Muppet Halloween Special

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A year after Jim Henson's death, Brian Henson announced that the Muppets would slowly return to television. Henson told "TV Guide" that the company was 'coordinating an overall strategy" to put the Muppets "back on the air and to do more with them. We'll start in a small way, primarily with holiday specials." The planned Halloween special eventually got pushed back to a Christmas special, a Muppet TV version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The special grew too big for TV and was finally seen as the 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol.

The early treatments of the Halloween special included scenes where the Muppet characters turned into classic Hollywood monsters (i.e., Kermit/Frankenstein, Piggy/Bride of Frankenstein, Fozzie/Wolfman to name a few). The same idea was later explored in a Henson video game, Muppet Monster Adventure.

Sources

• MuppetZine #13, Summer 1995