Will an Unedited MFC ever be commercially released on DVD?

[beaker]

My family taped this special back in 1987. My sister owns the 2001 DVD. I watched both this Christmas and was surprised how much was cut. The song between Fozzie and the Snow Man was especially missed. The puppet Muppet babies sequence made a lot more sense seeing more of the footage. I'm going to try to convert the original tape to DVD. There's a lot of nostalgia there what with the original commercials and everything.

I also have some of the Muppet's 30th Anniversary special on that tape.

The full uncut MFC is actually online

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtgYDpvRCMI
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IbLaMgCkxg
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGzX5eAm1aw
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XdiHPlRs3c
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1INyTsG85E

 

[The Professor]

I figured it was there somewhere. Thanks for the link!

 

[mbmfrog]

If you asked me I blame Micheal Esiner, I mean he made an enemy out o almost anybody when the cameras were off.

I mean I seem to recall in the book Street Gang, which told the history of Sesame Street that Eisner tried to buy the SS gang around the time of Jim Henson's fuernal.

Still with the new head at the House of Mouse, it has yet to be shown if they're willing to bring back that beloved Holiday classic and work with the other members of the Muppet "family" on this.

 

[muppet boy]

I just beleive that it is ridiculous that we didn't get at least the whole 1989 edit on dvd. I really don't mind minor background music being missing, but when you take out 5 songs! That's just sad. I beleive that the Jim Henson Company where just cheap and didn't want to pay to use the songs. It really is a shame. Thank God I still have an unedited copy from 88. I put it on dvd

 

[Drtooth]

Again, it all depends on if they want to release any specials on DVD's period. I don't even know if they release old Disney specials that aren't movies. Seeing as how Muppets on Puppets is an hour long, theoretically they could put the special on one of the last season sets... but I'd rather see rarer footage, myself.

I don't know if they even know if that there's a demand for the stuff. Maybe if we can contact someone and start a letter/e-mail writing campaign, we can get the ball rolling and show there's an interest.

 

[frogboy4]

It seems that Disney has been branding their own Muppet Christmas products to replace the demand for the John Denver and Family Christmas specials. Not that I agree with that tactic. I'm still very pleased about the Fallon nod to the Denver special. I wonder how much Disney listens to our fan rantings.

 

[muppet boy]

Well, if we do see a special on the last season of the muppet show, I'd say it would have to be The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson. I do beleive an online petition is order to get the older specials to be released on dvds. It worked for the fraggles, maybe Disney will listen to us. And if remember correctly, didn't Mickey's Christmas Carol come out recently on DVD. If so, maybe there is hope for the muppet specials as well.

 

[Drtooth]

It seems that Disney has been branding their own Muppet Christmas products to replace the demand for the John Denver and Family Christmas specials. Not that I agree with that tactic. I'm still very pleased about the Fallon nod to the Denver special. I wonder how much Disney listens to our fan rantings.

I remember someone stating that Disney doesn't own the John Denver specials, his estate does... and the person in charge of his estate (someone pointed it out somewhere) is very very stingy with these kinds of specials. Even ones without the Muppets in them. Anyway, that poster wrote a long bit of specifics, and I can't remember exactly what they said, but it would take a LOT of haggling to get the John Denver estate's share of the special.

Speaking of which... I wonder if THAT was the roadblock that caused Muppet Show season 4 to be delayed... his guest appearance.

Oh... a not so quick search lead me to this post

 

[The Professor]

Well, I went ahead and converted my VHS copy of the 1987 special. It's on my computer and ready for a DVD. I've also got part of the 30th Anniversary Special, so I'm going to turn that around, too. The late eighties were a great time for Muppets.

 

[beaker]

The late eighties were a great time for Muppets.

Yep! I recently started a thread on the 1986-1990 period
http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=45650

NOTHING more magical in my mind then this period which brought us Muppet Telvision(JHH), Muppet Family Christmas, Muppets @WDW, etc.