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Family Ties Vacation
The NBC sitcom ''Family Ties'' aired from September 22, 1982 to May 14, 1989 with a total of 176 episodes produced. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1982–83) This is the only season where Michael Gross is clean shaven. Season 2 (1983–84) Season 3 (1984–85) Film (1985) The television film ''Family Ties Vacation'' aired two nights before the start of season four. The movie was later split into four individual episodes when the series entered syndication Syndication may refer to: * Broadcast syndication, where individual stations buy programs outside the network system * Print syndication, where individual newspapers or magazines license news articles, columns, or comic strips * Web syndication, .... Season 4 (1985–86) Season 5 (1986–87) Season 6 (1987–88) Season 7 (1988–89) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Family Ties Lists of American sitcom episodes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Ties
''Family Ties'' is an American sitcom television series that aired on NBC for seven seasons, premiering on September 22, 1982, and concluding on May 14, 1989. The series, created by Gary David Goldberg, reflected the move in the United States from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This culture was particularly expressed through the relationship between young Republican Alex P. Keaton (portrayed by Michael J. Fox) and his ex-hippie parents, Steven and Elyse Keaton (portrayed by Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter-Birney). The show won multiple awards, including three consecutive Emmy Awards for Michael J. Fox as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series. Plot Set in suburban Columbus, Ohio during the Reagan administration, Steven and Elyse Keaton ( Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter) are baby boomers, liberals and former hippies, raising their three children: ambitious, would-be millionaire entrepreneur Alex (Michael J. Fox); fashio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Weisman
Sam Weisman is an American film director. He has directed the films '' D2: The Mighty Ducks'', '' Bye Bye Love'', ''George of the Jungle'', '' The Out-of-Towners'', '' What's the Worst That Could Happen?'', and '' Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star''. Weisman is a 1973 graduate of Brandeis University's MFA program in Acting and Directing. He earned a BA in Music History from Yale University, where he was a member of the second longest running a cappella group in the nation, The Society of Orpheus and Bacchus. His brother was the film producer David Weisman. Sam Weisman is married to former ''Knots Landing'' actress Constance McCashin, with whom he has two children: Marguerite Weisman, an editorial assistant an editor at Penguin Random House, and Daniel Weisman, formerly a music manager, who managed Capital Cities, Wale and Mike Posner, now in wealth management. Filmography * '' Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star'' (2003) * '' What's the Worst That Could Happen?'' (2001) *'' The Out ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tate Donovan
Tate Buckley Donovan (born September 25, 1963) is an American actor, comedian and television director. He is known for portraying Tom Shayes in ''Damages'', Jimmy Cooper in ''The O.C.'', and the voice of the title character in the 1997 Disney animated film ''Hercules'', the animated television series of the same name and in a few ''Kingdom Hearts'' video games. He starred opposite Sandra Bullock in the 1992 film, '' Love Potion No. 9''. He also had supporting roles in films, such as ''Good Night, and Good Luck'' and '' Argo''. Donovan also played Brian Sanders in ''Hostages'' and White House Chief of Staff Mark Boudreau in '' 24: Live Another Day''. He has been a guest star in a number of television series, notably ''Friends''. He was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film ''Inside Monkey Zetterland''. He has also worked as a producer of 30 for 30 ''Shorts'', for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Mariye
Lily Mariye (born September 25, 1964) is an American television director, filmmaker and actress. Early life Mariye was born in Las Vegas, Nevada and graduated from UCLA with a BA in theater arts. Career From 1994 to 2009 she had a regular role as nurse Lily Jarvik on the NBC television series '' ER''. She has appeared in many films such as ''The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas'', '' Mighty Joe Young'', ''The Shadow'', ''The New Age'', '' The Doctor'' and ''Extraordinary Measures''. Mariye has guest-starred in over 25 television shows including ''Teen Wolf'', ''Criminal Minds'', '' Shameless'', ''NCIS L.A.'', ''Judging Amy'', '' Ally McBeal'', ''Family Ties'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and ''Chicago Hope''. She is also an award-winning theatre actress, performing in New York, Los Angeles and other regional theatres around the country. Mariye's debut feature film as a writer and director, ''Model Minority'' had its world premiere at the 2012 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Lawrence (filmmaker)
Marc Lawrence (born October 22, 1959) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer. Lawrence is best known for his numerous collaborations with Sandra Bullock and Hugh Grant. He wrote the comedy films ''Forces of Nature (1999 film), Forces of Nature'' (1999), ''Miss Congeniality (film), Miss Congeniality'' (2000), and ''Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous'' (2005). He wrote and directed the comedy films ''Two Weeks Notice'' (2002), ''Music and Lyrics'' (2007), ''Did You Hear About the Morgans?'' (2009), ''The Rewrite'' (2014), and ''Noelle (2019 film), Noelle'' (2019). Early life Lawrence was born on October 22, 1959, in Brooklyn. In 1981, he graduated from Binghamton University with a degree in English and attended New York University School of Law for one year. Career Lawrence moved to Los Angeles after college and served as a staff writer and then supervising producer on NBC's ''Family Ties'' from 1984 to 1989. Lawrence has written films such as ''Life with Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Ann Baxter (born June 21, 1947) is an American actress and Film producer, producer. She is known for her roles on the CBS sitcom ''Bridget Loves Bernie'' (1972–73), American Broadcasting Company, ABC drama series ''Family (1976 TV series), Family'' (1976–80) and the NBC sitcom ''Family Ties'' (1982–89). A five-time Emmy Award nominee, one of her nominations was for playing the Betty Broderick, title role in the 1992 TV film ''A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story''. Early life Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California, the daughter of actress, director and producer Whitney Blake; and Tom Baxter, a Radio personality, radio announcer. After her parents were divorced in 1953, Baxter and her two brothers, Richard (born 1944) and Brian (born 1946), were raised by their mother in Pasadena. Her second stepfather was situation comedy writer Allan Manings. She and her ''Family Ties'' co-star, Michael Gross (actor), Michael Gross, were both born on June 21, 1947. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Timothy Busfield
