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|imagecaption=The Captain building a model in "The Garden Plot." | |imagecaption=The Captain building a model in "The Garden Plot." | ||
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> | |status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span> | ||
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''Fraggle Rock' | '''''Fraggle Rock''''''s first produced international co-production was the English UK version, though the French and German versions began airing sooner.<ref>Random House, 1993. Jim Henson The Works: The Art, The Magic, The Imagination</ref> The segments within the ''Muppet'' world of ''Fraggle Rock'' are identical to the American version. '''However, the segments from outer space (i.e. the Doc & Sprocket and Traveling Matt segments) were changed to fit the UK audience.''' | ||
Fraggle Rock was located on a rocky headland or island on a sea coast. There is a lighthouse on the island. The lighthouse was the home of the Captain, a retired sailor and the UK version of the Doc character, played by Fulton MacKay. Sprocket was still his companion, however. | Fraggle Rock was located on a rocky headland or island on a sea coast. There is a lighthouse on the island. The lighthouse was the home of the Captain, a retired sailor and the UK version of the Doc character, played by Fulton MacKay. Sprocket was still his companion, however. | ||
Due to MacKay's death in 1987, the Captain was replaced in the fourth UK season by a younger character known as P.K. (Principal Keeper, the Captain's nephew), played by John Gordon Sinclair and again in the sixth UK season by another character, B.J. (the Captain's son), played by Simon O'Brien. | Due to MacKay's death in 1987, the Captain was replaced in the fourth UK season by a younger character known as P.K. (Principal Keeper, the Captain's nephew), played by John Gordon Sinclair and again in the sixth UK season by another character, B.J. (Bertwhistle Junior, the Captain's son), played by Simon O'Brien. | ||
==Availability== | ==Availability== | ||
A selection of episodes was released on VHS. A petition to have ''Fraggle Rock'' released on DVD was run on the web for many years | A selection of episodes was released on VHS during the 1980s. A petition to have ''Fraggle Rock'' released on DVD was run on the web for many years until a "best of" collection of 12 episodes, previously released on VHS, was released on VHS and DVD in April 2004. TVS, the original broadcasters, have passed through several owners since 1992 and of the 96 episodes, only 12 master copies were known to have survived. HIT Entertainment has tried unsuccessfully to locate the missing episodes, including extensive inquiries with The Jim Henson Company both in the UK and the US. | ||
By 2017, an effort by fan Alex Taylor to track down the episodes in any available format confirmed that at least 29 episodes exist in broadcast quality, with 87 episodes existing in some form. The remaining nine episodes were unaccounted for in any format until December 2020 when the Missing Believed Wiped group announced that all TVS inserts had been found in some form.<ref>[https://youtu.be/XQ1iJkYwwKA/ "Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - The Fraggles Are Coming - 25-12-83"] Retrieved 12 Dec '20</ref> According to a tweet from Cameron Yarde Jnr, VHS copies of the inserts were kept by Victor Pemberton (the creator of the sonic screwdriver from ''Doctor Who'') after the masters were destroyed.<ref>[https://twitter.com/CameronYardeJnr/status/1338158073106620416 CameronYardeJnr tweet on the resurfaced ''Fraggle Rock'' TV inserts.] Retrieved 11 Oct '22</ref> A release of the found inserts has yet to materialize. | |||
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==Episode List== | ==Episode List== | ||
===Season 1=== | ===Season 1=== | ||
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|1||Beginnings||<span style="color: | |1||Beginnings||<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''||A clip from the UK version of this episode was featured in the HBO documentary ''Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes'' | ||
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|2||Wembley and the Gorgs||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |2||Wembley and the Gorgs||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|3||The Lost Treasure of the Fraggles||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |3||The Lost Treasure of the Fraggles||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|4||Let the Water Run||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+(UK)+S01E03+-+Let+the+Water+Run.mp4<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |4||Let the Water Run||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+(UK)+S01E03+-+Let+the+Water+Run.mp4<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|5||You Can't Do That Without a Hat||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |5||You Can't Do That Without a Hat||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|6||The Thirty-Minute Work Week||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |6||The Thirty-Minute Work Week||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|7||The Preachification of Convincing John||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |7||The Preachification of Convincing John||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|8||I Want to Be You||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |8||I Want to Be You||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|9||The Terrible Tunnel||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |9||The Terrible