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Finally, the Muppet Show - 1st season is arriving. And this is their program: Charles Aznavour Song: "I Feel Pretty" Song: "Dance the Old-Fashioned Way" - Charles Sketch: Gonzo's rock act ('Art! (thunk!) Art! (thunk!)') Sketch: Vet's Hospital Sketch: French bread Sketch: At the Dance Backstage?: Charles & Kermit - use French to get women (Piggy) Sketch: panel (Gonzo: 'art and culture', Kermit: 'MA, PhD, RSVP, whatever') Song: "Inchworm" - Charles Kaye Ballard Song?: Hillbilly band Song?: Floyd & the theme song Song: "What Would You Say" - Kaye Sketch: At the Dance Backstage?: Kaye & Kermit talk Sketch: Vendaface Song: ? - Kaye Candice Bergen Song: "What Now My Love?" - Piggy Song: "Put Another Log on the Fire" - Candice Fozzie's running wire/letter running gag Panel: Travel Kermit & Candice & photography Swedish chef - spicy sauce Song: "That Face" - Candice as model Vet's Hostpital Song: "You've Got to Have Friends". - Candice et. al. Ruth Buzzi Song: "Sunny?" - Fast # by Dr. Teeth robot host replaces Kermit At the Dance Song: "Row, Row, Row" - Wayne & Wanda Song: "You're Just Too Good to be True" - Ruth & Sweetums Ruth & Kermit talk Fozzie Ruth as an interrogated spy Song: "Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd" - jug band Phyllis Diller Song: "Mississippi Mud" Phyllis & Rowlf commiserate ('it fell on me!') At the dance Phyllis & Fozzie chat Song: "Hugga-wugga" Muppet Labs - exploding clothes Vet's Hospital - sick bread Phyllis plays the sax Sandy Duncan Two bomb jokes Song: Sandy does a drunken bar song & dance Fozzie's writer Gags Beasely (and the banana sketch) At the Dance Sandy cheers up Sweetums (and overdoes it with the next one) Song: "Never Smile at a Crocodile" Sandy & Fozzie tease Kermit about the banana sketch Vet's Hospital Song: "Try to Remember the Kind of September" - Kermit & Sandy Bruce Forsyth (the only one I don't have!) Song: "Trudge-Trudge/Streaka-Streaka" Joel Grey Song: "Comedy Tonight" At the Dance Song: "Cabaret"? - Joel Joel & Kermit Song: "A Calafica" (sp?) Fozzie's topical jokes Song: "Stormy Weather" - Wayne & Wanda Song: "Razzle Dazzle" - Joel Valerie Harper Song: "Broadway Baby" - Valerie Swedish chef - Japanese (?) cake Statler courts Valerie Rowlf poem At the Dance Song: "Gonna Find Her" pinch/punch line Wayne & Wanda Valerie & the Clodhoppers. Florence Henderson Bouncing Borcelano Brothers Song: "Bright Elusive Butterfly of Love" - Florence At the Dance Kermit & Florence & Piggy Panel Fozzie Song: "So Happy Together" - Florence & monsters Koozbanian Mating Ritual ('blam! peep! peep! peep!') Lena Horne The Ragmops Song: "I Got a Name" - Lena At the Dance Lena & Kermit talk Swedish chef: living spaghetti Song: "" - Lena & Gonzo Song: "Sing a Song" - Lena Harvey Korman Song: "Atom Bomb" - Dr. Teeth Animal interview Harvey - animal act Panel: Meaning of Life At the Dance Kermit & Harvey talk Vet's Hospital Wayne & Wanda Fozzie Song: "Halfway Down the Stairs" - Robin Ethel Merman Song: "Jabba" (slinkies & "whee" sound effect) Ethel & the Muppets do a medley of her songs Fozzie's agent Ethel & Animal (Ethel: 'Eek!'; Animal: 'Perfect pitch!') Ethel & Kermit talk Richard Bradshaw - shadow puppets Fozzie's act ('that Gonzo is so dumb - I told him there was water shortage and he suggested we dilute it!') Song: "There's no Business Like Show Business". Rita Moreno Rita - slapstick cafe Vet's Hospital (Fozzie) phone running gag Swedish chef - flapjacks At the Dance Marvin Suggs & the Muppetphones panel - conversation a dying art? Rita & Kermit talk Wayne & Wanda Fozzie Song: Rita: "Fever". Mummenschanz Song: Scooter & Floyd: "Mr. Bassman" Gonzo romances Piggy (?) Mummenschanz- notepad faces library sketch - Blue Danube Mummenschaz - crawlies At the Dance Kermit "talks" to the Mummenschanz Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Paper Moon" Vendaface Mummenschanz - clay faces. Jim Nabors Song: Dr. Teeth: "Money" intro. of Scooter Song: Jim: "Gone With the Wind" danceros (?) At the Dance Jim & Kermit Fozzie Song: Jim: "Thank God I'm a Country Boy". Juliet Prowse Song: "Ma-na-ma-na" Juliet dances At the Dance Juliet & Kermit talk Western sketch (loaded pickles) Song: Scooter & Fozzie: "Simon Smith & His Dancing Bear" Song: glee club: "Temptation". Vincent Price Song: "Under My Skin" Vincent - house of horror ('watch it! I'm the beautiful assistant! Every night at the stroke of midnight the master turns into a screaming, maniacal, demonic, raging, bloodlusting animal! And then I get _mean_!') Wayne & Wanda panel - gourmet food ('you must admit Froggy you look mighty tasty!') At the Dance Vampires News flash - furniture monsters (priceless!) Song: Vincent: "You've Got a Friend". Avery Schreiber Song: Dr. Teeth: "Tenderly" Piggy uses Scooter to make Kermit jealous Avery duels Sweetums using insults Muppet Labs - gorilla detector Avery & Fozzie - the old living painting sketch At the Dance Wayne & Wanda Vet's Hostpital Avery & Fozzie do an act Avery & some creatures do a silly song. Connie Stevens (+ Bert & Ernie) Song: Kermit: "Lydia" (tattooed pig) Fozzie & Gonzo's old teddy bear ('that bear is the most beat-up thing I've ever seen - get rid of it!') Swedish Chef - rubber meatballs Song: Connie: "Teenager in Love" At the Dance Song: Connie & Kermit & Fozzie: "Close to You" Zoot & his sax Ernie & Bert & Connie. Twiggy Song: "Dance" (fuzzy snakes) Phantom of the Muppet Show Song: Twiggy holds a press conference & sings "There Are Places I Remember" (with photo history) Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Let It Snow" skit - the king's breakfast At the Dance Vendaface Song: Twiggy: "Nobody's Business But My Own" (country scene) Peter Ustinov An evening at the pops Muppet Labs - Peter as a robot diplomat At the Dance Peter & Fozzie discuss economics (a Benny shaved is a Benny urned) Song: "You Do Something to Me (kablam)" News flash - cure for the cold Song: Wayne & Wanda: "Falling Leaves" panel - psychiatry Song: "It's Not Easy Being Green". Ben Vereen Song: "Boogie Woogie Music" Fozzie & the magic cabinet Song: Ben: "Mr. Cellophane" At the Dance Ben & Kermit Vet's Hospital Wayne & Wanda Song: Ben: "Imagination". Paul Williams Song: "All of Me" Song: Paul: "Just an Old-Fashioned Love Song" Muppet Labs: all-purpose tenderizer Song: Rowlf: "Silence" At the Dance Scooter & Fozzie do the telephone pole bit Paul sings. I haven't seen it so far, but i know them from TV - and they are still great!