airings of specials

superboober

Well-Known Member
Joined
Oct 21, 2005
Messages
501
Reaction score
25
What I'm asking in this post is on which networks and for how long (as in consecutive years, or if they were one-shotters) the many Muppet specials (both holiday and with the regular characters in special occasions) aired over the years. I hope the way I've worded this isn't confusing.
 

minor muppetz

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jun 19, 2005
Messages
16,044
Reaction score
2,642
I know that the following networks were the original networks that aired the following specials:

Hey, Cinderella! - ABC
The Muppet Valentine Show - ABC
The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence - ABC
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street - PBS
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Togetehr - ABC
Big Bird in China - NBC
The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty Years - CBS
Tale of the Buny Picnic - HBO
A Muppet Family Christmas - ABC
The Sesame Street Special - PBS
Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting
The Muppets at Walt Disney World -NBC
The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson - CBS
Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake - PBS
Sesame Street Stays Up Late - PBS
Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Streets Forever
Mr. Willoby's Christmas Tree - CBS
Elmopalooza - ABC
Cinder Elmo - Fox
Sesame Street Unpaved - TV Land and Noggin (aired on both channels on the same day)
The Street We Live On - PBS
 

superboober

Well-Known Member
Joined
Oct 21, 2005
Messages
501
Reaction score
25
How about the last years the longer-running ones aired on their respective networks? I know HBO ran Emmett Otter at least to 1990, since my 3rd grade class watched a copy taped off the network with HBO's graphics from that year on the tape before the show began. Did they switch it to Nickelodeon immediately after that, or was there a lapse of a year or two while the rights were resecured? And was 1992 the last year PBS ran CEoSS, as that's the last time I saw it there (as part of the local WVIA-44 holiday fund drive)?
 

minor muppetz

Well-Known Member
Joined
Jun 19, 2005
Messages
16,044
Reaction score
2,642
I think that the christmas ones are the only ones to have been shown at least once a year. I know that A Muppet Family Christmas was broadcast on ABC in 1987 and, I think, 1988, on NBC in 1989, on Nickelodeon from 1992 untll at least 1997, and on The Oddyssey Channel in 1999. I am not sure if Emmet Otter was shown every year. I know that there are some official sources that list Emmet Otter as originally airing on ABC and others that list it as originally being on HBO.
 
Top