Tunnel||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|10||Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |10||Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|11||Catch the Tail by the Tiger||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |11||Catch the Tail by the Tiger||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|12||The Finger of Light||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |12||The Finger of Light||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|13||We Love You Wembley||[https://youtu.be/paPL_6MhNd0<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |13||We Love You Wembley||[https://youtu.be/paPL_6MhNd0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|14||The Challenge||[https://youtu.be/6ygXPHvgWIU<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |14||The Challenge||[https://youtu.be/6ygXPHvgWIU<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|15||I Don't Care||[https://youtu.be/a9m4XCmfjIU<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |15||I Don't Care||[https://youtu.be/a9m4XCmfjIU<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Christmas Special=== | ===Christmas Special=== | ||
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|1||The Bells of Fraggle Rock|| | |1||The Bells of Fraggle Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 2=== | ===Season 2=== | ||
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|1||Capture the Moon||[http:// | |1||Capture the Moon||[http://dai.ly/x5uozx6<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|2||Marooned||[https://youtu.be/NibEwAZaZC0<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |2||Marooned||[https://youtu.be/NibEwAZaZC0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS | ||
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|3||The Minstrels||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |3||The Minstrels||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||Released on VHS | ||
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|4||The Great Radish Famine||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |4||The Great Radish Famine||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||Released on VHS | ||
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|5||The Garden Plot||[https://youtu.be/3AXZ1ZPw3S0<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |5||The Garden Plot||[https://youtu.be/3AXZ1ZPw3S0<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|6||New Trash Heap in Town||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |6||New Trash Heap in Town||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|7||Gobo's Discovery||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+-+s01e21+-+Gobo's+Discovery+(UK).avi<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |7||Gobo's Discovery||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+-+s01e21+-+Gobo's+Discovery+(UK).avi<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|8||Mokey's Funeral||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+-+s01e22+-+Mokey's+Funeral+(UK).avi<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |8||Mokey's Funeral||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+-+s01e22+-+Mokey's+Funeral+(UK).avi<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|9||The Beast of Blue Rock||[https://youtu.be/b0stsegh6kI<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |9||The Beast of Blue Rock||[https://youtu.be/b0stsegh6kI<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|10||Wembley's Egg||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |10||Wembley's Egg||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|11||Booberock||[http:// | |11||Booberock||[http://dai.ly/x5ushsl<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|12||All Work and All Play||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |12||All Work and All Play||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|13||Red's Sea Monster||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |13||Red's Sea Monster||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|14||Uncle Matt Comes Home||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |14||Uncle Matt Comes Home||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|15||Boober's Dream||[http:// | |15||Boober's Dream||[http://dai.ly/x5v6bio<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|16||Mokey and the Minstrels||[http:// | |16||Mokey and the Minstrels||[http://dai.ly/x5v94j2<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|17||The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore||[https://youtu.be/LKa7yGZ-EL<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |17||The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore||[https://youtu.be/LKa7yGZ-EL<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|18||Sir Hubris and the Gorgs||[https://youtu.be/5q05XfgqqRk<span style="color:green;">'''Found'''] | |18||Sir Hubris and the Gorgs||[https://youtu.be/5q05XfgqqRk<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|19||A Friend in Need||[http:// | |19||A Friend in Need||[http://dai.ly/x5vukip<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|20||The Wizard of Fraggle Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |20||The Wizard of Fraggle Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|21||The Doozer Contest||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |21||The Doozer Contest||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|22||Red's Club||[http:// | |22||Red's Club||[http://dai.ly/x5wknvc<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|23||The Secret of Convincing John||[http:// | |23||The Secret of Convincing John||[http://dai.ly/x5wo740<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 3=== | ===Season 3=== | ||
