Fraggle Rock UK broadcast dates

[MuppetDanny]

No, it was the first run for these shows. It looks as if the show was switched from Saturdays (Season 1) to Thursdays (Season 2) to Sundays (where, so far as I can tell, it stayed for the remainder of the episodes).

Interesting!

I do remember that Season 3 - 5? were shown on weekdays on CITV - this could explain why I have an incomplete epsidoe of the animated version of "Ghostbuters" after "Fraggle Rock : Born To Wander" epsidoe

 

[anathema]

Interesting!

I do remember that Season 3 - 5? were shown on weekdays on CITV - this could explain why I have an incomplete epsidoe of the animated version of "Ghostbuters" after "Fraggle Rock : Born To Wander" epsidoe

Indeed Any idea when that was taped? "Born to Wander" originally aired on Sunday 10 January 1988.

 

[MuppetDanny]

Indeed Any idea when that was taped? "Born to Wander" originally aired on Sunday 10 January 1988.

I'm almost quite certian it was not that date. The recording I taped was on CITV (weekday), when it was, I have no idea.

Sorry

 

[anathema]

I'm almost quite certian it was not that date. The recording I taped was on CITV (weekday), when it was, I have no idea.

Sorry

I know it wasn't that date "The Real Ghostbusters" was not the programme that followed it.

Even a rough idea of the year might help me track it down.

The other possibility is that it was a regional variation - do you know which ITV franchise it was taped from? I don't think this is too likely - so far as I am aware, the regional variations in the 80s were largely regional programming rather than opt-outs from the network, I'm pretty sure CITV was networked anyway, and all my research to date points to "Fraggle Rock" being networked - but it's always possible.

 

[MuppetDanny]

Even a rough idea of the year might help me track it down.

logically it would be shown in the same year '88. According to your date (10th Jan.) so it could be that mine is a re-run shown some time later.

The other possibility is that it was a regional variation - do you know which ITV franchise it was taped from? I don't think this is too likely - so far as I am aware, the regional variations in the 80s were largely regional programming rather than opt-outs from the network, I'm pretty sure CITV was networked anyway, and all my research to date points to "Fraggle Rock" being networked - but it's always possible.

That's true

 

[anathema]

Ok...there were (at least) two separate first-run transmission blocks in 88. The first one ran from 10 Jan to probably mid-April (I don't have confirmation on this, but there definitely wasn't a show aired during the week of 23-29 April) and the second began on 4 September and was still running on 18 December. No episode aired on Christmas Day or New Year's Day; beyond that I have no data.

A re-run would logically have happened during the early summer months, since CITV would shut down for the school holidays. We can rule out the week of 13-19 August, since I have listings for that week and no episode aired.

 

[MuppetDanny]

Ok...there were (at least) two separate first-run transmission blocks in 88. The first one ran from 10 Jan to probably mid-April (I don't have confirmation on this, but there definitely wasn't a show aired during the week of 23-29 April) and the second began on 4 September and was still running on 18 December. No episode aired on Christmas Day or New Year's Day; beyond that I have no data.

A re-run would logically have happened during the early summer months, since CITV would shut down for the school holidays. We can rule out the week of 13-19 August, since I have listings for that week and no episode aired.

Mine copy is very likely from the second batch

 

[anathema]

Mine copy is very likely from the second batch

That episode didn't air in the second batch - those were new shows, not repeats.

 

[anathema]

Updates...new details marked in bold.

Season One
07 Jan 1984 Beginnings
14 Jan 1984 Wembley And The Gorgs
21 Jan 1984 The Lost Treasure Of The Fraggles
28 Jan 1984 Let The Water Run
04 Feb 1984 You Can't Do That Without A Hat
11 Feb 1984 The Thirty Minute Work Week
18 Feb 1984 The Preachification Of Convincing John
25 Feb 1984 I Want To Be You
03 Mar 1984 The Terrible Tunnel
10 Mar 1984 Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk
17 Mar 1984 Catch The Tail By The Tiger
24 Mar 1984 The Finger Of Light
31 Mar 1984 We Love You, Wembley
07 Apr 1984 The Challenge
14 Apr 1984 I Don't Care

Christmas Special
22 Dec 1984 The Bells Of Fraggle Rock

Season Two - incomplete
27 Feb 1985 Capture The Moon
13 Mar 1985 The Minstrels
10 Apr 1985 Gobo's Discovery
24 Apr 1985 The Beast Of Blue Rock
08 May 1985 Boober Rock
15 May 1985 All Work And All Play
29 May 1985 Red's Sea Monster
03 Jul 1985 Sir Hubris And The Gorgs

Season Three - incomplete
30 Nov 1986 Junior Sells The Farm
07 Dec 1986 Fraggle Wars
04 Jan 1987 The Doomsday Soup
11 Jan 1987 A Cave Of One's Own
18 Jan 1987 Wembley And The Great Race
25 Jan 1987 Doozer Is As Doozer Does
01 Feb 1987 Boober's Quiet Day

Season Four - incomplete
10 Jan 1988 Born To Wander (new lighthouse keeper: John Gordon-Sinclair as 'PK')
17 Jan 1988 Boober And The Glob
24 Jan 1988 A Brush With Jealousy
31 Jan 1988 Believe It Or Not
07 Feb 1988 A Dark And Stormy Night
14 Feb 1988 The Beanbarrow, The Burden And The Bright Bouquet
28 Feb 1988 The Battle Of Leaking Roof
06 Mar 1988 Red-Handed And Invisible Thief
13 Mar 1988 The Incredible Shrinking Mokey
20 Mar 1988 Pebble Pox Blues
27 Mar 1988 Scared Silly
03 Apr 1988 Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water

Season Five - incomplete
04 Sep 1988 The Great Radish Caper
11 Sep 1988 Home Is Where The Trash Is
18 Sep 1988 Sidebottom Blues
30 Oct 1988 Bored Stiff
18 Dec 1988 Wembley And The Mean Genie
15 Jan 1989 Mokey Then And Now
22 Jan 1989 Junior Faces The Music
29 Jan 1989 Beyond The Pond
05 Feb 1989 Manny's Land Of Carpets
12 Feb 1989 The Trial Of Cotterpin Doozer
19 Feb 1989 The Voice Inside
26 Feb 1989 A Tune For Two
05 Mar 1989 Wembley's Flight
19 Mar 1989 Mirror, Mirror
26 Mar 1989 Boober Gorg

Season Six - incomplete
13 Jun 1990 Uncle Matt's Discovery


Notes:
Simon O'Brien replaced John Gordon-Sinclair as lighthouse keeper at the start of 1989, although I don't yet know in which episode.

An episode of the animated series, 'The Great Radish Round-Up' aired on January 2nd 1990.

 

[RobUK]

I am convinced Fraggle Rock used to be on Saturday early evenings, I remember watching it, then sitting there drawing, and stuff like Blind date coming on.