Family Ties: My Buddy
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm, Tuesday, December 30 on WPIX Antenna TV (11.2)
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My Buddy
Season 4, Episode 22
Steven feels that he and Jennifer have grown apart, so he tries to bridge the gap by attending her girls' club tea.
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1986
English
Comedy
Family
Sitcom
Cast & Crew
Michael Gross
(Actor)
.. Steve Keaton
Tina Yothers
(Actor)
.. Jennifer Keaton
Dion Rottman
(Actor)
.. Chuck
Miriam Flynn
(Actor)
.. Eve
Laura Jacoby
(Actor)
.. Jill
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Did You Know..
Michael Gross
(Actor)
.. Steve Keaton
Born:
June 21, 1947
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Trivia:
A product of a blue-collar Chicago neighborhood, actor Michael Gross spent the first two years of high school as (by his own admission) a "greaser" and gang member. He straightened himself out in his last two years, graduating as senior class president and National Honor Society member. Gross played guitar with a folksinging group before gravitating to the theatre. He attended the Yale School of drama (one of his classmates was Meryl Streep), then worked in regional theatre before landing in New York. In 1982, Gross was cast as Steven Keaton, ex-radical patriarch of a clan that included Michael J. Fox and Justine Bateman, in the long-running sitcom Family Ties. Perhaps chafing a bit at the press attention given to his co-star Fox, Gross took every available opportunity to play an image-busting role, notably the scuzzy, cold-blooded killer in the 1985 TV movie In the Line of Duty: The FBI Wars. Michael Gross is the brother of comedienne and former Saturday Night Live regular Mary Gross. In the years to come, Gross would prove to be a truly prolific actor, appearing in films like El Sonoma, Broken Windows, and Stay Cool, as well as TV shows like Tremors, How I Met Your Mother, The Young and the Restless, and ER.
Tina Yothers
(Actor)
.. Jennifer Keaton
Born:
May 05, 1973
Birthplace: Whittier, California, United States
Birthplace: Whittier, California, United States
Trivia:
Tina Yothers rose to child stardom as Jennifer, the second-oldest child of the Keaton family, on Gary David Goldberg's quintessential '80s sitcom Family Ties (opposite Michael J. Fox, Meredith Baxter-Birney, and others). An actress from age three, born into a showbusiness family, Yothers signed one of her first major parts in 1981, shortly before the seven-year Family Ties assignment, when Alan Parker and co. tapped her to play the daughter of Albert Finney and Diane Keaton in his gut-wrenching treatment of a contemporary divorce, Shoot the Moon (1982). Yothers' post-Ties career placed its strongest emphasis on telemovies, such as Laker Girls (1990) and A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Jealous Jokester (1995), and she achieved a colorful bit of recognition by playing scandal queen Tonya Harding in the TV movie Spunk: The Tonya Harding Story (1993). Though she would make a smattering of guest appearances on various TV shows, she didn't return to the screen in any regular capacity until she signed on for the fourth season of Celebrity Fit Club.
Dion Rottman
(Actor)
.. Chuck
Miriam Flynn
(Actor)
.. Eve
Born:
June 18, 1952
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio
Laura Jacoby
(Actor)
.. Jill