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|1||Junior Sells the Farm||[http:// | |1||Junior Sells the Farm||[http://dai.ly/x5x6r55<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|2||Fraggle Wars||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |2||Fraggle Wars||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|3||The Day the Music Died||[http:// | |3||The Day the Music Died||[http://dai.ly/x5x9rg8<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|4||The Doomsday Soup||[http:// | |4||The Doomsday Soup||[http://dai.ly/x5xcit6<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|5||A Cave of One's Own||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |5||A Cave of One's Own||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|6||Wembley And The Great Race||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |6||Wembley And The Great Race||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|7||Doozer Is As Doozer Does||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |7||Doozer Is As Doozer Does||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|8||Boober's Quiet Day||[http:// | |8||Boober's Quiet Day||[http://dai.ly/x5xf0x7<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
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|9||Invasion of the Toe Ticklers||[http:// | |9||Invasion of the Toe Ticklers||[http://dai.ly/x5xhibw<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']||Released on VHS and DVD | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 4=== | ===Season 4=== | ||
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|1||Born to Wander||[https://youtu.be/K1vCpiBCBww<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''] | |1||Born to Wander||[https://youtu.be/K1vCpiBCBww<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found''']|| | ||
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|2||Boober and the Glob||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |2||Boober and the Glob||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|3||A Brush with Jealousy||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |3||A Brush with Jealousy||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|4||Believe It or Not||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |4||Believe It or Not||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|5||A Dark and Stormy Night||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |5||A Dark and Stormy Night||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|6||The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |6||The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|7||The Secret Society of Poobahs||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |7||The Secret Society of Poobahs||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|8||The Battle of Leaking Roof||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |8||The Battle of Leaking Roof||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|9||Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |9||Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|10||The Incredible Shrinking Mokey||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |10||The Incredible Shrinking Mokey||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|11||Pebble Pox Blues||[https://youtu.be/JCigJNcB4DA<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''] | |11||Pebble Pox Blues||[https://youtu.be/JCigJNcB4DA<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found''']|| | ||
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|12||Scared Silly||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |12||Scared Silly||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|13||Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |13||Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 5=== | ===Season 5=== | ||
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|1||The Great Radish Caper||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |1||The Great Radish Caper||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|2||Home Is Where the Trash Is||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |2||Home Is Where the Trash Is||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|3||Sidebottom Blues||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |3||Sidebottom Blues||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|4||Gobo's School for Explorers||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |4||Gobo's School for Explorers||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|5||The Grapes of Generosity||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |5||The Grapes of Generosity||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|6||The Cavern of Lost Dreams||<span style="color: | |6||The Cavern of Lost Dreams||[https://archive.org/details/fraggle-rock-uk/Fraggle+Rock+UK+-+%5B5x06%5D+-+The+Cavern+of+Lost+Dreams+%5BVHSrip(MPEG2)%5D-tobias.mpg<span style="color:green;">'''Found''']|| | ||
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|7||Bored Stiff||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |7||Bored Stiff||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|8||Playing Till It Hurts||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |8||Playing Till It Hurts||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|9||Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |9||Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|10||Gunge the Great and Glorious||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |10||Gunge the Great and Glorious||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|11||Wembley and the Mean Genie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |11||Wembley and the Mean Genie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 6=== | ===Season 6=== | ||
