Family Ties - Season 5
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Air Date: Thu, 25 Sept 1986
Average Rating: ⭐ 7.231 (249 votes)
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Be True to Your Preschool
Season 5 - Episode 1
Alex shocks his parents when he visits his 3-year-old brother Andrew's very special preschool class, decides the wrong values are being stre...
Starting Over
Season 5 - Episode 2
Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship, Alex desperately tries to find someone to take her place, but...
The Freshman and the Senior
Season 5 - Episode 3
Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and fins that she has a lot to learn about honesty, sens...
My Back Pages
Season 5 - Episode 4
When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left-wing political magazine they had worked on 20 years before, St...
Beauty and the Bank
Season 5 - Episode 5
Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vice president to whom he reports is Ms. Ryan, a beautiful, smart...
Mrs. Wrong (1)
Season 5 - Episode 6
Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently oppose their marriage plans and threaten to ground their teenag...
Mrs. Wrong (2)
Season 5 - Episode 7
Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours to elope, and unable to stop them, follows them to New Jersey w...
The Big Fix
Season 5 - Episode 8
When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse's, confides that he has broken up with his girlfriend, Elyse decides to fix him up with a family ...
My Brother's Keeper
Season 5 - Episode 9
Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his college fraternity when Theta Pi Sigma pledges Skippy with the ide...
High School Confidential
Season 5 - Episode 10
Nick faces a serious dilemma when he learns that to teach an art class he must have a high school diploma. Mallory volunteers to tutor him, ...
Paper Lion
Season 5 - Episode 11
While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important research paper, Alex faces a serious moral dilemma when he finds...
My Mother, My Friend
Season 5 - Episode 12
When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, little does she expect that Allison will find a kindred spirit in ...
O'Brother (1)
Season 5 - Episode 13
It's bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announces that he and his wife, Maureen, have split up. News of Robert...
O'Brother (2)
Season 5 - Episode 14
The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Uncle Rob's estranged wife. It seems like ...
Higher Love
Season 5 - Episode 15
Mallory's relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry reading group and becomes infatuated with its handsome and sophi...
Architect's Apprentice
Season 5 - Episode 16
Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents when they invite him to compete with oth...
A Tale of Two Cities (1)
Season 5 - Episode 17
The Keaton's are a house divided over a ""major"" domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kitchen. Elyse, Mallory...
A Tale of Two Cities (2)
Season 5 - Episode 18
While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicago with his boss, Rebecca Ryan, attending...
Battle of the Sexes
Season 5 - Episode 19
When Alex plays "gentleman" to his mother and two sisters and orders for them at a restaurant without even asking them what they want, the b...
Band on the Run
Season 5 - Episode 20
As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunion, Alex has big plans, which include hiring some great bands to...
Keaton vs. Keaton
Season 5 - Episode 21
Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his station, WKS. A confident Alex scoffs as...
A, My Name is Alex
Season 5 - Episode 22
When Alex's friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to seriously question the meaning and purpos...
"D" is for Date
Season 5 - Episode 23
Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, the handsome star pitcher of the school baseball team. When Tim ...
Love Me Do
Season 5 - Episode 24
When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory's new college friend, Amy Sussman, he's both startled and overjoyed to find himself i...
The Visit
Season 5 - Episode 25
When Elyse's sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, Elyse is overjoyed, while the rest of the Keaton clan brace thems...
Matchmaker
Season 5 - Episode 26
When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries to comfort and then help. He will find her a new and perfect boy...
It's My Party (1)
Season 5 - Episode 27
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bo...
It's My Party (2)
Season 5 - Episode 28
In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bo...