The Best Episodes Directed By Peter Harris

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   9.0/10(2 votes)

   #1 - Secrets of the Muppets

   S1:E1011/29/1992

   Jim Henson takes viewers on a behind the scenes look at the making of The Jim Henson Hour and many other Henson productions. Back at the control room, the Muppets all freak out that their secrets are being revealed.

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   7.7/10(6 votes)

   #2 - Rita Moreno

   S1:E29/12/1976

   Fozzie Bear becomes embroiled in a running gag involving the backstage phone. Throughout the episode, Rita parodies her combative image. She battles with several Muppets, including Miss Piggy, a Full-Bodied Muppet, and Animal, who's backing her on drums in her closing number, "Fever."

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #3 - First Show

   S1:E55/14/1989

   Part 1 (Muppetelevision). Kermit struggles to keep the ratings up. Meanwhile, Digit experiences several malfunctions. Part 2 (Miss Piggy's Hollywood): Miss Piggy hosts a tour of Hollywood, with help from Gonzo. However, Piggy quickly learns that Hollywood is not quite what she thought it would be. Meanwhile, Fozzie auditions at The Comedy Store and is heckled by Statler and Waldorf.

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   7.0/10(2 votes)

   #4 - Fitness

   S1:E77/16/1989

   Part 1 (Muppetelevision): Kermit wants the show to be all about being healthy and fit but does not have much luck with all the Muppets getting sick. Part 2 (The Song of the Cloud Forest): In this original story set in the rainforest, a golden toad named Milton worries that he may be the last of his species alive and may never find a mate. He eventually meets another golden toad named Ruth and has an encounter with the Uprights (the forest animals' term for humans) seeking to capture a golden toad.

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   #5 - Food

   S1:E12Unknown

   Part 1 (Mupppetelevision). Kermit has trouble keeping the show running because the entire staff is waiting for their lunch to be delivered. Part 2 (The StoryTeller: The Three Ravens): When the queen dies, a witch ensnares the king with a magical spell. She curses the king's three sons by turning them into ravens. The king's daughter escapes and is warned by her brothers that she must not speak for 3 years, 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days in order to break the curse. After marrying a prince and discovering her stepmother has remarried to the prince's father, can the princess break the curse? From an early German folk tale.

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   6.5/10(6 votes)

   #6 - Joel Grey

   S1:E19/5/1976

   Fozzie works on a new act -- jokes on any subject -- and drives everyone crazy. Finally, he gets on stage and asks for any word. Statler and Waldorf call his bluff by yelling out: "Amoeba!"

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   6.3/10(3 votes)

   #7 - Peter Ustinov

   S1:E810/24/1976

   Kermit becomes jealous when Miss Piggy, Fozzie, Hilda and Scooter rave about Peter Ustinov. At the end, Peter admits that he's jealous of Kermit; he's always wanted to be a frog.

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   5.7/10(3 votes)

   #8 - Juliet Prowse

   S1:E191/16/1977

   Muppy, the favorite pet of The Muppet Theatre owner J. P. Grosse, becomes a prima donna when Kermit reluctantly allows him to do a musical number with Scooter. Muppy even gets his own dressing room and star billing, but Kermit draws the line when the dog asks to change the show's title to The Muppy Show. When Muppy locks himself in his dressing room and refuses to perform, Scooter does the number with Fozzie instead.

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   5.7/10(3 votes)

   #9 - Charles Aznavour

   S1:E1311/28/1976

   When he's unable to get a spot on the show, Gonzo asks Scooter to be his manager. Scooter advises Gonzo to do a rock act, banging on a large rock with a mallet. Later, Gonzo tries his hand at female impersonation, wearing a dress and a blonde wig. Scooter gives up managing when Gonzo eats his contract.

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Connie Stevens

    S1:E234/16/1977

    When Fozzie overhears Hilda, Kermit, and Scooter talking about getting rid of "that bear," he thinks they're talking about him, only to find out later it's actually Gonzo's teddy bear that everyone is badmouthing.

