The Muppet Show: Season One



Title: The Muppet Show Season 1 – Special Edition Box Set

Release Date: August, 2005

Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Discs: 4

All twenty-four season-one episodes of The Muppet Show are presented with original openings and UK Skits not commonly seen in the United State. The original openings have not been seen on television since the 1980's. (Second season openings were used on first season shows in recent American reruns.) A eight-second "Muppet Studios" logo with an music is shown before each episode. There are no chapters within each episode, however there is a "play all" feature on each disc. Due to ownership change, the original closing shot of Zoot with the ITC-logo is not included on this set. Instead, the episodes feature a shot of Zoot from the 1980's with The Muppet Holding Company information.

Episodes

 * Episode 101: Juliet Prowse
 * Episode 102: Connie Stevens
 * Episode 103: Joel Grey
 * Episode 104: Ruth Buzzi
 * Episode 105: Rita Moreno
 * Episode 106: Jim Nabors
 * Episode 107: Florence Henderson
 * Episode 108: Paul Williams
 * Episode 109: Charles Aznavour
 * Episode 110: Harvey Korman
 * Episode 111: Lena Horne
 * Episode 112: Peter Ustinov
 * Episode 113: Bruce Forsyth
 * Episode 114: Sandy Duncan
 * Episode 115: Candice Bergen
 * Episode 116: Avery Schreiber
 * Episode 117: Ben Vereen
 * Episode 118: Phyllis Diller
 * Episode 119: Vincent Price
 * Episode 120: Valerie Harper
 * Episode 121: Twiggy
 * Episode 122: Ethel Merman
 * Episode 123: Kaye Ballard
 * Episode 124: Mummenschanz

Bonus Features

 * Muppet Morsels: Pop-up trivia track.
 * Original Pilot: The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence
 * The Muppet Show Pitch Reel
 * 'Season One Promo Gag Reel: Original Season 1 Promos
 * Interactive Menus: newly recorded footage for each disc hosted by Statler and Waldorf
 * Restored & Remastered: All 24 episodes were digitally enhanced, cleaned and touched-up from the original show masters.

Packaging
A limited run of a "furry" felt-covered box was created for the inital release. All subsquent printings of the set featured a flat cardboard box with the same design. The discs feature Kermit, Piggy, Fozzie, and Gonzo laid in a overlapping digi-pack disc design.

Edits
Due to music licensing issues the following musical numbers were not included:


 * "Stormy Weather" (Joel Grey Episode)
 * "Gone With The Wind" (Jim Nabors Episode)
 * "The Danceros" (Jim Nabors Episode)
 * "All Of Me" (Paul Williams Episode)
 * "Old Fashioned Way" (Charles Aznavour)
 * "You’ve Got A Friend" (Vincent Price Episode)

Also two Muppet Newsflash bits from the Joel Grey episodes were missing. It is speculated that this is due to a difference in master tapes as the Newsman bits were added to the early episodes later on as the episodes were reworked and fine-tuned.

Kermit's closing line was cut from The Original Pitch Tape. At the end of the pitch, Kermit appears and declairs, "What the hell was that?"