Search - The Muppet Show - Season One (Special Edition) on DVD

Finally :o)

Ronald Markworth | Berlin, Germany | 06/16/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Finally, the Muppet Show - 1st season is arriving. And this is their program:





Charles Aznavour

Song: "I Feel Pretty"

Song: "Dance the Old-Fashioned Way" - Charles

Sketch: Gonzo's rock act ('Art! (thunk!) Art! (thunk!)')

Sketch: Vet's Hospital

Sketch: French bread

Sketch: At the Dance

Backstage?: Charles & Kermit - use French to get women (Piggy)

Sketch: panel (Gonzo: 'art and culture', Kermit: 'MA, PhD, RSVP, whatever')

Song: "Inchworm" - Charles





Kaye Ballard

Song?: Hillbilly band

Song?: Floyd & the theme song

Song: "What Would You Say" - Kaye

Sketch: At the Dance

Backstage?: Kaye & Kermit talk

Sketch: Vendaface

Song: ? - Kaye





Candice Bergen

Song: "What Now My Love?" - Piggy

Song: "Put Another Log on the Fire" - Candice

Fozzie's running wire/letter running gag

Panel: Travel

Kermit & Candice & photography

Swedish chef - spicy sauce

Song: "That Face" - Candice as model

Vet's Hostpital

Song: "You've Got to Have Friends". - Candice et. al.





Ruth Buzzi

Song: "Sunny?" - Fast # by Dr. Teeth

robot host replaces Kermit

At the Dance

Song: "Row, Row, Row" - Wayne & Wanda

Song: "You're Just Too Good to be True" - Ruth & Sweetums

Ruth & Kermit talk

Fozzie

Ruth as an interrogated spy

Song: "Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" - jug band





Phyllis Diller

Song: "Mississippi Mud"

Phyllis & Rowlf commiserate ('it fell on me!')

At the dance

Phyllis & Fozzie chat

Song: "Hugga-wugga"

Muppet Labs - exploding clothes

Vet's Hospital - sick bread

Phyllis plays the sax





Sandy Duncan

Two bomb jokes

Song: Sandy does a drunken bar song & dance

Fozzie's writer Gags Beasely (and the banana sketch)

At the Dance

Sandy cheers up Sweetums (and overdoes it with the next one)

Song: "Never Smile at a Crocodile"

Sandy & Fozzie tease Kermit about the banana sketch

Vet's Hospital

Song: "Try to Remember the Kind of September" - Kermit & Sandy





Bruce Forsyth

(the only one I don't have!)

Song: "Trudge-Trudge/Streaka-Streaka"





Joel Grey

Song: "Comedy Tonight"

At the Dance

Song: "Cabaret"? - Joel

Joel & Kermit

Song: "A Calafica" (sp?)

Fozzie's topical jokes

Song: "Stormy Weather" - Wayne & Wanda

Song: "Razzle Dazzle" - Joel





Valerie Harper

Song: "Broadway Baby" - Valerie

Swedish chef - Japanese (?) cake

Statler courts Valerie

Rowlf poem

At the Dance

Song: "Gonna Find Her"

pinch/punch line

Wayne & Wanda

Valerie & the Clodhoppers.





Florence Henderson

Bouncing Borcelano Brothers

Song: "Bright Elusive Butterfly of Love" - Florence

At the Dance

Kermit & Florence & Piggy

Panel

Fozzie

Song: "So Happy Together" - Florence & monsters

Koozbanian Mating Ritual ('blam! peep! peep! peep!')





Lena Horne

The Ragmops

Song: "I Got a Name" - Lena

At the Dance

Lena & Kermit talk

Swedish chef: living spaghetti

Song: "" - Lena & Gonzo

Song: "Sing a Song" - Lena





Harvey Korman

Song: "Atom Bomb" - Dr. Teeth

Animal interview

Harvey - animal act

Panel: Meaning of Life

At the Dance

Kermit & Harvey talk

Vet's Hospital

Wayne & Wanda

Fozzie

Song: "Halfway Down the Stairs" - Robin





Ethel Merman

Song: "Jabba" (slinkies & "whee" sound effect)

Ethel & the Muppets do a medley of her songs

Fozzie's agent

Ethel & Animal (Ethel: 'Eek!'; Animal: 'Perfect pitch!')

