Fraggle Rock
Animated version of the popular Muppet series "Fraggle Rock"; Survived only one season on NBC's Saturday Morning line-up due to tough competition (Pee-Wee's Playhouse at the height of it's popularity) and because it just wasn't as good as it's live-action inspiration. As in the original, the Fraggles are a group of odd creatures that live underground with the workaholic Doozers, while trying to avoid the giant Gorge's and the people in the human world.
- 1987-1988
- 1 season
- Lionsgate Home Entertainment
- Animation, Action & Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Music
- TV-Y
Animated version of the popular Muppet series "Fraggle Rock"; Survived only one season on NBC's Saturday Morning line-up due to tough competition (Pee-Wee's Playhouse at the height of it's popularity) and because it just wasn't as good as it's live-action inspiration. As in the original, the Fraggles are a group of odd creatures that live underground with the workaholic Doozers, while trying to avoid the giant Gorge's and the people in the human world.
Season 1 Episode Guide
13 Episodes 1987
Episode 1
The Best of the Best/Where No Fraggle Has Gone Before
Sat, Oct 10, 1987 25 mins
A Growing Relationship-Red is determined to have the best plant for Green Tail Day, a plant contest in Fraggle Rock, so she cultivates a tiny seedling from Outer Space. But the roots of the strange plant grow out of control and take over Fraggle Rock.
Episode 2
Big Trouble for a Little Fraggle/Necessity Is the Fraggle of Invention
Sat, Sep 19, 1987 25 mins
Big Trouble for a Little Fraggle-Wembley, the smallest Fraggle, wishes he were bigger. But a magical stone causes him to grow so big that he must move out of Fraggle Rock and into the land of Gorgs.Necessity is the Fraggle of Invention-Indecisive Wembley has a hard time coming up with an invention for Fantastic Fraggle Think-Up Day.
Episode 3
Gobo's Song/Wembley and the Bemble
Sat, Oct 17, 1987 24 mins
Gobo's Song- Since none of the other Fraggles see the value in maps, Gobo decides that making maps may not be so important after all. But Cantus the Minstrel helps him change his mind by transporting Gobo through a dream to the time of the Ancient Fraggles, a time before there were any maps at all.
Episode 4
Laundry Never Lies/What Boober's Nose Knows
Sat, Nov 7, 1987 23 mins
Laundry Never Lies- Boober has the ability to "read" laundry and know exactly what a Fraggle has been doing. When he reads one of Red's sweaters, he's horrified to deduce that she's in great danger. He leads his friends on a terrifying adventure to rescue Red from certain disaster, and his only clue to her whereabouts, is the sweater.
Episode 5
Mokey's Flood of Creativity/What the Doozers Did
Sat, Nov 14, 1987 23 mins
Mokey's Flood of Creativity- Mokey's poetic reading of her newly-written "Ode to Water" seems to be the cause of a major flood in the Rock. Ultimately she decides to read the poem backwards to make the water go away again. In Outer Space, we see that Doc and Sprocket are coping with water problems of their own, which are really causing the flood.
Episode 6
No Fraggle Is an Island
Sat, Sep 12, 1987 25 mins
Part One- Boober gets "fed up" because Fraggle Rock is too crowded, so the Fraggles decide to move far away and each live alone. No Fraggle is An Island -- Part Two-When a Giant Slurp takes over the deserted Fraggle Rock, the lonely Fraggles rally to reclaim their home so they can all live together again.
Episode 7
Red's Drippy Dilemma/Fraggle Babble
Sat, Nov 21, 1987 23 mins
Red's Drippy Dilemma- Red learns the importance of not shirking her responsibility when she gets so caught up in preparing her Water Extravaganza Show, that she ignores a leaking pipe in the Swimming Hole. The Funniest Joke in the Universe - While looking for a better sense of humor, Boober finds the Funniest Joke in the Universe, which causes his friends to laugh endlessly.
Episode 8
Ambassador Gorg/Homebody Matt
Sat, Oct 24, 1987 25 mins
Ambassador Gorg- Junior Gorg is sent on a mission by Pa to invite "the enemy" to dinner. But when Junior can't find anyone to invite, he stuffs the torn up invitation into the entrance of Fraggle Rock. Junior lies to his parents, telling them that he delivered the invitation. But unbeknownst to him, the Fraggles find the invitation and decide to take the Gorgs up on their tasty offer.
Episode 9
The Great Fraggle Freeze
Sat, Oct 31, 1987 23 mins
The Great Fraggle Freeze - When the heat goes out in Doc's workshop, it has a chilling effect on Fraggle Rock. Gobo sets out on a mission to the center of the Mystical Magical Maze to set things right again. Gobo's adventure in the Maze finally leads him to the center where we see just how close the ties are between our world of Outer Space and Fraggle Rock.
Episode 10
The Great Radish Round-Up/Lucky Fargy
Sat, Sep 26, 1987 25 mins
The Great Radish Round-up- The Gorgs decide to stop planting radishes and plant only Binoony Berries, which Fraggles can't stand. The Fraggles and the Doozers both come up with plans to get the Gorgs to plant radishes again. Lucky Fargy- Wembley drops Boober's lucky Rag-Fraggle, Fargy, down the Deep Deep Dark Dark Deep Dark Pit and the two little Fraggles have a wild adventure trying to rescue it
Episode 11
The Radish Fairy/The Funniest Joke in the Universe
Sat, Nov 28, 1987 25 mins
The Radish Fairy - Dressed as the Radish Fairy, Red Fraggle convinces Junior Gorg that he should shove all his radishes inside Fraggle Rock. Fraggle Babble - Upon enjoying making up new words for the Fraggle dictionary, Mokey enlists the aid of Convincing John to convince everyone to make up a new vocabulary.
Episode 12
A Fraggle for All Seasons/A Growing Relationship
Sat, Oct 17, 1987 25 mins
When Gobo begins to question his importance of drawing up maps, he is visited by Cantus the Minstrel. Cantus places Gobo into a trance where Gobo awakens in the time of prehistoric Fraggles where he befriends prehistoric versions of his four friends. Wembley and the Bemble: Following a scary tale from Storyteller Fraggle, Wembley becomes afraid of the legendary Bemble.
Episode 13
Fraggle Fool's Day/Wembley's Trip to Outer Space
Sat, Dec 5, 1987 22 mins
Fraggle Fool's Day- Red gets caught up in playing practical jokes on Fraggle Fool's Day, but her biggest joke backfires, trapping her and Mokey in the land of the Gorgs.Wembley's Trip to Outer Space-Wembley has a Wemblatonic Fit which leaves him in a daze and the only cure is to scare the living daylights out of him.