Muppets '75

A series proposed to The Jim Henson Company by Darin McGowan taking place just moments after the end of The Muppet Movie. As it turns out, Lew Lord was an escaped lunatic posing as a movie producer who is taken away to a mental asylum leaving Kermit and the Muppets broke and penniless on the streets of 1970s Hollywood.

After his pitch for this and two other animated series (Waiting for Kermit and American Mayhem), McGowan was told that the company would not be going in the direction of animation for the core Muppet characters. Shortly thereafter, the Muppets were sold to The Walt Disney Company.