The Muppet Show: Season 1

What can I say the Muppets.I like that it has a special feature where when you're playing the movie you can have it where captions come on during the scenes that tells you fun facts about that scene and about the show without being too interruptive ..watching this now I get some of the jokes as a kid wasn't even aware of. I love this my kids love it too

This is a multi-disc set that offers a wealth of goofy and culture-packed (70s culture, but that’s a nice break from our daily cavalcade of fast-moving kid shows) episodes for family hang outs. Our five year old loves the music, the jokes, the kindness and the joy of these classic Muppets episodes. From beautiful dance numbers with puppets to boisterous comical moments, he laughs and wonders throughout our screening. I love sharing my memories with him!

I grew up watching "The Muppet Show". It doesn't get any better than this!! I bought this for my nephew so he would know what "Real TV" is. I still laugh out loud watching this show. Jim Henson was a genius. I'd watch "The Muppet Show" over any of the reality TV shows on now. Good shows like this NEVER go out of style and definitely stand the test of time.

Like the show itself, the shows on these sets of DVDs improve as they move forward chronologically, primarily because as the show became more popular, it was able to attract better guest stars. Thus, the shows from Season 3 are better than those from Season 1. The guests on this set of 4 disks include:Disc 1: Juliet Prowse Connie Stevens Joel Grey Ruth Buzzi Rita Moreno Jim NaborsDisc 2: Florence Henderson Paul Williams Charles Aznavour Harvey Korman Lena Horne Peter Ustinov Bruce ForsythDisc 3: Sandy Duncan Candice Bergen Avery Schreiber Ben Vereen Phyllis Dillr Vincent PriceDisk 4: Valerie Harper Twiggy Ethel Merman Kaye Ballard Mummenschanz

I used to watch the Muppet Show without fail (I was an adult - sort of). This brought back a lot of memories especially my favorites, "The Swedish Chef", "Pigs in Space" with Link Hearthrob, the Professor and Beaker. It also reminded my of the passage of time as most if not all of the guest appearances are by performers who are no longer with us. Upside is that I got to see these wonderful people in their prime and how much joy they brought to the world of entertainment. So if you would like to take a trip down to an earlier time in your life to see some of your favorite but wonderful "adult" muppet characters plus the performers who made entertainment history as you would like to remember them, I recommend this set.

This show is my childhood! The best Christmas gift I’ve received in awhile! It’s moms childhood too so we can watch it together! I love this so much I used to have all the seasons on vhs and lost them moving over the years watching these just remind me of the good parts of my childhood when everything was so simple and happy not a care in the world 💚 Thanks mom! I love you!!💕

I always loved the Muppet Show, so it was really gratifying to share them with my 5 year old son. Very interesting to watch his reaction. It is such a different kind of show than the cartoons and Disney flicks he otherwise watches. The skits have a lot of high brow references and it is kind of old fashioned, but the classics like Kermit, the Swedish Chef, Pigs in Space, all still work. He loves it.

