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  • "ithink that fmaily tieseu is is greatzf ashogw" - Michael J. Fox (2011)

  • I will take the worse show in the 70s, 80's and 90's over the Kardashians

  • I loved the episode where Steven divorces Elise, marries Reba McEntire, and the couple moves to Nevada to become survivalists. :D

  • This show is simply beautiful

  • My favorite 80's sitcom along with Cheers.

  • so this is peters from family guys obsecion. and this where micheal j fox was be fore

  • This song makes me miss the 80s

  • @veeseee128 Everything makes me miss the 80s. Even that kiddie fiddler Gary Glitter.

  • This later version is better, nuthin like deniece and johnny manthis.

  • one of the best love songs for a a tv show opening ever!

  • Theme song to my life: Family Ties theme. The beginning noise is really awesome, and the singing is beautiful. It is a great montage song.

  • Does anyone think it will be likely they will complete this series on the DVD releases?

  • @JLC31383 I'm hoping it'll come to iTunes.

  • @BookReader150 I noticed on the website that announces release dates for TV shows being put on DVD saying that the last season of this to be released was back in 2009- and that was just Season 5. There are more seasons after that and it has been nearly 3 years since any have been made- so I am beginning to wonder if the studio decided not to go any farther with the releases. Sometimes that happens because the sales are considered unacceptable which prevents more releases later.

  • @JLC31383 Not fair. Maybe one day.

  • @JLC31383 Also, reminds me of the situation with the original 1960's Batman TV show. Only thing is, that one's much worse.

  • @BookReader150 I read on that website that the reason the 1960's Batman TV show was never released to DVD is because the rights are owned by more than one studio and not all of them will give permission for the episodes to be put into production. Only the theatrical film that premiered in 1966 was allowed to be released on DVD.

  • Wish i was ambitious as Alex.

  • had such a crush on justine bateman, and MJF dancing around the boiling pot always made me laugh. a true classic.

  • Man I wouldn't at all mind having this as a ringtone. I miss these times.

  • As I watch this show right now, we get it on cable, its amazing back then, they had no internet, mobile access. Also knowing now that Michael J Fox had Parkinson's Disease back then, they really worked it in the script to cover it up.

  • Sha la la la........

  • Whenever I saw this intro, even as a little kid, I always watched that heavy-handed paintbrush stroke at the beginning and was like, "...the FUCK!?"

    Look at at the care and detail that went into that line drawing! And THAT'S how it's going to be painted? I guarantee the result was total garbage.

  • memories ... :-)

  • Haha i love michael j fox awesome theme song awesome vid :D

  • @tedcantu1..Search 'Without Us-Johnny Mathis.Then you'll realize how ridiculous your comment really was!

  • I didnt get the chance to watch this serie (Im 19 years old) but doesnt "8 Simple Rules" come pretty close to this kind of show ?

  • This takes me back to a wonderful time in my life...I miss those days.

  • ahhhhhhhhh.......this hit the spot

  • Shananana

  • everyone remembers the episode when Alex was addicted to speed pills...im reminded of that everytime i watch this

  • shouldnt the views of JUST the theme songs of these older tv shows be enough to bring them back? Not saying that there aren't good shows on TV now, there are a few...but take the "reality" off my tv and put these back on! Our kids need a learning lesson at the end of shows these days, not just if they are slutty or pigs they will get ahead.

  • i do not give a shit screw this era for everything bring back this best Era the great 80's ,There is not one era will every compare to the TV SHOWS, THE MOVIES,THE BEST COMMERICALS AND BEST OF ALL THE BEST MUSIC FROM THE BEST ERA FOR MUSIC THE AWSOME 80'S

  • @SHS854EVER so true.. im really missing the 80s fashion too

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  • Love this song!!!!....I had the biggest crush on MF....love his boyish charm and wit as Alex......

  • It's a shame we'll never see television be this honest or good natured again without being utterly glib or inauthentic like Glee.

  • Michael J. Fox FTW!

  • I love the 1480's and 3780 , I,m just glad i,m not living in either one :) QC

  • I so miss the 80's, for all the great T.V. shows and music that came out of that era, one would think there should be a channel dedicated solely to the awesomeness that was the 80's.

  • The parents were liberals with a republican son. Great foundation for a sit-com! lol

  • Who was the idiot at the start of this video who painted that big red splotch onto the mother's side of the portrait? Is this the best take they could have used for a big time show? It seems to me a smaller and delicate paint brush would have worked better than some douche just splattering red paint onto a penciled in portrait. The finished portrait at the end of the video looked okay, despite the awful blue sweatshirt Justine Bateman was wearing, who wears a sweatshirt for a family portrait?

