More Muppet Madness Coming To DVD
MUPPETCENTRAL.COM: The Muppet Show Season 3 arrives May 20Disney plans to release the Season Three 4-Disc Set of The Muppet Show nine months after Season Two
By Greg James, Muppet Central - January 25, 2008
It's time to play the music. It's time to light the lights. It's time to mark your calendars!
Buena Vista Home Entertainment has just announced the release of the highly anticipated "The Muppet Show: Season Three" DVD box set. The four-disc "special edition" set will include all 24 episodes from the third season of "The Muppet Show" along with an impressive collection of bonus features. The fully-loaded DVD box set of the complete third season is planned to hit store shelves on May 20, 2008. That's less than 117 days away.
Below is a full list of the DVD features which include the classic 1968 documentary "The Muppets on Puppets" (hosted by Jim Henson and Rowlf the Dog), plus a new documentary entitled "The Making of The Muppets". Disney has also released an early glimpse at the cover art for the set, featuring the face of Fozzie Bear. Like the first two seasons, the set will feature collectible fuzzy packaging.
Episode Listing:
• Kris Kristofferson & Rita Coolidge
• Leo Sayer
• Roy Clark
• Gilda Radner
• Pearl Bailey
• Jean Stapleton
• Alice Cooper
• Loretta Lynn
• Liberace
• Marisa Berenson
• Raquel Welch
• James Coco
• Helen Reddy
• Harry Belafonte
• Lesley Ann Warren
• Danny Kaye
• Spike Milligan
• Leslie Uggams
• Elke Sommer
• Sylvester Stallone
• Roger Miller
• Roy Rogers & Dale Evans
• Lynn Redgrave
• Cheryl Ladd
Bonus Features:
• "The Making of The Muppets" documentary
• "The Muppets on Puppets" vintage documentary
• ...and much more!
Retail Specifications:
• 4-disc DVD collection
• $39.99 suggested retail price
• Release date: May 20, 2008
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Sweet! You can pre-order the set at Amazon for $35.99 and free shipping. Buy it today and keep those box sets coming... there's three more seasons to go!
Labels: 70s television, dvd, greg james, home video, muppet, muppet central, muppet show, television
posted by Jeff Pidgeon at
8:52 PM
4 Comments:
Great news! The Harry Bellafonte episode is one of my favorites (and my kids)!
The Alice Cooper episode rules!!!!!
This is the one to get!
I was all set to order the whole set of these, but I've read online that some of the episodes are cut or missing- do you have season 1&2 already Jeff? Are they altered in anyway?
BTW - hi! I finally climbed out from underneath a gigantic pile of work and am now rejoining the living ^_~
Hi, everybody - I have both season one and two, but I have heard that things were changed or dropped from these box sets.
As you might guess, the reason is money - most of the contracts for the musical numbers were handshake deals, made long before home video was really an issue. So some things have been cut because the costs to include them were too high.
I'm buying them anyway, mainly because I want the sales on the sets to be good enough to merit releasing as much of the six seasons of the show as possible. Incomplete seasons are better than nothing (and as we all know, that leaves the door open for this material to be added in later "special editions"). Plus, healthy DVD sales might also be a good incentive for other, new Muppet projects to happen!
If you want to learn about what's added/missing from the first two DVD boxes, check out these links:
http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/reviews/dvd/tms_season_1.shtml
http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/reviews/dvd/tms_season_2.shtml
Hope that's helpful!
Hi, Heather! Glad you're back! :)
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