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What guest stars would you have liked to seen?

Pug Lover

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Yes John Cleese did guest star in an episode from season 2.
Big Bird also guest starred alongside Leslie Uggams in a season 3 episode.
 

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Pug Lover said:
Yes John Cleese did guest star in an episode from season 2.
Big Bird also guest starred alongside Leslie Uggams in a season 3 episode.
I just thought that Big Bird should have hosted
 

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Updated:

Season 1:

Indira Stefanianna Christopherson (circa Juliet Prowse)
Elizabeth Montgomery (circa Connie Stevens)
Charro (circa Ruth Buzzi, Rita Moreno)
Bob Denver (circa Jim Nabors)
Bobby Sherman (circa Florence Henderson, Paul Williams)
Gene Wilder (circa Paul Williams)
Tennessee Ernie Ford (circa Charles Aznavour)
Carroll O'Connor (circa Harvey Korman)
Rip Taylor (circa Lena Horne, Peter Ustinov)
Burl Ives (circa Bruce Forsythe, Sandy Duncan)
Carly Simon (circa Sandy Duncan, Candice Bergen)
Shirley Jones (circa Candice Bergen, Avery Schreiber)
Nipsey Russell (circa Avery Schreiber, Ben Vereen)
James Caan (circa Ben Vereen)
Barbara Eden (circa Vincent Price)
Michelle Phillips of The Mamas & The Papas (circa Twiggy, Kaye Ballard)
Billy Joel (circa Mummenschanz)

Season 2:

Groucho Marx (circa Don Knotts, Zero Mostel)
Mel Brooks (circa Zero Mostel, Milton Berle)
Sid Caesar (circa Milton Berle, Judy Collins)
Tim Conway (circa Rich Little, Nancy Walker)
Lee Remick (circa Edgar Bergen)
Shari Lewis (circa Steve Martin)
Buddy Hackett (circa Madeline Kahn)
Jack Gilford (circa George Burns)
Vicki Lawrence (circa Dom DeLuise)
Red Skelton (circa Bernadette Peters, Rudolf Nureyev)
The Electric Light Orchestra (circa Elton John)
Christopher Lee (circa Julie Andrews)
Carole King (circa Peter Sellers)
Henry Gibson (circa Petula Clark)
Karen Valentine (& Biff & Sully) (circa Bob Hope)
Paul Lynde (circa Teresa Brewer)
ABBA (circa Cloris Leachman)

Season 3:

Harry Chapin (circa Leo Sayer, Roy Clark)
John Lennon (circa Gilda Radner, Pearl Bailey)
Seals & Crofts (circa Jean Stapleton, Alice Cooper)
Johnny Rivers (circa Marisa Berenson, Raquel Welch)
Flip Wilson (circa Raquel Welch, James Coco)
Jose Feliciano (circa Helen Reddy)
Barry White (circa Harry Belafonte, Danny Kaye)
Billy Davis & Marylin McCoo (circa Danny Kaye, Spike Milligan)
Leon Redbone (circa Elke Sommer)
John Ritter (circa Lynn Redgrave)

Season 4:

Thelma Houston (circa John Denver)
The Spinners (circa Dyan Cannon, Victor Borge)
Ed Asner (circa Linda Lavin, Dudley Moore)
Dan Fogelberg (circa Kenny Rogers, Lola Falana)
Olivia Newton-John (circa Dizzy Gillespie, Liza Minelli)
Audrey Landers (circa Jonathan Winters, Christopher Reeve)
The Stars of "Logan's Run" (circa Star Wars)
Barbra Streisand (circa Lynda Carter)
Sammy Davis Jr. (circa Carol Channing, Andy Williams)
Robin Williams (circa Doug Henning, Alan Arkin)
Cher (circa Diana Ross)

Season 5:

Gunther Rebel Williams (circa Gene Kelly)
Elliott Gould (circa Loretta Swit, Joan Baez)
Art Garfunkel (circa Senor Wences, Jean-Pierre Rampal)
Donna Summer (circa Paul Simon, Melissa Manchester)
Kenny Loggins (circa Tony Randall)
Charles Nelson Reilly (circa Mac Davis, Carol Burnett)
David Odgen Stiers (circa Gladys Knight, Marty Feldman)
Richard Pryor (circa Chris Langham)
France Joli (circa Johnny Cash, Buddy Rich)
Rex Harrison (circa Roger Moore)
 

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TSF, you've got just about all of my fanfics in there, save for Jerry Orbach and the 3 I did with guests who had died prior to TMS. You've even got two that I haven't finished, Redbone and Ritter (those ones are gonna be a while, unfortunately). Can I take that as a compliment?

As far as who I'd have liked to see on the show, everyone I've done a fanfic on who was alive at the time (see the link in my siggie), plus Eric Clapton, plus a lot of guests I'm still working on fanfics for, including Rodney Dangerfield, Abe Burrows, Henny Youngman, Gene Wilder, Shari Lewis, Tom Jones, Steve Allen, Leon Redbone, John Ritter, Art Garfunkel, Neil Diamond, Gordon Lightfoot, Carole King, Cat Stevens, Alan Alda, and Benny Goodman. I also had an interesting idea for an Andy Kaufman episode, with Kaufman-esque plotline in which the Muppets discover that their guest star is actually a puppet.

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole
 

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I would have loved to see an Andy Kaufman episode. Comic Genius!!!
 

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He died right around the time the show premiered, but wouldn't this have been a cool final appearance for Charlie Chaplin?
 

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1.Chuck Norris2.George Lucas3.Jackie Chan4.Steve Martin
 

Gorgon Heap

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Dragon said:
1.Chuck Norris2.George Lucas3.Jackie Chan4.Steve Martin
Steve Martin WAS on "The Muppet Show", in 1977, Episode 32.

David "Gorgon Heap" Ebersole
 

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Don Adams
Bill Cosby
Richard Pryor
John Ritter
Dick Van Dyke
Mary Tyler Moore
Davey Jones
Elizabeth Montgomery
Barbera Eden
Suzanne Sommers
Robert Palmer
Rodney Dangerfield
 
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