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@@pettee1979 Same thing with David Cassidy from Partridge Family TV Show. David was doing concerts & TV show at the same time. If you dont know Partridge Family David was selling out stadium concerts at age 20. Lucky guy a Millanare at age 23. David was one of those 70s teen Idol. Had a long career did concerts till he was 67. But just like all 70s Rockers he got into Drugs & Alcohol. Partridge Family show is old 1970-1974.
i grew up with sitcoms like the brady bunch, three's company, too close for comfort, different strokes, the facts of life, family ties, growing pains, just the ten of us, webster, mr. belvedere, who's the boss? charles in charge, full house, perfect strangers, family matters, step by step, the wonder years, doogie howser md, 227, the golden girls, mama's family, gimmie a break etc... the 70s, 80s, and 90s were the best in television. you absolutely cannot watch what is on television these days.
i watch the reruns everyday. i always laugh at the father's occasional humorously sarcastic responses EX: Alex: "There ought to be a store where you can just walk in and buy the woman you want" Father: "Well there is such a place Alex but they're illegal in this state"
I love this comment because I’ve noticed the same thing. The character of Steven had so many hilarious lines. Most of them were very sarcastic, which were golden!
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Right, and Tom Hanks wasn’t exactly unknown when he first guest-starred here. He wasn’t nearly as famous as he’d be later, but he’d already played in Bosom Buddies.
@@derekllewellyn6663 why does this comment make no sense at all?? I’ve tried to figure out what the heck it means….no punctuation, no sentences….just “word salad”…just the way Kamala Harris talks!!
Family Ties wasn't cancelled; NBC invited them back for another season but it was creator and Executive Producer Gary David Goldberg that pulled the plug on the series.
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Nobody has talked about 'Bosom Buddies', since he became famous and Henry didn't. Like the things he did to get famous are things he is embarrassed by. (I. E., wearing a dress).
LOL - I am with the rest of you guys here... seriously 'Bosom Buddies' was a good show, and put Tom Hanks on the Map, though HE would want you to forget about it.
This show got me through a major depression in 2013. Binge watched this and family matters on Netflix when I had too much social and agoraphobic anxiety to basically do anything.
There are so many things I love about this show and I still watch it. One thing I really appreciate is that they were able represent both political parties. They did it in a joking, but respectful manner and at the end of the day, they didn’t let it get in the way of their ultimate goal of the love they had for each other. I wish we could all do the same. I’ve lost family and friends just over my political party or not voting their way, without even a discussion and it’s heartbreaking.
I agree. They initially intended for Alex to be sort of a joke as a Republican (left wing Hollywood). But MJF made the character so likable that it didn't turn out that way.
@@fredwerza3478 The end of the video asks if u were most surprised about Pollen and Fox marrying in real life or that Tom Hanks was on the show. Neither surprised me. Watching the show since it began I already knew that stuff. I WAS surprised about an actor thinking they are getting paid TOO much. That’s rare for most to say. But the fact like u say Scott was a classically trained actor playing a moron says even more about the kind of person Scott was/is.
I watched this show from the very beginning and to very last show, I grew up with this show , I am 48 years old now , I was very sad to see it go. Michael j. Fox was my favorite character Alex . I wish the shows today could be as good as we had back then, Thumbs up 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼😷🇺🇸💕
Alex's parents were hippies in the 60s and they were disappointed that their oldest son was a conservative Republican but the other kids on the show were just kids they never expressed their political views. I loved this show as a kid but I doubt they could ever do a show like this today with so much hatred between both political parties. So sad.
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Jennifer and Mallory were not on board with their parents hippie/left wing ideals. That happened all throughout the show. All the kids were like: c'mon get over it.
Both Michael & Meredith have said that 'Meredith would come pick him up in the morning to get to the set. When shooting BTTF & Family Ties the BTTF producers had a station wagon with a bed in the back for him to sleep on when driving to the set.
Tom Hanks was already a well known actor when he made appearances on Family Ties. He had just wrapped a successful TV sitcom of his own "Bosom Buddies, 1980-81-82," in witch he was a main character. Nor was "Big," his first success.
I got to meet the girl that played Jennifer on family ties when I was younger I was in special Olympics and I got to meet her real name is Tina and she was very nice
They forgot to mention Genna Davis was a fun loving housekeeper who couldn’t keep house to good. There was Judith Light. Where Stephen almost had an affair on Eleyse
I’d heard Reagan was a fan of Family Ties. Tracy Pollan is introduced in Family Ties in the fourth season premiere. It’s a two part episode named “The Real Thing.” Great episode. Tracy recurred throughout the fourth season, but she appears in flashbacks and out of order episodes later in the series. She is in clip shows of the series.
