Fraggle Rock: Complete Third Season

Produced by:	HIT Entertainment Jim Henson Home Entertainment
Release Date:	2007
Discs:	5
Region:	1

Pouch containing Frith sketches.

Bonus disc menu.

Fraggle Rock: Complete Third Season is a 5-disc DVD release of the third season of Fraggle Rock. The set includes 24 episodes, which originally aired in 1985 and 1986.

Disc Features

Disc 1

• Red-Handed and the Invisible Thief
• Boober and the Glob
• The Grapes of Generosity
• Blanket of Snow, Blanket of Woe
• Pebble Pox Blues
• Home Is Where the Trash Is

Disc 2

• Believe It or Not
• Wembley and the Mean Genie
• The Secret Society of Poobahs
• The Beanbarrow, the Burden and the Bright Bouquet
• Gobo's School for Explorers
• Scared Silly

Disc 3

• The Great Radish Caper
• Born to Wander
• The Battle of Leaking Roof
• Playing Till It Hurts
• Bored Stiff
• The Cavern of Lost Dreams

Disc 4

• The Incredible Shrinking Mokey
• A Dark and Stormy Night
• Gunge the Great and Glorious
• The Bells of Fraggle Rock
• Sprocket's Big Adventure
• Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water

Disc 5

• New featurettes and interviews with Fraggle Rock cast & creators including Karen Prell, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Kathy Mullen, Michael Frith, Jocelyn Stevenson, Gerry Parkes, Lawrence Mirkin, Tim Miller, Connie Peterson, Bob Sandler, Tim McElcheran, Bill Beeton and Tom Newby.
• Select original HBO promotional spots.
• Easter Eggs: 4 international postcards; Michael Frith discusses the development of Wander McMooch.

Other Features

• Includes reprintings of fifty Michael K. Frith sketches.

Notes

• Each disc includes a hidden "Easter Egg" that unlocks an international Traveling Matt postcard segment. These can be found by selecting the Fraggle character pictured on each disc's main menu (for discs 1 through 4). Disc 5 contains a "Easter Egg" on each menu: on the main menu by selecting the compass, and on the submenus by selecting the Fraggle character. One of the "Easter Eggs" on disc 5 shows Michael K. Frith talking about Wander McMooch.

Awards

• Fraggle Rock: Complete Third Season won an award for Best 1980s Series at The TV-DVD Awards

Production Seasons

The selection of episodes included in this set doesn't quite match up to the third season as originally broadcast on HBO. Fraggle Rock was produced in four seasons of 24 episodes each, but HBO split up the episodes to stretch the show into five broadcast seasons.

Season 3 was produced as 24 episodes, but broadcast as 22 episodes. The final two episodes of the season -- "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water" and "Sidebottom Blues" -- were held over, and broadcast as the second and third episodes of season 4.

Season 4 was also produced as 24 episodes, but broadcast as 13 episodes -- including the two leftover episodes from the previous season. The final 13 episodes were broadcast in the following year as season 5.

HIT Entertainment's intention was to produce four DVD sets, following the original production seasons. However, that intention has not played out perfectly, as this Complete Third Season set includes "Sprocket's Big Adventure", which was produced as part of the fourth season, instead of "Sidebottom Blues", which will appear in the fourth season set.

External links

• Muppet Central Review

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