What DVDs would you want for 2008?

[CensoredAlso]

Another one that's pretty unlikely is the Puppetman pilot. It would be nice, I've seen it at The Museum of TV and Radio and it's very cute. But it's a stretch to think it will be released. Still, anything is possible.

 

[minor muppetz]

What I'd love to see but won't:

Muppet Babies season one Uncut (i.e. original Saturday morning, not syndicated prints)
Dog City the special and the cartoon series
Some sort of compromise between henson and Disney to release the Jim Henson Hour (they could put Henson productions in association with Disney/Muppet Studios on the label)
Old School SS vol 3 (80's edition)
Muppet Family Christmas uncut
collection of old skits and commercials... if possible with Kermit and Rowlf.
Puppet Up Uncensored.

I think that Old School Volume 3 and Puppet Up Uncensored would be the msot likely to get a DVD release next year (or least unrealistic). We're getting Old School Vol. 2 this year, and if that sells well then we sould get a volume 3 (though I don't know if it will be a 1980s edition or if Sesame Workshop will actually go back to the first five years). And Puppet Up seems to be popular. I don't know if Henson (or whoever is in charge of a DVD release) would want to release the web series on DVD (are there many web shows that have official, commercial releases?). But the special could be released (how were the ratings for it, anyway). Or maybe some newer performances could be tapped and released.

 

[dbarrie]

I definitely would love to see TMS Season 3 and FR4 on DVD in '08. For 2009 I hope Disney will reissue The Muppet Movie as a 30th anniversary edition, with the Hollywood and movies specials included.

 

[minor muppetz]

Those "Old School Best of" ideas sound great. Here is what sketches I'd like to se included:

1. Sesame Street Old School: "The Best Of Bert & Ernie"

• appliance war
• Ernie shows Bert pictures of things with four of something
• Ernie eats Bert's cake
• Bert's nose
• upside-down Ernie pours milk
• Ernie talks about body parts we all have two of
• Ernie and Lefty: U
• Rubber Duckie (original version)
• Ernie and Lefty: air
• Ernie's rock hunt
• Counter of Numbers (uncut)
• Ernie's barber shop (all three parts)
• Ernie and the candy salesman
• Ernie and Sherlock Hemlock: half-eaten chicken salad sandhwich mystery
• Ernie and Herbert Birdsfoot: borrowing a vacume cleaner
• Ernie and Bert in the rain
• Ernie eats Bert's ice cream
• the banana sketch (all three parts)
• The Golden Apple
• Ernie and Sherlock Hemlock: apple mystery
• Ernie and Cookie Monster: who's who?
• fish in the cowboy hat
• Ernie and Lefty: invisible ice cream cone
• King Ernie orders the Royal Smart Person to invent a toothbrush
• Doin' the Pigeon
• Ernie paints a picture of Bert
• at the movies: lady with tall hat
• at the beach: missing Bert
• Six is my Favorite Number
• Ernie, Bert, and Shola: X
• Bert imagines himself as an ice skater
• La, La, La
• Ernie meets Bart
• the blackout
• I'm Square
• Bert and Maria's maginary plane ride
• pizza and grape juice
• cookies in bed
• One and One Make Two
• Bonus Feature: This Way to Sesame Street

2. Sesame Street Old School: "The Best Of Cookie Monster"

• Kermit and Cookie Monster: happy, sad, and angry
• If I Knew You Were Comming, I Would Have Baked a Cake
• Ernie presents the letter A
• Ernie presents the letter Q
• Ernie presents the letter U
• Monsters: Here and There
• Up and Down
• Cookie Monster and Herbert Birdsfoot: cookie contraption
• Cookie Monster turns into a prince
• One of These Things
• FOOD
• C is for Cookie
• Newsflash: The Princess and the Cookie
• The Ballad of Casey McPhee
• Ernie meets the Cookie Bunny
• counting to 20 with a green napkin
• The Remembering Game
• Ernie and Cookie Monster: hope
• Bonus Feature: 1970s public service announcements

