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Can I just point out that there is no need for new negotiations to take place with music rights on "The Muppet Show", let anyone *any* TV show. Music rights for broadcast will have been negotiated back when the programme was made, and don't need to be renegotiated. It's only for commercial...

That's what I thought. The person who did that entry on Muppet Wiki must have been watching a different edit to the one we're used to. ;)

Refresh my memory, but Loretta Lynn sang this song with dogs didn't she? Only Muppet Wiki's entry on her episode of TMS says that she sang it with pigs.

Even though I'm in New Zealand, I hope the strike gets resolved very quickly. Hopefully this won't drag on like the ITV blackout of 1979.

I don't recall anything about the films being censored. From memory, the grasshopper line is in the soundtrack but unless it's in the original UK edit of the film, I don't particularly remember it being in the "bona fide" version. Can you give some other examples of censored lines?

Zoot doesn't wear his hat in the end credits of the first two seasons. He is wearing his hat in the end credits of the last three seasons. Associated TeleVision (ATV) was the independent channel that aired The Muppet Show in the United Kingdom. Incorporated Television Company (ITC) is...

Okay, first of all - these are not new shots that have been recorded especially for the DVDs; these are the shots that were used for the Hit! endings, sans bubble. There were two versions recorded - for the first two seasons, Zoot is not wearing his hat and for the other three seasons, he is...

In order: 1. Harry Belafonte episode (it's one of the African-masked characters) 2. Kaye Ballard episode (Nigel bows to the audience, while Rowlf has his hands in his mouth and looks nervous) 3. Loretta Lynn episode (the final note sounds slightly off-key) 4. Roger Miller episode (the...

Yes, but they're a part of the end credits so it's a bit harder to remove them than it is for TMS. The various copyright notices used for TMS have always been on a seperate shot of Zoot blowing his sax so it's always been easy to change them.

There are still tapes that have the original logos, though, and if Disney are using the "original" UK tapes (as has been claimed) then it's possible they may have made the decision to ditch the old copyright notices. In saying that, I do realize they are using the old HIT! endings so maybe...

With regards to the logo, this is all due to the change in ownership. There were in fact two logos - a rectangular ATV logo (used on the UK tapes) and the diamond ITC logo (used on the US tapes). The problem is that Granada International, who own the ITC archive, no longer own the copyright to...

Eric and Davina - while I am not a Mod, I refer you both to the forum rules regarding pirated material. In fact, Eric you posted about this last year and I told you last year that you shouldn't do it.

Some Pigs in Space sketches will be on the Time Life "Best of the Muppet Show" DVDs, but unfortunately off-hand I couldn't tell you which are on which disc.

Just checked my version and the catalogue number is the same.

Hmmm...that's the version I've got as well. What label was the UK version released on?

Which cover is it, Alex?

Most likely the UK version, as that was the one that came out in New Zealand.

It's been a while since I last saw the Rich Little episode but I wonder if Little was trying to do Fozzie's voice from the previous year, as they would be all he would have had to go on.

The Brady Bunch, Dad's Army and Are You Being Served? films are three very good examples.

I think it would have been a dreadful idea and would never have worked. There had been quite a few UK TV shows that had been made in to films pre-1979 and the bulk of them were just old scripts being re-hashed for the big screen. Even today you see film versions of TV shows re-hashing old...