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The adventures of the various inhabitants of an underground civilization.
Fraggle Rock is a children’s television series with a total of 4 seasons and 96 episodes that originally ran from January 10, 1983 to March 30, 1987 on HBO in the United States, CBC Television in Canada, TV2 in New Zealand and ITV in the UK.
Later Boomerang and Cartoonito broadcast it in the UK. In 2008, Fraggle Rock is showing in the UK on POP! and Tiny Pop, in Australia on Boomerang and in Canada on Teletoon Retro.
The series was created by Jim Henson, primarily featuring a cast of Puppet 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.
Jim Henson articulated a vision of Fraggle Rock as depicting a colourful and fun world; “It is a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It’s a lot of silliness. It’s wonderful.”
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.
The show became a worldwide hit, like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show.
The Silly Creatures of Outer Space
Gobo’s uncle Matt, known as Traveling Matt, has gone into “Outer Space” (what the Fraggles call the human world) to explore, and he sends postcards back to Gobo regularly.
The name “Traveling Matt” is also a joke, as the special-effects technique for combining objects (such as spaceships and starry background) is known as a traveling matte. Humans are known to Fraggles by the name “Silly Creatures”, bestowed by Matt after observing and interacting with them in his travels
Gorgs
Outside another exit from Fraggle Rock through a well live a small family of Gorgs, giant furry humanoids standing 22 feet (6.7 m) tall. The husband and wife of the family consider themselves the King (Gordon Robertson and Jerry Nelson) and Queen (Trish Leeper and Myra Fried) of the Universe, with their son Junior (Richard Hunt and Rob Mills) as its prince and heir, but to all appearances they are really simple farmers with a rustic house and garden patch.
Marjory, The Trash Heap
The Trash Heap, a wise being (referred to as an “oracle”) serves as the garbage dump of the Gorgs. She and her heckling heralds live near the Gorg’s garden, and she gives the Fraggles guidance and advice, which the Fraggles regard with reverence, but not worship. She also appears to have some magical abilities (specifically telepathy and the ability to teleport items or Fraggles), though she does not use them often. Sometimes she knits to pass the time. The Trash Heap was voiced by Jerry Nelson.
Philo and Gunge
The heralds of the Trash Heap, they often introduce her as the “all-knowing, all-seeing Trash Heap!” They supply humour, bad jokes, and puns. Although Gunge professes to be the brains of the pair, neither ever really prove to be a great help. They watched over the Trash Heap; if they left for a long time she would begin to die out. When she was finished speaking, they would announce, “The Trash Heap has spoken! Nyeah!” Philo and Gunge did get two episodes of the series devoted to them: “Home Is Where The Trash Is” and “Gunge The Great & Glorious”. After Fraggle Rock ended, Philo went into retirement, but Gunge appeared on Dinosaurs and Mopatop’s Shop. Philo was played by Dave Goelz and Gunge was played by Richard Hunt.
The “Fraggle Rock Theme” reached number 33 in the British charts during the phenomenon.
Fraggle Rock was created by Jim Henson.
It stars Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Jim Henson.
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