"Walking on Air" is the seventh episode in the sixth season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on October 25, 1987, and is the hundred-and-twenty-ninth episode of the series overall.
Synopsis[]
Mallory takes a job at the TV station where her father works; the Keatons hunt for clues in a lucrative breakfast cereal contest.
Plot[]
Alex leads the rest of the family in the "Find the Colonel Crackle" cereal contest for $5,000. Steven gets a reluctant Mallory a new job at WKS.
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
- Brian Bonsall as Andrew Keaton
Guest Starring[]
- John Hancock as Gus Thompson
- John Hostetter as Stage Manager
Co-Starring[]
Quotes[]
Trivia[]
- Steven wants to get Mallory to work at WKS citing the time that Alex worked there (in "Keaton and Son")
- John Hancock reprises his role as Gus Thompson.
- Andy mentions that a tree might cry if it saw "E.T."
- While Steven and Mallory are talking on the couch, an OMNI magazine can be seen upside down on the coffee table. It is the October 1981 issue. (see images)
- The WKS show discusses the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
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