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"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.

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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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