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Fraggle Rock
Also known as	Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock
Created by	Jim Henson
Written by	Jerry Juhl (head writer) Carol Bolt David Brandes Jim Henson Susan Juhl Laura Phillips Bob Sandler Jocelyn Stevenson B.P. Nichol Sugith Varughese David Young
Directed by	Nick Abson George Bloomfield Norman Campbell Peter Harris Jim Henson Richard Hunt Doug Williams Martin Lavut Terry Maskell Wayne Moss Perry Rosemond Les Rose Eric Till
Starring	Gerry Parkes as Doc Muppet Performers: Jerry Nelson Dave Goelz Steve Whitmire Kathryn Mullen Karen Prell Richard Hunt Jim Henson
Country of origin	Canada United Kingdom United States Norway Denmark
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	5
No. of episodes	96 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Jim Henson
Producer(s)	Jerry Juhl
Editor(s)	Christopher Roy
Location(s)	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Running time	25 Minutes
Production company(s)	Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Danmarks Radio Familien TV Danmark HIT Entertainment Henson Associates Jim Henson Television Norsk Rikskringkasting RYK-5
Broadcast
Original channel	CBC (Canada) HBO (USA) ITV (UK)
Audio format	Stereo (1983-1986) Dolby Surround (1986-1987)
Original run	January 10, 1983 – March 30, 1987
Chronology
Followed by	Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
Related shows	The Muppet Show
External links
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Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock) is a children's live action puppet television series created by Jim Henson with the central characters being a set of "Muppet" creatures called Fraggles.

Fraggle Rock was co-produced by British television company Television South (TVS), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, U.S. pay television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates. Unlike Sesame Street, which had been created for a single market and only later adapted for international markets, Fraggle Rock was intended from the start to be an international production and the whole show was constructed with this in mind.

Contents 1 History 2 International co-productions 3 Broadcast 3.1 Syndication 4 Episodes 5 Characters 6 Home video 6.1 Australia 6.2 United Kingdom 6.3 United States 7 Spin-offs 7.1 Animated series 7.2 Feature film 8 Music 8.1 Album releases 8.2 Song list 8.2.1 Soundtrack musicians 9 In other media 9.1 Books 9.2 Comics 9.3 Other televised appearances 9.4 Live appearances 9.5 Internet appearances 10 References 11 External links

History [edit]

Fraggle Rock debuted in 1983 as one of the first shows involving the collaboration of Henson International Television ( HIT Entertainment from 1989), the international arm of Jim Henson Productions and of Deluxe Digital Studios. The co-production brought together British regional ITV franchise-holder Television South (TVS), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates (later Jim Henson Productions). Filming took place on a Toronto sound-stage (and later at Elstree Studios, London). The avant-garde poet bpNichol worked as one of the show's writers. In the early days of development, the script called the Fraggles "Woozles" pending the devising of a more suitable name.

Henson described the Fraggle Rock series as "a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It's a lot of silliness. It's wonderful."^[1] While the program proved accessible to audiences of all ages, it used the fantasy creatures as an allegory to deal with serious issues such as prejudice, spirituality, personal identity, the environment, and social conflict.^[2]

In 2009, as part of the Jim Henson Foundation's donation of puppets to the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Atlanta museum displayed many of the original puppet characters from Fraggle Rock in their exhibition Jim Henson: Wonders from his Workshop.^[3]

International co-productions [edit]

The producers made the series with the intention of it airing in various forms internationally. That concept grew out of Duncan Kenworthy's experience adapting Sesame Street to the requirements of foreign markets.^[1] The human "wraparound" segments were produced separately in several countries, with the intention that the child viewer would always be able to relate to the world of the program. The series has appeared now in over ten countries and languages. The head producer was Wesley James Tomlinson.

• The main version that was filmed in Canada features an inventor named Doc (played by Gerry Parkes) and his dog Sprocket. This wraparound was also used in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain and Eastern European shows. Dutch, Scandinavian, Spanish and Eastern European shows were dubbed in their respective languages.