What? Family Ties was NEVER cancelled. I've seen countless interviews and everybody was just ready to move on. The network would've loved it to had continue but Gary David Goldberg and everyone else felt the show was ready to end.
He did in an episode where Alex and his buddies went up to Canada on his 18th birthday to get some action, then his mother showed up just when they met some older girls at a bar.
This is my favorite sitcom of all time, tied with Married...With Children and Seinfeld. I love plenty sitcoms, from all decades, but these are my favorites! Michael J. Fox was also an amazingly talented actor DURING Family Ties. I knew Reagan dug the show. I remember Tom Hanks being on the show. I knew of Michael J. and Tracy being married. I even knew about Nick's proposed spinoff, lol! Ayyyyyyyy! I knew of Michael J.'s transportation woes. I remember River Phoenix being on there, and Wil. Corey, I don't remember. Must re-watch for him, lol! Remember Michael J. working on Family Ties and "Future" simultaneously, as well. The show ran from my 6th grade year through my senior year. Discovered it in 7th grade(don't know how I didn't learn of it earlier!), and watched faithfully for seasons 2-7. Didn't realize until just now that the ratings had dropped so heavily. Hated to see it go! Luckily, I have the complete series box set.
The ratings wasn’t the real reason the show ended. I saw a reunion show and Goldberg let it out the bag to the surprise and apparent consternation of the other actors that the network wanted another season but Michael J. Fox turned it down. You could tell Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter weren’t too thrilled to find this out. Goldberg probably had a bit of grudge for MJF turning it down as these last season are often big paydays.
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I remember Hanks on it and the Stand by me group. I knew it died off because like many shows, when they change the time slot it is killer. Hanks made Volunteers around same time he guested stared on it
It was a 1980's show, we were coming up into the 90's. It had a good run. Cast growing up, it ran it's course. I'm watching it for the past few days. I laugh at it quite a bit. Ellen and Alex. I watched her leave yesterday. I felt for Alex, trying to get over it gets a date with a perfectly fine young woman and he keeps trying to make her Ellen. Then he comes home after it ends ugly, with that song playing "What did you think.... I would do, at this moment" and he writes her in Paris. And today, Alex with Cortney Cox character (Laren???). I remember the Tom Hanks alcoholic uncle Ned episode back when it aired. That was a good episode. I never forgot it. My mom the loved the show, so it's one of those shows especially in the start. Yeah I like it and the theme song is yet another one of those 1970's 80's themes that brings me back to a time. Then the outro theme and you always knew what tag would be at the end of the outro of whatever show "sit Ubu sit.... Good dog" sometimes I'd be listen to shows from my bed. I'm watching it on Pluto now.
I loved "Family Ties" as a kid, and I've seen it on late-night cable a few times in recent years. I don't own the DVDs yet, but I've considered buying them. I have read Michael's first two biographies, but I still need to buy the third one. The show was mostly harmless, and very funny - I wish executives and studios would create more content like this now.
Tom Hanks and Geena Davis guest starred on Family Ties and were in the incredible film A League Of Their Own together. that i remember. forgot about the Stand By Me kids
Facts Verse: I do have one more fact about Family Ties! Do you know that at the end of show you see a dog calling UBU Production company. The dog turned out to be Gary David Goldberg's dog UBU. He the company after his own dog. You do heard Gary's voice saying "Sit UBU Sit. Good Dog and a bark at the end! You have a nice day!
This channel always has lots of errors. But yes, he was tv famous in Bosom Buddies. His film career took longer to take off. Though Bachelor Party was around the time he was on Family Ties.
Well what hurt was getting taken away from that sweet Cosby lead in. Cosby was still a top 5 show and that automatically makes whatever comes after a giant hit too. Also the show while imo still mostly funny and had some great episodes in season 7 you could tell it was winding down and was time to go before it got bad, like The Simpsons level bad lol n
Family Ties didn't become a hit until the Cosby show premiered in 1984. The ratings of the first two seasons were very low. Family Ties rode off the coattails of the Cosby phenomenon during the time. When NBC remove Family Ties right after the Cosby Show to Sunday nights ratings collapsed.
Nick didn’t grunt. He said, “Hey” and nothing more (no pun intended) sometimes. In the family ties box that, they included the pilot “the art of Nick” so we can actually watch the pilot now
Well, they had the triplets, the two younger boys, a new family for the audience to get use to. Most assumed, when Robbie got his '3 sons', the camera on the family went with the younger generation. But I do remember Steve being there a lot for Dodie, if not Chip and Ernie. Fred MacMurray was also doing stuff for Disney at that time, too.