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| | |1||Gone, But Not Forgotten||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |2||Mokey Then and Now||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |3||Junior Faces the Music||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |4||Beyond the Pond||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |5||Manny's Land of Carpets||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |6||The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |7||The Voice Inside||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |8||A Tune for Two||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |9||Wembley's Flight||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |10||Wonder Mountain||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |11||Mirror Mirror||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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| | |12||Boober Gorg||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Season 7=== | ===Season 7=== | ||
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|1||Sprocket's Big Adventure||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |1||Sprocket's Big Adventure||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|2||Uncle Matt's Discovery||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |2||Uncle Matt's Discovery||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|3||Red's Blue Dragon||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |3||Red's Blue Dragon||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|4||Space Frog Follies||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |4||Space Frog Follies||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|5||Inspector Red||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |5||Inspector Red||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|6||Ring Around the Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |6||Ring Around the Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|7||The Perfect Blue Rollie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |7||The Perfect Blue Rollie||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|8||The Riddle of Rhyming Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |8||The Riddle of Rhyming Rock||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|9||The Gorg Who Would Be King||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |9||The Gorg Who Would Be King||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|10||The River of Life||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |10||The River of Life||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|11||The Honk of Honks||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |11||The Honk of Honks||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''|| | ||
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|12||Change of Address||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost''' | |12||Change of Address||<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''||Screenshots exist | ||
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==External | ==See Also== | ||
*[http:// | *[[Fraggle Rock (partially lost unaired original opening to puppet TV series; 1982)]] | ||
==External Links== | |||
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraggle_Rock Wikipedia page on ''Fraggle Rock''.] | |||
*[http://nightshade.org.uk/fraggleuk.html Nightshade page on the UK version of ''Fraggle Rock''.] | |||
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Latest revision as of 04:03, 1 September 2024
Fraggle Rock's first produced international co-production was the English UK version, though the French and German versions began airing sooner.[1] The segments within the Muppet world of Fraggle Rock are identical to the American version. However, the segments from outer space (i.e. the Doc & Sprocket and Traveling Matt segments) were changed to fit the UK audience.
Fraggle Rock was located on a rocky headland or island on a sea coast. There is a lighthouse on the island. The lighthouse was the home of the Captain, a retired sailor and the UK version of the Doc character, played by Fulton MacKay. Sprocket was still his companion, however.
Due to MacKay's death in 1987, the Captain was replaced in the fourth UK season by a younger character known as P.K. (Principal Keeper, the Captain's nephew), played by John Gordon Sinclair and again in the sixth UK season by another character, B.J. (Bertwhistle Junior, the Captain's son), played by Simon O'Brien.
Availability
A selection of episodes was released on VHS during the 1980s. A petition to have Fraggle Rock released on DVD was run on the web for many years until a "best of" collection of 12 episodes, previously released on VHS, was released on VHS and DVD in April 2004. TVS, the original broadcasters, have passed through several owners since 1992 and of the 96 episodes, only 12 master copies were known to have survived. HIT Entertainment has tried unsuccessfully to locate the missing episodes, including extensive inquiries with The Jim Henson Company both in the UK and the US.
By 2017, an effort by fan Alex Taylor to track down the episodes in any available format confirmed that at least 29 episodes exist in broadcast quality, with 87 episodes existing in some form. The remaining nine episodes were unaccounted for in any format until December 2020 when the Missing Believed Wiped group announced that all TVS inserts had been found in some form.[2] According to a tweet from Cameron Yarde Jnr, VHS copies of the inserts were kept by Victor Pemberton (the creator of the sonic screwdriver from Doctor Who) after the masters were destroyed.[3] A release of the found inserts has yet to materialize.
