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"Higher Love" is the fifteenth episode in the fifth season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on January 22, 1987, and is the hundred-and-seventh episode of the series overall.

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Mallory forgets about Nick when she falls head over heels in love with a glib British graduate student. Meanwhile, Steven buys Andrew a fish named Lassie.

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Mallory is meeting with a poetry-reading group.  She wants to impress Colin Spencer (played by Jonathan Emerson), a literature graduate student (who is very much interested in her).  Colin offers to show her so much more than Nick could ever offer her, and Mallory is tempted.  Nick becomes concerned that he might lose Mallory to Colin.  Mallory finds out Colin is false, each year repeating such advances with freshman girls.

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