Family Ties > Episode Guide > Series 5

1. Be True To Your Preschool

Alex shocks his parents when he visits his 3-year-old brother Andrew´s very special preschool class, decides the wrong values are being stressed and withdraws him from the school.

2. Starting Over

Distraught that his girlfriend Ellen has gone to Paris on a dance scholarship, Alex desperately tries to find someone to take her place, but finally realizes that falling in love again will take time.

3. The Freshman And The Senior

Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and finds that she has a lot to learn about honesty, sensitivity and older people when she almost causes the woman to quit the class.

4. My Back Pages

When Steven is asked by an old college friend to help him re-establish a left-wing political magazine they had worked on 20 years before, more middle-of-the-road than he had ever expected.

5. Beauty And The Bank

Alex is emotionally torn when he goes to work in a bank and finds that the vice president to whom he reports is Ms. Ryan, a beautiful, smart and self-confident woman - and that he´s growing more romantically interested in her each day.

6. Mrs. Wrong (Pt 1)

During a quiet evening together, Mallory pops the big question to Nick. They are ecstatic until they learn that the entire Keaton family is solidly against the idea.

7. Mrs. Wrong (Pt 2)

Alex sees Mallory and Nick leaving the Keaton residence in the predawn hours to elope, and unable to stop them, follows them to New Jersey young couple taking a hard look at their decision.

8. My Brother's Keeper

Alex must choose between his friendship with Skippy and allegiance to his college fraternity when Theta Pi Sigma pledges Skippy with the idea of making him the object of a cruel prank.

9. High School Confidential

Nick faces a serious dilemma when he learns that to teach an art class he must have a high school diploma. Mallory volunteers to tutor him, but it takes the skills of another Keaton to help him prepare for his final exam.

10. Paper Lion

While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important mentor´s conclusions are not supported by the facts.

11. My Mother, My Friend

When Mallory brings her new friend, Allison King, home with her to study, little does she expect that Allison will find a kindred spirit in Elyse.

12. Oh, Brother (Pt 1)

It´s bad news for the Keatons when Uncle Rob arrives for a visit and announces that he and his wife, Maureen, have split up.

13. Oh, Brother (Pt 2)

The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Uncle Rob´s estranged wife.

14. Higher Lover

Mallory´s relationship with Nick is put to the test when she joins a poetry reading group and becomes infatuated with its handsome and sophisticated leader, English grad student Colin Spenser.

15. Architect's Apprentice

Steven and Elyse are forced to take a new closer look at Nick and his considerable artistic talents when they invite him to compete with other local artists to create a sculpture for the lobby of Steven´s television station.

16. A Tale Of Two Cities (Pt 1)

The Keaton´s are a house divided over a major domestic issue - whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kitchen.

17. A Tale Of Two Cities (Pt 2)

While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicago with his boss.

18. Battle Of The Sexes (Pt 1)

When Alex plays gentleman to his mother and two sisters and orders for them at a restaurant without even asking them what they want, the battle begins with Elyse, Mallory and Jennifer on one side, and Steven, Alex and Andrew on the other.

19. Battle Of The Sexes (Pt 2)

As the battle continues, more clips from past shows reveal the true nature of the Keaton family relationships.

20. Band On The Run

As chairman of the entertainment committee for the Leland College 10th reunion, Alex has big plans, which include hiring some great bands to impress attending alumni in the music business. Jennifer finally talks a very skeptical Alex into letting her ne...

21. Keaton vs Keaton

Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his station, WKS.

22. A, My Name Is Alex (Pt 1)

When Alex´s friend Greg dies in a car accident, Alex is thrown into a state of shock and begins to seriously question the meaning and purpose of his own life.

23. A, My Name Is Alex (Pt 2)