Just watched Vincent Price and Christopher Reeve. Let's just say Disney+, a streamer I already think was rich with excellent shows and films, was only improved by the addition of this show. I won't review the actual episodes since I don't have much time but they're classic Muppet madness and made me laugh my butt off several times
I chose Vincent Price because I knew his episode was missing a song and I thought that would be a good test to see if Disney secured the song rights. They did for Vincent Price and, checking all the available episodes, all but twelve episodes are 27 minutes. The exceptions are Paul Williams at 28, Bernadette Peters at 25, Don Knotts at 22, Cheryl Ladd at 25, Danny Kaye at 25, Roger Miller at 25, Anne Murray at 26, James Coburn at 25, Tony Randall at 25, Hal Linden at 25, Wally Boag at 25, and Buddy Rich at 25.
I've never seen those and I'm likely NOT gonna nitpick them when I do. There are better Muppet fans who will know on sight what's missing and I'll trust them. That said, Disney never claimed to have gotten all the rights (at least in the Disney+ announcements so, while a little disappointing that stuff may be cut, 105 uncut episodes is a decent average (For those questioning my math, keep scrolling
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Christopher Reeve I picked for two reasons:
1.) If any episode was gonna have potential problems, it'd be the one with MANY references of the Big Blue Boy Scout, up to a glorious gallery of him wearing the blue tights. To my delight, everything was there.
2.) I've seen the episode on YouTube and LOVE it. Christopher missed his calling as a comedic talent
The shows looked great. It's clear Disney upscaled them and, while they'll never look as good as the Muppet Movie or Caper, the colors and details were very good. Certainly, the best the show has looked and MILES ahead what's on YouTube and torrent sites (uhhh, don't ask me how I know that. Thankfully, I got some deleting to do
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So it’s finally here yayyyyy!!!!
Most of the episodes are available. Here in the UK four episodes are unavailable. The Spike Milligan, John Denver, Brooke Shields & Chris Langham are not there which is a shame though I expect them to come hopefully in the future( apart from the Langham ep due to reasons)
US got slightly luckier: we're only missing 3. We don't have Chris Langham and Brooke Shields (season 5) but we got Spike Milligan and John Denver while losing Kaye Ballard (season 1) (hence, why my math above seemed to be off
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I can understand not showing the Chris Langham episode but the rest got me stumped. I Googled Kaye Ballard and didn't come across any problems and I can't think wrong with Spike, John, or Brooke. Disappointing but... well, we're still better off than those with DVDs. Hopefully, Disney adds them someday and (if the above episodes are indeed cut) uncut versions of the 12 above but, as it stands, we're certainly better off than before.