Season 1

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  7.7/103 votes

  What Lies Beneath

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/25/2014

  Brian Henson welcomes 10 talented creature designers to Jim Henson Studios for their first Creature Brief: design and build an original underwater creature for a screen test on the Henson Soundstage.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/102 votes

  Return of the Skeksis

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2014

  The creature designers are given the chance to reimagine the fictional species Skeksis from "The Dark Crystal." Later, their characters appear in a screen test for the original 1982 film.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/101 votes

  Assembly Inspired

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/8/2014

  Unconventional materials from a junkyard are used to create scrap-fantasy creatures that are trapped inside a hanging cage.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/102 votes

  Heads Up!

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/15/2014

  A humor-filled challenge requires the designers to create mounted creature heads that magically come to life under the spell of a wizard played by Donald Faison.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  9.0/102 votes

  Life in Motion

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/22/2014

  An appearance by Lady Gaga's unicorn inspires the creature designers to create a larger-than-life creation with realistic movement, performed on a blacklight soundstage.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  9.0/102 votes

  Swamp Things

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/29/2014

  The designers make camouflaged creatures hiding in plain sight for a mystical swamp-theme challenge. Neville Page ("Face Off") serves as guest judge.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  9.5/102 votes

  Alien Press Conference

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/6/2014

  Gigi brings her "Farscape" costar Rygel to the workshop to offer inspiration when the creature designers are given the task to build original alien species attending an intergalactic press conference. Director Barry Sonnenfeld is the guest judge.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  9.0/101 votes

  Tavern at the Crossroads

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/13/2014

  The final three receive help from contestants who were previously eliminated as they face their toughest challenge, which is to design, build and perform a full-body mystical creature, complete with props and special effects, for the chance to win a job at Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown