We were these old kind of radical people and all of a sudden you're in the mainstream.but now you've got these kids and you've empowered them, and they're super intelligent, and they're definitely to the right of where you are. Regarding the concept, show creator Goldberg observed, 'It really was just an observation of what was going on in my own life with my own friends. Alex dotes on his young brother and molds Andy in his conservative image. Steven and Elyse have a fourth child, Andrew (or 'Andy', for short), who is born in early 1985. Jennifer, an athletic tomboy and the second youngest child, shares more of the values of her parents and just wants to be a normal kid. Mallory is also presented as a vacuous airhead, who is fodder for jokes and teasing from her brother. Mallory is apolitical and a materialistic young woman in contrast to her feminist mother.

Alex, the oldest, is a 'Young Republican' who embraces Reaganomics and exhibits conservative attitudes.

Much of the humor of the series focuses on the cultural divide during the 1980s when younger generations rejected the counterculture of the 1960s and embraced the materialism and conservative politics which came to define the 1980s. Married in 1964, Elyse is an independent architect and Steven, a native of Buffalo, New York, is the station manager of WKS, a local public television station. Fox) fashion-conscious, gossipy Mallory ( Justine Bateman) and tomboy Jennifer ( Tina Yothers). 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, raising their three children: ambitious, would-be millionaire entrepreneur Alex ( Michael J. Fox as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. The show won multiple awards, including three consecutive Emmy Awards for Michael J. Fox) and his ex-hippie parents, Steven and Elyse Keaton (portrayed by Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter). This culture was particularly expressed through the relationship between young Republican Alex P. The series, created by Gary David Goldberg, reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. Family Ties is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for seven seasons, premiering on September 22, 1982, and concluding on May 14, 1989.

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