Television can be a pretty bleak landscape these days, but if I look at it from a kid’s perspective, I actually feel kind of sick. When I was a little, you didn’t need cable to find age appropriate programming. With just 3-5 channels and a good pair of rabbit ears, you could find cartoons before …
If you’ve seen Season One of Family Ties, you’ll be happy to pick up where you left off with the Keaton family. Season Two finds Alex taking speed supplied by Mallory (OMG!), alcoholic Uncle Ned (Tom Hanks) applying for a job at Steven’s station, and Jennifer taking stock of her life as she awaits a …
It seemed to me that Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Ties approached perfection, and yet, I love Season 3 even more. When Meredith Baxter Birney’s real-life pregnancy is written to the script, we find the Keatons anticipating a surprise addition to the family. I hadn’t remembered this happening so early in the show’s run, …