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Working at It: Directed by Sam Weisman. With Meredith Baxter, Michael Gross, Michael J. Fox, Justine Bateman. Elyse gets a new job at an architectural firm and experiences challenges at work and at home.
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- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Sam Weisman
- 1984-05-10
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"Working At It" is the twenty-second episode in the second season of the NBC family sitcom Family Ties. It originally aired on May 10, 1984, and is the forty-fourth episode of the series overall.
Elyse gets a new job at an architectural firm and experiences challenges at work and at home.
Elyse is on her way to an interview at an architectural office with Karen Banks (played by Rebecca Balding). She worries how getting this job might affect her home life. The interview is tough, but Elyse pulls through and gets the job. She quickly finds out that she is technologically behind and challenged with her initial project. Elyse and St...
Starring Guest Starring
•Walter Olkewicz as Bill Channing •Rebecca Balding as Karen Banks •Michael Currie as Mr. Halifax
•Steven makes an ill-fated reference to Grandma Moses.
•Walter Olkewicz also appears in "Architect's Apprentice".
•Elyse has a difficult time with the new technology (in perhaps a brief homage to the I Love Lucy episode at the chocolate factory, called Job Switching). See the classic clip on YouTube.
•Bill Channing (played by Walter Olkewicz) sings "My Funny Valentine" (by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart).
"Family Ties" Working at It (TV Episode 1984) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
"Working at It" is the twenty-second episode of season two of the American comedy series Family Ties and the twenty-fourth episode of the series overall. It was directed by Sam Weisman and written by Douglas Wyman. It first aired on NBC on May 10th, 1984. In this episode, Mallory's boyfriend...
May 10, 1984 · Family Ties Working at It. Classics May 10, 1984 24 min. Available on iTunes, Paramount+, Prime Video S2 E22: Elyse feels the need to expand her horizons. ...
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Elyse feels the need to expand her horizons. She lands a job at one of the major architectural firms in the city. But twelve years of not working in an office have put her behind the times. When she becomes over-worked, she starts to neglect her family and the major presentation to the president of the company is jeopardized.
