However, when you compare him to most other extra-terrestrial characters introduced at the time (on TV and in classic '80s movies alike), the way he treated his adoptive human family was endearing.

The TV show ... his mother is a feminist, and his sister is apolitical. The series was mostly a snapshot of the people living in the '80s and the cultural divide that existed then. Family Ties ...

A spokeswoman for the family, Lara Bergthold, confirmed the death. Mr. Lear reigned at the top of the television world through the 1970s and into the early ’80s ... a TV star, and got his ...