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• In the UK, the ending credits roll on the right corner of the screen and credit the guest star. In all non-UK versions of the show, the credits roll in the centre of the screen and do not credit the guest star. The UK editions of half of the first season episodes, as well as the ones with Harry Belafonte and Chris Langham, have recently been shown on television in the US.
  
  
• On the 1994 video release "Monster Laughs with Vincent Price", The extra UK Spot, "I'm Looking Through You", the houses skit and the closing number, "You've Got a Friend", were all cut from the Vincent Price episode, while "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" was cut from the Alice Cooper episode.
  
  
• In the Vincent Price episode, Uncle Deadly explains that at midnight on New Year's Eve his master (Vincent Price) turns into a horrible beast. In the US version of the episode, Uncle Deadly says that he turns into Guy Lombardo. For the UK version, the line is re-dubbed to say he turns into Jack Parnell.
  
  
• Several songs/skits were left off of the first season RC1 DVD sets, most likely due to licensing issues for song rights, with the exception of a line from the Muppet Pitch Reel. They include:
  • Joel Grey - "Wayne & Wanda", "Muppet News"
  • Jim Nabors - "Gone With The Wind", "Danceros"
  • Paul Williams - "All of Me"
  • Charles Aznavour - "Dance The Old fashioned Way"
  • Vincent Price - "You've Got A Friend"
  • "Pitch Reel" - Kermit saying "What the hell was that?"
  
  
  
• In the Charles Aznavour episode, Charles Aznavour first act, "Dance The Old fashioned Way", was cut from the first season RC1 DVD release.
  
  
• For German episodes, Jim Henson shot a new intro of Kermit announcing the guest star in front of a specially created "Die Muppet Show" backdrop.
  
  
• On the first season RC1 DVD release, the closing number from the Vincent Price episode, "You've Got A Friend", was cut.
  
  
• In the Joel Grey episode, the song "stormy weather" (sung by Wayne and Wanda) and both of the Muppet News segments were cut from the RC1 DVD release.
  
  
• In the Jim Nabors episode, both Nabors' first number, "Gone With The Wind" and the "Danceros" dance number were cut from the first season RC1 DVD release.
  
  
• In the Paul Williams episode, the opening number, "All Of Me", was cut from the first season RC1 DVD release.
  
  
• Mid-1980s prints of this show used a special in-credit variant on the "Henson Associates, Inc." (or "HA!") logo, which was the name of The Jim Henson Company at the time, to replace the ITC in-credit logo (ITC only distributed the show). In the final shot of the end credits, when Zoot blew his saxophone, rather than fading out, as on ITC prints, a white bubble with the Hensons Associates logo on it flies out and takes its place in the center of the screen, to the amusement of the audience. However, this logo was dropped in the 1990s and beyond, when it was replaced by the 1989 Jim Hensons Productions logo. When the show was released on DVD, there is simply the shot of Zoot blowing his sax as a Muppets Holding Company copyright notice fades in on the bottom of the screen.
  
  
• In Turkey, because the Koran teaches that pigs are unclean, all scenes with Miss Piggy are omitted from reruns of the show.
  
  
• In Sweden the Swedish Chef's name is changed to the German Chef.
  
  
• The opening credits for the first season were not seen in syndication or on the Timelife videos. Instead, they're replaced with second season openings.
  
  
• The shows, as aired on ITV in England, were originally 25 minutes long, but the US versions were cut to 23 minutes (due to the fact that US broadcasters, in opposition to almost all other broadcasters, inserted two minutes of advertisements in the middle of the episodes). The 25-minute versions have only now been issued in North America on DVD.
  
  

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