![]() ![]() “I just thought, ‘No,’” Goldberg later told Emmy TV Legends. Fox’s audition tape but didn’t feel he was right for the role. Keaton, but Broderick turned down the part as he didn’t want to move to L.A. Gary David Goldberg saw an audition tape of Matthew Broderick and wanted to cast him Alex P. Matthew Broderick was the creator's first choice for Alex P. Family Ties's series finale aired 30 years ago, on May 14, 1989, with Alex moving to New York City to take a job-though not before giving his family a heartfelt goodbye.ĭecades later the show is remembered for the Keatons’s wit, and the warm, fuzzy family values it enacted. Despite its success, Goldberg decided to call it quits after seven seasons. “I don’t know if there was anything the wanted to do that the network said no to.”įamily Ties quickly became a ratings juggernaut a third of all American households watched the show. “The show was more focused on getting Humanitas Awards than Emmys,” co-star Justine Bateman told Entertainment Weekly in 2015. Loosely based on Goldberg’s life, Family Ties was grounded in comedy, but also tackled intense issues such as alcoholism, incest, and death. To capitalize on the dearth of family-oriented sitcoms, Gary David Goldberg created a show for NBC about Columbus, Ohio-based couple-and former liberal hippies-Elyse and Steven Keaton, who were now raising three (later four) kids, one of whom was a Reagan-loving young Republican named Alex P. Back then NBC was struggling a bit in the ratings: its famed Thursday night comedy block hadn’t started yet, and sitcoms about nuclear families were scarce. In 1982, thanks to Ronald Reagan, America was becoming more conservative. ![]()
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