"Miracle in Columbus" is the seventeenth episode in the sixth season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on December 20, 1987, and is the hundred-and-thirty-ninth episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
To earn extra money, Alex takes a job as a department store Santa. The only problem is that one child's wish is for her father to come home.
Plot[]
To help Skippy out, Alex gets a job at the mall as Santa Claus during the Christmas season (with Mallory and Jennifer as elves). He quickly recognizes his potential paycheck. He is moved when he meets a girl whose Christmas wish he can't fulfill. And then he meets someone that restores his Christmas spirit.
Cast[]
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Quotes[]
- Eddie: "Don't lay a hand on me. Jacoby and Meyers is right across the mall."
Trivia[]
- Alan Blumenfeld appears in one of his seven episodes of the show.
- Alex tells one of the kids: "Bush in '88!"
- Eddie, one of the boys that talks to Santa, is played by a familiar child actor, Victor DiMattia .
- Alex thinks he's on Candid Camera with Allen Funt.
- There are many songs throughout the episode:
- "Jingle Bells "
- "Deck the Halls "
- "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen "
- "Hello, Dolly! "
- Nick tries, "O Cactus Tree, O Cactus Tree, Thou art so fair and prick-ely."
- "A Dash of Christmas Eve " (an easy jazz song)
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