Finding Your RootsSeason 4, Episode 2 - Puritans And Pioneers: Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen, William H. Macy

Three mainstays of modern-day Hollywood discover family legacies that predate the United States itself. Ted Danson learns of a Connecticut Revolutionary colonel who allowed his slave to buy his freedom. William H. Macy discovers his own family's nonconformist - a Puritan punished for helping Quakers. Mary Steenburgen's ancestors, too, refused to follow the script, including a rowdy drunkard who served under George Washington in the French and Indian War.

Finding Your Roots was broadcast on SBS ONE at Saturday 18 April 2026, 13:15.