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EPISODE · Jul 3, 2022 · 46 MIN

Family Ties - A Keaton Christmas Carol

from Advent Calendar House · host Mike Westfall

🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time.  🎙 Molly Patton and Joey O. join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before “Back to the Future” for a Scrooge Sunday edition of “Family Ties,” in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie “Noelle.”  Chris Hebert (Young Alex) in “Fuzzbucket.”  Justine Bateman as Mallory as the Ghost of Christmas Future is the Best Dressed Ghost of Christmas Future.  Justine Bateman as Lady Zara, Superman’s long-lost betrothed wife-to-be on “Lois and Clark.”  Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (Elyse) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the 2015 Lifetime Original Movie, “Becoming Santa.”  The time I went shopping on Christmas Day in the year 2000 and ended up finding the loneliest Hollywood Video employee.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Atari Christmas Commercial (1983)  The Christmas Alphabet Podcast.  ****  “Family Ties” and “A Keaton Christmas Carol” © 1983 Paramount Pictures Corp.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s8 #1980s #scroogesunday

🎄 It’s 1983, and Young Republican Alex P. Keaton is sick and tired of hearing “Merry Christmas.” It was a different time.  🎙 Molly Patton and Joey O. join us as we airlift our dirty laundry back to before “Back to the Future” for a Scrooge Sunday edition of “Family Ties,” in which Michael J. Fox is taken 30 years into the future to fix his family.  ****  💬 Topics & Tangents:  Michael Gross (Steven) on making the Christmas movie “Noelle.”  Chris Hebert (Young Alex) in “Fuzzbucket.”  Justine Bateman as Mallory as the Ghost of Christmas Future is the Best Dressed Ghost of Christmas Future.  Justine Bateman as Lady Zara, Superman’s long-lost betrothed wife-to-be on “Lois and Clark.”  Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter (Elyse) as Santa and Mrs. Claus in the 2015 Lifetime Original Movie, “Becoming Santa.”  The time I went shopping on Christmas Day in the year 2000 and ended up finding the loneliest Hollywood Video employee.  ****  📼 Commercials:  Atari Christmas Commercial (1983)  The Christmas Alphabet Podcast.  ****  “Family Ties” and “A Keaton Christmas Carol” © 1983 Paramount Pictures Corp.  Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost.  Find us at adventcalendar.house.  #s8 #1980s #scroogesunday

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