... your misfortune. John inman was his usual excel lent camp self in an all-too-brief spot which he had to share with Des and a Muppet. The Muppetts, in fact, appeared to be taking over the whole show at one time and with a script that just about made it but ...

... Cargill as a six times married business man. Yorkshire's N.U.T.S., a sketch series introduced by Barry Took, and ATV's The Muppet Show are also among the newcomers; while Gran ada contributes Yanks Go Home, a series in which American service men try to ...

... to consist of aged, drowsy relatives and ATV's TTie Muppet Show, a blend of comedy and music for all the family (TV Times). Well. yes. if you can decipher the Americanisms, and the family like Muppets. Snacker, however, remained just Snacker. whether ...

... Shirley and Muppets to go to Montreux ITV also sending John Curry spectacular THE official ITV entry for the Golden Rose of Montreux light entertainment festival is to be an edition of The Muppet Show. This is either a bold or a rasn decision, depending ...

... blowing your top (a Muppet's head blows off); and the incomprehensible Lena Home asks a Muppet to help her find her dressing-room key and he hits her with a mallet, declaring, Beat that. The only remotely funny item fea tured a muppet chef attempting to ...

... entertainment with impeccable take-offs currently updated to include PAM AYRES, ROY ORBISON, EMU, DENIS RAUSON, FRANK CARSON, THE MUPPETS, TOP CAT, COLOMBO and a score more. He not only sounds uncannily like the people he imitates, by lightning costumes changes ...

... About Us (BBC), Michael Andrews, Tony Isaacs and Christopher Parsons (editors) The best light entertainment programme The Muppet Show (ATV), Jack Burns (producer) Mastermind (BBC), Bill Wright (producer) The Morecambe and Wise Show (BBC), Ernest Maxim ...

... produced by John Purdie with Roger Mills as executive producer (BBC). Best comedy or light entertain ment programme: The Muppet Show, produced by Jack Burns and directed by Peter Harris (ATV). Best on-screen performance: Derek Jacobi. The awards covered ...

... for his designs on Captain Cook in The Explorers series; and John McCrae, for his production of the serial Ballet Shoes. The Muppet Show, produced at ATV, Elstree, has also received two nominations. One nomination is for the execu tive producer and/or producer ...

... starring Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett) has entered the final programme in last year's Shirley Bassey series; ATV's The Muppet Show is ITV's official entry. liie awards will be announced on Saturday of next week. May 14. TELEVISION TODAY ...

... controller of BBC-1 since April 1974. FRANCIS ESSEX, ATV's director of production, receives the Golden Rose of Montreux for The Muppet Show on Saturday last. ...

... borne out this year at Montreux by the three programmes that led the field: The Train (Norway), Mish Mash (Yugoslavia) and The Muppet Show. Each had a talent to entertain and the ability to sustain it. None of the three producers would have felt cheated to ...