  • hey, it's steve. Steve jobs.

  • I really miss this show. Two liberal parents with a conservative son. Completely disagreed on all things politics yet they still cared for one another. Times have changed...

  • Wow.

  • Once someone brings up the sopranos as great tv, that person looses all credibility

  • 59 people can't recall when Marty was smarter than Doc Brown.

  • @tedcantu1 your an idiot..this is one of the best theme songs ever made...the show was a classic aswell....

  • family ties

  • i like this theme song best

  • Micheal J Fox

    <3 what a good lookin' boy!

  • MICHAEL J FOX IS AWESOME!!!!! screw you parkinons!

  • Now all the kids have are video games theme songs......and you wonder why...

  • Is it me, or does that sound like Michael Gross singing?

  • @MichaelBrookham - LOL., never thought of that before. It's actually the great Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams ("Let's Hear It For The Boy"). :)

  • Michael J. Fox. First Celebrity crush ever.

  • I love how right off the bat, the person with the paintbrush TOTALLY screws up, but then the painting looks nice at the end. That's how the 80's were!!

  • This theme song screams.... wimp.... its more white bread than white bread -- souless, pointless, and clueless

  • @tedcantu1 - "It's like I started breathing on the night we kissed, and I can't remember what I ever did before".....that not pointless, that POWERFUL!!

  • They need shows like this again! :)

  • I hope they complete this series on DVD- I will only buy it if all seasons are available.

  • I love how you can tell Michael gross was a hippie in fantasy and real life.

  • Fuck the 2000's. Life ended after 1999. It truly did.

    I encourage everyone to keep the 80's alive. We need it!

  • @georgelopezblows ......Amen, nutn like the 80s brother!! Everything was way cooler. Kids nowadays think they're hot shit with all the gadgets and crap they have now......but they just don't know what times we lived in the good old days.

  • @georgelopezblows Its the internet man. The internet killed everything.

  • @4G63FD I agree. The internet -- while convenient -- is still responsible for destroying my childhood memories.

  • @georgelopezblows OMG, that's exactly how I feel, ever since the 1990s ended it's just been nothing but bull shit, this day and age blows with a capital "B", the 80s and 90s, now that was a way to live, happier lives, awesome movies and video games and it was just so much better back then.

  • @georgelopezblows Finally someone who sees the world as it really is! Hail to the 20th century.

  • @georgelopezblows Cherish the past. Look to the future. Live for today.

  • @georgelopezblows well we still had qood stuff like bernie mac show , my wife & kids , one on one , && all of us still on tv in the 2000's !

  • @georgelopezblows we sure do need that

  • @georgelopezblows no apostrophe in 80s

  • @Etcher Technically, it should be before the 8, (i.e. '80s)

  • @georgelopezblows hey 2000's had some good shows. Sopranos? Six feet under? Dexter? How i met your mother? some goodo nes there ...

  • @georgelopezblows if its the 80s again it wont bring back your youth..i think you are more infatuated with your youth and how you spent it rather than the time it took place...just as you are so fond of the 80s ..there are people 20-30 years old who love the 90s

  • @georgelopezblows

    I completely agree. Life in the 2000's will never have the happiness, innocence, or magic it had back in the 80s/90s. I was blessed to be an early 80's kid, and get to enjoy them. Society today is sickening... I am glad I'm not growing up right now. Love the name; georgelopezblows.... finally, someone said it!!! Lopez Tonight was the worst TV show I've ever seen... thank God they killed it.

  • @georgelopezblows All the good TV shows mostly are from the 1980's- all the modern ones pretty much suck and are not even anything original.

  • The folks that made shows like this were from a more educated and moral based era. The shit today make me vomit.

  • this was a time before BTTF for Michael J. Fox

  • Meredith Baxter Birney! Type in "Breast Exam" and take a look at those mams!

  • It's tragic that they do not make awesome comedies like this anymore. The 80's and early comedies had all the wonderful TV shows, I miss those days!!

  • @materialgirl8707 Maybe for some comedies, but come on...television is eons beyond what it was in the 80's. Show like the Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire are leagues beyond what 80's television was capable of.

    The writing isn't even close

    take of your nostalgia glasses!

  • @counterCLOCKWORK "are leagues beyond what 80's television was capable of"

    Bullshit. You compared comedies to dramas, not mentioning 1 current comedy.

    There were great drama's in the 80s, and one of the big differences between then and now they were more real to life and gritty, that you could feel, with everyday people; not a bunch of super models pretending to be cops, with cardboard characters. There are some good dramas now, but as a percentage of total tv, they're much fewer than then

  • @counterCLOCKWORK You've compared network sitcoms, that are 30 mins, to cable dramas that are an hour long. Family Ties was the joint. Came on after the Cosby Show, right before Cheers then Night Court and Hill Street Blues. Those Thursday nights in the mid-to-late 80s were phenomenal.

