The Muppet Show

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  • : 1976
  • : 120
  • : 75
  • CBS
  • Children Comedy Family

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Rita Moreno
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20, 1976
On stage, guest star Rita Moreno battles several Muppets including Animal who backs on drums in her closing number “Fever”. Backstage, Fozzie answers a string of rather unusual (and very funny) phone calls.
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Jim Nabors
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27, 1976
A young kid named Scooter applies for a job as a gofer. When, Kermit tells him he looks nothing like a gopher, Scooter explains that he’ll go-fer coffee and sandwiches among other things .. show full overview
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Sandy Duncan
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04, 1976
Fozzie performs the famous “Banana Sketch” by Gags Beasley which everyone (including guest Sandy Duncan) has heard of. Everybody, except for Kermit.
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Ruth Buzzi
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11, 1976
Scooter’s uncle, J.P. Grosse sends a mechanical wind-up TV show host that resembles Kermit in every way. Soon, the duplicate starts harassing Kermit and flirts with Miss Piggy.
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Joel Grey
Episode overview
18, 1976
Fozzie takes on a new act – jokes on any subject – which drives everybody crazy. When he takes the stage, he asks for any word. Naturally, Statler & Waldorf call his bluff by yelling out “Amoeba!”
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Paul Williams
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25, 1976
Scooter talks Fozzie in doing “The Telephone Pole Bit” and Fozzie practices dutifully until he finds out what the bit is really all about.
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Lena Horne
Episode overview
01, 1976
Lena Horne first performed with Kermit in the early seventies on Sesame Street. She sang a poignant version of "Bein' Green". She returned to Sesame Street about five years later .. show full overview
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Peter Ustinov
Episode overview
08, 1976
Kermit becomes jealous when Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Hilda and Scooter rave about Peter Ustinov who later admits that he’s jealous of Kermit saying that he’s always wanted to be a frog.
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Florence Henderson
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15, 1976
The Muppet Theater is plagued by pig-related problems with The Bouncing Borcellino Brothers flubbing their opening act and Miss Piggy throwing herself at an uninterested Kermit, then .. show full overview
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Valerie Harper
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22, 1976
This is one of only a few Muppet Show episodes that open the show after the theme song with some kind of offstage scene. There's also a couple of scenes with the guest star in her .. show full overview
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Candice Bergen
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29, 1976
Fozzie brings a string of deliveries to Kermit which results in some real lousy gags driving the poor frog crazy.
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Bruce Forsyth
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06, 1976
Fozzie hatches a plan to get even with Statler & Waldorf when he does his act. But the bear becomes crushed when he gets replaced with guest Bruce Forsyth.
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Harvey Korman
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13, 1976
Kermit begins to worry that guest star Harvey Korman isn’t having a great time because he complains of being the “token person” on the show with all the dogs, frogs, pigs and chickens as .. show full overview
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Charles Aznavour
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17, 1977
When he’s unable to get a spot on the show, Gonzo asks Scooter to be his manager. Scooter thinks Gonzo should do a rock act by banging a large rock with a mallet. Later, Gonzo tries .. show full overview
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Ben Vereen
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24, 1977
Ben Vereen received a Tony Award for his role in "Pippen". Before he became a star in his own right, Ben was an understudy for Sammy Davis Jr. in 1964. A new version of Janice .. show full overview
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Vincent Price
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31, 1977
In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky sketches. Meanwhile, a three-headed monster tries to audition for Kermit.
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Twiggy
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07, 1977
Kermit is skeptical when everyone backstage is terrorized by “the Phantom of the Muppet Show” aka Uncle Deadly, a monster-actor who performed in the theater years ago, got panned by the .. show full overview
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Phyllis Diller
Episode overview
14, 1977
Jim's love of jazz is evident in the performance of "Hugga Wugga". This sketch had evolved from a longtime favorite Henson sketch originally titled "Sclrap Flyapp" in the early sixties. .. show full overview
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Ethel Merman
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21, 1977
Fozzie’s agent, Irving Bizarre, arrives at the theater to negotiate Fozzie’s contract with Kermit who ends up offering Fozzie ten times as much money – despite the fact the bear made nothing before.
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Connie Stevens
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28, 1977
When Fozzie overhears Hilda, Kermit, and Scooter talking about getting rid of “that bear” he thinks they’re talking about him when in actual truth it’s Gonzo’s teddy bear that is being .. show full overview
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Kaye Ballard
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07, 1977
Embarrassed at the “square” music that he and the others have to play each week on the show, Floyd announces that the band is quitting.
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Mummenschanz
Episode overview
21, 1977
This episode marks the debut of one of Gonzo's trademarks. Him rapidly rushing on camera with a "WHOOSH" sound effect. This is John Lovelady and Eren Ozker's final episode. Only the .. show full overview
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Avery Schreiber
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18, 1977
Much is made in this episode about Avery Schreiber's being one half on the comedy duo Burns & Screiber. The other half? First season head writer Jack Burns. This would be the first of .. show full overview
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Juliet Prowse
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25, 1977
Kermit is pressured into allowing Scooter to do a musical number with Muppy the dog. Guest star Juliet Prowse dances to a Scott Joplin melody.

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