Who owns the rights to what?

[GelflingWaldo]

In the past few years, The Jim Henson Company split their properties between different companies. Sesame Workshop, The Jim Henson Company, The Walt Disney Company, and distribution rights to HIT! Entertainment. Many people have been wondering what falls where and who got what? If there would be a DVD/VHS release, re-airing, or merchandising of the productions/properties who would have to make the call? I have worked on gathering the facts and looking up a lot of information, and have compiled a list of who has what. Many people can tell you that Disney has the Muppets, and Henson (and HIT!) have the Fraggles, and Big Bird is all Sesame Workshop. But here I try to list all the productions and where they fall. If I have missed any productions (or you think I misplaced one – which I don’t think I did) please post the productions and owners of them.

[GelflingWaldo]

Muppet Film & Television Library
Owned by: The Muppet Holding Company (a division of The Walt Disney Company)

Television Series
Little Muppet Monsters
Muppet Babies
Muppets Tonight
Tales of the Tinkerdee
The Jim Henson Hour ("Miss Piggy's Hollywood" segment)
The Jim Henson Hour ("MuppetCentral / Intertube" segments)
The Jim Henson Hour ("Secrets of the Muppets" Muppet segments)
The Muppet Show

Films and Specials
A Muppet Family Christmas
Hey Cinderella!
It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
Jim Henson's Muppet-Vision 3-D
John Denver and The Muppets: A Christmas Together
John Denver and The Muppets: A Rocky Mountain Holiday
Kermit's Swamp Years
Mr. Willoby's Christmas Tree
Muppet Classic Theater
Muppet Meeting Films
Muppet Treasure Island
Muppets From Space
Of Muppets and Men: The Making of The Muppet Show
The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show
The Frog Prince
The Great Muppet Caper
The Muppet Christmas Carol
The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Musicians of Bremen
The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence
The Muppet Valentine Special
The Muppets at Walt Disney World
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson
The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Muppets Go To The Movies
The Muppets on Puppets
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Muppets' Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Muppets-A Celebration of 30 Years
The Tale of the Bunny Picnic

[GelflingWaldo]

Jim Henson Family Showcase
Owned by: The Jim Henson Company
Distribution Rights: HIT! Entertainment (until 2009)

Television Series
Animal Jam
CityKids
Construction Site
Donna's Day
Family Rules
Fraggle Roc: Animated
Fraggle Rock
Jim Henson's Animal Show with Stinky and Jake
Jim Henson's Dog City
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories
Mopatop's Shop
Telling Stories with Tomie dePaola
The Ghost of Faffner Hall
The Hoobs
The Jim Henson Hour ("Dog City" mini-movie)
The Jim Henson Hour ("Living With Dinosaurs" mini-movie)
The Jim Henson Hour ("Monster Maker" mini-movie)
The Jim Henson Hour ("Secrets of the Muppets" non-Muppet segments)
The Secret Life of Toys
The Wubbolous World of Dr. Seuss

Films and Specials
CityKids
Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
Good Boy!
Inside the Labyrinth
Jim Henson Presents: The World of International Puppetry
Labyrinth
The Christmas Toy

[GelflingWaldo]

Jim Henson Sci-Fi & Fantasy Library
Owned by: The Jim Henson Company

Television Series
Aliens in the Family
Brats of the Lost Nebula
Farscape
Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Jim Henson's The Storyteller - Greek Myths
The Fearing Mind

Films and Specials
Buddy
Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars
Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
Mirror Mask
Rat
The Cube
The Dark Crystal
The Witches
The World of The Dark Crystal
Time Piece
Youth '68

[GelflingWaldo]

Sesame Street Library
Owned by: Sesame Workshop

Television Series
Sesame Street
Play with me Sesame
Sesame Street: Unpaved
The Jim Henson Hour ("Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting" Episode)

Films and Specials
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
Big Bird Brings Spring to Sesame Street
Big Bird in China
Big Bird in Japan
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
CinderElmo
Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Elmo Saves Christmas
Elmopalloza
Sesame Street in Puerto Rico
Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration
Sesame Street Presents Follow that Bird
Sesame Street Stays Up Late!
The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland
The Adventures of Super Grover
The Street We Live On: A Celebration of 30 Years

[GelflingWaldo]

Other Productions


Bear in the Big Blue House
Owned by: The Muppet Holding Company (a division of The Walt Disney Company)

Dinosaurs
Owned by: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (a division of The Walt Disney Company)

Sam and Friends
Owned by: WRC-TV (owns productions, but the characters are not owned by WRC-TV)

The Great Santa Claus Switch
Owned by: Sofa Home Entertainment (The Ed Sullivan Show)

[Vic Romano]

Originally Posted by GelflingWaldo

Jim Henson Family Showcase
Owned by: The Jim Henson Company
Distribution Rights: HIT! Entertainment (until 2009)

Television Series
The Jim Henson Hour ("Secrets of the Muppets" non-Muppet segments)

Are you kidding me? I had no idea they were that splintered. I greatly appreciate the list, albeit depressing.

