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Thanks for that Danny. I posted some queries on the ATV forum and got a rather detailed response from member Lee Bannister. I may post some of the other things he said in a new thread, but with regards to the Season One compilation... Lee had never heard of this special and suggested that...

The suggestions that I have been given are all very fine but...ummm...people *might* just want to double check my profile. ;)

Well done everyone; I've been trying to find info about that compilation for some time now. Here's what we know about season one in the UK - ATV began airing the series on 5 September, 1976 beginning with the Joel Grey episode. Airings continued for another 15 straight weeks, but then the...

I don't remember seeing Wanda in Celebration of 30 Years. Which table is she sitting at?

I've never heard of the second one, but yes their archive will contain those other two specials. Ideally, I think they should be released individually but the problem is that they're somewhat obscure and rarely seen on TV these days and as such might not sell well.

Technically that is correct, but in reality... Certainly there were five production blocks, each consisting of 24 episodes each, but in the United Kingdom Season Two actually consisted of 30 episodes, while Season Three consisted of 18. The remaining seasons will eventually be released...

Can you be a bit more specific as to what you refer to as the Muppet Show font, please?

Well I can tell you that the Disney Playhouse channel in Australia and New Zealand did play the special over Christmas. If you mean why don't networks play it every year, well then you may as well ask why don't they play every single christmas special ever made for television every year? ;)

*That* version has never been commercially released. In fact, none of the first season TMS guests have ever had any of the versions of the songs they sang on the show commercially released.

Looks good, but unfortunately it doesn't ship to New Zealand. :(

*Sigh!* I'm afraid that to me, this whole idea can be summed up in one word. Dumb. Very dumb. Folks, I hate to bust your bubbles, but the Muppets are not as popular as they once were. They are a product of the golden years of television (1950's to 1980's) and while they were at their peak...

I suspect you're thinking of the James Coco episode of TMS where Rowlf sang "Eight Little Notes", with the Bust of Beethoven joining in.

When the album was released on CD in the 1990's, approx. three songs were left off. The 2006 re-release contains *all* the songs that were on the original LP.

Well unless someone has off-air copies of the other episodes that she worked on, we can't say for sure. What we can say for sure is that she was never credited on the US set of credits.

That was one of the episodes (the last?) of Jim Henson's short-lived TV series "The Jim Henson Hour".

The left-hand credits were for the UK while the centred credits were for the US and perhaps other markets as well. The reason for the difference originally, I suspect, had to do with the fact that the episodes aired in the US were syndicated by CBS and make mention of that fact in the end...

I've got the R4 version as well and am half-way through it. The picture quality does vary but that may be more down to lighting than picture quality. One thing - there are no foreign language tracks, despite the fact that both French and Italian are included as options. I plan to get in...

It seems we may be wrong about Lousie Gold being uncredited for her work on Season Two of TMS. The following is a digital photo of the end credits from the Elton John episode on the recent DVD release. This is the UK left-hand credits and I wonder if she was credited on this version...

Easy - different producers have different ideas. Besides, we don't know that it had been established that the Morsels would be on every set; we just took it for granted that they would be. Even if he were still alive this would *still* be an issue. Music rights don't just change especially...

It seems strange to me that Ruth Buzzi, Harvey Korman and Rita Moreno recorded their episodes on the same three days - namely 25 - 27 May, 1976. I know that's what the Muppet Morsels say but there must be a sensible explanation for this "discrepancy".