Free to Be… You and Me DVD (1974) 36th Anniversary Edition 2010

36th - Anniversary Edition 2010

IMDB: imdb.com/title/tt0194897
Enc: h264
Fmt: MP4
RES: 720x480
FPS: 30
Data Rate: 5 Mbps
Source: DVD Handbrake
Audio: 2 CH 256kbps AAC Stereo
Year: 1974 DVD Release: 2010

Summary
An ABC special using poetry, songs, and sketches followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept was to encourage post-1960s gender neutrality, saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and comfort with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone—whether a boy or a girl—can achieve anything.

The television special, produced by Free to Be Productions in association with Teru Murakami-Fred Wolf Films, Inc. and cosponsored by the Ms. Foundation, first aired March 11, 1974, on ABC. It earned an 18.6 rating/27 share and went on to win an Emmy. 16-mm prints of the special were also struck, and some schoolchildren from the 1970s and 1980s remember seeing the television special, or the filmstrip based on the special, in their school during that period.

The special appeared occasionally on HBO in the 1980s. It was released on VHS through Vestron Video subsidiary Children's Video Library in 1983. It was also seen on the cable channel TV Land, yet has not been aired on any network since.

A Region 1 DVD of the television special was released in November 2001, and in 2010, a newly remastered version was released with a previously omitted scene featuring Dustin Hoffman, and other extras.

Act One

"Free To Be... You And Me" – Music by Stephen J. Lawrence, Lyrics by Bruce Hart, Performed by The New Seekers
"Boy Meets Girl" – Written by Carl Reiner and Peter Stone, Performed by Mel Brooks and Marlo Thomas
"When We Grow Up" – Music by Stephen J. Lawrence, Lyrics by Shelly Miller, Performed by Roberta Flack and Michael Jackson on the special and Diana Ross on the soundtrack CD.
"Don't Dress Your Cat In An Apron" – Written by Dan Greenburg, Performed by Billy De Wolfe

Act Two

"Parents Are People" – Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall, Performed by Harry Belafonte and Marlo Thomas
"Housework" – Written by Sheldon Harnick, Performed by Carol Channing
"Helping" – Written by Shel Silverstein, Performed by Tom Smothers
"Ladies First" – Performed by Marlo Thomas (based on a Shel Silverstein poem about a girl whose insistence on always getting to "go first" simply because she is a girl ends up making her the chosen meal of hungry tigers)
"Dudley Pippin And The Principal" – Written by Phil Ressner, Performed by Billy De Wolfe, Bobby Morse, and Marlo Thomas

Act Three

"It's All Right to Cry" – Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall, Performed by Rosey Grier
"Sisters and Brothers" – Music by Stephen J. Lawrence, Lyrics by Bruce Hart, Performed by The Voices of East Harlem
"William's Doll" – Music by Mary Rodgers, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, Performed by Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas (based on the children's book of the same name, about a boy whose family is perplexed by his desire for a doll to care for)
"My Dog is a Plumber" – Written by Dan Greenburg, Performed by Dick Cavett.

Act Four

"Atalanta" – Written by Betty Miles, Performed by Alan Alda and Marlo Thomas
"Grandma" – Written by Carole Hart, Performed by Diana Sands
"Girl Land" – Music by Mary Rodgers, Lyrics by Bruce Hart, Performed by Jack Cassidy and Shirley Jones
"Dudley Pippin And His No-Friend" – Written by Phil Ressner, Performed by Bobby Morse and Marlo Thomas
"Glad To Have A Friend Like You" – Music and Lyrics by Carol Hall, Performed by Marlo Thomas

CAST (partial)

From Wikipedia