overlooked?

I was never a fan...a bit before my time. But I know a lot about television. I like it. It's got a great cast, a great creator/producer. I think it's well known for sure because of Fox obviously and that it was a major, major hit following "The Cosby Show".

I don't know...I just can't dig it that much.

I tried watching it the other day on Peacock, it just didn't feel right.

But hey, it's a very, very successful show. To each their own.

I'm pretty surprised its not full of abuse threads about it being left wing and preachy
I guess that would go to prove that so called sjw / woke isnt new

I agree and I use to watch this when it aired and it was actually one of the most popular TV shows for its time.

For some reason, the current media only focus on Michael J. Fox's impact from Back to the Future but he wouldn't have been cast had he not been on an already popular "Family Ties". Michael was also a very dedicated and professional actor who didn't abandon the series after his international stardom peaked with "BthF". He actually stayed on and let the show run its course. That's very rare when you look at other television stars who weren't even big in the movies yet turned into Divas and demanded more money, threatening to leave and to do movies instead.

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Curious, what other great 80s shows were there? You could definitely say "Cosby Show" and maybe "A Different World". But then I think of Gimme A Break, Growing Pains, Perfect Strangers and that one with Tudy.

Oh, I forgot another good one. "Newhart". Oh and "Murder She Wrote" though it lasted into the 90s. Oh and The Simpsons, but technically not since it technically started in the 80s, somewhere between Christmas and New Year's Eve 1989, but just had the pilot, and all the rest of the episodes were 1990s +

Because it looks at conservative as...shock...fellow human beings, and we live in a time of fascist left tyranny.

At the time though, this show was as big as they come. The buzz around it was similar to game of thrones or something today.

Though it was a top ten hit in the 80s thanks to its "Cosby Show" lead-in, it's not looked at with fondness now because it isn't really very good and certainly isn't funny. I tried to watch a few episodes recently on Pluto and it was painful to watch, though it's 'easy to see why Michael.J. Fox became a star because of it. He's entertaining to watch even though the writing is abysmal.

Probably depends on who you talk to. Back to the Future fans like me remember this show fondly, but woketards hell bent on destroying American culture would hate Family Ties and try to get it erased from existence.