Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Bill Barretta is an American puppeteer, producer, writer, director, and actor, best known for his involvement with the Muppets.Barretta performs the Muppet characters Pepe the King Prawn, Bobo the Bear and Johnny Fiama, as well as inheriting the roles of Rowlf the Dog, The Swedish Chef, and Dr. Teeth from Jim Henson.
Season 1 was re-released on March 12, 2013, followed by Season 2 on April 16, Season 3 on May 14, and Season 4 on June 18. [26] A complete series set was also released on May 14 as Fraggle Rock – The 30th Anniversary Collection. This 22-disc set features all 96 episodes of the series as well as bonus features.
Junior Gorg (performed by Rob Mills for the body in Seasons 1 & 4, Frank Meschkuleit for the body in Season 5, Ben Durocher for the body in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, Richard Hunt for the face and voice in the live-action series, Dan Garza for the face and voice in Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, voiced by Michael Laskin in the animated ...
Muppet Treasure Island is a 1996 American musical swashbuckler comedy film directed by Brian Henson and the fifth theatrical film featuring the Muppets.Adapted from the 1883 novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, similarly to its predecessor The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992), the key roles were played by live-action actors, with the Muppets in supporting roles.
Highlight: The Muppet look of Gobo has changed in this episode and would remain this way for the rest of the series, as there was a six-month break between the end of filming on the first half of season 1 in August 1982, and the beginning of filming for the second half in February 1983. The shape of Gobo's face is altered, he was given eyelids ...
At the beginning of each episode, Jim Henson would enter an abstractly-decorated set (alongside the Thought Lion from his series The StoryTeller) and introduce the evening's show. Beyond that, the series never had a set structure. The room where Henson and the Thought Lion performed their introduction was a computer-generated environment.
In early episodes of the second season, female puppeteers were auditioned to replace Ozker. Louise Gold was eventually hired as Ozker's replacement. Richard Hunt replaced Ozker as Janice's performer while Jerry Nelson took over the roles of Crazy Harry and The Announcer from John Lovelady. Jack Burns quit his role as writer after the first season.
In 2019, he voiced Baffi the Fizzgig in the Netflix original series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. Since 2018, he has voiced characters in various installments of the StoryBots franchise. Goelz reprised the voices of his Fraggle Rock roles in the Apple TV+ Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts in 2020 , with puppeteering by John Tartaglia .