• The British inserts were filmed at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent (since closed) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rocky sea-island with a lighthouse. It used as an actual shown location St. Anthony's Lighthouse located near Falmouth in Cornwall. The lighthouse keeper is The Captain (played by Fulton Mackay), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season, following the death of Fulton Mackay, the role was filled by John Gordon Sinclair as P.K. (the Captain's nephew) and in the fourth Simon O'Brien as B.J. (the Captain's son). Up to 35 of these British wraparounds are now missing, believed wiped. Only 57 are known to remain.^[4] Nickelodeon repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did Boomerang and Cartoonito in 2007. The episodes shown were the Canadian versions.

• In the German version, the action takes place beneath the workshop of the inventor Doc (played by Hans-Helmut Dickow). The series was named Die Fraggles with 85 of the 96 produced episodes being presented in German.

• In France, the wraparound segments take place in a bakery with its version of Doc (played by Michel Robin) who worked as a baker and a French alter-ego for Sprocket called Croquette. Doc inherited the home from his eccentric Uncle Georges (who was a noted inventor). Thus, when the frame story required the use of a mechanical device, Doc would merely find yet another of Uncle Georges's machines. Plot-lines also frequently involved the elegant but unseen Madame Pontaven (who Doc repeatedly attempted to impress and invite to dinner with no success). Not all of the 96 episodes were produced in French^[quantify].

Broadcast [edit]

The HBO version of the series has been broadcast and dubbed in a number of countries around the world.

• Australia: Originally broadcast on Channel 7
• Denmark: Known as Fragglerne (season 1 only)
• Finland: Known as Fragglit
• Israel: Known as Ha'Frogguelim (first 15 episodes only)
• Japan: Known as フラグルロック
• Netherlands: Known as De Freggels (seasons 1 & 2 only)
• New Zealand: Originally broadcast on TV1.^[5]
• Norway: Known as Fragglene (season 1 only)
• Poland: Known as Fraglesy
• Portugal: Known as Fraggle Rock, a Rocha Encantada
• Russia: Known as Скала Фрэгглов
• Spain: Known as Los Fraguel
• Sweden: Known as Fragglarna Sweden (season 1 only)
• Turkey: Known as Dünya Fraggle

Syndication [edit]

After the show ended on HBO in 1987, the channel started to rerun the series. In the late 1980s, it ran on TNT, and in the early 1990s, it aired on the Disney Channel . From 1999 until 2001 the show moved to Odyssey Network, which had recently been purchased by Henson & Hallmark. However, after Hallmark took full control they discontinued the reruns.

In 2007, Fraggle Rock reruns aired on television in several countries. On July 23, 2007, Boomerang started repeating episodes of the North American co-production of Fraggle Rock in the UK. In January 2013 ITV broadcast 2 episodes of this version as part of their 'Old Skool' Weekend feature on the CITV channel.^[6] On October 24, 2007, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation begins repeating episodes on the digital-only ABC2 channel. On September 20, 2007, TVNZ 6 in New Zealand began airing episodes daily. The series has aired on Teletoon Retro in Canada daily since 2008. In October 2010, Fraggle Rock reruns returned to U.S. airwaves on The Hub, the newly launched cable-network jointly owned by Hasbro and by Discovery Communications, but were discontinued in June 2012. However, it was announced that a 3-hour marathon of the show is to air on April 21 in honor of Fraggle Rock's 30th anniversery. The television series is available for streaming through Amazon Instant Video.

Episodes [edit]

Characters [edit]

Home video [edit]

Australia [edit]

Magna Pacific published the American version of Fraggle Rock on Region 4 DVD in 2007. The DVD set Fraggle Rock: The Complete Fourth Season actually includes seasons four and five. The DVDs have no special features.

A set of plush dolls of Gobo, Wembley, Boober, and Red were released by Sababa Toys, each accompanied by a DVD featuring two episodes of the show, and one episode of the animated series.

