Free to Be... a Family (1988)
Seminal TV special about two groups of children, one in New York City and the other in Moscow, who befriend each other over a satellite connection and find common ground. The Muppets and several celebrities make a cameo.
- Date of release
- 1988-12-14
- TMDB
- 8.8 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Comedy, Documentary, TV Movie
- Director
- Gary Halvorson
Casting
- Jon Bon Jovi — Self - Host
- Mel Brooks — Self
- Kevin Clash — Elmo / Unemployed Bear (voice)
- Phil Donahue — Self
- Whoopi Goldberg — Self
- Jim Henson — Kermit the Frog (voice)
- Penn Jillette — Self
- Frank Oz — Miss Piggy (voice)
- Gilda Radner — Self
- Carly Simon — Self
- Teller — Self
- Marlo Thomas — Self
Interesting facts
Free to Be... A Family is a television special hosted by Marlo Thomas broadcast on December 14, 1988. It was a joint production of ABC and Soviet Union television. It was nominally a sequel to the popular 1974 ABC Afterschool Special Free to Be... You and Me, also hosted by Thomas. Among the performers on the 1988 show were The Muppets, Jon Bon Jovi, Penn and Teller, Carly Simon, Lily Tomlin, and Robin Williams.
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