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #11 - Lena Horne

    S1:E910/31/1976

    Kermit cuts Miss Piggy's scheduled song so she won't look foolish following Lena Horne. He tells her that "there are singers and there are singers," making her think that he doesn't want her to show up Lena.

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    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - Videotape

    S1:E87/23/1989

    Part 1 (Muppetelevision): In order to be in two places at once, Gonzo decides to prerecord himself. Part 2 (The StoryTeller: The True Bride): A girl is freed from a troll's enslavement by the help the mysterious white Thought Lion. When she falls in love, she's kept apart from her beloved by the troll's daughter.

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Avery Schreiber

    S1:E1512/12/1976

    To make Kermit jealous, Miss Piggy instructs Scooter to tell him that Avery is in love with her. Kermit finds out that it's all a trick, and Piggy karate-chops everybody.

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #14 - Ethel Merman

    S1:E224/9/1977

    Fozzie's agent, Irving Bizarre, negotiates Fozzie's contract with Kermit. Kermit ends up offering Fozzie ten times as much money; unfortunately, Fozzie made nothing before. "Yeah, and don't forget," Irving says, "I get ten percent of that."

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #15 - Vincent Price

    S1:E244/23/1977

    In honor of guest star Vincent Price, the show is filled with monsters, ghosts, bats, vampires and spooky situations. A three-headed monster auditions for the show: "We sing!" "No, we dance!" "No, we tell jokes!"

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Ruth Buzzi

    S1:E510/3/1976

    Scooter's uncle sends a mechanical, wind-up TV show host, an exact duplicate of Kermit. The robot harasses Kermit and flirts with Miss Piggy.

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #17 - Sandy Duncan

    S1:E39/19/1976

    Fozzie performs Gags Beasley's famous "banana sketch," which everyone has heard of except Kermit. When Kermit asks Sandy and Fozzie to tell him what it is, they laugh too hard to explain it.

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    4.5/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Jim Nabors

    S1:E49/26/1976

    A young kid named Scooter applies for a job as a go-fer. When Kermit remarks that he doesn't even look like a gopher, Scooter explains that he'll go-fer coffee, he'll go-fer sandwiches, he'll go-fer anything. Kermit says he doesn't have the money to hire him, until Scooter mentions that his uncle owns the theater.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - Twiggy

    S1:E1612/19/1976

    Kermit is skeptical when everyone backstage is terrorized by "the Phantom of the Muppet Show." There turns out to be one, though -- Uncle Deadly, a monster-actor who performed in the theater years ago. After being panned by the critics, he vowed never to perform there again, and not to let anyone else perform either. He warns the Muppets, "Leave or be doomed!"

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #20 - Mummenschanz

    S1:E181/9/1977

    Miss Piggy is repulsed when Gonzo tells her that he loves her. Kermit tries to help by asking Piggy if she would like to go to dinner -- and when she accepts, he fixes her up with Gonzo. Everybody gets karate-chopped.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #21 - Ben Vereen

    S1:E1211/21/1976

    Fozzie gets stuck in a magician's trick cabinet. The cabinet is dragged onstage so that he can perform his act -- and at the end of the act, two pig stagehands tip the box over so he can take a bow. Crazy Harry, who makes frequent appearances (and frequent explosions) during the show, blows up the cage before the end of the show so that Fozzie can escape.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Phyllis Diller

    S1:E1412/5/1976

    Aging wardrobe woman Hilda puts on a wig and makeup to try to make herself look younger. She is spotlighted in a backstage plot for the first and last time.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Harvey Korman

    S1:E1011/7/1976

    Embarrassed about being the "token person" on the show, Harvey is dressed up as a giant chicken.

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    #24 - Bruce Forsyth

    S1:E211/30/1977

    Fozzie Bear has a plan to get back at Statler and Waldorf when he does his act, but is crushed when he's replaced by Bruce Forsyth. Fozzie throws some nasty jokes and, for the first (and last) time, leaves the two old codgers speechless. Then Fozzie and Bruce end up performing together, and sing "Side by Side." A duck appears frequently in the sketches and skits.

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    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Candice Bergen

    S1:E1111/14/1976

    Fozzie brings a series of deliveries to Kermit, pestering the frog with lousy gags.

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