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I missed out on a lot of Must See TV the first time around. I went to university in rural New Hampshire, and when we actually did manage to get a TV my senior year, we couldn’t really get any channels. And even if we had, we reserved Thursday nights for, uh, “studying.”

But a couple of weeks ago, my colleagues Danny, John, Lauren and I were sitting around and talking about all the great retro TV shows we have on Joost. The conversation went off on a bit of a tangent, and then John had the brilliant idea: why don’t we “borrow” that great marketing idea of the ‘90s, but we’ll call it “Must Have Seen TV Thursdays.”

To kick it off – and because its underlying political themes are incredibly timely – we bring you Family Ties. I admit that I missed most of the underlying political themes in the ‘80s – I could’ve told you who the President but I couldn’t (and, to be honest, probably still can’t) explain Reaganomics. In fact, I always thought it was kind of weird that Alex P. Keaton spent all of his time in a button-down shirt and tie. Why would someone “voluntarily” dress up? My tomboy self identified more with Jennifer – Mallory was way too girly for me.

Looking back, I’m a little surprised that my liberal-leaning mother let me watch this show – did she ever fear one of her spawn would turn out to be a a card-carrying Young Republicans Club member who would someday want to hang a picture of William F. Buckley over the bed?

P.S. Also, check out “before they were famous” cameos by Tom Hanks and Geena Davis.