The Muppet Show - Season 5
Run Time: 26 mins
Air Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1980
Average Rating: ⭐ 8 (327 votes)
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Roger Moore
Season 5 - Episode 1
Kermit calls the Secret Service to hire real spies for Roger's closing number. (They're listed in the Yellow Pages.) However, Roger wants to...
Loretta Swit
Season 5 - Episode 2
How well can Loretta fit into Miss Piggy's roles? It all comes to a dramatic climax with the ""Pigs in Space"" installment.
James Coburn
Season 5 - Episode 3
Animal hits it off with tough guy James Coburn -- but James decides that Animal isn't centered enough, and introduces him to meditation and ...
Linda Ronstadt
Season 5 - Episode 4
Afraid that Linda will steal her frog away, Piggy locks Kermit up in a chest owned by Gonzo when Scooter helps him move his mildew ""collect...
Tony Randall
Season 5 - Episode 5
Browsing through an old book of magic spells, Tony accidentally turns Miss Piggy into stone. He considers bringing her to a stonemason for h...
Brooke Shields
Season 5 - Episode 6
Thinking she was booked to do "The Muffin Show," Brooke finds herself growing and shrinking as the Muppets stage Alice's Adventures in Wonde...
Melissa Manchester
Season 5 - Episode 7
Kermit is plagued by a night of backstage crises. A group of skiers get hurt during the opening number, and after Kermit says that the theat...
Señor Wences
Season 5 - Episode 8
In honor of Señor Wences and his puppets, Kermit decides to do something new -- a puppet show! Fozzie wants to do a marionette act with a Da...
Jean-Pierre Rampal
Season 5 - Episode 9
Miss Piggy is cornered by flautist Jean-Pierre, who wants to speak French with her. She claims to have laryngitis, whispering, "My vocal coa...
Gladys Knight
Season 5 - Episode 10
The theater is under repair, but the workers have to destroy in order to build. They take the roof right off, leaving this show victim to t...
Joan Baez
Season 5 - Episode 11
Rizzo and the other rats bother Kermit for a spot on the show, so Kermit asks Beauregard to "take care of them." Of course, Bo takes that li...
Marty Feldman
Season 5 - Episode 12
The Muppets present their version of 1001 Arabian Nights, with guest star Marty Feldman playing the role of Scheherazade, telling tales to a...
Glenda Jackson
Season 5 - Episode 13
Glenda reveals herself to be Black Jackson the pirate captain, and she takes over the Muppet Theater with the help of Short John Silver (Swe...
Gene Kelly
Season 5 - Episode 14
Gene is under the impression that he's a "guest" -- that is, he's going to sit and watch, but not perform onstage. Frantic, Kermit tricks hi...
Hal Linden
Season 5 - Episode 15
Statler and Waldorf get their chance to do a better show than Kermit--they play host, while Kermit and Fozzie heckle from the balcony. Unfor...
Wally Boag
Season 5 - Episode 16
In honor of vaudeville-influenced guest star Wally Boag, the Muppets salute vaudeville, with a balloon animal act, a bagpipe player and a hy...
Debbie Harry
Season 5 - Episode 17
Robin's Frog Scout troop visits the show, getting in everyone's way backstage. They ask Debbie for help earning their punk merit badges, and...
Johnny Cash
Season 5 - Episode 18
In honor of Johnny Cash's appearance, the show is simulcast over country radio station WHOG, and the radio broadcast threatens to overwhelm ...
Carol Burnett
Season 5 - Episode 19
There's no show today, almost; the theater is turned into a dance marathon hosted by Gonzo.
Buddy Rich
Season 5 - Episode 20
Thanks to Gonzo's refrigerated mildew collection, the power goes out in the theater, and Beauregard almost electrocutes himself trying to fi...
Paul Simon
Season 5 - Episode 21
Paul inspires Gonzo to be a songwriter. Unfortunately, Gonzo writes songs like "For You": "For youuu... I'd wash my hair with stinky glue, I...
Chris Langham
Season 5 - Episode 22
A messenger brings a message from the scheduled guest star -- Benny Brillstein, the Yiddish yodeler. Benny refuses to be on the show, so Ker...
Mac Davis
Season 5 - Episode 23
Beaker tests Muppet Labs' new copier machine, ultimately falling into it and making seven copies of himself. The multiple Beakers gang up on...
Shirley Bassey
Season 5 - Episode 24
Kermit borrows fifty million dollars worth of gold for Shirley's closing number, "Goldfinger". Security guard Bruno is suspicious that Kermi...