Family Ties: The Complete Season 2

There were a number of memorable episodes this season. When peace-loving Elyse decks Alex's obnoxious teacher on parents' night, Steven goes to apologize and ends up slugging the guy too in "The Harder They Fall." In order to study all night for mid-terms, Alex convinces Mallory to help get a hold of some pills and he ends up spinning out of control on speed in "Speed Trap." Alex defies his mother when he goes to a bar in West Virginia with his friends on his 18th birthday in "Birthday Boy." Mallory ruins Alex's big interview at Princeton when she tags along to surprise Jeff...and Jeff surprises her by having a new girlfriend in "Go Tigers. " Mallory's friends, family members, and especially the guy she is dating, all have different opinions about the right time to start having sex in "Ready or Not." When the girl of his dreams tells Alex she doesn't have a date for the prom, he asks her to go, even though he already has a date with a nice girl who likes him in "Double Date." On the eve of a tonsil operation, Jennifer lies awake in the hospital and writes in her diary, recounting all the horrible things she did to each family member in "Diary of a Youngle."