United Kingdom [edit]

Twelve UK episodes were released on VHS and DVD by HIT Entertainment in April 2004. TVS, the original broadcasters, has passed through several owners since 1992 and it was believe only these twelve episodes to have survived. Since then a lot more research has taken place which confirmed a lot episodes actually exist, but not the full 95 which were made.^[4] HIT Entertainment has tried unsuccessfully to locate the missing episodes, including extensive enquiries with The Jim Henson Company both in the UK and the US. When UK television channels wish to broadcast the show, they are forced to use US versions; such was the case with Boomerang in 2007.

In 2010, Lionsgate Home Entertainment UK began releasing complete season box sets. These releases are the same as the American box sets, except they have no bonus features.

• Virgin Video (1984)
• Palace Video (1987–1988)
• Buena Vista Home Video (1993)
• Hit Entertainment (2004–2007)
• Lionsgate Home Entertainment (2010–present)

United States [edit]

HBO video released a collection of single-episode VHS tapes during the 1980s.

In 1993, Jim Henson Video released five Fraggle Rock VHS tapes with two episodes each.

HIT Entertainment released a number of single-disc DVDs with three episodes each (two in the VHS counterparts) plus bonus episodes which could be unlocked by completing a trivia game before releasing the first three seasons of Fraggle Rock on DVD in Region 1 between September 2005 and September 2007. They also released a complete series box set on November 4, 2008 but did not release the final season in a separate release. Season 4 had originally been scheduled to be released on the same day as the complete series set but at the last minute it was scrapped and was never released. These releases have been discontinued and are now out of print.

On August 10, 2009, Lionsgate Home Entertainment announced that they had reached a deal with The Jim Henson Company to acquire the rights to release Fraggle Rock on DVD. They subsequently released the final season on DVD for the very first time on November 3, 2009.^[7] They also re-released The Complete series collection with new packaging (due to numerous complaints about the previous release) on the same day.^[8]

On February 18, 2013, it was announced that Vivendi Visual Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series.^[9] Season 1 will be re-released on Mar. 12, 2013, followed by season 2 on April 16, 2013 and season 3 on May 14, 2013.^[10] They will also release a complete series set on May 14 entitled Fraggle Rock - The 30th Anniversary Collection. This 21-disc set will feature all 96 episodes of the series as well as bonus features. They are also releaseing a 6 episode DVD on the same day called Meet The Fraggles

DVD Name	Release Date	Ep #	Additional Information
Fraggle Rock: Complete First Season	September 6, 2005	24	Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock notepad, Behind the Scenes Documentary narrated by Jim Henson, Interviews with the cast and creators, Deluxe collectors box.
Fraggle Rock: Complete Second Season	September 5, 2006	24	Jim Henson's Creatures and places of Fraggle Rock notepad, Steve Whitmire's Home Videos, Deluxe Collectors Box and tribute to Jerry Juhl.
Fraggle Rock: Complete Third Season	September 11, 2007	24	All-new featurettes and interviews with Fraggle Rock cast and creators, Deluxe embossed collector's packaging.
Fraggle Rock: Complete Series Collection	November 4, 2008	96	All 96 Episodes in one collectible Package Art, Original Fraggle Rock Illustrated Poster, All New Featurettes and Interviews with Fraggle Rock cast and creators.
Fraggle Rock: The Complete Final Season	November 3, 2009	24	All-new featurettes and interviews with Fraggle Rock cast and creators.

Spin-offs [edit]

Animated series [edit]

An animated Fraggle Rock series aired for one season on NBC's Saturday morning lineup in 1987.^[11] The cartoon series introduced some Fraggles, Doozers, and other cave creatures that were exclusive to the series.

Feature film [edit]

In September 2005, The Jim Henson Company announced that it was working on a film adaptation of Fraggle Rock, known as Fraggle Rock: The Movie, with the aim of a release in 2009. The story allegedly involves the original Fraggle characters.^[12]

On October 20, 2006, Darkhorizons.com reported "Henson's company has hired executive producer Ahmet Zappa (The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless) to write a treatment for the film which will be a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the underground dwellers who venture out into the human world. Henson Co. co-topper Lisa Henson is producing, whilst Brian Henson will exec produce."