Timothy Busfield (born June 12, 1957) is an American actor and director. He has played Elliot Weston on the television series ''thirtysomething''; Mark, the brother-in-law of Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) in ''Field of Dreams''; and Danny Concannon on the television series ''The West Wing''. In 1991 he received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for ''thirtysomething''. He is also the founder of the 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization Theatre for Children, Inc. Early life and education Busfield was born June 12, 1957, in Lansing, Michigan, the son of drama professor Roger and Michigan State University Press Director Jean Busfield. He graduated from East Lansing High School in 1975. He received his first professional acting job at 18 in a children's theater adaptation of Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''. Busfield studied drama at East Tennessee State University and traveled frequently with the Actors Theater of Louisville, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McGuire (actor)
Michael McGuire (born 1934) is an American film, television and theatre actor. Life and career McGuire was born in 1934. He began his career in 1964, appearing in the Broadway play ''The Passion of Josef D.'' He also appeared in other Broadway plays, including ''Child's Play'', ''Hey Fever'', and ''That Championship Season'', for which he won a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Performance, shared with Charles Durning, Walter McGinn, Richard Dysart and Paul Sorvino, in 1972. He also received an Outer Critics Circle Award for the same performance. McGuire began his screen career in 1968, playing Dr. Bryan Angell in the television soap opera ''One Life to Live''. From the 1970s to the 2000s McGuire guest-starred in television programs including ''Hawaii Five-O'', ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', ''Columbo'', ''Mannix'', ''Kojak'', ''Wonder Woman'', ''The Streets of San Francisco'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Taxi'', ''The Long Days of Summer'', ''Family Ties'', ''All in the Famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Shallat-Chemel
Lee Shallat Chemel (born June 15, 1943, in Los Angeles, California), sometimes credited as Lee Shallat, is an American film and television director and television producer. She began her professional directorial career at the South Coast Repertory theatre in Costa Mesa, California, while working at the same time as the head of the theatre's conservatory program. She also directed at the ShakespeareSummerfest Orange County (originally the Grove Shakespeare Festival in Garden Grove, California and the Matrix Theatre in Hollywood. After a meeting with producer Gary David Goldberg, she made her television directorial debut in 1984 on the NBC television show ''Family Ties''. Her career has included directing a multitude of shows including: ''Diff'rent Strokes'', ''Murphy Brown'', ''Mad About You'', ''Suddenly Susan'', '' Becker'', ''Sydney'', ''George Lopez'', ''That's So Raven'', ''Arrested Development'', and '' The Middle'', among other series. She has been nominated for three Emmy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back To The Future
''Back to the Future'' is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis, and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Wilson. Set in 1985, the story follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd). While in the past, Marty inadvertently prevents his future parents from falling in love—threatening his existence—and is forced to reconcile the pair and somehow get back to the future. Gale and Zemeckis conceived the idea for ''Back to the Future'' in 1980. They were desperate for a successful film after numerous collaborative failures, but the project was rejected over 40 times by various studios because it was not considered raunchy enough to compete with the successful comedies of the era. A development deal was secured with Universal Pictures f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carolyn Seymour
Carolyn Seymour is an English actress, best known for portraying the role of Abby Grant in the BBC series '' Survivors'' (1975), and Queen Myrrah in the '' Gears of War'' franchise. Career Born Carolyn von Benckendorf in Buckinghamshire to an Estonian father of Russian descent and an Irish mother. One of her early television roles was as Jenny in the BBC drama series ''Take Three Girls''. and an early film appearance was as Zita in the film ''Steptoe and Son'' (1972) alongside Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell. Her best-known movie role remains Grace Gurney in '' The Ruling Class'' (also 1972), opposite Peter O'Toole. She left ''Survivors'' at the end of its first series due to disagreements with the producers over the direction the show and her character were taking. She appeared in the '' Space: 1999'' episode "The Seance Spectre", and with Joan Collins in '' The Bitch'' (1979). She then moved to the United States and made numerous television appearances including ''Hart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Uger
Alan Uger (born December 24, 1940) is an American writer and producer, known for ''Family Ties'', '' Blazing Saddles'', and '' Champs''. He was nominated three times for Outstanding Writer in a Comedy Series for ''Family Ties'', in 1985, 1986 and 1987; winning in 1987. Uger was a dentist before becoming a writer, and worked with Norman Steinberg on several projects until Steinberg got hired by Mel Brooks Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began ... as a writer on ''Blazing Saddles'' (1974), with Uger also hired as co-writer. Between 1972 and 1996, Uger wrote or produced dozens of TV show episodes or screenplays. Uger was also nominated for BAFTA and WGA awards. References External links * 1940 births American male screenwriters American male television writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