[Dantecat]

Actually,The street we live on was 35 years!

By the way,

(1)What year was the adventures of Super Grover?
(2)How long is it?
(3)How is it?
(4)What channel did it first just air on?
(5)What Super Grover skits are on there and what year were they?

5 questions please because this special seems to be really really really interesting!

[GelflingWaldo]

Originally Posted by Dantecat

(1)What year was the adventures of Super Grover?
(2)How long is it?
(3)How is it?
(4)What channel did it first just air on?
(5)What Super Grover skits are on there and what year were they?

5 questions please because this special seems to be really really really interesting!

Back in 1987 Grover, the loveable muppet from Sesame Street has his very own animated TV special. In the special we see the origins of Super Grover. Grover's mommy makes him a superhero costume for Halloween and as soon as he put's it on, he becomes a superhero. Smarter than a speeding bullet. More furrier than a fast locomotive. Able to eat tall sandwiches in a single bound! Grover then uses these new powers in many amazing adventures.

My favorite of the adventures is the one where, Super Grover tried to saved Prairie Dawn from some "wild bears". It turns out she was doing a play of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (the bears were played by Bert, Ernie and Herry). But Grover didn't know it was a play. There were other adventures Grover encounted and wuicky changed into Super Grover and tried to save the day - from a friend's "run away" sled, to a leaking boat on a fishing trip.

The special featured the voice talent of the actual Muppeteers and Sesame Street stars (including Frank Oz as Grover). This is such great and a memorable cartoon! If you can find it, I recommend taking a look at it - but sadly it is hard to come by these days (so happy hunting)!

[GelflingWaldo]

Originally Posted by Vic Romano

Are you kidding me? I had no idea they were that splintered. I greatly appreciate the list, albeit depressing.

Yeah, that episode is in a sticky situation. The segments talking about Fraggle Rock, DogCity, Monster Maker, or The Song of the Cloud Forest - that's all Henson's.....but the parts about MuppetCentral/Intertube, the Muppet Show, the Muppet movies, and the Muppets - that's all Disney's




Also a few corrections/additions to the listing:
** Correction: "The Street We Live On: A Celebration of 30 Years" should read "The Street We Live On: A Celebration of 35 Years"; that was a typo on my part.

**Addition: "The Jim Henson Hour ("The Song of the Cloud Forest" mini-movie)" should be added to "The Jim Henson Family Showcase"; some how I forgot about this segment and it was left off the listing.

If you have questions about any productions not listed let me know, and I'll track down the owners.

[Gonzo's Goof]

Thanks for the list I too was wondering where everything was. Didn't Henson also have the creature shop and all? Do you know how some of the actual places got broke up?

[pppapazo]

Originally Posted by GelflingWaldo

Muppet Film & Television Library
Owned by: The Muppet Holding Company (a division of The Walt Disney Company)

Television Series
Little Muppet Monsters

Do you know if Disney purchased the unaired episodes of Little Muppet Monsters?

[GelflingWaldo]

Originally Posted by pppapazo

Do you know if Disney purchased the unaired episodes of Little Muppet Monsters?

They are part of the Muppet Television library which Disney bought. The bought the show, unaired episodes and any production material would be included. When they got the show they got everything that goes with it (name, characters, music, episodes, ect). When they got the show the unaired episodes were included.

[BoyRaisin2]

Great job, GelflingWaldo! Just one thing, why is Labyrinth under the Henson Family Showcase, and not the fantasy library?

[GelflingWaldo]

Originally Posted by BoyRaisin2

Why is Labyrinth under the Henson Family Showcase, and not the fantasy library?

Whoops. Why didn't I catch that? I wonder what I was thinking.

So, another correction to the listing:
** Correction: "Labyrinth" and "Inside the Labyrinth" should be in the Jim Henson Sci-Fi & Fantasy Library; they are NOT part of the Henson Family Showcase - at was a stupid mistake I made and did not catch when posting.