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Ten aspiring creature creators competing to out-imagine one another in a series of challenges where they build everything from mechanical characters to whimsical beasts, bringing...
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Season 1

  • What Lies Beneath
    7.6/1028 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.

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  • Return of the Skeksis
    8.2/1030 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.

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  • Assembly Inspired
    7.6/1021 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.

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  • Heads Up!
    7.8/1024 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.

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  • Life in Motion
    8.0/1021 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.

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  • Swamp Things
    8.4/1020 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.

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  • Alien Press Conference
    8.5/1017 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.

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  • Tavern at the Crossroads
    8.5/1015 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.

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