Family Ties Season 1

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 1

Episode 1 - [Pilot]
Details : Alex escorts a pretty socialite to a dance at her country club.
Guest Cast and Crew : Toni Sawyer | Cindy Fisher | Director : Asaad Kelada |
Air Date : Sep. 22, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 2

Episode 2 - [Not With My Sister You Don't]
Details : Alex heads the household when Elyse and Steven go away for the weekend.
Guest Cast and Crew : Betsy Russell | Lee Montgomery | Jay Tarses | Director : Tony Mordente | Writer : Lloyd Garver |
Air Date : Sep. 29, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 3

Episode 3 - [I Know Jennifer's Boyfriend]
Details : Jennifer gets picked on when she befriends a boy at school.
Guest Cast and Crew : Jeremy Schoenberg | Director : Michael Zinberg |
Air Date : Oct. 06, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 4

Episode 4 - [Summer Of '82]
Details : Seduced by an older woman of twenty-one the hitherto inexperienced Alex is devastated to learn that she thinks of their relationship as casual.
Guest Cast and Crew : Amy Steel | John Putch | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn | Director : Tony Mordente |
Air Date : Oct. 27, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 5

Episode 5 - [I Never Killed For My Father]
Details : A visit from Steven's father evokes confrontation between the two.
Guest Cast and Crew : John Randolph | Director : Dick Martin |
Air Date : Nov. 03, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 6

Episode 6 - [Give Your Uncle A Kiss]
Details : Mallory is horrified and confused when a close family friend and older business associate of her father's makes a pass at her.
Guest Cast and Crew : Sal Viscuso | Writer : Lloyd Garver | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Nov. 10, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 7

Episode 7 - [Big Brother Is Watching]
Details : As the new editor of his school paper Alex uncovers a cheating scandal and to everyone's chagrin prints a list of students who were caught including Mallory.
Guest Cast and Crew : Philip Sterling |
Air Date : Nov. 17, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 8

Episode 8 - [No Nukes Is Good Nukes]
Details : To the dismay of the Keaton children and their equally conservative grandparents Steven and Elyse take time out Thanksgiving Day to attend an anti-nuke rally-and end up spending the holiday in jail.
Guest Cast and Crew : Priscilla Morrill | Larry Hankin | Dick Sargent | Jack O'Leary as Guard |
Air Date : Nov. 24, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 9

Episode 9 - [Death Of A Grocer]
Details : Though Alex loves working at Mr. Adler's Mom and Pop grocery store to the old man's dismay he quits to climb the corporate ladder at an ultramodern supermarket.
Guest Cast and Crew : Marc Price | Jack Somack | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Dec. 01, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 10

Episode 10 - [Have Gun Will Unravel]
Details : The Keatons consider buying a gun for protection after getting burglarized.
Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Riley | Mary Jackson |
Air Date : Dec. 08, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 11

Episode 11 - [A Christmas Story]
Details : When a blizzard forces the Keatons to spend Christmas at home Elyse's gift to Steven an album filled with fascinating old photos sparks flashbacks to the birth of their three children.
Guest Cast and Crew : Chris Hebert | Peter Jurasik | Mari Gorman | Bruce French | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Dec. 15, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 12

Episode 12 - [Oops]
Details : Mallory resents Elyse for the advice she gives her pregnant friend.
Guest Cast and Crew : Julie Payne | Director : Tony Mordente |
Air Date : Dec. 22, 1982

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 13

Episode 13 - [Sherry Baby]
Details : When popular sorority girl Sherry Marshall befriends Mallory to get close to Alex Mallory brings them together in hopes of joining Pi Nu but her plan backfires.
Guest Cast and Crew : Marc Price | Writer : Barbara Hall | Director : Dick Martin |
Air Date : Jan. 12, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 14

Episode 14 - [The Fugitive Part 1]
Details : Elyse's younger brother and Alex's idol Ned makes a surprise visit. However everyone is puzzled by the go-getter corporate executive's suspicious behavior.
Guest Cast and Crew : Tom Hanks | Richard Venture | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Jan. 19, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 15

Episode 15 - [The Fugitive Part 2]
Details : With the FBI hot on Ned's heels for embezzling 4.5 million dollars in corporate funds Elyse's ethical brother and Alex's idol tells the family why and where he hid the money.
Guest Cast and Crew : Tom Hanks | Richard Venture | Earl Boen | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Jan. 26, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 16

Episode 16 - [Margin Of Error]
Details : Alex amasses a bundle by playing the stock market on paper for his economics class and courts disaster by secretly investing his father's money.
Guest Cast and Crew : Anne Haney | Philip Charles MacKenzie | Director : Tony Mordente |
Air Date : Feb. 09, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 17

Episode 17 - [French Lessons]
Details : Mallory's handsome but shy French tutor Jeff finally musters up the nerve to ask her out and then courts disaster by enlistening Alex's advice on how to behave on the date.
Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Tony Mordente |
Air Date : Feb. 16, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 18

Episode 18 - [I Gotta Be Ming]
Details : As Big Brother to a 10-year-old Vietnamese boy Alex tries to mold Ming into his own image and he learns an unforgettable lesson when he breaks a promise to the adoring child.
Air Date : Feb. 23, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 19

Episode 19 - [Suzanne Takes You Down]
Details : Soon after free lance architect Elyse Keaton hires her friend Suzanne Davis to handle clerical chores she wants to fire the under-qualified overly aggressive secretary but Suzanne's marriage breaks up making the new job her only salvation. After 20 years as a housewife Suzanne feels she lacks an identity outside the home. Swamped with paperwork Elyse decides to solve that problem while easing her friend's mid-life crisis. Unfortunately Suzanne's take-charge approach to business throws a wrench into Elyse's client dealings and threatens to ruin the women's friendship. On the brink of firing Suzanne the frustrated Elyse faces a terrible dilemma when Ron Davis decides he needs space and leaves his wife.
Guest Cast and Crew : Terry Wills | Jay Tarses | Director : Will Mackenzie |
Air Date : Mar. 16, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 20

Episode 20 - [The Fifth Wheel]
Details : Alex gets stuck babysitting for his little sister Jennifer who is fed up with feeling in the way at his poker game and decides to disappear.
Guest Cast and Crew : Grant Heslov | Moosie Drier | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn |
Air Date : Mar. 28, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 21

Episode 21 - [Stage Fright (A K A) Video Jitters]
Details : While gearing up to face the TV cameras as captain of his high school's team on Quiz Off Alex panics at first when a teammate drops out. He then launches a major tutoring program for his sister Mallory.
Guest Cast and Crew : Deborah Foreman | Carlos Lacámara | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn |
Air Date : Apr. 04, 1983

Family Ties Season 1 Episode 22

Episode 22 - [Elyse D'arc]
Details : In her zeal for good causes Elyse devotes so much energy to committee work that a neglected Steven feels shortchanged. Ecstatic to have won an award for his public television documentary Steven arrives home eager to celebrate but every effort is foiled by Elyse's obligations to her various projects. Finally the over-extended wife-mother-architect-committee volunteer begins to realize she's neglecting her most important committee.
Guest Cast and Crew : Belita Moreno | Writer : Michael J. Weithorn | Director : Michael Zinberg |
Air Date : Apr. 11, 1983