Jim Henson Home Entertainment

From 1998 to 2004, Columbia Home Video distributed various Jim Henson productions on video under the Jim Henson Home Entertainment label. At first, ost releases from Jim Henson Home Entertainment were episodes of bear in The Big Blue House, but eventually, the releases expanded to episodes of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, re-releases of some Muppet christmas specials, re-releases of the first three muppet movies, re-releases of The Dark Crystal and Labrynth, episodes of The StoryTeller and The StoryTeller: Greek Myths, and more.

Columbia eventually released many of these on DVD. The Dark Crystal, Labrynth, Muppets From Space and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland all got DVD releases on the days they came out on video, but the other muppet movies didn't get a DVD release untill 2001. Columbia later released every episode of The StoryTeller and The Storyteller: Greek Myths on DVD. The Dark Crystal and Labrynth got Superbit DVD releases (Superbit is a special term for DVD's that don't have any special features or menus, and the entire budget is spent restoring the movies) in 2002. In 2004, those two movies got special edition DVD releases.

In 2002, Columbia announced that it would be releasing 20 Muppet Show video and DVDs, with two released every few months. These were the exact same releases as the Time-Life releases, only with the Columbia Home Video (and Jim Henson Home Entertainment) label. After four releases and a long gap between releases, Columbia started releasing one every few motnhs, and then the releases were more frequent, but then Disney bought the rights to the Muppets, and no more videos or DVDs were released. Time-Life released 15 volumes, so it is anybody's guess on what episodes would have been on volumes 16-20.

Also in 2002, Jim Henson Home Entertainment released a direct-to-video production, Kermit's Swamp Years.

The only new-to-video (and DVD) muppet release (that wasn't a release of a recent movie or new-to-video production) was John Denver and The Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday, released in 2003.

Hit! Entertainment got the video and DVD rights to most of The Jim Henson Company's remaining properties in 2002, and Hit! currently uses the Jim Henson Home Entertainment label for it's releases of Henson productions.