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Interesting to read that at one point they approached Jim Henson about puppet-building. He may have turned it down, but quite a few of the TMS studio crew ended up working on the show (set designers, directors etc), and don't forget that Louise Gold was the show's original Leading Puppeteer...

Louise Gold joined The Muppets in the summer of 1977 (as far as I can gather from what bits and pieces I've read/heard, in July 1977 to be precise).

I'd suggest looking up The Book Of Habidabad’s section for the film: http://habidabad.com/thra.htm The other week I was wanting to look up various things about Dark Crystal, and I found this site very very helpful in filling in a lot of vital gaps (including various little points that aren't...

Well I don't know about it being close to Louise's own voice, perhaps. I actually thought she wandered a bit into the voice she used for Mrs Doasyouwouldbedoneby in the musical of The Water Babies! Still it was a good performance. She seemed much more at ease than on previous programmes like...

If anyone is interested, I have now added a review/account of that performance to my fan site about Louise Gold. It was a wonderful afternoon, even if Louise did rather mess up the number Dancing Queen. Incidentally her Muppet Medley went down a treat, with some very strong reminders of some...

I throughly agree. And how lovely to have THAT song of Jason Carr's, it just fits her so perfectly. I'll put a review of the whole show on my fansite about her in due course, of course. I thought that over-all her act was even better than when she did it three years ago.

The album was recorded first, in England in about 1979. The TV special was made a year later in America (hence the cast variations).

In case anyone who is interested in this didn't already know about it, I thought I'd post the info here. Appearently Louise Gold is scheduled to bring Lauderdale House (in Highgate, London)'s current cabaret season to it's "Grand Finale" this sunday. If anyone is interested see her cabaret...

RVP = Royal Variety Performce. Which by tradition used to always take place every year in one of the big London theatres such as Theatre Royal Drury Lane or The London Palladium (these days it still happens but not in the really big theatres). Anyway first time The Muppets appeared on the...

In the Carol Burnett ep bit then, I think you should also mention about The Muppets infamous appearance on the 1977 RVP (at the London Palladium).

Well I'm glad you remembered eventually minor muppetz, though how you could forget the first British muppeteer in the first place... I don't know. Seriously, though, that does seem to be rather a common occurance, leaving out Louise Gold. Perhaps its because she so often gets overlooked, it...

There is a 'backstage' scene in the Roger Moore episode where Kermit is having a conversation with a Viking Pig who has just come off-stage (form doing 'The Viking Number'). Judging by the photograph in the book OM&M, that character is being voiced by Jerry Nelson, but puppeteered by Louise...

Wasn't there a plan at one time for some TV series or something involing a band titled 'Screaming Edith'?

My favourite of Jim as a character is a TMS one: Kermit (on the Glenda Jackson episode) "They always tell you that the show must go on, but they never tell you why!" He goes on: "Well right now the show absolutely must not go on, because I quit. I mean the guest-star's a pirate and the...

I've heard/read the rumours about Jim Henson too. I think he wasn't (since not only is their film footage of him puppeteering right-handed, but there is also footage of him signing autographs right-handed), but Kermit of course was left-handed, precisely because Jim puppeteered right-handed. The...

I wouldn't call it a lack of talent in the case of the TMS Muppeteers, the talent was all there, it was simply a lack of experience, due to them being rather new to puppetry at the time. The talent was all there, it just hadn't yet been fully developed by training. One thing apparent with...

I think that the problem with the female puppeteers on The Muppet Show was not their vocal abilities; but their puppeteering ability at that time. In fact Louise Gold at least, and to a lesser extent Kathy Mullen, voiced all sorts of bit characters. If you pay close attention you will find them...

I'd go for saying she's a bully, especially because of the way she treated Kermit on TMS, AND the way she treats any possible rivals, be they guest stars, or for that matter other muppets (Spamala on MT, and of course sweet young inexperienced Annie Sue on TMS). Oh and thanks, to Xerus and...

Big Mamma is my first choice, I think my second would be Sweetums

There may be many other threads on this topic, but some us like collecting quotes (I understand that some people - such as those working for Russell Group Universities - do not approve of such a hobby, but you don't have to read these threads if you don't approve of them). Anyway, one...