A question about Fraggle Rock UK version

[muppet baby]

Hi i would love to have fraggle rock The UK version i would love to see it so much . Are all 4 seasons of the show out in the UK yet ?

i would love to have it from the UK i have a Mulit region DVD player to player other regain dvds i have seveal things from the UK that i am collecting LOL

If any info at all please post it thanks

:):excited:

[Andibcool]

Afaik they only have best of DVDs no single complete season.

You can buy DVDs easy on Amazon.co.uk or play.com

[Traveling Matt]

Only the first twelve episodes of the UK version are available to be released. The remaining eighty-four are unfortunately lost. Here is a list of the UK DVDs (which would collectively give you the available shows) and more info on the lost episodes:

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showpost.php?p=714224&postcount=10

[muppet baby]

thanks so much for the info guys i will get those ordered .

i am so excited i hate that the other epodies where lost . Better to have some though than not at all .:):p:excited:

[Beauregard]

I so want to see the much later episodes where they have a much younger guy running the lighthouse...

[Redsonga]

*pokes UK version with a stick and makes considering noises*
Doc will always be my favorite and most dear to my heart, but maybe someday..just to have a full set...Hmmm..*pokes again* *looks at shiny new Biggest Fraggle Rock fan award* After I get the animated series, yes :3...

[getup]

it's actually not the "first 12" episodes but merely 12 episodes that are available. years ago also there was a 2 disc set that had all 12 of these episodes available on a region 2 uk dvd. i ordered it and played in my old region free player. the episodes available are Capture the Moon, Boober Rock, Boober's Dream, Mokey and the Minstrels, A Friend in Need, Red's Club, The Secret of Convincing John, Junior Sells the Farm, The Day the Music Died, Invasion of the Toe Ticklers, The Doomsday Soup, Boober's Quiet Day, and also contains the Down at Fraggle Rock documentary. It was quite interesting to watch these different versions. and this was all before even the first season was released in the US. That's pretty much why i had to have that set.

[Redsonga]

I was wondering why each DVD was only $5 :P. It is still not a bad price :3

[anathema]

Only the first twelve episodes of the UK version are available to be released. The remaining eighty-four are unfortunately lost. Here is a list of the UK DVDs (which would collectively give you the available shows) and more info on the lost episodes:

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showpost.php?p=714224&postcount=10

At least another 14 shows exist - I have copies (albeit not in broadcast quality).

The show was a co-production with TVS, who would presumably be the most likely holder of the missing tapes. Unfortunately they went off-air at the end of '92 and I've no idea what happened to their archive. As the show was still being run up to 1990, it's probable that all episodes were still in existence at this point.

[Traveling Matt]

Interesting. I wonder if Henson has tried contacting the remnants of that company. According to Wikipedia:

TVS Entertainment was sold on 1 February 1993 to the American company International Family Entertainment Inc (IFE). IFE then created the Family Channel, based from The Maidstone Studios, and used the TVS programme archive. Later, the Family Channel became Challenge TV and was broadcast on Sky's analogue service.

If TVS did have the masters, stopped showing Fraggle in 1990 and vacated in '92 while leaving their program archive behind, it's possible the tapes are still at the Maidstone Studios in Kent, which is still in operation today.

[anathema]

Interesting. I wonder if Henson has tried contacting the remnants of that company. According to Wikipedia:



If TVS did have the masters, stopped showing Fraggle in 1990 and vacated in '92 while leaving their program archive behind, it's possible the tapes are still at the Maidstone Studios in Kent, which is still in operation today.

Unfortunately it's equally likely, if not more, that the archive was destroyed. Bizarre though it may seem, TV programmes were still being junked as late as the 90s :-(

[Traveling Matt]

Unfortunately it's equally likely, if not more, that the archive was destroyed. Bizarre though it may seem, TV programmes were still being junked as late as the 90s :-(
Jeez, I hope that's not the case here. I understand Henson wasn't very diligent in retaining overseas material during this time so, if they still exist, those tapes could really be anywhere.

[Warrick]

I asked someone who works at Maidstone studios about them and they said that they imagine CENTRAL in Manchester would have the tapes.

[anathema]

Another possibility: IFE bought TVS after its close-down at the end of '92. Six years later their archive went to Fox, and in turn was bought in 2001 by...Disney.

[Traveling Matt]

I asked someone who works at Maidstone studios about them and they said that they imagine CENTRAL in Manchester would have the tapes.
Warrick, is Central a different studio or do you mean a central office for Maidstone? Can you attempt to contact them?

[anathema]

Different company. Central Independent Television was the company created when Muppet Show producer ATV was restructured in 1982. Now called ITV Central. It's quite possible that they might have acquired the archive from a defunct ITV franchise-holder.

[heralde]

This looks like a good place to bring this up...I volunteer at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of TV and Radio), and recently I was able to read a copy of Television & Radio 1984 - Guide to Independent Broadcasting. Published by the Independent Broadcasting Authority, which was the regulatory body in the UK for commercial TV. There's a nice little blurb on the UK's Fraggle Rock:

The Colourful Underworld of the Fraggles

Fraggle Rock is a fairytale world just beyond everyday reality. Devised by Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppets, the series is aimed primarily at children aged between 7-12 years and is made for British television by TVS, in its Television Theatre at Gillingham in Kent.

You can recognize a Fraggle anywhere--froths of feather-like hair on an unproportioned body just eighteen inches high. Gobo, Mokey, Wembley and their Fraggle friends share this underworld with Doozers, and the bad guys who are the big bumbling Gorgs, whose greedy appetites are only satisfied by a Fraggle--if only they could catch one.

Fulton MacKay is the Captain, the only true 'human' in the series, who lives in a lighthouse above Fraggle Rock.

Life in this fantasy land is fun, and the Fraggles behave accordingly. But what appears as lighthearted froth does not prevent the inhabitants from becoming involved in real-life moral dilemmas involving all human emotions and values such as courage, responsibility and frienship."

Included is the photo that you see now in some of the recent Fraggle DVDs when you get a question right on the trivia quiz. The caption reads, "Fraggle Rock. The Fraggles share their colourful underworld with Doozers, an army of tiny creatures in hard hats whose sole aim is to build structures for Fraggles to eat. TVS"