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Fraggle Rock is a children's television series with a total of 5 seasons and 96 episodes running from January 10, 1983 to March 30, 1987 on HBO in the United States, CBC Television in Canada, TV2 in New Zealand and ITV & Boomerang in the UK. In 2008, Fraggle Rock will be showing in Australia on Boomerang. The series was created by Jim Henson, primarily featuring a cast of Muppet creatures called Fraggles, with music by Philip Balsam and Dennis Lee. It was one of the first shows to be co-produced by HIT Entertainment since its foundation in 1989 when it was called Henson International Television, the international arm of Jim Henson Productions.
The vision of Fraggle Rock articulated by Jim Henson was to depict a colorful and fun world. Also a world with a relatively complex system of symbiotic relationships between different "races" of creatures, an allegory to the human world, where each group was somewhat unaware of how interconnected and important they were to one another. Creating this allegorical world allowed the program to entertain and amuse while seriously exploring complex issues of prejudice, spirituality, personal identity, environment, and social conflict. Fraggle Rock generally refused to over-simplify any individual issue, instead simply illustrating the consequences and inherent difficulties of different actions and relationships. As of October 2006 this is still current and the BBC reports that the film will be set in the human world with Frank Zappa's son at the helm. As of October 20, 2006; according to Darkhorizons.com: "Henson's company has hired executive producer Ahmet Zappa ("The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless") to write a treatment for the film which will be a full-length live-action musical fantasy starring the underground dwellers who venture out into the human world. Henson Co. co-topper Lisa Henson is producing, whilst Brian Henson will exec produce." Also, Walt Disney Pictures and Universal Pictures have both teamed up to distribute this film, either with Disney handling US distribution and Universal handling overseas distribution, or Universal handling US distribution and Disney handling overseas distribution.
In May 2008 it was announced that The Weinstein Company will be distributing the Fraggle Rock movie. The film is being written as a live-action musical by Cory Edwards, who will also direct. The film will be produced by The Jim Henson Company; Ahmet Zappa is still executive producing along with Brian Inerfeld. The film will involve all of the core characters from the series. The story will take the characters "outside of their home in Fraggle Rock, where they interact with humans, which they think are aliens." (External Link

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The songs of Fraggle Rock

Music was central to Fraggle Rock. Every episode featured two or three original songs co-written by Canadian poet Dennis Lee and Philip Balsam, as well as incidental music. Several episodes (usually involving Cantus and the Minstrels) were primarily about music, such as Red Fraggle trying to find "her song" for the Fraggle Medley, or the effect of music on the breaking of winter or the presence of light in Fraggle Rock.

Album releases

Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock: The Fraggle Rockin' Collection, a 3-disc box set of Fraggle Rock music, was released by KOCH Records on October 30, 2007. The collection is said to feature "restored and remastered" versions of three original Fraggle Rock LPs. The collection is also reported to include "special liner notes featuring rarely seen photos, contributions from the original composers and even sheet music for select songs." The main portion of these liner notes, called "Getting Down at Fraggle Rock," features an interview with Philip Balsam and Lawrence R. Mirkin and is written by Mike Petersen and Saul Pincus.

Song list

Fraggle Rock Theme Song

Afraid to Be Afraid

All Around the World

Bad News

Ball of Fire

The Ballad of Sir Blunderbrain

Beetle Song

Brave Alone

Brave Boy, Jump Up

Bring Back the Wonder

Catch the Tail by the Tiger

Cave Flute

Choose-Right (Up-Tight Move-Now) Blues

The Clown Concerto

Convincing John

Count on Me

Dixie Wailin’

Do It On My Own

Doom Dee Doom (March Alone)

Doozer Building Song (We'll Work Together Building Shapes in the Air)

Doozer Gong Music

Doozer Knitting Song

Doozer March Song (Set Your Shoulder)

Down in Fraggle Cave

Dream Girl Lover

Dream a Dream (and See)

Dreaming of Someone

Dum De Dum

Dum De Dum II (I Wish I Had a Genie)

Dum of a Son of a Gun

Dump the Stuff Out (Yucky for Sure)

Easy is the Only Way to Go

Everybody's Doin' It

Eye to Eye

Face Facts, Pack Snacks, Make Tracks

Feel So Bad

The Fireman's Anthem

Fly to the Sky (Learn to Fly)

Follow Me

Follow the Road

Follow Your Heart

Fraggle Rock Rock

A Fraggle You Can't See

Friends Till the End

Friendship Song

Front 'N' Back Patter Song (Turn Around Now!)

The Garbage of Time

Get Blue (Goin' Down the Road)

Get Goin’

Go with the Flow

Good-bye, Good-bye (Just a Rainbow in the Sky)

The Gorg's Lament (O World O Time O Woe)

The Gypsy Song (I Sniff the Rose)

Help Me for a Change

Helping Hand

Here to There

Hip Hip Hooray

Ho Ho Ho (What a Funny World It Is)

Home

I Knew I Was Good

I Seen Troubles

I Swear (To Be Fair)

I'm Never Alone

I'm Not Scared

I'm a Little Stew Pot

If It Happened to You

Inny Minny Cow Cow

Is It True?

