free text l0 to three-to-one, three-to-one today, i hanako montgomery in tokyo and this jensen: it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over dad. durham: here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. -good! -yeah! ha-ha! turner: we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news and it is us. clark: slowly but surely, the 1970s are disappearing. the 1980s will be upon us. what a decade it is coming up. happy new year! [ cheers and applause ] auletta: as you begin the 80s in the television world, the landscape was, on any given evening, 9 out of 10 people were watching only one of three networks. more than 30 million people are addicted to it.
outfits. these two flower children from the 60s grow up, and then in the 80s suddenly find themselves with this young republican son. well, how do i look? middle-aged. it was about the clashes between two generations. you re a young man. you shouldn t be worried about success. you should be thinking about hopping on a tramp steamer and going around the world. the 60s are over, dad. thanks for the tip. family ties is a reversal in many ways of all in the family, except now you have the liberal parents and the conservative child. this morning i found a copy of the wall street journal under his bed. i think maybe he was switched at birth and the rockefellers have our kid. michael was just wonderful. he was young and energetic. and he had such good timing. who did this? we started rather slowly. nbc was moving us around a little bit, trying to find the right place for us.
and going around the world. the 60s are over, dad. thanks for the tip. bianculli: you weren t laughing at michael j. fox s character for being too conservative. you were actually laughing at the parents for being too hopelessly liberal. what is this? i found it in the shower. that s generic brand shampoo. ah! this is him. this is the guy i ve been telling you about. this is everything you d want in a president. troy: the genius of family ties is it allows a kind of youthful reaganite to emerge that s focused more on the future, that s focused more on the a critique of the 60s. levine: michael j. fox as alex keaton really became the center of the show. and writers were smart enough to see that they had something special and they wrote to that. it s not fair, alex. yeah. there s nothing you can do about it, jen. my advice to you is that you just enjoy
than the new jerusalem. you re a young man. you shouldn t be worried about success. you should be thinking about hopping on a tramp steamer and going around the world. the 60s are over, dad. thanks for the tip. bianculli: you weren t laughing at michael j. fox s character for being too conservative. you were actually laughing at the parents for being too hopelessly liberal. what is this? i found it in the shower. that s generic brand shampoo. ah! this is him. this is the guy i ve been telling you about. this is everything you d want in a president. troy: the genius of family ties is it allows a kind of youthful reaganite to emerge that s focused more on the future, that s focused more on the a critique of the 60s. levine: michael j. fox as alex keaton really became the center of the show. and writers were smart enough to see that they had something special and they wrote to that.
it s a time of enormous turmoil. shut up in here. the 60s are over, dad. here s michael at the foul line, a shot on ehlo. good! [ laughs ] we intend to cover all the news all the time. we won t be signing off until the world ends. isn t that special? any tool for human expression will bring out both the best and the worst in us, and television has been that. they don t pay me enough to deal with animals like this. people are no longer embarrassed to admit they watch television. we have seen the news, and it is us.