Michael J. Fox's rise to fame during the show's seven-season run from 1982 to 1989.«I remember walking into the mail room and finding just these gobs of mail from pre-teens going, 'This is our guy.' That was before ,» Gross said of Fox's 1985 film. «You just said, 'Oh, this is a phenomenon… This is exciting. [He's a] young, lovely, funny, handsome, non-threatening guy that girls are gonna fall in love with.' And they did.»Even amid all of the actor's success, though, Fox's TV dad, who starred as Steven Keaton in the series, said the younger man never changed who he was.«To watch that transformation was incredible, not the least of which because Michael himself was not transformed.
Michael knew he was important, he knew that he had struck gold, but nothing changed,» Gross said of Fox, who starred as Alex P.
Keaton on the show. "… We were all aware that this was a big deal, but Michael was the same humble, wonderful guy."«He knew from the outset that had made all of this possible.
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