Ethel & Kermit talk

Richard Bradshaw - shadow puppets

Fozzie's act ('that Gonzo is so dumb - I told him there was water shortage and he suggested we dilute it!')

Song: "There's no Business Like Show Business".





Rita Moreno

Rita - slapstick cafe

Vet's Hospital (Fozzie)

phone running gag

Swedish chef - flapjacks

At the Dance

Marvin Suggs & the Muppetphones

panel - conversation a dying art?

Rita & Kermit talk

Wayne & Wanda

Fozzie

Song: Rita: "Fever".





Mummenschanz

Song: Scooter & Floyd: "Mr. Bassman"

Gonzo romances Piggy (?)

Mummenschanz- notepad faces

library sketch - Blue Danube

Mummenschaz - crawlies

At the Dance

Kermit "talks" to the Mummenschanz

Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Paper Moon"

Vendaface

Mummenschanz - clay faces.





Jim Nabors

Song: Dr. Teeth: "Money"

intro. of Scooter

Song: Jim: "Gone With the Wind"

danceros (?)

At the Dance

Jim & Kermit

Fozzie

Song: Jim: "Thank God I'm a Country Boy".





Juliet Prowse

Song: "Ma-na-ma-na"

Juliet dances

At the Dance

Juliet & Kermit talk

Western sketch (loaded pickles)

Song: Scooter & Fozzie: "Simon Smith & His Dancing Bear"

Song: glee club: "Temptation".





Vincent Price

Song: "Under My Skin"

Vincent - house of horror ('watch it! I'm the beautiful assistant! Every night at the stroke of midnight the master turns into a screaming, maniacal, demonic, raging, bloodlusting animal! And then I get _mean_!')

Wayne & Wanda

panel - gourmet food ('you must admit Froggy you look mighty tasty!')

At the Dance

Vampires

News flash - furniture monsters (priceless!)

Song: Vincent: "You've Got a Friend".





Avery Schreiber

Song: Dr. Teeth: "Tenderly"

Piggy uses Scooter to make Kermit jealous

Avery duels Sweetums using insults

Muppet Labs - gorilla detector

Avery & Fozzie - the old living painting sketch

At the Dance

Wayne & Wanda

Vet's Hostpital

Avery & Fozzie do an act

Avery & some creatures do a silly song.





Connie Stevens (+ Bert & Ernie)

Song: Kermit: "Lydia" (tattooed pig)

Fozzie & Gonzo's old teddy bear ('that bear is the most beat-up thing I've ever seen - get rid of it!')

Swedish Chef - rubber meatballs

Song: Connie: "Teenager in Love"

At the Dance

Song: Connie & Kermit & Fozzie: "Close to You"

Zoot & his sax

Ernie & Bert & Connie.





Twiggy

Song: "Dance" (fuzzy snakes)

Phantom of the Muppet Show

Song: Twiggy holds a press conference & sings "There Are Places I Remember" (with photo history)

Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Let It Snow"

skit - the king's breakfast

At the Dance

Vendaface

Song: Twiggy: "Nobody's Business But My Own" (country scene)





Peter Ustinov

An evening at the pops

Muppet Labs - Peter as a robot diplomat

At the Dance

Peter & Fozzie discuss economics (a Benny shaved is a Benny urned)

Song: "You Do Something to Me (kablam)"

News flash - cure for the cold

Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Falling Leaves"

panel - psychiatry

Song: "It's Not Easy Being Green".





Ben Vereen

Song: "Boogie Woogie Music"

Fozzie & the magic cabinet

Song: Ben: "Mr. Cellophane"

At the Dance

Ben & Kermit

Vet's Hospital

Wayne & Wanda

Song: Ben: "Imagination".





Paul Williams

Song: "All of Me"

Song: Paul: "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song"

Muppet Labs: all-purpose tenderizer

Song: Rowlf: "Silence"

At the Dance

Scooter & Fozzie do the telephone pole bit

Paul sings.





I haven't seen it so far, but i know them from TV - and they are still great!"

Muppet Show - Uneven but Fun

Jerry Edwards | Vancouver, WA United States | 06/02/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The Muppet Show is one of my all-time favorite TV shows. I have seen most of the shows throughout the years and still own a large number on video and DVD. However, I do recognize that the individual shows are not always great - depending on my interest in the guest star and the quality of the variety of sketches. Some of the acts make me laugh and laugh and laugh ... others just feel like a waste of time.



