About this episode
🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time. Join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before Back to the Future for a Scrooge Sunday edition of Family Ties , in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family. **** 🎙 Guests: Molly Patton ( MollyPatton.com , @molly_patton , @MoMakesStuffUp ). Joey O. ( Y-Not Radio , Words With Nerds , @imgonnadj24 ). **** 💬 Topics & Tangents: 1. Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie Noelle . 2. Chris Hebert (Young Alex) in Fuzzbucket . 3. Justine Bateman as Mallory as the Ghost of Christmas Future is the Best Dressed Ghost of Christmas Future . 4. Justine Bateman as Lady Zara , Superman’s long-lost betrothed wife-to-be on Lois and Clark . 5. Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (Elyse) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the 2015 Lifetime Original Movie, Becoming Santa . 6. The time I went shopping on Christmas Day in the year 2000 and ended up finding the loneliest Hollywood Video employee. **** 📼 Retro Commercial Break: Atari Christmas Commercial , 1983. **** 🎤 And Now, These Messages: The Christmas Alphabet Podcast , Christmas from A to Z. **** “Family Ties” and “A Keaton Christmas Carol” © 1983 Paramount Pictures Corp. Say hi on Twitter and Instagram . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes with links at adventcalendar.house . Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost . Full show notes and social links at adventcalendar.house .