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Another Muppet Show writer has left us. Chris Langham, who also doubled as a guest star, died of pancreatic cancer earlier this month. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/sep/07/chris-langham-obituary

Muppet writer David Odell died in late August. There’s been no proper obituary, just this in the LA Times - https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/david-odell-obituary?id=62341590

The earliest date for Valerie Harper is 29 December 1976 on HTV at the earlier time of 3:50pm. Listings for Tyne Tees have two dates for Mummenschanz - 9 January (as per the network) and 23 January. Nether of these is billed as a rerun. For the past 12 months or so this confused me no end and...

Okay, now brace yourselves. This is where it gets messy. What I'm going to do now is to list some of the anomalies and other bits of interesting trivia concerning the other regions. So, deep breath, and... For the most part Channel, Grampian, Granada, Southern, STV and Westward followed the...

Some of you with good memories may recall that I started a post five years ago about the original UK air dates of 'The Muppet Show'. I never finished that and I'm glad I didn't because over the subsequent years I've discovered more information and have a clearer picture of what happened. And...

The original edit of the Juliet Prowse pilot of 'The Muppet Show' is available for viewing on the Internet Archive site, courtesy of a user called Disney Ashman Demos. Unfortunately it's missing the UK spot. I've viewed it for myself and it's an interesting pilot. I'll post my thoughts about...

This is for those of you who have Muppet Show DVDs - which is practically everyone - or is a subscriber of Disney+ - which is practically everyone. For years I have been trying to identify the various B/W photos that appear in 'The Muppet Show' - primarily those that can be seen in the dressing...

Okay, now we have two dates for the Linda Lavin episode. Sigh! I think the earlier date is wrong as one of the Scottish newspapers has that week being Beverly Sills.

I’ve managed to obtain access to digital copies of the UK TV Times magazine which has the TV listings for ITV - I should make it clear that there were different regional editions for the various ITV franchises. Anyway, what I’ve discovered is that some of our thoughts on what happened with TMS...

New episodes begin again on New Year's Eve 1980, though there are no reruns on Saturday mornings. Star Wars (31/12/80) Liza Minnelli (07/01/81) Anne Murray (14/01/81) Jonathan Winters (21/01/81) Christopher Reeve (28/01/81) Lynda Carter (04/02/81) Carol Channing (11/02/81) Doug Henning...

So here is the order from August to December 1980 (all episodes repeated the following Saturday): Spike Milligan (06/08/80) Leslie Uggams (13/08/80) Elke Sommer (20/08/80) Sylvester Stallone (27/08/80) Roger Miller (03/09/80) Roy Rogers & Dale Evans (10/09/80) Lynn Redgrave (17/09/80) John...

In 1980 both TV-1 and SPTV were merged into a new state broadcaster - Television New Zealand (TVNZ). The two channels were no longer in competition with each other and SPTV was rebranded as TV-2. TMS returned in August of 1980; unfortunately the schedulers now aired the series on Wednesday...

The second batch began in October 1979 with Alice Cooper. The batch went for 12 weeks, although there was no show on 8 December, and instead TV-1 aired 'The Muppets Go Hollywood' instead. This was rather appropriate as at the time 'The Muppet Movie' was being shown in cinemas. The order was a...

In 1979 there were two batches of episodes of TMS. The first was between May and August and consisted of the remaining eight episodes of season two and the first six episodes of season three. Again, Saturdays at 7pm although there's no show on 16 June and TV-1 instead airs a special entitled...

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19780826.2.87.3 After a week's break following the transmission of the Mummenschanz episode, TV-1 began airing season two. This was a batch of 16 episodes, all airing Saturday nights 7pm from 26 August 1978 to 16 December 1978. There was no show...

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19780119.2.94 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19780119.2.94.1

The second batch of episodes began on 27 May 1978 and ended on 12 August 1978, consisting of the remaining 12 episodes of season one. This batch didn't air in the "right order" as Bruce Forsyth was episode 23 not 13. Again, all episodes aired on TV-1 at 7pm.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19770815.2.119 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19771229.2.87 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19771229.2.87.1 https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19780527.2.93...

Over the past four weeks or so I've been researching the original NZ air dates for TMS. This has been a pet-project of mine for some time only I've never been able to nail down the exact dates due to lack of access of resources. That changed when I stumbled across Papers Past, a web site from...

Except I wasn't. The international broadcaster in question is New Zealand. The reason I framed my post that way is because I am *from* New Zealand - something which members of this forum and the wiki are aware of. Understandably, I figured that people would twig that I was jokingly referring...