In May 2008 it was announced that The Weinstein Company would be distributing the Fraggle Rock movie. The film was written as a live-action musical by Cory Edwards, who would also direct. The film was to be produced by The Jim Henson Company; Ahmet Zappa was executive producing along with Brian Inerfeld. The film would involve all of the core characters from the series. The story would take the characters "outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans, which they think are aliens."^[13] Karen Prell and Dave Goelz were slated to return for the film as Red Fraggle, Boober Fraggle, and Uncle Traveling Matt, respectively.

However in 2011, Weinstein's deal with Henson had expired leaving production of the film in doubt. It was also announced that the Scissor Sisters would write music for the film, making the film possible. In October 2011 New Regency acquired the rights to the movie to be produced by The Jim Henson Company and The Montecito Picture Company. New Regency (the company behind Alvin and the Chipmunks movies) and the producers are currently in discussion whether to use puppets or CGI as well as a mix of live action. Once this has been decided they will look to a writer for the movie.^[14] According to Cory Edwards' blog, Gerry Parkes will not reprise his role as Doc, the American human character, for the movie.

Due to the death of puppeteer Jerry Nelson, Gobo Fraggle will likely be recast.

Music [edit]

Music played a central part in Fraggle Rock. Every episode featured two or three original songs co-written by Canadian poet Dennis Lee and Philip Balsam, as well as incidental music. Several episodes (usually involving Cantus and the Minstrels) focused primarily on music—such as Red Fraggle's attempt to find "her song" for the Fraggle Medley, or the effect of music on the breaking of winter or the presence of light in Fraggle Rock.^[15]

The "Fraggle Rock Theme" reached number 33 on the British music charts during the phenomenon.^[16] Writers included Jim Henson, Jerry Juhl, and Jocelyn Stevenson, with songs by Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee.

Album releases [edit]

KOCH Records released Fraggle Rockin': A Collection, a three-disc box set of Fraggle Rock music, on October 30, 2007. The collection^{[citation needed]} featured "restored and remastered" versions of three original Fraggle Rock LPs. The collection also included "special liner notes featuring rarely seen photos, contributions from the original composers and even sheet music for select songs."^[17] The main portion of these liner notes, called "Getting Down at Fraggle Rock," features an interview with Philip Balsam and Lawrence S. Mirkin and is written by Mike Petersen and Saul Pincus.

Song list [edit]

Soundtrack musicians [edit]

• Don Gillis — Musical Director
• Bernie LaBarge — Guitar
• Michael Francis — Guitar
• Bob McLaren — Drums
• Ray Parker — Keyboards
• Tom Szczesniak — Bass Guitar
• Dick Smith — Percussion

In other media [edit]

Books [edit]

Interactive books produced for Playskool's Talk 'n Play:

• Fraggle Rock: The Great Fraggle Travel Race

Comics [edit]

The Star Comics imprint of Marvel Comics published two separate Fraggle Rock comic-book series in 1985 and 1988 respectively. The first series lasted eight issues, the second series lasted six issues.

In early 2010, Archaia Studios Press published their first three-issue series of Fraggle Rock. A second three-issue series was followed in January 2011. Both series were collected into hardcover editions shortly after their respective publications. No further announcements were made regarding any future volumes.

Other televised appearances [edit]

• Before its background appearance on Fraggle Rock, Food first appeared on Saturday Night Live during "The Land of Gorch" sketch. It also made a cameo in The Muppet Show and was recycled as Zsa Zsa Porkmustard in the "Science Fiction" episode of The Jim Henson Hour as well as an undersea creature cameo in the "Aquatic Life" episode.

• Uncle Traveling Matt appears in The Muppets Take Manhattan seated in Piggy's wedding party during the play.

• There was a special featuring the Fraggles called Fraggles Look for Jobs which details the Fraggles after the show had ended. Gobo has secured a singing job billed as "Gobo the Frosty Fraggle," Wembley has no immediate plans except to stop wearing banana tree shirts, Mokey is writing a screenplay called "Girls of the Sixties," and Red has signed a contract to play hockey for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Boober spends most of the video on the phone (with Bernie and others) hoping to find another acting job, preferably as a romantic lead. Two clips from this have been shown on The Jim Henson Company's YouTube page.