  • @materialgirl8707 So do I. Everything on TV nowadays is so phoney and not worth watching.

  • @materialgirl8707 You should watch Community.

  • Could not agree. A magic era of tv shows.

  • Solid gold memories for the archives.

  • I'm watching a series on Ch Eleven in Australia and the Intro is Obvidifferent to this one. Same song though. Obviously differs through seasons.

  • It's nice to see so many comments saying how much they miss TV when you could at least sit down with the whole family & laugh & enjoy a show. Remember that? Gone forever unless you have the internet hooked up to the TV or stick in DVD! But why has it come to this? I'm no prude but everything now is basically souless porn. The elites are now socially engineering us through the media which they now own to be promiscuous, have no shame, no values, back stab to get ahead in life etc etc. Why???

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  • @robhere1982 No shame, no values are what some televisionmakers and actors had in mind from the very beginning. Watch a television history show and you can see how they call them accomplishments with a smile. It's either done to make something illegal legal, fame, money, or all three. Watch the happy days reunion 2005 on youtube and hear most of them brag about how they pushed the envelope.

  • @rmsluimers Good point but something was 'pushing' them... the zionist owned networks? the Corporations? Probably a combination of that & a whole lot more. Family Values is being attacked now relentlessly on TV, call me crazy but I believe it ties in with the Corporate 'War on Terror' that Governments push on people now through the whores in MSM & this orchestrated Financial crisis that has no sign of ending. Eveything now is linked & nothing happens by accident. When will it end?

  • @robhere1982 They brag about how they influenced people. Saying "it's the elites" is not understanding the problem and supersticion. They're your family members, friends and neighbours all for their own reasons.

  • i'd fuck justine bateman and fucking kill tina yothers lol

  • Wow, this brings tears to my eyes. TV shows of my youth!

  • Anyone else ever had a theme song bring tears to their eyes? What the hell happened to TV? Real TV...

  • The First Drop of Paint IS Outside The Lines HAHAHA I Could HAve Done Better In Kindergarden HAHAHAHAHA

  • SHAZ BUTT!

  • Why were these people allowed to live?

  • This theme song is really cheesy, but that is one thing I loved about the 80s...you can get away with being cheesy.

  • One of my fave shows !! Today's family sit coms are just pathetic compaired to shows like Family Ties .

  • I had such a crush on micheal J fox lol

  • Bad song. Great show.

  • when i was a kid i really wanted to grow in a house like this and a family like that. years later i realized it's just a TV fantasy thats out of touch with real families lives.

  • when i was a kid i really wanted to grow in a house like this and a family like that. years later i realized it's just a TV fantasy thats out of touch with real families lives.

  • The Keaton household was on Neil Avenue in Columbus, Ohio...a beautiful street where I used to live..

  • alex p kenton for president

  • I would always get annoyed at the person painting at the start, because they go over the line.

  • SHALALALA!!!

  • @89arnburg Every song in the 80's ended with SHALALALA....

  • @shades2 unless you listened to Echo and the Bunnymen

  • Alex Keaton represents the Reagan Revolution, generation X.

  • Michael J. Fox is such a great actor!

  • I really miss these shows - I have 90 channels on cable and really hardly nothing to watch anymore. These reality shows really are terrible, just trash compared to the quality shows of the 1960s and 1970s.

  • @davelitz123 i agree

    Have a nice day

  • @davelitz123 Yeah! That's exactly what I'm sayin' too!

  • @davelitz123 You said it. Todays TV programs are a bunch nonsense.

  • I really loved Family Ties. Ahhhh nostalgia eh!

  • loving the perfect white teeth of the cast in the picture, man i need a dentist like that

  • you can tell its from the 80s cuz they name kids weird things like "Malory"

  • buy the Nike Mag to help Michael J Fox parkinson foundation

  • It's really quite simple, the GOV does not want American families to thrive anymore. Today's songs and shows promote equality through separation. They have tried their damndest to strip America from the Christian values it was brought up on. Religion or no religion, when you get down to the core, the majority of Church going, good hearted Christians raise their families with respect and love and most important, DISCIPLINE. Thats why we look back and wonder, what the eff happened? It's simple.

  • @DestroGlobe

    most of the founding fathers weren't christian. and i think more were deist than christian, anyway. you're a bigoted ignoramus.

  • @DestroGlobe - It's nice to think that if one follows the bible that all will be good. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the bible or going to church does not dictate a persons behavior. Many 'church going' people cheat on their spouses, abuse drugs, beat their wife, etc. They may look all nice and clean on Sunday morning, but you don't know what goes on behind closed doors. The truth is that people are not willing to put up with secrets and they have come out.

