Goldberg writes in his book that readers have to connect with a sitcom family and want to be like that family. It’s a mystery of life why some shows are popular and others aren’t. “We thought we were having fun with it, but it was having fun with us,” he said of the show. Keaton, the ultraconservative, success-obsessed son. “We caught the crest of a wave there,” said Fox, who played Alex P. At its height, “Family Ties” was watched by a third of America’s television audience. It was followed by “Cheers,” another highly popular show. “By one of these quirks in the time-space continuum, we were the only nuclear family on television,” said Goldberg, and that immediately set the program apart.Īs the nation settled into the Ronald Reagan years, the show would be preceded on the NBC menu by the Huxtable family in “The Cosby Show,” giving the network the No. (Another child, Andy, played by Brian Bonsall, would be added later.) He was 38 in 1982 when NBC bought his pilot, “Family Ties,” about a nuclear family of five. A sometime actor from Brooklyn who led a gypsy lifestyle with his dog, Ubu, and the woman who would become his wife, Diana Meehan, Goldberg was 30 when he took up writing. Goldberg was a late bloomer in the Hollywood writing business. “We are all instantly again who we were 25 years ago when we all met,” Goldberg told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer. Sitting in the TODAY studio in two rows of director’s chairs, the six cast members needed no time to catch up on all the time that had passed. “This is the first time in about 18 years that we have all been on the same piece of real estate at the same time.” “Had it not been for this book, we would not have had this reunion,’ said Michael Gross, who played Steven Keaton, the father of the clan.
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