Family Ties Then & Now ❤️📺 Before streaming, before binge-watching — there was Thursday night comfort television, and at the center of it was Family Ties. The Keaton household gave us one of the most memorable generational clashes in sitcom history: ex-hippie parents raising a suit-wearing, Reagan-loving capitalist son. And that son? The unforgettable Alex P. Keaton, brought to life by a young Michael J. Fox — fast-talking, ambitious, and somehow impossible not to love. But it wasn’t just Alex.