I’m more surprised that even back then they decided not to have a show reunion at some point. I always loved the show because of their great characters/actors and the story lines that they covered.
When the show ended, it was said at that time. Meredith Baxter Birney didn't like that Michael J. Fox was more popular than she was. She was the name that had the pull when the sitcom started.
There was a whole generation that had watched the hippies be crazy and they totally identified with the Alex Keeton character back then. Wasn’t her fault, just Michael J Fox was putting on the screen the way we felt about a lot of things.
I challenge any of you to watch the two part episode when Alex examines why he is alive while his friends are dead and not feel something during the show.
It was ridiculous. I saw it on it's first run and the Fox character seemed completely different to every other episode. It was really terrible. And Fox is a rubbish actor. He was very very lucky. Spin city was rubbish.
@@joeymorvant161 I understood that episode very well. In my high school, around the same time, 5 of the junior varsity baseball players, and a few good friends of mine, crashed in a Ford Escort. The car broke in half and the back seat passengers died. I could relate to what Alex was going through. No I wasn't supposed to be in the car, but some of us still had some of the same guilty thoughts. The ironic thing is that Justine was enrolled in my class so it was her school as well when this happened. The accident happened in 1983 so she was already enrolled with us at that time. Thinking about it now, maybe that had as effect on those episodes being written.
@@mexicanspec That is so sad! Not to take away from everything else you said(I promise), but you went to school with Justine Bateman?!!!!!? It truly is sad the accident happened, more so because you lost friends. This is obviously decades ago, but still, my condolences for your loss.
With all the remakes of classics happening, I’d be interested in seeing a relaunch of Family Ties in 2021 with the script flipped with the parents being ultra conservative and the kids being modern day liberals.
I’m not a big fan of the tv show reboots that has happened the last few years with fuller house one day at a time party of 5 the wonder years and the latest head of the class it shows that Hollywood had run out of ideas so they just take something from 20-30 years ago and redo it instead of coming up with a new idea
@@FactsVerse Do not have a favorite. But, I can relate to Skippy. Early on it was Jennifer with the quick come backs. They all had them became became just as fun
U did fail to mention why Andy was added to the show cause Meredith Baxter Birney got pregnant and had twins during the shows 3rd season which cause her to miss 7 episodes due to being on maternity leave following giving birth to the twin but more then likely have to be padded to continue to look pregnant until almost the end of the season where Elyse has Andy during a pledge drive at the tv station Steven worked for and u also failed to mention geena Davis was a housekeeper who was bad at her job on the show
3:20 "After Family Ties he went on on to become an amazingly talented actor" NO , he was already an amazingly talented actor. After Family Ties he only became more successful.
Michael got his first major start in the mid-1970s, starring in the Canadian TV series "Leo and Me". His first American efforts were "Midnight Madness" in 1980, and "Class of 1984", made in 1982. But "Family Ties" was really what launched him into the mainstream, and then "Back to the Future" sent him even higher.
No that’s not true. Gary believed they should go out on top. I watched all of his interviews. Years later he and MJF said they should’ve done a. 8th year.
@@christopherdieudonne She should've stuck around instead of forcing her husband to play opposite other girls. I remember Tom Hanks being on a couple episodes, and they contradicted each other because one showed him getting in trouble with someone he worked for and going to prison and an alcoholic. Skippy was a loveable nerd who got plenty of laughs.
@@jasonirelan4487 I'm not saying you're wrong, but how do you know? No sarcasm, I hate sarcasm. I'm genuinely asking, because this is the first time I'm hearing of this, and it is a VERY interesting statement.
HELP... Isn't there an episode of this show that has The Beatles song "In My Life" in it. The actual Beatles version, not the Mom (Meredith Baxter Birney) and Dad(Michael Gross) singing it. I could have sworn there is a scene, a montage, showing the whole family through the years and John Lennon singing "In my life". Does anyone know the episode?? Maybe it was another 80s or 90s TV show, but I'm pretty sure it was Family Ties.
You might be thinking of the TV show which had a autistic kid as the main character. Can't remember the name of the show, but I thought it was a decade later.
My favorite line in the series said by Andy "Alex said, if you want to win vote Republican." I was heartbroken to later find out that Michael J. Fox is a Democrat. The problem I saw with the series is that they had too many flashback episodes. I know many TV shows have these but usually only once. Family Ties did it too often.
Mine was, his first line on his debut episode. This is when he was still a mini-Alex. He had a tiny 3-piece suit, tie, and dress shoes on. Can't remember who, but someone in the family told him:"Andy, you look like a million bucks." Andy promptly replied:"Tax-free!"
