Family Ties - Season 1
Run Time: mins
Air Date: Wed, 22 Sept 1982
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.231 (249 votes)
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Pilot
Season 1 - Episode 1
Alex escorts a pretty socialite to a dance at her country club.
Not With My Sister You Don't
Season 1 - Episode 2
Alex heads the household when Elyse and Steven go away for the weekend.
I Know Jennifer's Boyfriend
Season 1 - Episode 3
Jennifer gets picked on when she befriends a boy at school.
Summer of '82
Season 1 - Episode 4
Seduced by an "older woman" of twenty-one, the hitherto inexperienced Alex is devastated to learn that she thinks of their relationship as c...
I Never Killed for My Father
Season 1 - Episode 5
A visit from Steven's father evokes confrontation between the two.
Give Your Uncle A Kiss
Season 1 - Episode 6
Mallory is horrified and confused when a close family friend and older business associate of her father's makes a pass at her.
Big Brother Is Watching
Season 1 - Episode 7
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...
No Nukes Is Good Nukes
Season 1 - Episode 8
To the dismay of the Keaton children and their equally conservative grandparents, Steven and Elyse take time out Thanksgiving Day to attend ...
Death Of A Grocer
Season 1 - Episode 9
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 a...
Have Gun, Will Unravel
Season 1 - Episode 10
The Keatons consider buying a gun for protection after getting burglarized.
A Christmas Story
Season 1 - Episode 11
When a blizzard forces the Keatons to spend Christmas at home, Elyse's gift to Steven, an album filled with fascinating old photos, sparks f...
Oops
Season 1 - Episode 12
Mallory resents Elyse for the advice she gives her pregnant friend.
Sherry Baby
Season 1 - Episode 13
When popular sorority girl Sherry Marshall befriends Mallory to get close to Alex, Mallory brings them together in hopes of joining Pi Nu bu...
The Fugitive (1)
Season 1 - Episode 14
Elyse's younger brother and Alex's idol, Ned, makes a surprise visit. However, everyone is puzzled by the go-getter corporate executive's su...
The Fugitive (2)
Season 1 - Episode 15
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 fam...
Margin Of Error
Season 1 - Episode 16
Alex amasses a bundle by playing the stock market on paper for his economics class, and courts disaster by secretly investing his father's m...
French Lessons
Season 1 - Episode 17
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 ad...
I Gotta Be Ming
Season 1 - Episode 18
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 h...
Suzanne Takes You Down
Season 1 - Episode 19
Soon after free lance architect Elyse Keaton hires her friend Suzanne Davis to handle clerical chores, she wants to fire the under-qualified...
The Fifth Wheel
Season 1 - Episode 20
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...
Stage Fright (a.k.a. Video Jitters)
Season 1 - Episode 21
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. ...
Elyse D'Arc
Season 1 - Episode 22
In her zeal for good causes Elyse devotes so much energy to committee work that a neglected Steven feels shortchanged. Ecstatic to have won...