Family Ties

Alex implements a fail-proof, and extremely unromantic, method of meeting the girl of his dreams: He picks her from pict…

Alex realizes he must make Ellen aware of his feelings, but she is on a train on her way to marry another man, so he tak…

Mallory brings home her new boyfriend, Nick, a Rambo-type environmental artist, to meet her family, but Steven and Elyse…

Jennifer takes on the class bully to defend her boyfriend and unwittingly humiliates him by undermining his masculinity …

Alex does some fancy footwork on the dance floor to impress Ellen when he thinks he is losing her because of their diver…

When Mallory informs her parents that she has no intention of going to college after graduation, they are sure she is be…

Alex hires a tutor to help him with math, but his ""teacher"" turns out to be a 13-year-old genius who suddenly becomes …

Mallory's boyfriend, environmental artist Nick Moore, swaps his T-shirt, camouflage pants, combat boots and earrings for…

Steven's old college buddy Richard Schofield is in town for and Steven looks forward to reminiscing about old times unti…

Alex, who prides himself on being in control of his life, is embarrassed to admit that he is having a problem with insom…

Mallory begins to feel severe guilt after reporting a young girl to the police for shoplifting, especially when he learn…

Steven gets the promotion he has been waiting years for, but as the new regional manager of the station, he is required …

Alex offers to help Jennifer with a speech project and winds up creating a monster, the speech is such a success that sh…

Alex secretly invites Ellen's dad to Parent's Day Weekend at Leland College, thinking that she will be pleasantly surpri…

Skippy's lifetime obsession with Mallory builds to a climax when he refuses to accept that she is in love with Nick, and…

A chess tournament between Leland College students and a visiting Soviet team turns into a wrestling match when Alex and…

Elyse enrolls in an auto mechanics class to prove Alex and Steven that women can be just as competent with cars as men, …

The Keaton family fills in his girlfriend, Ellen, on some of the more humorous events in Alex's life before they met in …

Mallory suspects there's more involved than ""art appreciation"" when a wealthy and beautiful older woman takes a specia…

Alex lands a teaching-assistant position and runs into big trouble when he has to grade a student who also happens to be…

Steven has a very difficult time accepting that his youngest daughter, Jennifer,is growing up and no longer wants to ""p…

Elyse must deal with Paul, a young architect associate who falls in love with her. After working for a year in the same…

Mallory discovers that her high school graduation is in jeopardy unless she can pass a very tough history exam. Never an…