The Joke Isn't Funny Anymore

The Joy

Just Don't Know What Time It Is

Just a Little Wimp

Kick a Stone

Learn to Love a Wimp

Let Me Be Your Song

A Little Doozer Music

Lose Your Heart (And It's Found)

Lost and Found

Lover, Lover, Number 9

The Me I Wanna Be

Magic Be with You (Last song, appeared in the episode "Change of Address")

Mokey's Jam Session

Muck and Goo

Music Box

Music Makes Us Real (Ping!)

Noodlin' Nut

Now You See Me (Now You Don't)

Now's the Time for Parting

Once Upon a Time (I Knew My Name)

One and One (I'm the One that Won!)

Only Way Home

Our Melody

Pantry Chant

Party Hard (Who Knows What You See)

Pass It On

(Today Has Been) A Perfect Day

Perfect Harmony

Pipe Bangers Theme

Please/See/Feel the Water Run

Pukka, Pukka, Pukka Squeetily Boink

Ragtime Queen

Recruiting Song (Heed the Drumbeat Now)

Remembering Song (Na-Na-Na)

Rev

The Rock Goes On

Rollin', Rollin' On

The Rules Song (I'm the Leader Now)

Rumble Bug Hum

Sail Away

Share and You're Not Alone

Shine On Us Now (Moon Come Soon)

Shine On, Shine On Me

Sing It and Say

Sing That Law Again

(Sleep By the) Light of the Moon

Somewhere There's a Special Place

Sorrow and Shame

Spring Cleaning

Stuff Samba

Sunlight and Shadow

Sweet, Sweet Little Treat

There's a Lot I Want to Know

Time to Live as One

Trash is Back in Town

Turn Your Buttons Down

Water Drip Song

The Way I've Got to Go

Welcome Back, Uncle Matt

Wembley, Wembley, Number 9

Wemblin' Fool

What If

What If a Friend

What an Awful Day

Why?

Wise to Myself

Without a Hat

Workin’

Yes, We Can

Yucky!

Closing Theme
Soundtrack musicians

Don Gillis - musical director

Bernie LaBarge - guitar

Michael Francis - guitar

Bob McLaren - drums

Ray Parker - keyboards

Tom Szczesniak - bass guitar

Dick Smith - percussion
Books based on Fraggle Rock
Each book listed is followed by its author, illustrator, and date of publication.

The Radish Day Jubilee, Sheilah B. Bruce, Lawrence DiFiori 1983

Red and the Pumpkins, Jocelyn Stevenson, Kelly Oechsli 1983

They Call Me Boober Fraggle, Michaela Muntean, Lisa McCue 1983

Wembley Fraggle Gets the Story, Deborah Perlberg, Steven Schindler 1984

Gobo and the River, Joseph Killorin Brennan, Diane Dawson Hearn 1985

Marooned in Fraggle Rock, David Young, Barbara McClintock

Best Friends, Jocelyn Stevenson, Sue Venning 1984

Boober Fraggle's Celery Soufflé, Louise Gikow, Kelly Oechsli 1984

Danger: Boober Cooking, Louise Gikow, Kelly Oechsli 1984

Boober Fraggle's Giant Wish, Jocelyn Stevenson, Jeffrey Severn 1984

If I Were King of the Universe, Danny Abelson, Lawrence DiFiori 1984

The Legend of the Doozer Who Didn't, Louise Gikow, Barbara McClintock 1984

No One Knows Where Gobo Goes, Mark Saltzman, Peter Elwell 1984

The Tale of Traveling Matt, Michaela Muntean, Lisa McCue 1984

Traveling Matt's Adventures in Outer Space, Michaela Muntean, Lisa McCue 1984

What Do Doozers Do?, Michaela Muntean, Sue Venning 1984

What's a Fraggle?, Louise Gikow, Barbara McClintock 1984

Wembley's Egg, Laura Phillips, Sue Venning 1984

The Cave of the Lost Fraggle, Michael Teitelbaum, Peter Elwell 1985

Follow That Fraggle, Louise Gikow, Barbara Lanza 1985

Mokey's Birthday Present, Ellen Weiss, Elizabeth Miles 1985

Waggleby of Fraggle Rock, Stephanie Calmenson, Barbara McClintock 1985

Why Wembley Fraggle Couldn't Sleep, H. B. Gilmour, Barbara McClintock 1985

Goodnight Wembley Fraggle, H. B. Gilmour, Barbara McClintock 1985

Cotterpin's Perfect Building, Ellen Weiss, Lauren Attinello 1986

Wembley and the Soggy Map, Louise Gikow, Lisa McCue 1986

Wembley Fraggle and the Magic Stone, Louise Gikow, Lauren Attinello 1986

Gobo and the Prize from Outer Space, Lyn Calder, Frederic Marvin 1986

The Case of the Missing Socks, Rebecca Grand, Jeffrey Severn 1986

Wembley Fraggle's Big, Bigger, Biggest, Harry Ross, Larry DiFiori 1988

The Fraggles Alphabet Pie, Harry Ross, Larry DiFiori 1988

The Fraggles Counting Book, Harry Ross, Larry DiFiori 1988

Mokey Fraggle's New Colors, Emily Paul, Larry DiFiori 1988

The Fraggles Cooperate, Harry Ross, Larry DiFiori 1989 There were also two separate Fraggle Rock comic book series, published by the Star Comics imprint of Marvel Comics. The first series lasted 8 issues, the second series lasted 6 issues.

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The songs of Fraggle Rock

Album releases

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Books based on Fraggle Rock