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The Muppet Show: Season 1
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It's time to raise the curtain on THE MUPPET SHOW! Join Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, the Swedish Chef, and more in the first season of this groundbreaking twist on the classic Variety Show. Contains all 24 episodes, which have been completely restored and remastered. The bonus features also include something you were never meant to see: the original "pitch reel" that propelled the Muppets' blend of original songs, sketch comedy, and guest stars into a primetime hit for all ages! Come discover for yourself the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, Muppetational pleasures of THE MUPPET SHOW SEASON ONE!
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The charm, the zaniness, the corny jokes, the showbiz cliches--every element of The Muppet Show holds up 30 years after Jim Henson's legendary variety series' debut season. Well, perhaps not everything: Today's younger viewers might have a hard time placing some of The Muppet Show's then-guest stars, such as Florence Henderson or Ruth Buzzi. But then, the Show's real celebrities are perennial icons Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Gonzo the... whatever, Fozzie Bear, Animal, and the rest of the Muppets' harried, well-meaning family of entertainers. Season One finds the show pretty much in the basic shape longtime fans will remember: A musical introduction followed by backstage chaos, another musical number, a sketch, a scene with the guest star, and so on. A half-hour episode can fly by pretty quickly, but it's interesting to note that the series hadn't quite found its familiar tone through much of the first year. A reliance on too many disposable verbal jokes and redundant, so-so material for sketch fodder ultimately gives way to more creative premises and the development of key relationships between characters. By the final half-dozen episodes in the first season, The Muppet Show is truly cooking. Season highlights include Kermit's confession to guest Juliet Prowse that he always wanted to be a dancer, and Prowse's comparison of the little green superstar to Robert Redford. Joel Grey does a cabaret-style act for a roomful of Muppets and is later outraged when Kermit's introduction of the actor proves so thorough there is nothing left for the latter to say. Rita Moreno proves quite game in a funny piece, set in a French cafe, in which her dance with a man-size Muppet turns from romantic to table-smashing violent. Harvey Korman plays bumbling ringmaster Maurice the Magnificent, easily the worst animal trainer in history. Phyllis Diller bats out shameless one-liners ("I sang 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star,' and it fell on me"), and Vincent Price toys with his own horror film image by playing a ghoul who turns into a maudlin orchestra conductor at midnight. --Tom Keogh
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Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : s_medNotRated Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches; 8.8 Ounces
- Item model number : 894946
- Director : Philip Casson, Peter Harris
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition
- Run time : 10 hours and 4 minutes
- Release date : August 9, 2005
- Actors : Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Dave Goelz, Eren Ozker
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0), Unqualified (DTS ES 6.1)
- Studio : Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Disney
- ASIN : B0009ULBGS
- Number of discs : 1
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- #7,318 in Kids & Family DVDs
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I like that it has a special feature where when you're playing the movie you can have it where captions come on during the scenes that tells you fun facts about that scene and about the show without being too interruptive ..
watching this now I get some of the jokes as a kid wasn't even aware of.
I love this my kids love it too
By Blondie on March 17, 2018
I like that it has a special feature where when you're playing the movie you can have it where captions come on during the scenes that tells you fun facts about that scene and about the show without being too interruptive ..
watching this now I get some of the jokes as a kid wasn't even aware of.
I love this my kids love it too
Disc 1:
Juliet Prowse
Connie Stevens
Joel Grey
Ruth Buzzi
Rita Moreno
Jim Nabors
Disc 2:
Florence Henderson
Paul Williams
Charles Aznavour
Harvey Korman
Lena Horne
Peter Ustinov
Bruce Forsyth
Disc 3:
Sandy Duncan
Candice Bergen
Avery Schreiber
Ben Vereen
Phyllis Dillr
Vincent Price
Disk 4:
Valerie Harper
Twiggy
Ethel Merman
Kaye Ballard
Mummenschanz
By Robert on December 27, 2019
The episodes look very clean and the audio is well balanced. I don't recall whether or not the show was remastered for this DVD set, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest. It really looks like you are watching the shows for the time in all their pristine glory.
This being the first season you will notice a few differences to the later seasons like how Fozzy Bear and Miss Piggy look and how Janice and some other characters sound. I kinda like seeing the earlier processes and how they evolve later on. Also there seems to be more of an irreverent charm in these episodes as well (then again I think the Muppets have always been like that). If you ever watched the Muppets you know that while you get some great comedy and wit most of the time there are those moments that seem dry. Considering these eps were done in the mid-70's that dryness might show up even more with dated material. Trust me, there is still PLENTY of fun content even if you feel the variety show format is old.
The episodes are great and I'm very happy to own them, but the extras you get really stand out as something really special and entertaining too. My personal favorite is the pitch reel Jim Henson used to sell the show to the TV executives. It's a riot! It shows just how clever and daring the show can be.The reel even takes jabs at the very execs Henson is trying to win over. Classic!! The pilot episode is another treat as well. The pacing of the pilot is a lot like Cartoon Network's ROBOT CHICKEN with very fast cuts between gags. I like the differences between the pilot and actual show like Kermit having a cameo appearance instead of being the host and how Sam the Eagle had a bigger and more laid back role in the show.
The other extras are great as well. There is a "gag" reel that seems more like commercial spots for early episodes, but their are fun to watch anyway. The Fun Facts is essentially a subtitle track (with an occasional splash of Kermit on the screen) you can have play on the episodes that give you TONS of information about the show, the current episode, and more. The Fun Facts are as informative and interesting as the best director or cast commentaries you can come up with from any DVD anywhere. It's that good.
The DVD set itself is put in an interesting DVD case that supposedly simulates Kermit's muppet skin. I don't think it's actual felt but it's a really neat design none the less. The 4 DVDs are kinda squished together within what would normally be a 2 DVD case by having two DVDs overlap each other. It's a neat design, however getting at disk 2 or 4 means you have to take out disk 1 or 3 to get to them. Small price to pay for a space-saving design.
Here's the deal. If you're a fan of The Muppet Show this DVD set is essential. You get a lot of good content for the price. The quality of this DVD set is excellent. It definitely beats out those "Best of The Muppets" DVDs we have had to endure all this time (incomplete, lacking extras, etc). You like the Muppets? GET THIS DVD. You'll thank me for it.
Top reviews from other countries
You will learn to love characters you didn't before and enjoy the guests stars some long forgotten..and also the complete zaniness of everything going on.
Stadler and Waldorf in the viewing box are constantly hilarious and cutting and each Muppet really has it's own personality and feelings.
I have bought all 3 seasons and wait patiently for the release of Seasons 4 and 5..if they ever emerge, i'm guessing there are some legal setbacks somewhere.
The special features are somewhat limited, making of documentaries would have been great, but you do get Muppet morsels which when chosen has snippets of interesting facts as you watch it happen on screen.
Also if you have younger children like me that are now into Muppets because of the new films then they may enjoy seeing where it started.
My children are now of an age to enjoy the muppets and I ordered this with great trepidation thinking like many other things from my childhood, it might not live up to expectation. Thankfully it does. It really does. I still love it, and now my kids love it too. Our particular favourite sketch has got to be the classic Mnah, Mnah, which still had me falling about after all these years. It is still fresh, still original and still highly entertaining. The kids and I have a lasting fondness for the wonderful figure of Gonzo, who gets perpetually blown up, and as an adult I now realise that Kermit isn't as boring as I used to think he was!
Great extras, lots of episodes to enjoy. A real treasure.