I loved this show. I watched it when it originally aired and then again in syndication. I caught the guest appearances of both Tom Hanks and Wil Wheaton, and knew he'd married Tracey Pollan. She and Michael didn't date during the series, but met again and started dating while making the movie Bright Lights, Big City.
This was a show I was fanatical about so I know weird little wheels within wheels about it and pop culture at large surrounding the show at the time. Reading all the comments, I wanted to put in my two cents, even on the points people already made with a couple of specifics and clarifications, like... 1) Yes, Tom Hanks was just coming off his own recently cancelled sitcom when he became a real journeyman actor at this time, doing three episodes in total on Family Ties alone. But Bachelor Party he shot and was a box office hit, then came Splash, then in the same summer of '85, he had the one-two punch misfires of Volunteers and The Man with One Red Shoe, the former being where he met and co-starred with his future wife Rita Wilson. Then Nothing In Common and The Money Pit. Also, the movie Punchline came out the same year as Big. 2) Michael began filming Back to the Future in January of the new year 1985 just as everyone was returning to work after the holidays. He famously wouldn't have a day off again for five months as the production on BTTF was racing against the clock (!) to meet their July 3rd release date, that had already been pushed back to buy the production time. He got something closer to 2 hours of sleep a day and they had to film 7 days a week all the way through to make up time, but also take advantage of the weekend where Michael was free from Family Ties as they taped the show every Friday night. After they wrapped that week's episode, he would go straight to the BTTF set and be there from Friday night to Monday morning at dawn. Saturday and Sundays were the only days they had Michael available to shoot outside day scenes on location early on in the shoot. They shot the 50's town square scenes first on the Universal lot so they could do a lot of day for night shooting to get as much done as they could, pushing actual travel outdoor location work to later in the schedule when Family ties would wrap for their 3rd Season in mid-March. After that, the BTTF train went full steam ahead from mid-March to, yes, late June non-stop. Michael and the entire crew went into overtime penalities on a daily basis which was worked into the budget, already way in the hole for the $6 million they spent filming with Eric Stoltz and now reshooting all over again with Michael. It's insane that in the primitive days of analog technology for effects houses, the movie was able to work around the clock and get all it's special effects finished and look fantastic, score movie with an iconic theme and nobody on the cast or crew, but especially Michael J. don't collapse from exhaustion. Or worse. Five months of only 2 hours of sleep, stolen in the daylight of early morning because teamsters literally put a passed out Fox in a pick upved, drove him to his house, picked him up and put him in his bed of his house, and then waited 2 hours to wake him up and start it all over again. Personal theory: I read Rob Lowes memoirs about his time as a teen idol and movie star in the 80's where cocaine was always around, on every set. It was a different time and bygone culture about such things. But, everyone on movie sets basically did coke, casual or Charlie Sheen levels. Rob confesses he was the later. He doesn't come out and say it, but it's implied that his time on the democratic star bus to campaign for the democratic presidential hopeful there was a lot of insane partying going on and that coke and whiskey was their nightly matinee star diet, and the coke, as well as other things, was heavily involved in the 5 month brutal shooting schedule of early 1985 that was Michael's life to somehow get through it and pull it off. Michael at the time refered to this period as his: Year of living dangerously. I think this is why and had a darker connotation to it than anyone could've realized. It gets darker. A lot of studies can relate hard drug use and alcohol abuse in short, but concentrated periods of time can be a direct link to the physical deteriation symptoms that is Parkinson's decease. So, his Championship Season, as it were, where it looked like at the time, Michael flirted with disaster, tempted date and somehow seemed to cheat death, might have had a toll taken in the long term later on down the line. But, it's only a theory. Regardless, it is still a helluva an accomplishment and no one in the entertainment industry comes close to matching that crazy feat and it netting a movie classic out of it all. 3) The show was moved to Sunday nights in its 6 and 7th seasons where it did fall in the ratings, losing their cushy Cosby Show lead in, but they still won their time slot every week out of all the network shows both seasons and was regularly in the top 30. Toward the end of season 7, BTTF 2 was ramping up and filming actually had gone under way the last month of production on Family Ties so history repeated itself once more as Michael had to do double duty again, but BTTF 2 pushed any major scenes back till Family Ties wrapped up. But, the network wanted them to return for an 8th season. Everyone was ready to move on creatively, but it was Michael who ultimately pulled the plug, as he could only film a movie on Family Ties' summer hiatus the last year's and was desperately wanting to concentrate fully now on his film career so it was determined and Family Ties finished their series run with a special hour long send off episode that was the number one rated show for that week. They went out on top. Family Ties was not cancelled or suffering from any low ratings. 4) Michael J. Fox filmed a movie on his 1987 hiatus from Family Ties (between seasons 5 and 6) called Bright Lights, Big City. There was personal rejiggering behind the scenes and a change of director at the last minute, so a delay in filming and some parts for recast because some actors had prior commitments and couldn't wait around. One of those roles was his kind of potential love interest in the film. Michael immediately made phone calls to get Tracy Pollan in the movie and that part. It had been two years since they acted together and saw one another for her one single season of Family Ties in season 4 and he was still smitten with her, had heard she just broken up with her long term boyfriend of 7 years (Kevin Bacon!) and he didn't waste his opening and opportunity. The movie is largely forgotten, unfairly, but is remembered for being the film Michael and Tracy fell in love, got married a year later and had 4 children and still strong in 2020. 5) Michael is a serious savage. He can really go into beast mode, focus on the overwhelminly so called insurmountable odds of certain life challenges and rise up to them, face them down and do it with harm, wit and a really unique core inner strength where he seems to have a core foundation made from properties directly from the planet Krypton. He still my hero, moreso than ever before. And this show was, and still is, just bloody brilliant.
