|
|
List Price: $49.98Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $24.99 (50%)Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Buy Now!
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HENSON,JIM
EAN: 9781586683788
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 1586683780
Label: Lionsgate / HIT Entertainment
Manufacturer: Lionsgate / HIT Entertainment
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Lionsgate / HIT Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 06, 2005
Running Time: 715 minutes
Sales Rank: 2193
Studio: Lionsgate / HIT Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 1983
Editorial Review:
Description:
From a fun-loving group of furry subterranean creatures came: millions of fans, 100 original songs, 96 total episodes, 5 seasons, but only one First Season Boxed Set. Dance your cares away with the complete first season of Fraggle Rock, Featuring all 24 episodes - never before available on DVD! Filled with all the Fraggley Fun you've been waiting for. Share in the music and memories that have kept fans rockin' for more than 20 years! So save your worries for another day and experience 715 minutes of frag-tastic fun in the untimate Fraggle Rock collection.
Amazon.com:
The world of Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock is far from the sunny urban buzz of Sesame Street, where many of Henson's most beloved Muppet characters dwell, or the frantic, backstage shenanigans of The Muppet Show, the classic variety program starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, and other icons of children's television. In Fraggle Rock, humans and Muppets live in different worlds. So different, in fact, that the Fraggles--small but diverse creatures who live in a cavernous land behind a wall in the shop of a tinkerer named Doc (Gerry Parkes)--regard the realm of flesh-and-blood people as 'outer space.'
Fraggles and people live apart, but the order of things is shaken up when the series' central character, Gobo, can't talk his determined uncle, Traveling Matt, from being the first of his kind to explore the great unknown. Matt leaves Fraggle Rock with a promise to get word to Gobo about how things are going. Thereafter, Gobo has to find a way, from time to time, to fetch postcards from Doc's trash can (Doc can't figure out why missives from someone named Uncle Matt keep turning up in his mailbox) by dashing into the tinkerer's warm workshop, avoiding not only Doc's eyes but the suspicions of his wonderful dog, Sprocket. (Doc mutters occasionally about boarding up a hole in the wall that serves as Gobo's door. When he finally does so, mid-season, it poses a crisis for Gobo, who is caught on the wrong side.) While Traveling Matt sees what people are like, Gobo and his fellow Fraggles--Red, Wembley, Boober, Mokey, and others--have adventures (and some misadventures) of their own, trying to get along, learning to say what they mean and how to avoid making the same mistake twice. Over time, they begin to ponder the big questions of their world and lives, questions that have an ethical subtext that can easily be appreciated by young viewers. Such as: Is it okay to eat elaborate structures built by Doozers, small construction builders whose materials apparently are so tasty? Should one ever trick a friend so seriously the latter actually grieves? Helping the Fraggles with these tough issues is all-knowing Marjory the Trash Heap, guru of garbage and life lessons. Not helpful by any stretch are the problematic Gorgs, giants who want to enslave Fraggles and who consider themselves royalty of the universe (such as it is behind Doc's wall). Each busy episode is designed to impart wisdom to kids, but they are also as funny as one might expect from the wisecracking Muppet Factory. Bonuses include recent interviews with cast and crew of the 1980s show, as well as a documentary about Henson. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - passing the torch
My 11yr old daughter loved this set! She had been looking up clips on youtube, so I thought I would pass on the love of all things Jim Henson.... Fraggle Rock Rocks!!
Rating: - stunning.... great present for kids
It has been more than 20 years since I saw fraggle rock for the first time... and the series is just as relevant, creative, and in an odd way moving. What I enjoyed as a kid, I can now appreciate as an adult. The puppetry is wonderful, the stories exciting but innocent, and the music, the music.... some of those songs have been floating around in my head for two and a half decades... a lot went into this show that just doesn't get done now.
I'll be buying this for all the children ... Read More
Rating: - excellent
I hadn't watched this since childhood and I was reminded of how well done this series was. It is good for kids of all ages!
Rating: - Fraggle Rock Year One
This set brought back fond memories for me and my children. What a wholesome prodect for young children!
Rating: - Wonderful!
This is a wonderful addition to our collection. I grew up with Fraggle Rock and I'd like my son to be able to watch it also. I'm very pleased with this product!
|
|
