After moving to New York City in January 1971, he performed in dinner and summer theatres and helped build theatrical scenery.
In "Candidate," Season 2's fifth episode which originally aired on November 5, 1984, he was Jonathan Conti, a political contender who entered into a brief extramarital relationship with Allie Lowell (Jane Curtin).
The episode, which also featured Barbara Barrie, Roger Bowen and Mercedes Ruehl, was originally a backdoor pilot with the same name, but it was never realized.
[4] Freed's debut as Bob Barsky, a retired professional football player working as a local television sportscaster, was in "Dates of Future Past," the twelfth installment of Season 4 from December 15, 1986.
Barsky's first encounter with Allie in a grocery store was the start of a romantic relationship that culminated in their marriage early in the program's sixth and final season.