Now that I have the season one DVD set I can give you low down on this sensational collection. I won't go much into the episodes themselves since there are plenty of episode lists for you already. Suffice it to say there are some gems on this DVD. Also the extras are delightful.The episodes look very clean and the audio is well balanced. I don't recall whether or not the show was remastered for this DVD set, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest. It really looks like you are watching the shows for the time in all their pristine glory.This being the first season you will notice a few differences to the later seasons like how Fozzy Bear and Miss Piggy look and how Janice and some other characters sound. I kinda like seeing the earlier processes and how they evolve later on. Also there seems to be more of an irreverent charm in these episodes as well (then again I think the Muppets have always been like that). If you ever watched the Muppets you know that while you get some great comedy and wit most of the time there are those moments that seem dry. Considering these eps were done in the mid-70's that dryness might show up even more with dated material. Trust me, there is still PLENTY of fun content even if you feel the variety show format is old.The episodes are great and I'm very happy to own them, but the extras you get really stand out as something really special and entertaining too. My personal favorite is the pitch reel Jim Henson used to sell the show to the TV executives. It's a riot! It shows just how clever and daring the show can be.The reel even takes jabs at the very execs Henson is trying to win over. Classic!! The pilot episode is another treat as well. The pacing of the pilot is a lot like Cartoon Network's ROBOT CHICKEN with very fast cuts between gags. I like the differences between the pilot and actual show like Kermit having a cameo appearance instead of being the host and how Sam the Eagle had a bigger and more laid back role in the show.The other extras are great as well. There is a "gag" reel that seems more like commercial spots for early episodes, but their are fun to watch anyway. The Fun Facts is essentially a subtitle track (with an occasional splash of Kermit on the screen) you can have play on the episodes that give you TONS of information about the show, the current episode, and more. The Fun Facts are as informative and interesting as the best director or cast commentaries you can come up with from any DVD anywhere. It's that good.The DVD set itself is put in an interesting DVD case that supposedly simulates Kermit's muppet skin. I don't think it's actual felt but it's a really neat design none the less. The 4 DVDs are kinda squished together within what would normally be a 2 DVD case by having two DVDs overlap each other. It's a neat design, however getting at disk 2 or 4 means you have to take out disk 1 or 3 to get to them. Small price to pay for a space-saving design.Here's the deal. If you're a fan of The Muppet Show this DVD set is essential. You get a lot of good content for the price. The quality of this DVD set is excellent. It definitely beats out those "Best of The Muppets" DVDs we have had to endure all this time (incomplete, lacking extras, etc). You like the Muppets? GET THIS DVD. You'll thank me for it.

Kermit tries to run a variety act. There's literally no plot to The Muppet Show. Just The Muppets causing mayhem with a different variety act and different guest stars with each episode. A lot of the guest stars here are long forgotten and the big names would come later once the series hits it big though highlights include episodes starring Peter Ustinov, Bruce Forsyth, Vincent Price and Twiggy but this is sheer comedy genius. Some Muppets look very different compared to how they look now, Miss Piggy and Gonzo's look might shock and you can sometimes see the strings but this classic 70's series is how The Muppets started out and is a joy to watch. One of the all time great children's shows and comedy shows.

After reading Jim Henson's biography decided to return to the original Muppet shows from my childhood , watching them now the humour is very hit and miss but every minute is still a joy to watch and can now appreciate the skill and hard work that went into each show.You will learn to love characters you didn't before and enjoy the guests stars some long forgotten..and also the complete zaniness of everything going on.Stadler and Waldorf in the viewing box are constantly hilarious and cutting and each Muppet really has it's own personality and feelings.I have bought all 3 seasons and wait patiently for the release of Seasons 4 and 5..if they ever emerge, i'm guessing there are some legal setbacks somewhere.The special features are somewhat limited, making of documentaries would have been great, but you do get Muppet morsels which when chosen has snippets of interesting facts as you watch it happen on screen.Also if you have younger children like me that are now into Muppets because of the new films then they may enjoy seeing where it started.

Unlike other reviewers, who seem to be die hard fans and have an encyclopaedic knowledge of whether you will get the episodes in the right order etc, which is all good stuff to know if you want that kind of thing, all I remember is that when I was a child I used to sit in front of the television on a Sunday night desperate for the muppets to start. It was a lifesaver of a show set amongst things like The Money Programme and Songs of Praise. I loved it. It was funny, the characters were great, and my parents liked it because it had that classic quality of a great kids television show, in that the humour worked on many levels.My children are now of an age to enjoy the muppets and I ordered this with great trepidation thinking like many other things from my childhood, it might not live up to expectation. Thankfully it does. It really does. I still love it, and now my kids love it too. Our particular favourite sketch has got to be the classic Mnah, Mnah, which still had me falling about after all these years. It is still fresh, still original and still highly entertaining. The kids and I have a lasting fondness for the wonderful figure of Gonzo, who gets perpetually blown up, and as an adult I now realise that Kermit isn't as boring as I used to think he was!Great extras, lots of episodes to enjoy. A real treasure.

Apparently this German DVD set is the only place you can get the Vincent Price uncut episode running time over 25 minutes with optional English soundtrack, though picture quality is slightly lower than the cut episode in the UK Disney DVD set

Corny but ideal entertainment for the kids with an eclectic array of guest stars from the 70s. Great stuff.