Fraggle Rock

Fraggle Rock is a children’s television series with a total of 4 seasons and 96 episodes. The series 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. It was repeated by Nickelodeon in the UK from 1993, and later by Boomerang and Cartoonito. 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 colorful and fun world; “It is a high-energy, raucous musical romp. It’s a lot of silliness. It’s wonderful.” The series plays out in 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.