Ultimately, The Muppet Show made it to television in 1976- British television. Instead, the network moved its little-watched newsmagazine 60 Minutes into that period. (Kermit the Frog had just one line.) Again, the pilot aired to an appreciative audience, and again, ABC didn't order it to series.ĬBS liked a sales pitch film Henson made-almost enough to put The Muppet Show on its schedule in 1975 with a time slot of Sundays at 7PM. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem, Sam the Eagle, and the Swedish Chef.) Wryly retitled The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence, the special was hosted by a bland Muppet emcee named Nigel. Undaunted, in 1974, Henson pitched ABC another proposal for The Muppet Nonsense Show, which he promised would have "no guest star, a lot more zany comedy.and continuing characters that the audience will get to know and love." (Among those new characters: Dr.
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