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Muppets Tonight
Genre
Comedy
Created by
Jim Henson Productions
Based on
The Muppets by Jim Henson
Directed by
Greg V. Fera Brian Henson Tom Trbovich Gary Halvorson
Starring
Dave Goelz
Brian Henson
Jerry Nelson
Steve Whitmire
Kevin Clash
Bill Barretta
Frank Oz
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph
Composer
Richard Gibbs
No. of seasons
2
No. of episodes
22 (list of episodes)
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Production
Production locations
Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, California
Running time
22–24 minutes
Production company
Jim Henson Productions
Original release
Network
ABC[1]
Release
March 8 (1996-03-08) – July 14, 1996 (1996-07-14)
Network
Disney Channel[1]
Release
September 13, 1997 (1997-09-13) – February 8, 1998 (1998-02-08)
Related
Little Muppet Monsters (1985)
The Muppets (2015–16)
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Muppets Tonight is an American live-action/puppet family-oriented comedy television series, created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets. The series ran for two seasons between March 1996 to February 1998, originally airing on ABC, before later being aired and rerun on the Disney Channel. The show was a continuation of The Muppet Show, with Kermit the Frog and the Muppets running their own television channel and studio,[2] only to request one of their own to run a new show to fill in a timeslot in their channel's scheduling.
The series brought back several notable Muppet characters from The Muppet Show while introducing several new ones to the program, and made notable parodies of television programs ranging from game shows, chat shows, and educational entertainment. Each episode featured one principal guest star, but a number of episodes also featured additional guest stars; one episode featured a cameo from Leonard Nimoy.[3]Muppets Tonight received mixed reviews from critics, while its lead character, Clifford, was disliked for the minor change made for the program.
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^King, Susan (March 10, 1996). "The Muppets Put On a Show, Again". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
^Mifflin, Lawrie (March 13, 1996). "TV NOTES;High Hopes for Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
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