Fraggle
Rock Season 2 on track for September release
The
second season release from HIT Entertainment will include twenty-four
episodes, cast and crew interviews and the original Fraggle Rock
pitch book by Jim Henson with designs by Michael Frith.
By
Jake Friedman
July
20, 2006
Get ready
to laugh your cares away, Fraggle fans. Straight from the mouths of
HIT Entertainment representatives, the Fraggle Rock Season 2 DVD box
Set is going to hit the shelves September 5th as was announced
in January.
Selling
at $49.98 and sporting a feature running time of 680 minutes total,
the collection comes with a replica the original pitch book by Jim
Henson and illustrated by Michael K. Frith, measuring 4.5”
wide by 6.5” high. More organized than the notepad scribblings
reproduced for the Season
1 set, the pitch book illustrates a more finely formed world
of the Fraggles, yet one still not quite fully-evolved.
The
DVD special features include a whole new round of exclusive interviews
with the following participants: producer Lawrence S. Mirkin; writers
Sugith Varughese, Robert Sandler, David Young and Susan Juhl; performers
Karen Prell, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, and Jerry Nelson; creative
consultants Duncan Kenworthy and Jocelyn Stevenson; and composer
Phil Balsam. A special tribute to the late Jerry
Juhl will also be included.
Karen
Prell, performer of Red Fraggle, reflects on a particular episode
from Season 2.
"In 'A Cave of One's Own,' Mokey and Red become roomates, which
leads to my favorite love-hate relationship of the whole series,
Red vs Lanford, Mokey's cranky plant."
"Red
and Lanford may have hated each other, but Lanford's puppeteer,
Rob Mills, and I had an absolute blast playing off each other and
coming up with violent ways for the characters to attack each other.
Rob was also the body performer for Junior Gorg in the first three
seasons. He got the job performing Lanford because he had an arm
long enough to reach from a hole in the cave wall WAY out to where
Lanford's head had to be. Good thing - he was the perfect performer
for the job!"
The
episodes found on the DVD collection are as follows:
- Wembley’s
Egg
- Boober
Rock
- The
Trash Heap Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
- Red’s
Sea Monster
- Uncle
Matt Comes Home
- Boober’s
Dream
- Mokey
and the Minstrels
- All
Work and All Play
- Sir
Hubris and the Gorgs
- A
Friend in Need
- The
Wizard of Fraggle Rock
- The
Doozer Contest
- Red’s
Club
- The
Secret of Convincing John
- Manny’s
Land of Carpets
- Junior
Sells the Farm
- Fraggle
Wars
- The
Day the Music Died
- Doomsday
Soup
- A
Cave of One’s Own
- Wembly
and the Great Race
- Doozer
Is As Doozer Does
- Boober’s
Quiet Day
- The
Invasion of the Toe Ticklers
MORE
FRAGGLE NEWS
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for Ben Folds Five video
• Fraggle Rock returns to US TV on The Hub beginning October 10
• Fraggle
Rock "Scared Silly" DVD debuts September 14
• "Wembley's Egg Surprise" arrives
on DVD February 9
• Fraggle Season 4 and more Fraggles coming to DVD
• "The Doozers" preschool
series under development
• HIT announces Fraggle Rock Complete Series DVD Collection
• Red Fraggle live at Comic Con 2008
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