• Doc, Sprocket the Dog, Gobo Fraggle, Wembley Fraggle, Boober Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Red Fraggle, and Uncle Traveling Matt appeared in A Muppet Family Christmas. Doc and Sprocket rent the farmhouse of Fozzie Bear's mother while she plans to go to Malibu until Fozzie shows up with his friends. Doc and Sprocket end up adjusting to the Muppets and the characters from Sesame Street even to the part where Doc volunteers to help Kermit by looking for Miss Piggy in the blizzard. While Doc was out looking for Miss Piggy, Kermit and Robin find a Fraggle Hole in the basement and enter Fraggle Rock where they encounter the five main Fraggles and tell them about Christmas. During the song "Pass It On," Large Marvin Fraggle and the other background Fraggles made appearances. During the Christmas songs near the finale, the five Fraggles came up where Uncle Traveling Matt was seen sitting near Doc and Sprocket.

• A prototype version of Blustering Bellowpane Monster appeared in the Play-Along Video film '[Neat Stuff: To Know & to Do as Mergie (performed by Camille Bonora).

• Mama Tree Bird and Baby Tree Bird appeared in The Ghost of Faffner Hall episode "The Voice Is an Instrument." Baby Tree Creature also appeared in the episode "Music Brings Us Together."

• The Rumble Bugs made background cameos in The Song of the Cloud Forest.

• Sprocket the Dog made a cameo appearance in The Muppets at Walt Disney World. He is seen as an inmate at the Disney World Pet Care Center.

• Gobo Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, and Wembley Fraggle made a cameo appearance in The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson alongside the other Muppets and characters from "Sesame Street" in the "Just One Person" tribute song to Jim Henson.

• The puppets for Sprocket the Dog, Begoony, Mudwell the Mudbunny, Murray the Minstrel, Aretha, Wander McMooch, Brool the Minstrel, and the Inkspots make cameo appearances in The Muppet Christmas Carol. Begooney was shown as the child of the characters depicted by Mudwell and Murray. Sprocket was seen in a crowd cameo. The Inkspots (performed by Jerry Nelson and Steve Whitmire) were seen in the house windows and one of them was seen near a mud puddle during the song "Scrooge" while sitting next to the Porcupine from Billy Bunny's Animal Songs. Aretha appears in a crowd chorus. Wander McMooch (performed by David Rudman) and Brool the Minstrel make cameo appearances as one of the guests at Fred's party.

• The puppets for Begoony and Mudwell the Mudbunny were later used as one of the pirates of the Hispaniola in Muppet Treasure Island. Mudwell's character was the operator of the pirate Dead Tom (whom Mudwell sobs over following Dead Tom's "death" at the hands of Long John Silver before being reminded by Walleye Pike that Dead Tom is "already dead"). Mudwell was performed by Bill Barretta here. The puppets for Brool the Minstrel, Murray the Minstrel, and Wander McMooch were used as one of the pirates that attacked the Admiral Benbow Inn. Aretha appeared as a townsperson. The Inkspots were sighted during the opening song.

• Large Marvin Fraggle, Begoony, and Blustering Bellowpane Monster made audience cameos in Muppets Tonight. The Inkspots also made appearances in the show as background crew members. Poison Cackler appeared in the "John Goodman" episode in a background appearance in the "Tales from the Vet" segment. Murray the Minstrel made cameos in the "Garth Brooks" and "Heather Locklear" episodes.

• The puppets for Philo, Begoony, Blustering Bellowpane Monster, The Inkspots, Murray the Minstrel, Beastie, Mudwell the Mudbunny, and an unnamed background cave creature appeared in Mopatop's Shop as various guests.

