May 04 2009
Family Ties, where are they now
Family Ties was a sitcom that ran on NBC for 7 seasons, from 1982-1989. The premise of the show was 2 hippie liberal parents from the 60’s trying to raise their children in the 80’s. One child in particular was a handful, as he was a young republican and always butting head with the parents. Michael J. Fox played the young republican, Alex P. Keaton in the role that launched his very successful TV and movie career. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter Birney played the parents Steve and Elyse Keaton. Justine Bateman was the middle daughter Mallory and Tina Yothers the younger daughter Jennifer. Brian Bonsall came along for the last 2 seasons as a younger brother Andy.
Michael J Fox has had a very successful TV and movie career after Family Ties. He went on to star in Spin City from 1996-2001. He was also in the very successful Back to the Future movies as well as Teen Wolf and Casualties of War among many others. He discovered in 1998 that he has Parkinson’s disease and has been a big activist in the fight to find a cure for the disease. He also has a special coming up this Thursday night on ABC titled Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.
Michael Gross has appeared in 4 Tremor movies as well as the TV series of the same name. Most recently he had a role on the soap opera The Young and the Restless.
Meredith Baxter(she dropped the Birney after divorcing actor David Birney) was in a movie in 2008 titled Onion Movie and had a movie just recently in 2009 on the Hallmark channel titled Bound by a Secret.
Justine Bateman most recently was in 10 episodes of the ABC series Men in Trees which has since been cancelled. She also was in 4 episodes of Desperate Housewives in 2008.
Tina Yothers never did much as far as acting goes after Family Ties. She most recently was on VH-1 in 2006 on the Celebrity Fit Club 4.
Brian Bonsall had roles in a few movies after Family Ties. He also had a role on Star Trek: The Next Generation in the role of Worf’s son. Since 1995 though he has had several run in’s with the police including 2 DUI’s. In 2007 he was arrested for assaulting his girl friend. He was suppose to appear in court in July of 2008 but never showed. He had an arrest warrant issued for him and is supposedly still on the run.
