his hand at writing one to a kinderga...

As Steven goes thru another one of his dreaded "magician phases" and tries to rope the whole family...

As Elyse prepares for her high school reunion, she is contacted by her old buddy, Roger "Eggy" Erdma...

While Alex prepares little Andrew's resume for future kindergarten elections, Elyse proudly tells th...

Cousin June returns to the Keaton household for a visit after a three year stay in London. All of th...

Nick again demonstrates his flair for teaching art by conducting a class at the "Y" for children, in...

A family camping trip turns into a comedy of errors. While the Keaton kids and Lauren argue about p...

Mallory's enthusiasm for her job at a prestigious fashion firm quickly fades when she discovers tha...

Alex feels left out when Andy begins spending less time with him and more time with Nick's streetwis...

In an attempt to get Alex to open up emotionally, Lauren persuades him to join a therapy group. Ret...

The Keaton family unites in crisis when Steven suffers a serious heart attack. While Alex and Andy...

While Steven fights for his life in surgery, the family fights to remain optimistic about his condit...

Steven battles the physical and psychological aftershocks of his heart surgery. As the hours drag o...

Skippy's decision to join the Army soon becomes a losing battle. As the Keaton clan continues to na...

Sisterly sparks fly when Jennifer decides to date the younger brother of Mallory's former high schoo...

Nick gets back together with his best childhood friend: his dog Scrapper. When Nick's mother moves...

When Andy befriends two senior citizens, Steven decides to make them the focus of his new documentar...

Alex must choose between friendship and his career after a friend recommends him for a job at a big...

When the first building Elyse designed faces the wrecking ball, the entire family rallies behind her...

Lauren gets more than she bargained for when she begins counseling Skippy and he falls in love with...

Mallory's plans to buy a car are stalled when Steven refuses to co-sign her loan. As Jennifer labor...

Jennifer is caught in the middle when she begins working with her friend Simon. As Alex recoils at...

The Keatons are shocked to realize that racism is alive and well when their black friends move into...

The Keatons rally behind their black friends when the issue of racial discrimination hits home. Sur...

Alex's relationship with Lauren is tested when he becomes infatuated with a young music student. Wh...

Alex finds himself on an emotional rollercoaster when he's forced to choose between Lauren and Marty...

Jennifer becomes obsessed with the environment after she begins studying the earth's ecological evil...

When Andy asks the family to contribute to his time capsule, the Keaton clan recalls some of their b...

Steven must confront his true feelings about Mallory's boyfriend when Nick moves in with the family...

When Alex lands his dream job in New York, everyone's delighted for him, except Elyse. As Steven he...