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| Muppets Tonight | |
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Jim Henson Productions |
| Based on | The Muppets by Jim Henson |
| Directed by | Greg V. Fera Brian Henson Tom Trbovich Gary Halvorson |
| Starring | |
| Composer | Richard Gibbs |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 22 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
| Production | |
| Production locations | Hollywood Center Studios Hollywood, California |
| Running time | 22–24 minutes |
| Production company | Jim Henson Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC[1] |
| Release | March 8 – July 14, 1996 |
| Network | Disney Channel[1] |
| Release | September 13, 1997 – February 8, 1998 |
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Muppets Tonight is an American live-action/puppet family-oriented comedy television series, created by Jim Henson Productions and featuring The Muppets. The series ran for two seasons between March 1996 to February 1998, originally airing on ABC, before later being aired and rerun on the Disney Channel. The show was a continuation of The Muppet Show, with Kermit the Frog and the Muppets running their own television channel and studio,[2] only to request one of their own to run a new show to fill in a timeslot in their channel's scheduling.
The series brought back several notable Muppet characters from The Muppet Show while introducing several new ones to the program, and made notable parodies of television programs ranging from game shows, chat shows, and educational entertainment. Each episode featured one principal guest star, but a number of episodes also featured additional guest stars; one episode featured a cameo from Leonard Nimoy.[3] Muppets Tonight received mixed reviews from critics.
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- ^ King, Susan (March 10, 1996). "The Muppets Put On a Show, Again". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
- ^ Mifflin, Lawrie (March 13, 1996). "TV NOTES;High Hopes for Aliens". The New York Times. Retrieved March 20, 2012.