Free to Be... a Family (1988)
December 14, 1988Release Date
Free to Be... a Family (1988)
December 14, 1988Release Date

Plot.
Where to Watch.
Cast & Crew.

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)
Details.
Wiki.
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 (three years before its dissolve) 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.
After her husband, talk show host Phil Donahue, hosted a series of U.S.–Soviet space-bridge telecasts throughout the '80s, Thomas decided that this kind of international understanding and cooperation should start at a much earlier age. "The purpose of the special was to emphasize the fact that kids in the U.S. and Russia are much the same and can relate to one another, in hopes of bringing peace between the nations." Prior to the television special, there was a book, with contributions by Christopher Cerf among others, and a record album, both under the same title.
It won the 1989 Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Program.
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