NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Roy Clark
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""Rocky Top"", ""Swedish Chef"", ""Pigs In Space"", ""Yesterday When I Was Young"", ""I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire"", ""Talk Spot"", ""At the Barn-Dance"", Gonzo's Act, ""Sally Was a Good Ol' Girl""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
NaN/100 votesLoading...#2 - Leo Sayer
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 3/26/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"", ""Carbon Paper"", ""The Daffodills"", ""The Show Must Go On"", ""She was a Dear Little Dicky Bird"", Fozzie's Act, ""When I Need You""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
NaN/100 votesLoading...#3 - Gilda Radner
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""The Lullaby of Broadway"", ""Modern Major General"", ""Muppet Melodrama"", ""Witch Doctor"", ""A Saucy Little Bird on Nellie's Hat"", ""Muppet Labs"", ""Muppet Newsflash"", ""Tap Your Troubles Away""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
NaN/100 votesLoading...#4 - Pearl Bailey
Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/9/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""My Soul is a Witness"", ""Muppet Labs"", ""Muppet Newsflash"", ""In the Good Old Summertime"", ""An Actor's Life For Me"", ""Pigs In Space"", ""At the Dance"", The Camelot joust
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
NaN/100 votesLoading...#5 - Jean Stapleton
Season 2 Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""Tico Tico"", ""Play a Simple Melody"", ""At the Dance"", ""Daddy Wouldn't Buy Me a Bow-Wow"", ""Talk Spot"", ""Muppet Melodrama"", ""Muppet Labs"", ""I'm Just Wild About Harry""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
NaN/100 votesLoading...#6 - Loretta Lynn
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/23/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""You're Looking at Country"", ""I'm All Alone"", ""Muppet Newsflash"", Fozzie's Act, ""At the Dance"", ""Sentimental Journey"", ""Oh, Lonesome Me"", ""Veterinarian's Hospital"", ""Muppet Newsflash"", ""The Rhyming Song"", ""One's on the Way""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
6.7/10181 votesLoading...#7 - Harry Belafonte
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 1/5/1979
Sketches/Songs: ""Day-O"", ""Tea For Two"", ""Pigs In Space"", ""Honeysuckle Rose"", Animal and Harry play the drums, ""Muppet Sports"", ""Turn the World Around""
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
6.9/10159 votesLoading...#8 - Spike Milligan
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1979
Sketches/Songs: ""Oklahoma"", ""An Editorial by Sam The Eagle"", ""The Music of Scotland"", ""Muppet Newsflash"", ""Dog Walk"", ""America"", ""The Intergalactic Brotherhood of Man, Including Things"", ""It's a Small World""
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.0/10332 votesLoading...#9 - Paul Williams
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1976
Scooter talks Fozzie into doing "the telephone pole bit," and Fozzie practices dutifully until he finds out what the bit is: Fozzie dresses up as a public telephone, and Scooter asks what his name is. "Mike Oznowiczki," Fozzie says, and Scooter exclaims, "Oh, so you're the telephone Pole!"
