The Jim Henson Hour "Dog City" (which won an Emmy) and "Monster Maker" were released on laserdisc in Japan. The specials have been released elsewhere without Jim Henson Hour branding, which means the US DVD release is missing the 9-minute intro (and has poor sound, which is fixed here).
Laserdiscs of Secrets of the Muppets and Living With Dinosaurs were planned but never released.
https://archive.org/details/dog-city-mu ... enson-hour
Muppet Thread: The Henson Legacy
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Muppets on ZDF's Disco 80?
https://youtu.be/AyymeHmU1k8?t=1673
https://youtu.be/AyymeHmU1k8?t=1673
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A rare Sesame Street episode has been added to the Library of Congress this week, and in what I'm sure is just a stunning crazy wacky coincidence, has also been uploaded to Reddit and Mega. Enjoy.
https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comm ... ton_wicked
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ToughPigs' current want list for Muppet/Miss Piggy clips. See Muppet Wiki for more specific details.
Dinah! Dinah Shore May 16, 1977 (A partial clip is circulating and was restored by me)
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson w/Jim Henson (5/24/74) Miss Piggy clip only (this is omitted from current repeats)
NBC Today Show -- August 8 1977/ September 8 1977/ April 16 1996/ October 17 1997/ November 9 1998
Parkinson (November 18, 1978) — BBC Archive has posted most of this on Facebook/Twitter
The Mike Douglas Show (September 11, 1979)
The Don Lane Show (October 26, 1981)
Good Morning America (December 24, 1982 / February 13, 1987 / February 13, 1988)
Gala of Stars PBS (March 30, 1983)
Entertainment Tonight (May 29, 1984)
Wogan (December 6, 1985 / October 30, 1987)
Life: 50 Years (November 15, 1986)
The Disney Christmas Special (ITV December 25, 1989)
Terry Wogan's Friday Night (December 18, 1992)
Bruce's Guest Night (Bruce Forsyth, May 17, 1993)
Rosie O'Donnell Show (June 14, 1996)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (June 21, 1996 / December 11, 1998)
The View (November 6, 1998 / July 1999)
Live with Regis and Kelly (November 26, 2002 / November 29, 2002)
Other Muppet wants:
The unaired pilot version of the Juliet Prowse episode of The Muppet Show (Paley)
Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! (1976) 輝け!五郎・マペット ゲバゲバ90分!
Jim Henson's 1965 Cinderella pilot, which was found in 2013 and viewable at the Paley Center.
original Zoot endings for: Muppet Show with Kaye Ballard, Loretta Lynn, Harry Belafonte, Juliet Prowse, Dudley Moore, Mac Davis, Roger Miller.
Also Muppet Show series 4/5 endings, generally / generically (Chris Langham episode also, as that's been pulled from Disney+ for obvious reasons, and circulates in VHS quality)
It's also not uncommon for Muppet Show episodes to have episode promos at the end of the master tapes.
Dinah! Dinah Shore May 16, 1977 (A partial clip is circulating and was restored by me)
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson w/Jim Henson (5/24/74) Miss Piggy clip only (this is omitted from current repeats)
NBC Today Show -- August 8 1977/ September 8 1977/ April 16 1996/ October 17 1997/ November 9 1998
Parkinson (November 18, 1978) — BBC Archive has posted most of this on Facebook/Twitter
The Mike Douglas Show (September 11, 1979)
The Don Lane Show (October 26, 1981)
Good Morning America (December 24, 1982 / February 13, 1987 / February 13, 1988)
Gala of Stars PBS (March 30, 1983)
Entertainment Tonight (May 29, 1984)
Wogan (December 6, 1985 / October 30, 1987)
Life: 50 Years (November 15, 1986)
The Disney Christmas Special (ITV December 25, 1989)
Terry Wogan's Friday Night (December 18, 1992)
Bruce's Guest Night (Bruce Forsyth, May 17, 1993)
Rosie O'Donnell Show (June 14, 1996)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (June 21, 1996 / December 11, 1998)
The View (November 6, 1998 / July 1999)
Live with Regis and Kelly (November 26, 2002 / November 29, 2002)
Other Muppet wants:
The unaired pilot version of the Juliet Prowse episode of The Muppet Show (Paley)
Kagayake! Gorō Mapetto Geba Geba 90-pun! (1976) 輝け!五郎・マペット ゲバゲバ90分!