• Fraggle Rock is parodied in the Robot Chicken episode "Monstourage" with Gobo Fraggle voiced by Chris Evans, Mokey Fraggle voiced by Emmanuelle Chriqui, Wembley Fraggle and Boober Fraggle voiced by Drew Massey, Red Fraggle voiced by Seth Green, and Doc voiced by Michael Chiklis. In a segment that parodies Fraggle Rock in the style of Watership Down, Doc tells an exterminator that his dog Sprocket has been barking down a hole stating that something must be down there. The exterminator first throws a flashlight-like object down there so that he can see where he can throw the grenade and ducks himself and Doc out of the way. As the Fraggles are enjoying their day, the grenade explodes in Fraggle Rock causing the Fraggles to scramble to get out of the cave-in. Out of the Fraggles, Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober, Red and three nameless Fraggles make it out while the rest are trapped in the cave-in. Gobo vows to find a new home for the surviving Fraggles using the guides of the postcards he gets from Uncle Traveling Matt. Though Wembley starts to have bad visions of what's to come, the other Fraggles give him a kick in the crotch. When it came to crossing a road, Gobo's postcard from Uncle Traveling Matt refers to the cars as "Beep-Beep-Outta-the-Way-A*******." When it comes to crossing, two cars crash killing a green Fraggle. Then the Fraggles are chased across the water by Sprocket who ends up killing a purple Fraggle. When they arrive at a farm, a pink Fraggle is killed by a trap near a radish patch. When they find a cave under the radish patch, the surviving Fraggles make it their new home where Gobo plans to repopulate the Fraggles (which makes Red and Mokey nervous as they are the only females in the group). Wembley's latest vision ends up a good one until an oil rig drills into the cave causing the Fraggles to emerge from the oil rig on top of the oil and then hit the ground already dead. In "Saving Private Gigli," a segment shows a Foreman Doozer (voiced by Patrick Pinney) asking a Migrant Doozer (voiced by Seth Green) for his work visa. When the Migrant Doozer doesn't have one, the foreman Doozer has the Migrant Doozer deported back to his country and order the other Doozers to shut down the building project.

• Blustering Bellowpane Monster appears in The Muppets. It can be seen in a Muppet crowd cameo near the end of the film.

• Gobo Fraggle and Red Fraggle appear in a promo on The Hub to promote a 3-hour marathon of Fraggle Rock on April 21 in honor of the show's 30th anniversery. Karen Prell reprised Red Fraggle while John Tartaglia performed Gobo Fraggle here.

Live appearances [edit]

• Wembley Fraggle, Red Fraggle, and Uncle Traveling Matt appeared in the "Fraggle Rock" portion of the Jim Henson's Musical World show at Carnegie Hall.

Internet appearances [edit]

• Gobo Fraggle, Wembley Fraggle, Boober Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Red Fraggle, and Uncle Traveling Matt appear in the music video for the Ben Folds Five song "Do It Anyway," for which Chris Hardwick and Lisa Henson served as executive producers. Only Red, Boober, and Uncle Traveling Matt have dialogue. The beginning of the music video had Uncle Traveling Matt reporting about his experience at a recording studio (portrayed by the Jim Henson Company Lot) where the recording of the song is overseen by a sound engineer (played by Rob Corddry). During the song, Ben Fold Five's performance had them rocking all of Fraggle Rock even opening a ceiling where the five Fraggles end up pulled out of upon grabbing the microphone cable and joining in on the song with Uncle Traveling Matt coming in near the end. Also during the music video, there was a gate guard (played by Chris Hardwick) who had a tattoo of Junior Gorg on his left arm and a girl (played by Anna Kendrick) wearing a "Boy Gorg" T-Shirt (featuring an image of Junior Gorg dressed as singer Boy George). The end of the music video also includes Ben Folds, the characters played by Chris Hardwick, Rob Corddry, and Anna Kendrick, and Red Fraggle singing the Fraggle Rock theme song with Boober quoting "Down at Fraggle Rock" at the end as usual.

