Fraggle Rock -- Classic or Dud?

All three are classix.

And yes, Nick, far too parochial. Embrace your inner child -- by going to this fan site:

http://w ww.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/8264/

Ned's Atomic Dustbin were nmaed after a Goon Show episode. As you probably know already.

Er... is "uuuuuuuhhhhhh" a *good* thing? Or is it a baaaad thing?

And the dog was Sprocket. Years before a certain SNL sketch took the name over.

Therefore, dud.

The real classic is Muppet Show. My dad and my uncle are going to be just like those two balcony guys when they get old.

Which Rocked! Because it had animate fungus

and

my sister sang on the single.

I loved the theme song, and Wembley!!! He was so great. He always used to 'wemble', because he couldn't make his mind up. Was the superstitious Fraggle's name Boober? Can't remember. Best of all, though, was Uncle Travelling Matt, who used to send a postcard to Gobo from a different location every episode. I remember when he went to London and saw the guards, only to write: 'The people in this strange land love their pets so much they keep them on their heads...'

Then there was the Trash Heap ('The Trash Heap has spoken... Hyahhh!'), and the King, Queen and Junior of the Universe, who were only King and Queen because they didn't know anyone else.

But Sprocket was the cutest, by far. I always wanted a dog like Sprocket. And I wanted to live on a lighthouse above Fraggle Rock... Ah well. Damn, I loved that TV show. Wish it was still being shown. Same as the Muppet Show. I have the Muppet Show albums (including John Denver Meets The Muppets!) but none of the Fraggle Rock ones. Which is a shame because that opening song was incredible...

I'd better stop now. I'm probably scaring some people...

Anyway, Fraggle Rock is on the CBC (Canadian BBC) either Saturday or Sunday mornings...but it's usually way too early for me to be up to watch it.

I of course love lots of hippie shite.

np: Genesis - Nursery Cryme

(toss josh in there too for his peanuts hate)

'dance your cares away
worries for another day
let the music play
DOWN IN FRAGGLE ROCK!'

http://www.fragglerocker.com/

And looking through it I am reminded that a friend of mine from UCI newspaper days was often considered the living incarnation of Mokey Fraggle. This was meant positively!

There are apparently two Fraggle Rock DVDs available so far.

"Dance your cares away . . . CLAP CLAP"

Funky theme song, tho'.

This is almost as exciting as when Ed revealed he was related to Edith's mother from Allo Allo.

http://electrolicious.com/archives/images/Rainbow+Fraggle.jpg

*clap clap*

ARGH

http://gawker.com/5943932/ben-folds-five-returns-brings-fraggle-rock-back-with-it

Gobo better get a gourd solo!!

Was the fraggle rock scene so called cos they wuz all a bunch of Muppets?
Somebody actually had a torrent war of Ned's Atomic Dustbin stuff going on at Dime a couple of weeks back, oddly enough.

WHAT the fuck:

Hulu is preparing to launch its first original children's show, a spin-off of the classic '80s series Fraggle Rock. According to Variety, Hulu will be the exclusive US home to The Doozers, which turns a group of supporting Fraggle Rock characters into the centerpiece of a new series. Just as with Fraggle Rock, The Jim Henson Company is a co-producer of the series, only this time with the production company behind Yo Gabba Gabba! along for the ride.

Except there's one big problem here:

http://cdn3.sbnation.com/entry_photo_images/9816133/d_large_large.jpg

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/gordon-levitt-produce-star-fraggle-rock-movie-article-1.2155956

*clap clap*?

Thirty-five years old as of yesterday. Also the general store or hardware store or whatever the US version was is the only true version. (Though it was definitely eye-opening way upthread to realize about these different versions.)

FP

FR YR FU FR OP

Complaints complaints

4ever/alwayz

classic

The producers made the series with the intention of it airing in various forms internationally. That concept grew out of Jim Henson's experience adapting Sesame Street to the requirements of foreign markets.[1] The human "wraparound" segments were produced separately in several countries, so the viewer could always relate to the world of the program. The series has appeared now in over ten countries and languages. The head producer was Wesley James Tomlinson.

The main version, filmed in Toronto, features an inventor named Doc (played by Gerry Parkes) and his dog Sprocket. This wraparound was also used in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the Republic Of Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain and Eastern Europe. Dutch, Scandinavian, Spanish and Eastern European shows were dubbed in their respective languages.
The British inserts were filmed at the TVS Studios in Southampton, and later at the TVS Television Theatre in Gillingham, Kent (since closed) and presents Fraggle Rock as a rocky sea-island with a lighthouse. Exterior footage was that of St Anthony's Lighthouse located near Falmouth in Cornwall. The lighthouse keeper is The Captain (played by Fulton Mackay), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season following the death of Fulton Mackay, the role was filled by John Gordon Sinclair as P.K. (the Captain's nephew) and in the fourth Simon O'Brien as B.J. (the Captain's son). In 2014, 35 of these British wraparounds were still missing, believed wiped, although subsequent recoveries have reduced this number to one with 95 known to exist.[4] Nickelodeon repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did Boomerang and Cartoonito in 2007. The episodes shown were the Canadian versions.
In the German version, the action takes place beneath the workshop of the inventor Doc (played by Hans-Helmut Dickow). The series was named Die Fraggles with 85 of the 96 produced episodes being presented in German.
In France, the wraparound segments take place in a bakery with its version of Doc (played by Michel Robin) who worked as a baker and a French alter-ego for Sprocket called Croquette. Doc inherited the home from his eccentric Uncle Georges (who was a noted inventor). Thus, when the frame story required the use of a mechanical device, Doc would find yet another of Uncle Georges's machines. Plot-lines also frequently involved the elegant but unseen Madame Pontaven (who Doc repeatedly attempted to impress and invite to dinner with no success). Not all of the 96 episodes were produced in French.

Now I want to know how Doc's appearance in A Muppets Family Christmas (where the Muppets met the Fraggles for the first and only time) was handled internationally. Information please, Jeeves!

(As if the fact that I already knew all the information you just helpfully shared isn't sad enough.)

heh, no idea. I only copied the above from wikipedia!

muppet family christmas is maybe my favorite muppet-related thing ever, a wonderfully plotless special where all of the characters from all of the classic shows hang out for, i think, the only time ever. i remember watching it over and over as a kid and being shocked to learn as an adult that you basically can't buy a complete version anymore, the rights are all messed up because different companies own the muppets/sesame street and the fraggles. thank god for youtube.

*clap clap*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXFu-KFVGI

edible infrastructure or gtfo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993_k1z31ew

Ohhhh, I don't know

I watched The Dark Crystal yesterday and it was great as always and I thought about watching the Netflix series afterwards but then I was like 'why not just watch Fraggle Rock instead?'. I just don't think I have any need whatsoever for non-Henson Henson reboots.

*CLAP CLAP*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H21eTqk9BP8