The first season of the Muppet Show was in 1976. While most of my favorite shows are from later seasons, there are several shows this season that I look forward to owning on DVD. Plus I look forward to watching the shows in the order they were shown to get a feel for how the show evolved over the years.



As I understand it, there were two "pilot" shows - The Muppets Valentine Show (which I have seen) and the Muppet Show Sex and Violence (which I don't recall seeing). It would be great if these pilots were included in this 1st Season set, but I don't know yet if they will be.



From various reference sources, I have verified there were 24 shows the first season. They are (in order they were shown, as far as I can determine):



1. Juliet Prowse

2. Connie Stevens - this show also has Bert & Ernie. I don't recall the Sesame Street characters showing up on the Muppet Show. This may be the only show Bert & Ernie was in.

3. Joel Grey

4. Ruth Buzzi

5. Rita Moreno

6. Jim Nabors

7. Florence Henderson

8. Paul Williams

9. Charles Aznavour (a French singer/entertainer)

10. Harvey Korman

11. Lena Horne

12. Peter Ustinov

13. Bruce Forsythe

14. Sandy Duncan

15. Candice Bergen

16. Avery Schreiber

17. Ben Vereen

18. Phyllis Diller

19. Vincent Price

20. Valerie Harper

21. Twiggy

22. Ethel Merman

23. Kaye Ballard

24. Mummenschanz (Mimes) - in fact my listing for this show has always been "Weird Mimes Act".



There are a few shows this season that I just didn't care for the guest star, but generally a very entertaining season. I much look forward to this collection and future seasons as often as they can be released."

Caveat Emptor: These episodes are not complete

David Michael Cohen | California | 09/27/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Like most children of the 70's, I grew up loving The Muppet Show. Sitting down to watch the Muppets was a weekly ritual the whole family enjoyed. Everyone could enjoy their humor and the music. More than that though, the Muppets could be inspiring and touching at times as well. There really is no way to adequately express how wonderful the Muppets can be.



So why am I only giving this collection 3 star? Because despite the claim on the box of being "restored and remastered," some of the episodes have been butchered. I saw the Vincent Price episode when it was originally shown, and it closed with Vincent and the Muppet monsters singing "You've Got a Friend." It was, for me, one of the most enjoyable scenes in the series. The sequence was included in the Columbia House "Best of the Muppets" series, but it is excluded from this set. Likewise, the Jim Neighbors episode originally opened with Jim singing, "You'll Never Walk Alone." Re-runs on Nickelodeon included this sequence, but the sequence is missing from this set. I can only guess what is missing from the other episodes in the set.



Mind you, these omissions do not keep one from enjoying the set, especially children who did not see the series when it originally aired and do not realize that they are missing. And, I must admit, the screwy antics of the Swedish Chef and the weekly face offs between Fozzie Bear and Stadler and Waldorf still make me smile. Still, it is frustrating to read that the episodes have been "restored" when they clearly have not."

Incomplete But Pleasing

DVDisney | 08/10/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I love this set but I think I should let everyone know that some of the episodes on this set have been edited. There are 6 songs & 2 news skits that are missing.



The missing songs are:



"Stormy Weather" (Joel Grey Episode)

Sung by Wayne and Wanda



"Gone With The Wind" (Jim Nabors Episode)

Sung by Jim Nabors



"The Danceros" (Jim Nabors Episode)

Sung by The Danceros; also cut backstage and intro



"All Of Me" (Paul Williams Episode)

Sung by Two Monsters; also cut intro



"Old Fashioned Way" (Charles Aznavour)

Sung by Charles Aznavour with Mildred; also cut intro



"You've Got A Friend" (Vincent Price Episode)

Sung by Vincent Price, Uncle Deadly and a chorus of Muppet Monsters; also cut intro





Also, the original pitch reel is missing it's final scene w/Kermit. In the final scene missing from this set Kermit is standing infront of a CBS logo. He looks out and says " What the hell was that ? "



The pilot episode on this set is not the original pilot as advertised. There were 2 pilot episodes. The original pilot was called " The Muppet Valentine Show " which aired in 1974. The pilot on this DVD set is the second pilot called " The Muppet Show: Sex And Violence " which aired a year later in 1975.



It's too bad this is not a complete season set but for now, it'll still do nicely."