Jim Henson's 1965 Cinderella pilot, which was found in 2013 and viewable at the Paley Center.
original Zoot endings for: Muppet Show with Kaye Ballard, Loretta Lynn, Harry Belafonte, Juliet Prowse, Dudley Moore, Mac Davis, Roger Miller.
Also Muppet Show series 4/5 endings, generally / generically (Chris Langham episode also, as that's been pulled from Disney+ for obvious reasons, and circulates in VHS quality)
It's also not uncommon for Muppet Show episodes to have episode promos at the end of the master tapes.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx79HuF ... e=youtu.be
https://archive.org/details/sam-and-fri ... or-to-sing
Sam And Friends (Jim Henson Muppets) Last Episode Reconstruction
"I Come For to Sing" / " A Horse Named Bill"
Sam and Friends was Jim Henson's first television series, a five-minute show that aired twice daily on WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. from May 9, 1955 to December 15, 1961.
This is a reconstruction of the last episode, and a related episode, using available and similar materials.
https://archive.org/details/sam-and-fri ... or-to-sing
Sam And Friends (Jim Henson Muppets) Last Episode Reconstruction
"I Come For to Sing" / " A Horse Named Bill"
Sam and Friends was Jim Henson's first television series, a five-minute show that aired twice daily on WRC-TV, the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. from May 9, 1955 to December 15, 1961.
This is a reconstruction of the last episode, and a related episode, using available and similar materials.
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Revisiting the View-Master Interactive Vision
So here's something I've been trying to preserve for about ten years. We failed back then but I'm trying again this month.
The View-Master Interactive Vision was a very unusual series of VHS tapes which had data on the sides, which included an additional track of audio at left (waveform?), and video gameplay data at right (binary?). It displayed graphics in the manner of the MSX/Colecovision/SG-1000, and had simple gameplay at times (like a Mickey Mouse Frogger situation).
Two tapes featured the cast of The Muppet Show including Jim Henson, and four featured the cast of Sesame Street. One featured Disney footage reused from the Disneyland TV series.
I've never gotten a capture of these which preserves the original interlaced 60fps frame rate (except for Muppet Mania which was misaligned), which is why I'm now trying to do it myself.
With all seven tapes, and, hopefully, in better quality than ever before. I'm hoping that we can, eventually, also decode the onscreen waveforms and binary digitally; we'll see about that.
https://archive.org/details/jimhensonsmuppetmadness
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/View-Mas ... ive_Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONXKam ... C-Infinity
So here's something I've been trying to preserve for about ten years. We failed back then but I'm trying again this month.
The View-Master Interactive Vision was a very unusual series of VHS tapes which had data on the sides, which included an additional track of audio at left (waveform?), and video gameplay data at right (binary?). It displayed graphics in the manner of the MSX/Colecovision/SG-1000, and had simple gameplay at times (like a Mickey Mouse Frogger situation).
Two tapes featured the cast of The Muppet Show including Jim Henson, and four featured the cast of Sesame Street. One featured Disney footage reused from the Disneyland TV series.
I've never gotten a capture of these which preserves the original interlaced 60fps frame rate (except for Muppet Mania which was misaligned), which is why I'm now trying to do it myself.
With all seven tapes, and, hopefully, in better quality than ever before. I'm hoping that we can, eventually, also decode the onscreen waveforms and binary digitally; we'll see about that.
https://archive.org/details/jimhensonsmuppetmadness
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/View-Mas ... ive_Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONXKam ... C-Infinity
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Here are backup MiniDV captures (and scans) of the seven View-Master Interactive Vision VHS tapes.
https://archive.org/details/view-master ... n-muppets/
Torrent download is recommended.
