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Airing on NBC from 1982 to 1989, this highly successful domestic comedy explored one of the intriguing cultural inversions characterizing the Reagan era: a conservative younger generation aspiring to wealth, business success, and traditional values, serves as inheritor to the politically liberal, presumably activist, culturally experimental generation of adults who had experienced the 1960s. In the Museum of Broadcast CommunicationsВ entry for Family Ties, Michael Saenz argues that few shows better demonstrate the resonance between collectively held fictional imagination and what cultural critic Raymond WilliamsВ called 'the structure of feeling' of a historical moment than Family Ties. According to Stephen Kiehl, this was when the 'Alex Keaton generation was rejecting the counterculture of the 1960sВ and embracing the wealth and power that came to define the '80s.' В While the youngest, Jennifer (an athletic tomboy) shares the values of her parents, Alex and Mallory embraced ReaganomicsВ and consequent conservative values: Alex is a Young Republican and Mallory is a more traditional young woman in contrast to her feministВ mother.

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The humor of the series focused on a real cultural divideВ during the 1980s, between the baby boomersВ and Generation X. After graduation, Alex accepts a job on Wall Street.

This relationship ends when he has an affair with music major Martie Brodie (played by Jane Adams) while Lauren is out of town. After they break up, Keaton pursues a liberal psychologyВ student with feministВ leanings, Lauren Miller, who was played by Courteney Cox. His first was artist/feminist, Ellen Reed ( Tracy Pollan, whom Fox later married). While attending Leland, he has two serious girlfriends. Alex also holds a disdain for nearby Grant College (which Mallory later attends), and goes as far as mocking their classes. Keaton excels at Leland University and teaches an economics course as a teaching assistant. Ultimately, Alex chooses to tend to Mallory rather than complete his interview, thus destroying any possibility of attending Princeton and getting into the Ivy League.ДЄlex receives a scholarship to fictional Leland University, which is located close enough for Alex to continue to live at home and commute. While attending an on-campus interview, Mallory, who tagged along to pay a surprise visit to her boyfriend Jeff who was attending Princeton, has an emotional crisis when she finds Jeff is seeing another woman. Alex spends the first two seasons of the series preparing to attend Princeton University. He also enjoys music of the big band and swing era, but secretly enjoys rock music (as seen in the episode, ' A, My Name is Alex'). His favorite television show is Wall $treet WeekВ and he is an avid reader of The Wall Street Journal. Buckley, Jr., Ronald Reagan, and Milton Friedman. His heroes are Richard NixonВ (going so far as to have a lunchbox with Nixon's likeness), In particular, he is a proponent of supply-side economics.

Storylines ДЄt the beginning of the series, Alex is a high-school student who has a passion for economicsВ and wealth. The family lives in suburban Columbus, Ohio. Mallory was born while her parents were students at the University of California, BerkeleyВ in 1967, and Jennifer was born the night Richard Nixon won his second term in 1972.

Alex has two younger sisters, Mallory ( Justine Bateman) and Jennifer ( Tina Yothers).

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Although rarely mentioned, Alex's full middle name is ' Proctor' but would normally be referred to by its first initial. KennedyВ to participate in the Peace Corps. According to the episode, 'A Christmas Story' in Season One, Alex was born in 1965 while his parents were on assignment in Africa, having been influenced by John F. Married in 1964, Elyse, an independent architect, and Steven, a manager in a local public televisionВ station, were Fox) is the oldest child of Elyse and Steven Keaton ( Meredith Baxter-BirneyВ and Michael Gross), who were Baby BoomersВ and DemocratsВ during the early years of the ReaganДЄdministration. American president Ronald ReaganВ once stated that Family Tieswas his favorite television show. Fox) and his hippieВ parents, Elyse and Steven Keaton ( Meredith BaxterВ and Michael Gross). This was particularly expressed through the relationship between Young RepublicanВ Alex ( Michael J. Family TiesВ reflected the move in the United StatesВ away from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatismВ of the 1980s. KeatonВ is a fictional characterВ on the American television sitcom Family Ties,В which aired on NBCВ for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989.