  • I really liked the episode when the parents decided to relive their youth by smoking angel dust and the dad fought off a dozen cops before being put into a straight jacket and was taken into custody where he spent 6 months in a mental hospital. The mom had an equally bad trip when she caught hypothermia while lying naked on the roof. Maybe that was why Tina Yothers character ran away from home and was last seen living in a dumpster in Seattle.

  • rw

  • and if you tell anyone that that bush is there I will cut you!

  • I grew up watching TV in the 60s 70s and was a young adult in the 80s. I always thought this show was interesting because it originally was about a yuppie couple who were basically ex-hippies who had settled down, gotten jobs, and were raising a family in the traditional way. Gradually however the show increasingly became focused on the character played by Michael J. Fox. He was rebelling against his ex-hippie parents and wanted to be something like a Gordon Gecko corporate raider ala 1980's

  • What that can't seem to get right with a family sit-com any more is the family unity that you could feel even if the characters weren't getting along. Heck even as crude as Married with children is, they still had each others backs and there was love and unity in the family. Not sure if it was the writing or the actors. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

  • @spazzman90 Yeah I know what you mean. I grew up on TV back then, as I am a bit older, & back then TV shows were more family-oriented. You had these model families from way back like the Cleavers in the 1950s and Ozzie and Harriet Nelson, but of course everyone knew these portrayals were somewhat unrealistic of a real family. Later shows like All In the Family, Family Ties, etc showed more realistic families where people weren't perfect, they argued etc but the family bond was still there.

  • "Sit Ubu, Sit!  Good Dog."

    *Woof*

  • @bloggaloggs

    Geeez I used to do that too :D

  • welcomehome901  It's sha-la-la-la you dimewhip.

  • SHA-NA-NA-NAAA

  • such good memories... the 80's had some great quality tv shows. not like most of the crap that's on now. And to have a minute for the opening credits...with an actual theme song that has meaning - unheard of nowadays! 

  • I always notice the first brush stroke at the beginning is outside the line.

  • I liked when drugs were safe in the 80s like L.S.D.  P.C.P.

  • Sitcom are history.

  • Down memory lane when everything wasn't a reality tv show or dance show.

  • If anyone wants the long version look up

    Johnny Mathis & Denise Williams - Without Us

  • I like the way Alex moves to the beat when he rolls across the floor in the chair.

  • Thumbs if you enjoyed being a child in the 80´s or 90´s? The 90´s was my decade but the 80´s look good too.

  • @Kryptonian250 80's ruled when I was a kid.

  • Classic!!! I still love this song. Great show back then.

  • I wish I could relive the 80's.

  • Ahhh happy carefree memories of childhood...they don't make these like they used to!

  • what is the name of this song please???

  • sha-la-la-la

  • i record these shows from hub. i watch them now and then. good show. and i don't don't think micheal j. fox is republican haha!

  • Mallory turned her mom into a lesbian.

  • Oh what a mom and daughter combo they could have been. Hotness.

  • Love this theme song! :)

  • where's big foot? :P

  • meredith baxter birney is the most beutifull blonde in the world!

  • I almost got the role to this but they chose Michael J. I could have been rich.

  • "Sit, Ubu, sit! Good dog."

  • Whoever wants to see seasons 6 & 7 get released needs to send an email to Paramount Home Entertainment's customer service (address can be found in the reviews of season 6 on Amazon). Tell them how bad you want it released. It is not on their upcoming release schedule, so we need to make our voices heard! Send them an email, REPOST THIS EVERYWHERE YOU CAN. The only way this is coming out is if all the fans get together and make enough noise, so get out there and do your part!

  • Who sings this awesome song?

  • @1993naoto lol i do everytime i visit this video.

  • @balser77 RUF!

  • @1993naoto deniece williams and johnny mathis.

  • didnt like this show :|

    family was too perfect an gay

  • That "sha la la la" part... whoever put that in is a fucking genius. It defies all laws of physics

  • oh jeez no... make it go back whence it came

  • I was never a fan of this show.....it just never held my attention, seriously -_-

  • we called 411 one night and asked how this song went. told the operator we know "sha la la la" part..she tried helping, too! haha awesome

  • when this show was out i wanted to screw tina youthers.

  • does anyone know what seasons/episodes of Family Ties Micheal J. Fox was also enduring filming of Back to the Future? I know in the BTTF DVD commentary, he mentions that he had a grueling and demanding schedule, averaging only 4 or 5 hours of sleep a nite. I bet he looks very tired in these episodes in question.