Free Country is a
sitcom that aired on
ABC in the summer of 1978. The show starred
Rob Reiner as Joseph Bresner, the head of a
Lithuanian family that emigrated to
New York City in the early-1900s
[1] Each episode featured the 89-year-old Bresner in present day (i.e. in the 1970s) reminiscing about events in the early-1900s. The bulk of the show would then consist of actually showing those events. The series lasted five episodes.