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Sex, violence and Jim Henson.(The Muppet Show Season One)(Video Recording Review)(Brief Article)

Video Business, July, 2005 by Hulse, Ed

Sex, violence and Jim Henson The Muppet Show Season One Buena Vista, four discs, color, NR, 625 min. plus supplements, Dolby Digital, fullscreen, Street: Aug. 9, $39.99; First Run: ABC, 1976

Concerns over the content of prime-time TV programming are nothing new, as you can see from the opening of the unaired 1975 Muppet Show pilot prepared by Jim Henson. With the clarion call, "Presenting the end of sex and violence on TV," an anonymous Muppet dynamites the massive, rock-hewn words "Sex and Violence." That's just one of several snarky moments in the pilot episode, which otherwise is mainly noteworthy for the absence of the two characters that would become the Muppet Show's breakout stars: Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy. (Actually, an all-but-unrecognizable...

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