What guest stars would you have liked to seen?

[Pug Lover]

What About

Henry Winkler
Buddy Ebsen
Dan Akroyd
Johnny Cash

Actually Johnny Cash did guest star in an episode from season 5.

 

[Pug Lover]

"The Muppet Show" took over a year to really "catch on" at least here in the States, and Jim had to call in a lot of friends to take a chance and appear on the show. Later on, the got over booked and had to actually turn down people like Paul Mcartney since they were going out of production.

So who would you have liked to have seen on the show? My (partial) list:

STEVE ALLEN-since he gave them their start he should have been the first Guest Star

JIMMY DEAN-they could have let Rowlf host the show for once.

MEL BROOKS-he could sing, tell jokes and play the drums.

JOHNNY CARSON-he could have done a magic and played the drums.

LUCILLE BALL-lots of phyisical stuff

DOLLY PARTON

MICHAEL PALIN

SHARI LEWIS

JOHN RITTER

GEORGE HARRISON

RICHARD PRIOR

MICKEY ROONEY

ANN MILLER

CARL REINER

DONALD O'CONNOR-they could have spoofed "Francis the Talking Mule"

THE SMOTHERS BROTHERS

BENNY HILL

ROBIN WILLIAMS-"Pigs in Space" meets Mork form Ork

and of course
PAUL MCARTNEY

There are others, but who would you suggest?

John Ritter did guest star in"The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show".

 

[Pug Lover]

One other guest star I'd like to have seen.
Roy Orbison

 

[TotallySpiesFan]

Season 1:

Indira Stefanianna Christopherson (circa Juliet Prowse)
Elizabeth Montgomery (circa Connie Stevens)
Charro (circa Ruth Buzzi, Rita Moreno)
Bobby Sherman (circa Florence Henderson, Paul Williams)
Tennessee Ernie Ford (circa Charles Aznavour)
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)
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)
Tim Conway (circa Rich Little, Nancy Walker)
Lee Remick (circa Edgar Bergen)
Buddy Hackett (circa Madeline Kahn)
Jack Gilford (circa George Burns)
Red Skelton (circa Bernadette Peters, Rudolf Nureyev)
The Electric Light Orchestra (circa Elton John)
Christopher Lee (circa Julie Andrews)
Carole King (circa Peter Sellers)
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)
Seals & Croft (circa Jean Stapleton, Alice Cooper)
Johnny Rivers (circa Marisa Berenson, Raquel Welch)
Flip Wilson (circa Raquel Welch, James Coco)
Jose Feliciano (circa Helen Reddy)
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)
Audrey Landers (circa Jonathan Winters, Christopher Reeve)
Adam West (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)
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)

 

[Pug Lover]

Another guest star who should have been on TMS.
Sammy Davis Jr.

 

[BlueFrackle]

Dionne Warwick!

And some more soul singers man!

 

[superboober]

-the Jackson 5 (in retrospect our heroes could have just heaped on the ridicule like there was no tomorrow as well as singing some great tunes)

-Gene Wilder; a wicked Wonka parody would have been right up their alley

-Chevy Chase; him on the backstage stairs tumbling head over heels down them at least 3 times. Enough said.

-Catherine O'Hara; several bad Lola Heatherton numbers would have worked like a charm

 

[Muppet Newsgirl]

Here are a few of my picks. I would have wanted to see more musicians on the show, maybe even a few more whole bands.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer (the whole band)
Eric Clapton
Ronnie Spector (maybe with the rest of the Ronettes, perhaps?)
Irene Cara
Annie Lennox
Lionel Richie
Mark Knopfler (either with or without the rest of Dire Straits)
Lesley Gore
Foreigner (the whole band)
Styx (ditto)

 

[unclematt]

Some other that havent been mentioned:
John Cleese
Bob Denver
Billy Joel
Big Bird

 

[Muppet Matt]

Some other that havent been mentioned:
John Cleese
Bob Denver
Billy Joel
Big Bird

John Cleese was on it, in the second or third seasons I think.