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• Fraggle Rock on Muppet Wiki, an external wiki
• Fraggle Rock at the Internet Movie Database
• Fraggle Rock at TV.com

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v t e The Jim Henson Company Henson Family Jim Henson Brian Henson Jane Henson Lisa Henson John Henson Heather Henson Cheryl Henson Major works The Muppets† Sesame Street‡ Fraggle Rock Television series Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series (1987) The Storyteller (1988–91) The Jim Henson Hour (1989) The Ghost of Faffner Hall (1989) Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories (1990) Dinosaurs (1991–94) Dog City (1992–93) CityKids (1993–94) Secret Life of Toys (1994) Jim Henson's Animal Show (1994–97) Aliens in the Family (1996) The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss (1996–97) Bear in the Big Blue House † (1997-2006) Brats of the Lost Nebula (1998–99) Construction Site (1999) Farscape (1999–2003) Mopatop's Shop (1999–2003) The Fearing Mind (2000) The Hoobs (2000–02) Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola (2001) Animal Jam (2003) Jim Henson's Pajanimals (2008–present) Sid the Science Kid (2008–present) Dinosaur Train (2009–present) Me and My Monsters (2010–11) The Jim Henson Creature Shop (2013) Web Series The Sam Plenty Cavalcade of Action Show Plus Singing! (2008) Wilson & Ditch: Digging America (2010) Ain't It Cool with Harry Knowles (2012) Television specials The Great Santa Claus Switch (1970) Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (1977) Monster Maker (1989) The Song of the Cloud Forest (1989) Theatrical films The Dark Crystal (1982) Labyrinth (1986) The Witches (1990) Buddy (1997) Rat (2000) Good Boy! (2003) Five Children and It (2004) MirrorMask (2005) Direct-to-video films Unstable Fables (2008) Miniseries Gulliver's Travels Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story Henson Alternative Puppet Up! (2006–present) Late Night Buffet with Augie and Del (2006) Tinseltown (2007) Alt/Reality (2008) Late Night Liars (2010) Simian Undercover Detective Squad (2012-Present) Neil's Puppet Dreams (2012-Present) Divisions Jim Henson's Creature Shop Jim Henson Foundation Henson Recording Studios Jim Henson Home Entertainment Jim Henson Pictures Jim Henson Records Jim Henson Television Related Jim Henson Company Lot † Sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2004, ‡ Muppet characters only; sold to Sesame Workshop in 2000

v t e The Hub programs Original series Live-action Based on Hasbro properties Family Game Night The Game of Life Pictureka! Scrabble Showdown Other R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour The Aquabats! Super Show! Animated Hasbro The Adventures of Chuck and Friends Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters Littlest Pet Shop My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Pound Puppies Transformers: Prime Transformers: Rescue Bots American Greetings Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot Other Dan Vs. Films Family Movie Night The Hub Family Movie Former Clue G.I. Joe: Renegades Hubworld Journey to Fearless Majors & Minors The Twisted Whiskers Show Upcoming Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch SheZow Spooksville Stan Lee's Mighty 7 Wizards vs Aliens Acquired series Live-action ALF Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? Doogie Howser, M.D. Family Ties Goosebumps Happy Days Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show Laverne & Shirley Mork & Mindy Sabrina, the Teenage Witch Sliders Who's the Boss? Animated Hasbro G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero The Transformers Transformers: Animated American Greetings Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures Other Animal Mechanicals Animaniacs Batman: The Animated Series Batman Beyond Secret Millionaires Club (occasional airings) Superman: The Animated Series The New Batman Adventures The Super Hero Squad Show Former Atomic Betty Batman Conan the Adventurer Cosmic Quantum Ray Deltora Quest Dennis and Gnasher The Facts of Life Fraggle Rock G.I. Joe: Sigma 6 In the Night Garden Jem and the Holograms Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman Maryoku Yummy Meerkat Manor Men in Black: The Series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? The Wonder Years The WotWots Discovery Kids originals (ended) Former Adventure Camp Dinosapien Endurance Flight 29 Down The Future is Wild Grossology Growing Up Creepie Kenny the Shark The Saddle Club Scout's Safari Serious Strange Days at Blake Holsey High Time Warp Trio Timeblazers Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls Truth or Scare Tutenstein Wilbur

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