When Meredith Baxter-Birney talks about Sunday night’s ABC movie Burning Bridges (9 p.m., WPLG-Ch. 10, WPBF-Ch. 25), there is a quiet tone of understanding in her voice. Sometimes she speaks ...

Meredith Baxter-Birney stars as a woman involved in a passionate extramarital affair. Derek de Lint plays her lover and Nick Mancuso her husband in Burning Bridges Archie and the gang: Karen ...

The second installment of the Meredith Baxter Birney double-header is ”Inside `Family Ties`: Behind the Scenes of a Hit,” a WTTW-Ch. 11 production that airs at 8 p.m. Monday.

Meredith Baxter is well-versed in making grand revelations on TV. In December 2009, the “Family Ties” star came out as a lesbian on the “Today” show.On Tuesday, she returned… ...

Meredith Baxter AP Photo, file (CBS) - In a new memoir, actress Meredith Baxter claims her "Bridget Loves Bernie" co-star and real-life husband David Birney abused her and struck her more than once.

Baxter, the actress best known for playing hippie mom Elyse Keaton on the 1980s sitcom "Family Ties," said that the abuser was her then-husband David Birney, who has denied the allegations.

Meredith Baxter and David Birney, 1982 Maureen Donaldson/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images. In 1976, she was the oldest daughter on Family, playing the role of Nancy Maitland.

Birney met future wife Meredith Baxter Birney on the 1972 CBS sitcom. American actress Meredith Baxter Birney and her husband, American actor David Birney, in New York City, New York, circa 1985.