The Muppets Go Hollywood

The Muppets Go Hollywood aired on CBS on May 16, 1979.

In a parody of the glamour and glitz of Hollywood, this one-hour special celebrates the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie.

At the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who turn out for the Tinseltown event.

Highlights include the following:

• The Muppets and their guests arrive in limousines.
• The Muppet monsters sing and dance in a production number of Hooray for Hollywood.
• Moreno conducts a prerecorded poolside interview with Miss Piggy.
• The Peter Matz orchestra plays How High the Moon, featuring a solo by Muppet musician Zoot on sax.
• Miss Piggy arrives on a chaise carried by four bronzed bodybuilders.
• Johnny Mathis sings Never Before, Never Again, with piano accompaniment by Rowlf the Dog.
• Van Dyke serenades Miss Piggy with You Oughta Be in Pictures.
• Lyricist Paul Williams and composer Kenny Ascher perform The Rainbow Connection.
• Moreno is joined by three awkward Muppets in a Carmen Miranda dance routine.

Also included are appearances by Raquel Welch, Burt Bacharach, Peter Falk, Vincent Price, Candice Bergen, Ethel Merman, Steve Allen, John Forsythe, Jean Stapleton, Cheryl Ladd, Liberace, Phyllis Diller, Red Buttons, Christopher Reeve, LeVar Burton, Charles During, Jim Henson and many others.

Credits

Executive Producer: Martin Starger

Producer: Jim Henson

Coproducer: David Lazer

Director: Stan Harris

Writers: Jerry Juhl and Don Hinkley

Creative Consultant: Frank Oz

Muppet Performers: Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen