Family Ties
Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2)
TV Flash files “Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2)” as a desk essential hour — Family Ties (1982–1989) on NBC, season 7, episode 26, aired 1989-05-14, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S07E26: listed hour 176 of 176 in the Family Ties guide, last listed hour of season 7. It aired 1989-05-14 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1)” (S07E25). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2)”. Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2) is the move-out closer: a young-star franchise signing off the house it had already rebalanced around.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
As Alex packs his items for a move to New York, each family members has a chance to say their individual goodbyes. Nick & Skippy show up for their goodbyes, as well as his former girlfriend Lauren.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2) sit in the Family Ties guide?
S07E26 is listed hour 176 of 176 — last listed hour of season 7, season 7 episode 26.
When did Family Ties S07E26 air?
Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2) aired 1989-05-14 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Is Family Ties only the Alex P. Keaton show?
It became that, which is the story. Liberal former-hippie parents were the premise; Fox's popularity reshaped the center of gravity mid-run, and the series survived by handing him the engine.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Fox at full young-star voltage: Alex P. Keaton as the Reagan-kid yuppie mascot opposite hippie parents Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross. Family multi-cam that actually engages 1980s politics without a textbook. His Back to the Future scheduling wars are the gossip; the rebalance around Fox is the show. Economics never had a cozier sitcom spokesman.
The kid ate the series. Not a rumor — a rebalance. NBC's Family Ties (1982–1989) opened as Gary David Goldberg's living-room gag about hippie parents and a Reagan-kid son, then Michael J. Fox's Alex P. Keaton vacuumed the center of gravity until Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross were playing opposite a superstar. Seven seasons, 176 episodes, supply-side sitcom spokesman in a sweater. The museum guard wants the decade's politics as text. Fine. **The heat was a supporting kid who became the show.**
Filed against
- Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton
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- Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton
Meredith Baxter’s Elyse Keaton held Family Ties’ hippie-parent line against Alex P. Keaton’s Reagan-kid yuppie mascot — 1980s family multi-cam that actually engaged the politics without a textbook. Michael Gross on the other couch, Fox at…
- Michael Gross as Steven Keaton
Michael Gross’s Steven Keaton held the other hippie couch on Family Ties — 1980s multi-cam that put Reagan-kid Alex P. Keaton against parents who still had the old arguments. Meredith Baxter as partner, Fox at young-star voltage. TV Flash…
- Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton
Justine Bateman’s Mallory Keaton was Family Ties’ shopping-mall counterweight — Alex P. Keaton as Reagan-kid yuppie mascot, hippie parents Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, family multi-cam that actually engaged 1980s politics without a…
- Tina Yothers as Jennifer Keaton
Tina Yothers youngest-childed Family Ties as Jennifer Keaton — Alex P. Keaton as the Reagan-kid yuppie mascot opposite hippie parents, family multi-cam that actually engaged 1980s politics without a textbook. Rebalance as the long game.…