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Electric Muppets

... Electric Muppets A. A THE MUPPETS are to be a main feature of the 1978 Blackpool Il luminations display from September 1 to October 29. Announcing this at a recent meeting of the resort's Attractions and Leisure Committee, the director of Electrical Services ...

Published: Thursday 06 April 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 88 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

Television Today: Nothing for small children on Sunday

... children on Sunday ATV has been quick to respond to a criticism in The Times last week levelled at ITV over the scheduling of The Muppet Show. A Times reader in Cambridgeshire, who is six, wrote last week to complain that she and her brother, who is three, cannot ...

Published: Thursday 20 April 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 253 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

BBC scoops the lot

... best show of 1977 was adjudged to be Noel Edmonds Breakfast Show. Leonard Rossiter was voted ITV personality of 1977 with The Muppet Show as the best ITV programme. The top BBC television pro gramme of the year was The Two Ronnies and the award for the best ...

Published: Thursday 27 April 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 205 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

Thames hoping to make it two in a row for ITV

... Goodies (that was in 1972. the year Britain carried off the gold and the silver), Barbra Streisand and the Picnic, to The Muppets last year they've all contributed something different; although there has been that underlying strand of visual comedy. Philip ...

Published: Thursday 04 May 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1228 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Stoppard and Barkworth score awards hat-trick

... for The Americans and The Long Search (BBC). (Highly commended: Tim Whif- fen. editor of LWT's Love for Lydia; and ATV's The Muppet Show team). Silver Medal for outstanding creative achievement in front of the camera: Sir Huw Wheldon. (Highly commended: ...

Published: Thursday 11 May 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 615 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

News from Wales

... their services free of charge. Tom Foolery opened the show with impressions, harmonies, in strumental and an up-to-date minute Muppet Show Scene which delighted people of all ages. Then, on to the stage walked Colin Price, who for 40 minutes kept the audience ...

Published: Thursday 15 June 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 890 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

Lighting up Britain's tourist magnet

... and more imaginative than ever with such features as Festive Follies, Pre-historic Pranks, and brand new ones like The Muppet Show and Silhouette Stories transfor ming Blackpool's famous prom into a dazzling panorama. AN addition has been made to ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 343 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Labour relations and documentary are the talking points

... labelling of such shows as An ATV production indicates merely the use of British technicians and technical facilities. The Muppet Show, though, or iginated by ATV as a project, he says, is to all intents and purposes indistinguishable from domestic American ...

Published: Thursday 31 August 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 3349 | Page: 15 | Tags: none

REGIONAL THEATRE

... man. True Rob Mitchell, who played throughout with charac teristic gusto and brilliance, did give the impresssion that the Muppets' pianist has been en listed as accompanist but the audience still looked as pleased as if they had been dropped by accident ...

Published: Thursday 07 September 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1812 | Page: 23 | Tags: none

Television Today: Emmy for Muppets

... Emmy for Muppets ATV's The Muppet Show has won an Emmy. The award, from the Natio nal Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the US, was made for outstanding comedy variety or music series. This is the first time in the history of the Emmy awards ...

Published: Thursday 28 September 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 132 | Page: 21 | Tags: none

JICTAR RATINGS

... 3- George and Mildred. Thames 31 3- Larry Grayson's Generation Game. BBC 31 7 Robin's Nest. Thames 30 7- The Best of the Muppets. ATV 30 7- Coronation St. Wed. Granada 30 10 Fantasy Island (US). ITV 29 10- Crossroads. Thu. ATV 29 10 -The Rag Trade. LWT ...

Published: Thursday 19 October 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Miscellaneous | Words: 1079 | Page: 17 | Tags: listings 

Television Today: The best--and still after perfection

... contract with ATV for farther specials. Last year she was featured in The Night of 1.000 Stars, and guested on one of the Muppet Shows again, of course, for ATV Then, in August 1977, BBC-2 made a series of four programmes, three of which were filmed at ...

Published: Thursday 02 November 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1287 | Page: 22 | Tags: none