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.0/10171 votesLoading...#10 - Petula Clark
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1978
Sketches/Songs: "Tweedle Dee Dee", "Swedish Chef", "At the Dance", "English Country Garden", "Talk Spot", "Pigs In Space", "Muppet Newsflash", "An Editorial by Sam The Eagle", "That Old Black Magic"
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
7.0/10148 votesLoading...#11 - Johnny Cash
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 2/1/1981
In honor of Johnny Cash's appearance, the show is simulcast over country radio station WHOG, and the radio broadcast threatens to overwhelm the actual show. The head of WHOG, Big Tiny Tall Saddle, insists on making all the decisions. He refuses to let Rowlf go on, and instead schedules Grampaw McGuire and his whistling bricks. Kermit tries to run his own show, but Big Tiny is one of the toughest men alive -- when he's annoyed, he has a habit of wrapping microphone stands around people's necks. Fozzie is replaced by Wally Whoopie, a stand-up comedian who makes fun of the bear -- which inspires Kermit to stand up for his friend, and his show.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.1/10270 votesLoading...#12 - Lena Horne
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1976
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.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.1/10208 votesLoading...#13 - Connie Stevens
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/16/1977
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.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.1/10137 votesLoading...#14 - Alan Arkin
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 3/7/1980
Alan accidentally drinks Bunsen Honeydew's Jekyll-and-Hyde potion, and turns into a rampaging monster. He runs amuck, as the ultra-cute Bun-Bun Brothers sing "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah." When Kermit catches Alan in a net, he turns back into himself. Soon, Kermit takes a sip of the potion himself.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.1/10120 votesLoading...#15 - James Coburn
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/1980
Animal hits it off with tough guy James Coburn -- but James decides that Animal isn't centered enough, and introduces him to meditation and Zen. Animal doesn't take well to Zen.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.2/10364 votesLoading...#16 - Sandy Duncan
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1976
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.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.2/10124 votesLoading...#17 - Anne Murray
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1980
Scooter bugs everyone by leaving his skateboard lying around. Kermit trips on it and smashes a set. Later, Anne performs while the Muppets all dance on skateboards.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.3/10327 votesLoading...#18 - Jim Nabors
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1976
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.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.3/10161 votesLoading...#19 - Cleo Laine
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1978
Sketches/Songs: "Limbo", "Ain't Got That Swing", "Pigs In Space", Bruce Schwartz, "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", "Swedish Chef", "(I Wonder Why) You're Just In Love", Fozzie's Act, "If"
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey
7.3/10178 votesLoading...#20 - Raquel Welch
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 11/17/1978
Fozzie heard that Roy Clark was going to bring Country to the show and sent all of the stagehands out to the country. Matters are complicated even more when a fire breaks out backstage and Fozzie tries to keep it a secret from Kermit.
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.3/10156 votesLoading...#21 - Marisa Berenson
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 12/15/1978
Sketches/Songs: ""Russian Pig Dance"", ""Dance"", ""Muppet Sports"", ""Someone to Watch Over Me"", ""Do-Re-Mi"", ""Our House"", ""The Wedding""
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.3/10121 votesLoading...#22 - John Denver
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 12/14/1979
John and Kermit have a surprise for the cast; they're all going to Kermits' home the swamp! But even Gonzo, even with his love of the nasty and strange, thinks it's a bad idea and no one is willing to take him up on the offer even when Kermit offers them to go.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.3/10119 votesLoading...#23 - Doug Henning
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 3/14/1980
Fozzie Bear tries out a magic act, pulling a rabbit from a hat. Instead, he gets a rabbi, and then a robot. He taps the hat too hard, and gets dozens of rabbits, who follow him around and call him "Daddy."
Director: Philip Casson
Writer: Don Hinkley, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, David Odell
7.4/10297 votesLoading...#24 - Florence Henderson
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1976
The Muppet Theatre is plagued by a variety of pig-related problems, both onstage and off. First, The Bouncing Borsalino Brothers flub their act and crash through the stage floor. Backstage, Miss Piggy throws herself at an uninterested Kermit and then jealously interrupts his onstage Talk Spot, physically threatening guest star Florence Henderson, whom she thinks is horning in on her frog. The feud continues in the Panel Discussion as Florence throws pig slurs around.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
7.4/10235 votesLoading...#25 - Charles Aznavour
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 11/28/1976
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.
Director: Peter Harris
Writer: Marc London, Jack Burns, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson
The Worst Episodes of The Muppet Show
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Network:ITV1
Worst Episodes Summary
"Roy Clark" is the worst rated episode of "The Muppet Show". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Peter Harris and written by Don Hinkley, Chris Langham, Jerry Juhl, Jim Henson, Joseph A. Bailey, it aired on 3/19/1978. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Leo Sayer".