"Cold Storage" is the twenty-second episode in the third season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on March 7, 1985, and is the sixty-sixth episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
Alex, Jennifer, and Andrew are going to their grandmother's house with their parents (with a stop at a Lamaze reunion along the way, which is nothing more than a lot of crying babies). Mallory is staying home to do schoolwork. She and Skippy get locked in the basement (in the middle of winter) with no one around the rescue them. Luckily, they find some interesting clothes to keep them warm.
Plot[]
Alex wants to come along visiting Grandma because she lives close to Lisa Tobin; Jennifer wants to come for the cable TV. Elyse makes Steven first drop by for a 'reunion' with another couple from their Lamaze group who had twins, and gets more visitors with, to the others' regret - or without, to their own regret - crying babies. Mallory stays home to work on a paper on the Louisiana Purchase (not about shopping, to her disappointment). Alex gives her permission to consult his 'archives' in the basement, but the trunk is too heavy, so Skippy comes down to help, but accidentally lets the door lock - so they're trapped (her version) or joined (his version) together all night. They finally come closer together, realizing they are both (birdbrain) outsiders.
Cast[]
Starring[]
- Meredith Baxter as Elyse Keaton
- Michael Gross as Steven Keaton
- Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton
- Justine Bateman as Mallory Keaton
- Tina Yothers as Jennifer Keaton
Guest Starring[]
- Marc Price as Skippy Handelman
- Jack Blessing as Leonard
- Karlene Crockett as Marge
- David Paymer as Larry Harris
- Julie Fulton as Suzie Harris
Co-Starring[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Mallory thinks the Lousiana Purchase has something to do with shopping in Lousiana (see if she's learned anything more about it by the episode "Paper Chase".)
- One of the couples the Keatons did LaMaze with had twins. Elyse says, "I don't know what I'd do if I had twins." (Of course, Meredith Baxter Birney had recently delivered twins - nice inside joke).
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