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The Muppet Show Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1976 - 1977
Episode 1
Juliet Prowse
Sat, Apr 23, 197730 mins
Kermit is pressured into allowing Scooter to do a musical number with Muppy the dog. Guest star Juliet Prowse dances to a Scott Joplin melody.
Episode 2
Connie Stevens
Sat, Feb 26, 197730 mins
When Fozzie overhears Hilda, Kermit, and Scooter talking about getting rid of "that bear" he thinks they're talking about him when in actual truth it's Gonzo's teddy bear that is being badmouthed. Meanwhile, Sesame Street's Bert and Ernie make a guest appearance in a musical number with Connie Stevens.
Episode 3
Joel Grey
Sat, Oct 16, 197630 mins
Fozzie takes on a new act - jokes on any subject - which drives everybody crazy. When he takes the stage, he asks for any word. Naturally, Statler & Waldorf call his bluff by yelling out "Amoeba!"
Episode 4
Ruth Buzzi
Sat, Oct 9, 197630 mins
Scooter's uncle, J.P. Grosse sends a mechanical wind-up TV show host that resembles Kermit in every way. Soon, the duplicate starts harassing Kermit and flirts with Miss Piggy.
Episode 5
Rita Moreno
Sat, Sep 18, 197630 mins
On stage, guest star Rita Moreno battles several Muppets including Animal who backs on drums in her closing number "Fever". Backstage, Fozzie answers a string of rather unusual (and very funny) phone calls.
Episode 6
Jim Nabors
Sat, Sep 25, 197630 mins
A young kid named Scooter applies for a job as a gofer. When, Kermit tells him he looks nothing like a gopher, Scooter explains that he'll go-fer coffee and sandwiches among other things he'll go-fer. Kermit says he doesn't have the money pay him, but then Scooter lets in that his uncle owns the theater.
Episode 7
Florence Henderson
Sat, Nov 13, 197630 mins
The Muppet Theater is plagued by pig-related problems with The Bouncing Borcellino Brothers flubbing their opening act and Miss Piggy throwing herself at an uninterested Kermit, then later gets jealous at guest star Florence Henderson who she thinks is gonna steal her frog away.
Episode 8
Paul Williams
Sat, Oct 23, 197630 mins
Scooter talks Fozzie in doing "The Telephone Pole Bit" and Fozzie practices dutifully until he finds out what the bit is really all about.
Episode 9
Charles Aznavour
Sat, Jan 15, 197730 mins
When he's unable to get a spot on the show, Gonzo asks Scooter to be his manager. Scooter thinks Gonzo should do a rock act by banging a large rock with a mallet. Later, Gonzo tries female impersonation in a dress and a blonde wig. But Scooter gives up managing when Gonzo eats his contract.
Episode 10
Harvey Korman
Sat, Dec 11, 197630 mins
Kermit begins to worry that guest star Harvey Korman isn't having a great time because he complains of being the "token person" on the show with all the dogs, frogs, pigs and chickens as well as the fear of hoof-and-mouth disease. So the rest of the Muppets come up with a solution: dress Harvey in a chicken suit.
Episode 11
Lena Horne
Sat, Oct 30, 197630 mins
Kermit cancels Miss Piggy's song for fear of overshadowing guest star Lena Horne. At least that's Piggy thinks, until finds out the real reason for being cut: he didn't want her to look foolish following Lena. Sometimes, the truth can hurt and not just for Piggy...Kermit, too.
Episode 12
Peter Ustinov
Sat, Nov 6, 197630 mins
Kermit becomes jealous when Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Hilda and Scooter rave about Peter Ustinov who later admits that he's jealous of Kermit saying that he's always wanted to be a frog.
Episode 13
Bruce Forsyth
Sat, Dec 4, 197630 mins
Fozzie hatches a plan to get even with Statler and Waldorf when he does his act. But the bear becomes crushed when he gets replaced with guest Bruce Forsyth.
Episode 14
Sandy Duncan
Sat, Oct 2, 197630 mins
Fozzie performs the famous "Banana Sketch" by Gags Beasley which everyone (including guest Sandy Duncan) has heard of. Everybody, except for Kermit.
Episode 15
Candice Bergen
Sat, Nov 27, 197630 mins
Fozzie brings a string of deliveries to Kermit which results in some real lousy gags driving the poor frog crazy.
Episode 16
Avery Schreiber
Sat, Apr 16, 197730 mins
In an effort to make Kermit jealous, Miss Piggy instructs Scooter to tell him that guest star Avery Schreiber is smitten with her. But when Kermit finds out it was all a trick, Piggy karate-chops everybody in her path.
Episode 17
Ben Vereen
Sat, Jan 22, 197730 mins
Fozzie gets stuck in a trick cabinet owned by Marvel the Magician (who is in Toledo) and is left perform his act while in and have two pig stagehands tip the box over so Fozzie can take a bow. In the end, Fozzie escapes thanks to Crazy Harry who is having a good time setting off other explosions.
Episode 18
Phyllis Diller
Sat, Feb 12, 197730 mins
Aging wardrobe woman Hilda tries to make herself look younger by putting on a wig, some makeup and even some "very tight foundation garments."
Episode 19
Vincent Price
Sat, Jan 29, 197730 mins
In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, vampires and spooky sketches. Meanwhile, a three-headed monster tries to audition for Kermit.
Episode 20
Valerie Harper
Sat, Nov 20, 197630 mins
Impressed with guest star Valerie Harper's beauty, Statler and Waldorf argue over who will go backstage to meet her so they decide to flip for her. Statler wins and sets off to woo her with an African berry bush...which George the Janitor accidentally waters left to grow at a very fast rate.
Episode 21
Twiggy
Sat, Feb 5, 197730 mins
Kermit is skeptical when everyone backstage is terrorized by "the Phantom of the Muppet Show" aka Uncle Deadly, a monster-actor who performed in the theater years ago, got panned by the critics, and vowed never to perform there again, and not to let anyone else perform either warning the Muppets "Leave or be doomed!"
Episode 22
Ethel Merman
Sat, Feb 19, 197730 mins
Fozzie's agent, Irving Bizarre, arrives at the theater to negotiate Fozzie's contract with Kermit who ends up offering Fozzie ten times as much money - despite the fact the bear made nothing before.
Episode 23
Kaye Ballard
Sat, May 7, 197730 mins
Embarrassed at the "square" music that he and the others have to play each week on the show, Floyd announces that the band is quitting.
Episode 24
Mummenschanz
Sat, May 21, 197730 mins
While the experimental mime troupe performs onstage, Miss Piggy must deal backstage with the advances of a recently smitten Gonzo.
