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Time in a bottle muppets9/18/2023 It was videotaped at the Elstree studios of ITC's parent company ATV (where sequences for Star Wars and Indiana Jones were also filmed the studios are currently home to EastEnders). The Muppet Show was produced for worldwide weekly syndication from 1976 to 1981. ![]() networks rejected their (frankly awesome) pitch for a weekly series, they instead finagled a distribution deal with Britain's ITC, under the auspices of Lord Lew Grade. Thus the impetus to create a new show featuring the Muppets alone, still family-friendly but with a distinctly adult edge.ĪBC aired a pair of pilot specials, The Muppets Valentine Show (1974) and The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence (1975), but when all the U.S. ![]() However, it also threatened to pigeonhole the Henson crew as children's entertainers. In the early '70s, the immense popularity of the Muppets they created for Sesame Street gave Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Jerry Juhl, Frank Oz, and the others a lot of valuable exposure.
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