RF captures have also been done by Titan91. The RF captures will give better results but are not yet decoded. Neither preserves gameplay currently. (The format has optical audio at left and some binary data at right for gameplay and graphics.)
Two are Muppet Show, four are Sesame Street, one is Disney (and more gameplay focused).
The interlacing line structure for Muppet Madness has been "off" in every capture I've seen, so I'm thinking maybe it was actually mastered that way, with the picture being shrunk down slightly in a way that destroyed the line structure.
If you just want to watch them casually, there are playthroughs at this Youtube channel, which preserve most of the alternate audio and gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56ym5v ... C-Infinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QN5aT_RHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONXKam8_YU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcAal1fPrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qSfCLhZaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_GBhRkE9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwAmolUC1s
Several good scans of the cover art are available, which I should do more work on.
Here are Video RF and audio recordings for the (mostly Muppet related) View-Master Interactive Vision tapes.
(The video needs to be decoded, using the vhs-decode branch of the Domesday Decoder project for Linux.)
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/releases
https://github.com/jryng/vhs-decode
(Apparently the extra optical audio at left, and the binary data at right, on this interactive VHS format, are causing sync issues in VHS_decode. The program itself may have to be rewritten before these are decodable. The Domesday community may look at this and attempt to fix the problems. TBC adjustments, shelf detection?)
Torrent download is recommended.
https://archive.org/details/disneys-car ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/muppet-madn ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/youre-the-d ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/oscars-lett ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/lets-play-s ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/magic-on-se ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/lets-learn- ... rf-capture
We have 7 tapes fully captured, here are brief samples from all 7:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/8tsiu042 ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ddh4x65n ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1qnd1ej7 ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/15rx012k ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rc77095k ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jb8942cg ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1fbshz3z ... .flac/file
Both sides of audio/binary data can probably be decoded with AEO-Light.
https://usc-imi.github.io/aeo-light/
https://archive.org/details/view-master ... n-muppets/
Torrent download is recommended.
RF captures have also been done by Titan91. The RF captures will give better results but are not yet decoded. Neither preserves gameplay currently. (The format has optical audio at left and some binary data at right for gameplay and graphics.)
Two are Muppet Show, four are Sesame Street, one is Disney (and more gameplay focused).
The interlacing line structure for Muppet Madness has been "off" in every capture I've seen, so I'm thinking maybe it was actually mastered that way, with the picture being shrunk down slightly in a way that destroyed the line structure.
If you just want to watch them casually, there are playthroughs at this Youtube channel, which preserve most of the alternate audio and gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i56ym5v ... C-Infinity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31QN5aT_RHw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ONXKam8_YU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGcAal1fPrs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-qSfCLhZaI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT_GBhRkE9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BwAmolUC1s
Several good scans of the cover art are available, which I should do more work on.
Here are Video RF and audio recordings for the (mostly Muppet related) View-Master Interactive Vision tapes.
(The video needs to be decoded, using the vhs-decode branch of the Domesday Decoder project for Linux.)
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/releases
https://github.com/jryng/vhs-decode
(Apparently the extra optical audio at left, and the binary data at right, on this interactive VHS format, are causing sync issues in VHS_decode. The program itself may have to be rewritten before these are decodable. The Domesday community may look at this and attempt to fix the problems. TBC adjustments, shelf detection?)
Torrent download is recommended.
https://archive.org/details/disneys-car ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/muppet-madn ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/youre-the-d ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/oscars-lett ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/lets-play-s ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/magic-on-se ... rf-capture
https://archive.org/details/lets-learn- ... rf-capture
We have 7 tapes fully captured, here are brief samples from all 7:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/8tsiu042 ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ddh4x65n ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1qnd1ej7 ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/15rx012k ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/rc77095k ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/jb8942cg ... .flac/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/1fbshz3z ... .flac/file
Both sides of audio/binary data can probably be decoded with AEO-Light.
https://usc-imi.github.io/aeo-light/