3. Sesame Street Old School: "The Best Of Grover"

• Near and Far
• Grover and Kermit: nine blocks
• Grover and Kermit: in the box
• First and Last
• I Whistle a Happy Tune
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: three blocks
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: HELP
• Grover and Oscar's ABCs
• What Do I Do When I'm Alone?
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot count to 20
• Grover and the rowboat (three part sketch)
• Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: Grover's shadow
• Grover and Kermit: Here and There
• Grover the Waiter: alphabet soup
• Grover the elevador operador: in and out
• Frazzle tells Grover about his feelings
• Grover and the letter G
• Grover and John-John: counting a penny
• Proud of Me
• Grover the plumber
• Grover the waiter: hamburger
• Grover and Biff: inventing the wheel
• Grover and Big Bird: two chin-ups
• Grover and Kermit: nose warmer salesman
• four Grovers?
• Grove rthe waiter: Simon Soundman
• The Number Two (three-part sketch)
• Beat the Time
• Bonus Feature: The Jean Marsh Cartoon Special

4. Sesame Street Old School: "The Best Of Kermit The Frog"

• W lecture (two-part sketch)
• empty and full lecture
• B sounds
• hair lecture
• ball
• Kermit and Professor Hastings: the importance of excercise
• "What Happens Next?" machine
• Kermit and Cookie Monster: cookie machine
• Kermit and Grover: fire in the woods
• The Tortose and the Hare
• Newsflash: Sleeping Beauty
• Newsflash: The Count counts the Three Little Pigs
• Kermit and Grover: heavy and light
• Kermit, Cookie Monster, and Herry: sharing a bicycle
• Kermit, Shola, and Fanny: "next to"
• Kermit, Chris, and Stephanie: counting heads
• Kermit and Brian: "close and apart"
• Kermit and Joey: counting to 20
• Kermit and Grover: earmuff salesman
• Bein' Green with Lena Horne
• Yellowstone Park
• Newsflash: Alice in Wonderland
• Newsflash: Hickory Dickory Dock
• Bonus Feature: The Best of Kermit on Sesame Street

 

[BigBlueBear]

Can anyone tell me if there was an Old School Volume 2 produced? Haven't found one in my area.

Really the Old School episodes are so much better than what is being produced today.

Thanks so much

 

[The Count]

Hi and welcome to Muppet Central. It's reported that Sesame Street Old School Volume 2 will be released on October 24, 2007, almost a whole year after the first release in this "series".
Hope this helps.

 

[ploobis]

Hi and welcome to Muppet Central. It's reported that Sesame Street Old School Volume 2 will be released on October 24, 2007, almost a whole year after the first release in this "series".
Hope this helps.

"GREAT!"

I can't wait!

 

[BigBlueBear]

Thanks so much for the information count. I can't wait. Sesame Street Old School is definitely on my Christmas List

 

[kbug67]

I Think that Disney should make some sets like the Walt Disney Treasures set but insted have "MUPPET TREASURES"

I dont know what could be on them but they could do
a three disk set containing
Disk One
Hey Cinderella!
The Frog Prince

Disk Two
The Muppet Musicians Of Bremen
The Great Santa Claus Switch

Bonus Disk
Emmet otters Jug Band Christmas
The Tales of the Tinkerdee
The Land of Tinkerdee

 

[minor muppetz]

This year seems to be "the year of Jim Hneson DVD releases". So far we've gotten The Mupet Show: Season 2, Dinosaurs: The Complete Third and Fourth Seasons, two volumes of The Best of the Jimmy Dean Show (with four Rowlf appearances released on DVD so far), and on somewhat lesser notes the Sesame Street TV Episode Fun Packs, Kids' Favorite Country Songs, and Ready for School, and later this year we (or those who care, and have the money) will be getting Sesame Street: Old School Vol. 2, Fraggle Rock: The Complete Third Season, the first-ever US DVD releases of Play with Me Sesame, and new DVD releases of The Dark Crystal and Labrynth (the first-ever DVD releases of those movies to include audio commentary tracks).

With this in mind, it would be a challenge to top all that. But hopefully the plans for the Jim Henson's Early Works DVD will become a reality and not be cancled (and hopefully it can be released by the end of next year), and hopefully the thrid season of The Muppet Show will be released, hopefully the fourth and fifth seasons of Fraggle Rock will be released, and another Sesame Street: Old School volume will be released.