Weren’t the producers of BTTF interested in Michael even before they cast Eric? Did you see the reunion when Goldberg let it out the bag that the real reason the Family Ties was cancelled was because MJF turned it down. The actors who played the parents looked surprised and annoyed. They seemed to be under the impression that it was the network that had cancelled them. That was interesting to see their reactions.
It wasn't just that they saw MJF, it was that Eric Stolz wasn't funny and they needed someone who could make the jokes land so after a month of shooting, they fired Stolz. Imagine BTTF without MJF's comedic skills. Would never have been such a success.
The mother on the show seemed like a narcissistic individual. She would always get her way one way or another from Jennifer,Mallory,Alex especially the father. Elyse says before the forth child is introduced. Now that Jennifer,Mallory and Alex are old enough to take care of themselves. She can finally go back to work. Then episode later they have Andy. Episode S3 E19 Bringing Up Baby. The parents start selfishly wanting alone time together. They get annoyed with the original three siblings as well the forth when he starts to cry. Again. Elyse wants to go back to work. Right after the forth kid.
I have to call out the narrator for the Tom Hanks comments. He said Tom Hanks was barely known at all. He had a sitcom “Bosom Buddies” that aired for 3 years from 1980-1982. There wasn’t all these cable channels or internet back then. People watched what was on TV and the fact that it was on for 3 years means people actually watched his sitcom. He made an episode on Happy Days, which led to him teaming up with Ron Howard to make the hit “Splash” which was filmed in March of 1983. Splash cost $8 million and grossed almost $70 million. I’m not sure if the narrator just wanted to make a comment about Tom Hanks so he just threw something together real quick?! At least make it accurate
Family ties was in the Thursday 8:30 slot in between Cosby Show and Night Court. It was Must See TV before must see TV They moved Family Ties to Sunday and Different World Took that slot. I don't know if it made since to move Family Ties, but Cosby Show was always a juggernaut, but Family Ties had done well without Cosby Show, as it came out 2 years earlier and was a hit on its own. Overall it was a great show!!!! PS Tom Hanks was pretty famous for Bosom Buddies, but I think the show tanked, and then he transitioned to movies...
I remember when Family Ties was one of the best TV shows of all time that made Michael J. Fox a superstar and an icon!!! I thought they was supposed to do an 8th season of Family Ties for the 1989-1990 season all the other shows on NBC cancelled in 1989 are Sale Of The Century, Super Password, Miami Vice, One To Grow On, Family Ties, Highway to Heaven, The Smurfs all disappeared whatever happened to that!! Michael J. Fox had a successful TV and movie career and Michael Gross too!!! But why did Tina Yothers never got any other acting roles to come her way since the show was cancelled That's what I like to know about it!!! Thank you!!!!
That was probably his most famous role, but "Stand by Me" put him on the map. When "Star Trek TNG" first started, the only cast members who were even remotely popular were Wil and Levar Burton. Patrick Stewart was a career actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company, but everyone else was pretty much a novice.
Like other 80s kids, we grew up on weekly TV episodes. We had to wait 7 fricken days before we could watch the next episode! My kids think that's ridiculous and hilarious at the same time lol. Family Ties was worth the wait, though, it was a fun show to watch. MJFox rocks!!
I’m most surprised at your lack of knowledge and everything you’ve gotten wrong. They weren’t even cancelled. And they were number one in the ratings when Gary thought it was a good time to end. Years later he and MJF wished they did a season 8. You also missed why Andrew was introduced. Meredith was actually pregnant or he wouldn’t have been.