Episode List
Season 1
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Beginnings | Partially Found | A clip from the UK version of this episode was featured in the HBO documentary Down at Fraggle Rock: Behind the Scenes |
2 | Wembley and the Gorgs | Lost | |
3 | The Lost Treasure of the Fraggles | Lost | |
4 | Let the Water Run | Found | |
5 | You Can't Do That Without a Hat | Lost | |
6 | The Thirty-Minute Work Week | Lost | |
7 | The Preachification of Convincing John | Lost | |
8 | I Want to Be You | Lost | |
9 | The Terrible Tunnel | Lost | |
10 | Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk | Lost | |
11 | Catch the Tail by the Tiger | Lost | |
12 | The Finger of Light | Lost | |
13 | We Love You Wembley | Found | |
14 | The Challenge | Found | |
15 | I Don't Care | Found |
Christmas Special
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | The Bells of Fraggle Rock | Lost |
Season 2
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Capture the Moon | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
2 | Marooned | Found | Released on VHS |
3 | The Minstrels | Lost | Released on VHS |
4 | The Great Radish Famine | Lost | Released on VHS |
5 | The Garden Plot | Found | |
6 | New Trash Heap in Town | Lost | |
7 | Gobo's Discovery | Found | |
8 | Mokey's Funeral | Found | |
9 | The Beast of Blue Rock | Found | |
10 | Wembley's Egg | Lost | |
11 | Booberock | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
12 | All Work and All Play | Lost | |
13 | Red's Sea Monster | Lost | |
14 | Uncle Matt Comes Home | Lost | |
15 | Boober's Dream | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
16 | Mokey and the Minstrels | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
17 | The Trash Heap Doesn't Live Here Anymore | Found | |
18 | Sir Hubris and the Gorgs | Found | |
19 | A Friend in Need | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
20 | The Wizard of Fraggle Rock | Lost | |
21 | The Doozer Contest | Lost | |
22 | Red's Club | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
23 | The Secret of Convincing John | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
Season 3
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Junior Sells the Farm | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
2 | Fraggle Wars | Lost | |
3 | The Day the Music Died | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
4 | The Doomsday Soup | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
5 | A Cave of One's Own | Lost | |
6 | Wembley And The Great Race | Lost | |
7 | Doozer Is As Doozer Does | Lost | |
8 | Boober's Quiet Day | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
9 | Invasion of the Toe Ticklers | Found | Released on VHS and DVD |
Season 4
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Born to Wander | Partially Found | |
2 | Boober and the Glob | Lost | |
3 | A Brush with Jealousy | Lost | |
4 | Believe It or Not | Lost | |
5 | A Dark and Stormy Night | Lost | |
6 | The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet | Lost | |
7 | The Secret Society of Poobahs | Lost | |
8 | The Battle of Leaking Roof | Lost | |
9 | Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief | Lost | |
10 | The Incredible Shrinking Mokey | Lost | |
11 | Pebble Pox Blues | Partially Found | |
12 | Scared Silly | Lost | |
13 | Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water | Lost |
Season 5
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | The Great Radish Caper | Lost | |
2 | Home Is Where the Trash Is | Lost | |
3 | Sidebottom Blues | Lost | |
4 | Gobo's School for Explorers | Lost | |
5 | The Grapes of Generosity | Lost | |
6 | The Cavern of Lost Dreams | Found | |
7 | Bored Stiff | Lost | |
8 | Playing Till It Hurts | Lost | |
9 | Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe | Lost | |
10 | Gunge the Great and Glorious | Lost | |
11 | Wembley and the Mean Genie | Lost |
Season 6
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Gone, But Not Forgotten | Lost | |
2 | Mokey Then and Now | Lost | |
3 | Junior Faces the Music | Lost | |
4 | Beyond the Pond | Lost | |
5 | Manny's Land of Carpets | Lost | |
6 | The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer | Lost | |
7 | The Voice Inside | Lost | |
8 | A Tune for Two | Lost | |
9 | Wembley's Flight | Lost | |
10 | Wonder Mountain | Lost | |
11 | Mirror Mirror | Lost | |
12 | Boober Gorg | Lost |
Season 7
# | Episode Title | Status | Additional Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Sprocket's Big Adventure | Lost | |
2 | Uncle Matt's Discovery | Lost | |
3 | Red's Blue Dragon | Lost | |
4 | Space Frog Follies | Lost | |
5 | Inspector Red | Lost | |
6 | Ring Around the Rock | Lost | |
7 | The Perfect Blue Rollie | Lost | |
8 | The Riddle of Rhyming Rock | Lost | |
9 | The Gorg Who Would Be King | Lost | |
10 | The River of Life | Lost | |
11 | The Honk of Honks | Lost | |
12 | Change of Address | Lost | Screenshots exist |
See Also
External Links
References
- ↑ Random House, 1993. Jim Henson The Works: The Art, The Magic, The Imagination
- ↑ "Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - The Fraggles Are Coming - 25-12-83" Retrieved 12 Dec '20
- ↑ CameronYardeJnr tweet on the resurfaced Fraggle Rock TV inserts. Retrieved 11 Oct '22