The Muppet Show - Season 1
Run Time: 26 mins
Air Date: Sun, 5 Sept 1976
Average Rating: ⭐ 8 (327 votes)
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Joel Grey
Season 1 - Episode 1
Fozzie works on a new act -- jokes on any subject -- and drives everyone crazy. Finally, he gets on stage and asks for any word. Statler and...
Rita Moreno
Season 1 - Episode 2
Fozzie Bear becomes embroiled in a running gag involving the backstage phone. Throughout the episode, Rita parodies her combative image. She...
Sandy Duncan
Season 1 - Episode 3
Fozzie performs Gags Beasley's famous "banana sketch," which everyone has heard of except Kermit. When Kermit asks Sandy and Fozzie to tell ...
Jim Nabors
Season 1 - Episode 4
A young kid named Scooter applies for a job as a go-fer. When Kermit remarks that he doesn't even look like a gopher, Scooter explains that ...
Ruth Buzzi
Season 1 - Episode 5
Scooter's uncle sends a mechanical, wind-up TV show host, an exact duplicate of Kermit. The robot harasses Kermit and flirts with Miss Piggy...
Paul Williams
Season 1 - Episode 6
Scooter talks Fozzie into doing "the telephone pole bit," and Fozzie practices dutifully until he finds out what the bit is: Fozzie dresses ...
Florence Henderson
Season 1 - Episode 7
The Muppet Theatre is plagued by a variety of pig-related problems, both onstage and off. First, The Bouncing Borsalino Brothers flub their ...
Peter Ustinov
Season 1 - Episode 8
Kermit becomes jealous when Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Hilda and Scooter rave about Peter Ustinov. At the end, Peter admits that he's jealous of Ke...
Lena Horne
Season 1 - Episode 9
Kermit cuts Miss Piggy's scheduled song so she won't look foolish following Lena Horne. He tells her that "there are singers and there are s...
Harvey Korman
Season 1 - Episode 10
Embarrassed about being the "token person" on the show, Harvey is dressed up as a giant chicken.
Candice Bergen
Season 1 - Episode 11
Fozzie brings a series of deliveries to Kermit, pestering the frog with lousy gags.
Ben Vereen
Season 1 - Episode 12
Fozzie gets stuck in a magician's trick cabinet. The cabinet is dragged onstage so that he can perform his act -- and at the end of the act,...
Charles Aznavour
Season 1 - Episode 13
When he's unable to get a spot on the show, Gonzo asks Scooter to be his manager. Scooter advises Gonzo to do a rock act, banging on a large...
Phyllis Diller
Season 1 - Episode 14
Aging wardrobe woman Hilda puts on a wig and makeup to try to make herself look younger. She is spotlighted in a backstage plot for the firs...
Avery Schreiber
Season 1 - Episode 15
To make Kermit jealous, Miss Piggy instructs Scooter to tell him that Avery is in love with her. Kermit finds out that it's all a trick, and...
Twiggy
Season 1 - Episode 16
Kermit is skeptical when everyone backstage is terrorized by "the Phantom of the Muppet Show." There turns out to be one, though -- Uncle De...
Valerie Harper
Season 1 - Episode 17
This is one of only a few Muppet Show episodes that open the show after the theme song with some kind of offstage scene. There's also a coup...
Mummenschanz
Season 1 - Episode 18
Miss Piggy is repulsed when Gonzo tells her that he loves her. Kermit tries to help by asking Piggy if she would like to go to dinner -- and...
Juliet Prowse
Season 1 - Episode 19
Muppy, the favorite pet of The Muppet Theatre owner J. P. Grosse, becomes a prima donna when Kermit reluctantly allows him to do a musical n...
Kaye Ballard
Season 1 - Episode 20
Tired of the "embarrassingly square" theme song, bass player Floyd Pepper informs Kermit that he and the rest of the orchestra pit (except R...
Bruce Forsyth
Season 1 - Episode 21
Fozzie Bear has a plan to get back at Statler and Waldorf when he does his act, but is crushed when he's replaced by Bruce Forsyth. Fozzie t...
Ethel Merman
Season 1 - Episode 22
Fozzie's agent, Irving Bizarre, negotiates Fozzie's contract with Kermit. Kermit ends up offering Fozzie ten times as much money; unfortunat...
Connie Stevens
Season 1 - Episode 23
When Fozzie overhears Hilda, Kermit, and Scooter talking about getting rid of "that bear," he thinks they're talking about him, only to find...
Vincent Price
Season 1 - Episode 24
In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, bats, vampires and spooky situations. A three-headed monster...