Final Fraggle Rock Season coming to DVD
Dance your cares away with 24 episodes of Fraggle Rock Season 4 and hours of bonus features and cast interviews
By Greg James, Muppet Central
January 9,
2008
Tomorrow marks the 25th anniversary of Fraggle Rock - the first episode debuted on HBO on January 10, 1983. The show ran for more than 4 years, spawned 96 episodes, produced more than 150 original songs, and inspired and entertained an entire generation of fans.
In 2005, The Jim Henson Company and HIT Entertainment partnered to release the complete first season in a deluxe box set loaded with hours of bonus features. Season two and season three followed with equally impressive sets in 2006 and 2007, and now fans are waiting to discover what the fate will be for the final episodes of this beloved show and their DVD collections.
Well, the Jim Henson Company and HIT Entertainment are planning to release the final 24 episodes of Fraggle Rock in a deluxe season box set later this year. That’s right Fraggle fans, the "Fraggle Rock - Complete Fourth Season" DVD box set is coming.
A representative from HIT Entertainment informed me earlier this week that the fourth season is tentatively lined up for release in "Fall 2008". Details on the specific disc specifications and bonus features are not available yet; however a new batch of interviews and other behind the scenes content is currently being worked on for the set. Expect a detailed announcement sometime this summer (and given the past timelines of when such information surfaces, it would likely be around June or July).
This DVD box set will include the final 24 episodes of the series. Whereas HBO had stretched the 96 episodes of Fraggle Rock into 5 broadcast season (of 24, 24, 22, 13 and 13 episodes respectively); Henson had produced and filmed the series in 4 evenly sized seasons of 24 episodes each. HIT is following the production seasons with these sets, and all of the remaining episodes will be included on this final set.
With this release fans will finally be able to complete their collections and own every episode of this beloved series.
The episodes included on Fraggle Rock Season 4 are:
- "Sidebottom Blues"
- "Uncle Matt's Discovery"
- "Junior Faces the Music"
- "A Tune for Two"
- "The Perfect Blue Rollie"
- "A Brush with Jealousy"
- "Wembley's Flight"
- "Red's Blue Dragon"
- "Wonder Mountain"
- "Space Frog Follies"
- "Boober Gorg"
- "Mirror, Mirror"
- "The Riddle of Rhyming Rock"
- "The Voice Inside"
- "The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer"
- "The River of Life"
- "Beyond the Pond"
- "Gone, But Not Forgotten"
- "Mokey, Then and Now"
- "Ring Around the Rock"
- "Inspector Red"
- "The Gorg Who Would Be King"
- "The Honk of Honks"
- "Change of Address"
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