While plans are in full swing for the Keaton’s 20th anniversary party, Steven and Elyse are fighting and it looks like they may not make it that far. Elyse wants…

Fearing the long-term effects of Andy’s liberal upbringing with Its lack of strong gender identification, Alex tries to push his little brother into learning to play basketball, only to end…

When Mallory decides to run for student body president of Grant College, her family is surprised at her uncharacteristic interest in politics. She explains that “”it just sounded like a…

When Steven’s recently divorced brother Rob arrives with his son and daughter for a visit, the Keaton’s become a sounding board for their relatives’ family problems. In the wake of…

When Steven arrives home with news of a job opening at his station, an internship position he feels would be perfect for Mallory, he finds his family deeply engrossed in…

Alex and Lauren face the first real test of their budding romance when one of Lauren’s former loves comes for a visit and Alex finds himself feeling uncharacteristically insecure. While…

The Keatons are surprised, but delighted, when Elyse’s Aunt Rosemary shows up for a visit. Although Rosemary claims to have sent a letter and spoken with Mallory about her arrival,…

While Nick entertains the Keatons with a demonstration of the “”salesmanship”” he’s using in his new job selling lightbulbs over the phone, an impatient Andrew waits for Alex to come…

Jennifer is appalled when nerdy sophomore Simon Wickerson falls head over heels in love with her. Although Jennifer rejects his advances, Simon is undaunted. He follows her home and tries…

As Elyse wraps up a major project for her firm, she realizes that her busy architectural career is causing her to neglect her family, especially Andy. Although Elyse feels terrible…

Mallory is thrilled to follow in “”Dear Abby’s”” footsteps when she’s tapped to write the personal advice column in the Columbus Shopper’s Guide. She manages to involve the entire family,…

As the Keaton household gets ready for the first day of the new school year, Alex reminds Jennifer of how incredibly successful he was at the high school she’s about…

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bored and begin grumbling at her “lame”…

When Mallory comes home from her sixth disastrous date in a row, Alex tries to comfort and then help. He will find her a new and perfect boyfriend using a…

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bored and begin grumbling at her “”lame””…

In her quest to become one of the popular kids, Jennifer invites her trendy classmates to her thirteenth birthday party. When they become bored and begin grumbling at her “”lame””…

Jennifer develops her first major crush on science lab partner Tim Higgins, the handsome star pitcher of the school baseball team. When Tim comes over to work on their science…

When Skippy falls head-over-heels in love with Mallory’s new college friend, Amy Sussman, he’s both startled and overjoyed to find himself in his first real romantic relationship. Just as Steven…

When Elyse’s sister Michele and her family arrives for their annual visit, Elyse is overjoyed, while the rest of the Keaton clan brace themselves for a long hard week of…

Brother and sister go head-to-head when Steven announces a scholarship competition sponsored by his station, WKS. A confident Alex scoffs as the family encourages a reluctant Mallory to enter the…

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….

While Steven tackles the job of re-wallpapering the Keaton kitchen singlehandedly, Alex is in Chicago with his boss, Rebecca Ryan, attending an important banking conference. Forced to share a tiny…

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…

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….

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….

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…

The Keaton’s are a house divided over a “”major”” domestic issue whether to redecorate their old-fashioned, but cozy kitchen. Elyse, Mallory and Jennifer think the time has come to leave…

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. News of Robert and Maureen’s separation…

The emotional roller-coaster continues at the Keaton household with the arrival of Aunt Maureen, Uncle Rob’s estranged wife. It seems like Rob has been less than candid when he told…

While assisting his economics professor in the final stages of an important research paper, Alex faces a serious moral dilemma when he finds that his mentor’s conclusions are not supported…

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. Bound together by their…

When Terry Bridgeman, a colleague of Elyse’s, confides that he has broken up with his girlfriend, Elyse decides to fix him up with a family friend, the beautiful Liz Obeck….

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…

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…

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…

Nick and Mallory make sudden plans to elope when Steven and Elyse vehemently oppose their marriage plans and threaten to ground their teenaged daughter. During a quiet evening together, Mallory…

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 where he finds the young…

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…

Mallory is teamed with 66-year-old Margaret Hollings on a college sociology project and fins that she has a lot to learn about honesty, sensitivity and older people when she almost…