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

Jason Bateman was great, but David Garrison also excelled in his role on this under-appreciated show. The two of them had great chemistry and comedic timing off each other. I couldn't believe it when the show was canceled. David Garrison was also good on "Married with Children". Of course Jason Bateman's career has gone on and on, notably the movie "Juno" and the cable series "Arrested Development".Too bad his sister wasn't as talented. She reached her high point on "Family Ties" convincingly playing a dim bulb. She was recently on "Desperate Housewives" and her looks have declined drastically. She has lost too much weight and appeared to be having a bad hair lifetime.

This was a great show. Yet it never seemed to get the viewers or popularity it deserved. It seems like a lot of copies came out later that got all the glory, yet were lesser shows. Bateman of course _was_ the show. His character was smarter and cooler than the posers. Like a lot of shows, it died an early death it did not deserve. At the time the show was on I never missed an episode. I really do not understand how Growing Pains became so huge while this masterpiece slipped into oblivion. Mind you Growing Pains was good, but not at this level. Stupid TV execs.Oh well. Any news of it on DVD?

Possibly the most underrated show since 'Frank's Place', It's Your Move was phenomenonly funny. Tricia Cast, David Garrison and Caren Kaye could all be replaced, but it was Bateman's show, through and through. The relationship between Matthew Burton, his mother, Caren Kaye, and the man who dates her who lives across the hall, David Garrison, could have in time become much more sharper and defined. Tricia Cast was Matthew's sister, Julie, and just as much a victim of his shenanigans as Garrison was. But still she was his sister and could be just as sinister as he was, yet he wasn't overly cruel to her. I always remembered one moment when Matthew was exchanging barbs with Julie, her female friend Sheila, and their dates, two football players. As Matt left, he recognized the four of them as thus, "Ladies (you think he means the two girls), . . .Sheila (obviously now implying Sheila was not a female, but the jocks were). His subtlety and their blank expressions was hilarious. Yet the funniest was the two parter Dregs of Humanity. Again, like Franks Place, It's Your Move could not be left alone and was yanked around, till the audience grew weary of trying to find it. Dregs of Humanity became the victim of that act, as two episodes near the end of the season, the ratings dropped and the first time Dregs aired, part two was deleted the following week for a special coverage, politics or something! I waited back through all the episodes and had to keep up with where the show was airing as it kept getting shuffled around until I finally found and saw part two. Even today I have to tell people what happened when they say "Do you remember a show with Jason Bateman and that guy off Married With Children? Whatever became of the Dregs of Humanity?" Then, yes, there was the burglars stealing the furniture episode too, when Matt and Norman did go on a gameshow. Too, too funny. The battle of wits in this show has not been surpassed since. It wasn't crudely offensive either.This is a lost show. If it should ever air somewhere, try to record it and keep it. And then you can ask yourself "What happened?"