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| Release Date | August 9, 2005 (US) |
| Produced by | Buena Vista Home Entertainment |
| Discs | 4 |
| Region | 1 (US) 2 (UK) |
The Muppet Show: Season One is a 2005 four-disc DVD set collecting all twenty-four episodes of the first season of The Muppet Show for the first time. It was released in the UK as The Muppet Show: Series One.
The episodes are presented with the original first season openings, which have not been seen since the 1990s, when they were replaced on first season episode reruns and home video releases by the second season openings.
In addition, the set contains all twenty-four UK Spots, sketches that were not initially intended to be aired in the United States and that have only been seen in selected reruns, compilations, and home video releases.
Several edits made to the episodes due, in part, to music licensing issues, are detailed below. Most of the edited episodes appear fully intact on the German release, including the optional English sound track.
Disc Features[]
Disc 1[]
- Episode 101: Juliet Prowse
- Episode 102: Connie Stevens
- Episode 103: Joel Grey
- Episode 104: Ruth Buzzi
- Episode 105: Rita Moreno
- Episode 106: Jim Nabors
Bonus Features:
- Muppet Morsels pop-up trivia track on each episode
- Live-Video Menus featuring Statler and Waldorf
Disc 2[]
- Episode 107: Florence Henderson
- Episode 108: Paul Williams
- Episode 109: Charles Aznavour
- Episode 110: Harvey Korman
- Episode 111: Lena Horne
- Episode 112: Peter Ustinov
- Episode 113: Bruce Forsyth
Bonus Features:
- Muppet Morsels pop-up trivia track on each episode
- Live-Video Menus featuring Statler and Waldorf
Disc 3[]
- Episode 114: Sandy Duncan
- Episode 115: Candice Bergen
- Episode 116: Avery Schreiber
- Episode 117: Ben Vereen
- Episode 118: Phyllis Diller
- Episode 119: Vincent Price
Bonus Features:
- Muppet Morsels pop-up trivia track on each episode
- Live-Video Menus featuring Statler and Waldorf
Disc 4[]
- Episode 120: Valerie Harper
- Episode 121: Twiggy
- Episode 122: Ethel Merman
- Episode 123: Kaye Ballard
- Episode 124: Mummenschanz
Bonus Features:
- Muppet Morsels pop-up trivia track on each episode
- Live-Video Menus featuring Statler and Waldorf
- The Muppet Show Pitch Reel
- Original Pilot: The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence
- Season One Promo Gag Reel: Original Season 1 Promos (for the Bruce Forsyth, Phyllis Diller, Valerie Harper, Candice Bergen, Paul Williams, Sandy Duncan, and Peter Ustinov episodes)
Menus[]
Statler and Waldorf on the menu.
The main menu of each disc features rotating blocks that reveal character images while an instrumental version of "The Muppet Show Theme" plays. Statler and Waldorf (Steve Whitmire and Dave Goelz) appear on the menu to heckle the viewer with new video footage produced for the DVD set. Statler and Waldorf crack jokes at the expense of the show, and sometimes reference to the viewer's reluctance to select an option on the menu.
The three various sub-menus ("Episode Selection," "Bonus Features" and "Set Up") each feature static backgrounds and play various instrumental tracks.
Packaging[]
In North America and other regions, a limited run of a "furry" felt-covered box was created for the initial release. Subsequent printings of the set featured a flat cardboard box with the same design. The discs feature Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie, and Gonzo laid in a overlapping digipak-style design decorated to look like the curtain from The Muppet Theatre.
In the United Kingdom, the box set has the option to hear The Muppet Show in French on all 24 shows; Charles Aznavour and Peter Ustinov dub their own voices in these episodes. European regions also included individual slim digipaks for the discs, featuring character profiles (abridged from Muppets.go.com) on the back covers.
Cuts[]
The following segments were cut as presented on this DVD set:
- Muppet News Flash: Boffo the Human Cannonball
- "Stormy Weather" with introduction by Sam the Eagle
- Muppet News Flash: City Held Hostage
- "Gone with the Wind" with introduction by Kermit
- "The Danceros" with introduction with Kermit and backstage scene with Scooter
- "All of Me" with introduction by Kermit
- "The Old Fashioned Way" with introduction by Kermit
- "You've Got a Friend" with introduction by Kermit
In addition, Kermit's closing line was cut from "The Original Pitch Tape." At the end of the original pitch, Kermit appeared and inquired, "What the hell was that all about?"
The German release presents most of the episodes intact, with the exception of the missing Newsflash segments in the Joel Grey episode.
The Italian release only presents 16 of the 24 episodes on 3 discs, leaving out 101, 103, 109, 110, 112, 115, 119, and 121.
Logos[]
An eight-second "Muppet Studios" logo with music is shown before each episode. There are no chapters within each episode, but there is a "play all" feature on each disc. Due to ownership change, the original closing shot of Zoot with the ITC logo is not included on this set. Instead, the episodes feature a shot of Zoot from the 1980s with The Muppets Holding Company information.
International Releases[]
Buena Vista
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Region 2
subtitles: English, French, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Notes[]
The "Sneak Peaks" menu on the Season Two DVD advertises the set as "Complete First Season."
- A Jim Henson Retrospective was initially announced as a bonus feature for the set, but was not included.
- The release was originally billed as "The Muppet Show: Season One: Special Edition." The set was also later advertised as "The Muppet Show: Complete First Season" on the "Sneak Peaks" on the Season Two DVD.
- Eleven of the episodes on this set have the UK version of the closing credits.
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