okedjtj Review of It's Your Move

It's Your Move (1984–1985)

Early Jason Bateman vehicle and... hey, isn't that Steve Rhodes?

[10/10 · 12 January 2017]

With Justine Bateman's success on "Family Ties", NBC decided that two Batemans were better than one and came up with this vehicle for her younger brother, Jason. Young Bateman plays a teen con-artist who helps support his single mother through money making schemes such as selling cheat sheets at school, etc. His little racket is threatened when he gets a new neighbor - an adult version of himself. Things go from worse to worser when the neighbor begins dating his mother & also becomes a teacher at his school. It becomes a chess match as the two constantly try to outsmart/outwit each other. The neighbor was played by David Garrison, a few years before he would take on the role of another neighbor from hell - Steve Rhodes on "Married... With Children". The show was buried on Wednesday nights, a bad night for the Peacock Network, where even "Family Ties" struggled before drawing the Golden Ticket of Cosby as it's lead-in on Thursdays. NBC wasted little time finding another vehicle for Bateman, as "The Hogan Family" would premiere a year or so later