
January 10, 1983 – March 30, 1987
Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock or Fraggle Rock with Jim Henson's Muppets) is a children's musical fantasy comedy puppet television series about interconnected societies of Muppet creatures, created by Jim Henson.
An international co-production of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, Fraggle Rock was co-produced by British television company Television South (TVS), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), U.S. pay television service Home Box Office (HBO) and Henson Associates. Unlike The Muppet Show and Sesame Street, which had been created for a single market and only later adapted for international markets, Fraggle Rock was intended from the start to be an international production, and the entire show was constructed with this in mind. At least four different versions of the human "wraparound" segments were produced separately to air in different countries.
Following the success of the Fraggle Rock: Rock On! shorts which aired on Apple TV+ in April 2020, a reboot of Fraggle Rock was ordered by the streaming service. Production on the new series of full-length episodes commenced in January 2021. Known as Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock, it premiered on January 21, 2022.
Storyline
Also See
- The Bells of Fraggle Rock (1984)
- Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series
- The Doozers
- Fraggle Rock: Rock On!
- Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock
TV Show Intro
Sound Effects Used
This series heavily uses sound effects from Hanna-Barbera and Series 1000. It also uses Elektra Records and Valentino effects.
- Audio Fidelity, Tray Of Dishes Crashing/Hollywoodedge, Stack Plates Fall Br PE1050501 (Heard in "The Incredible Shrinking Mokey".)
- Elektra Records, Blizzard/Sound Ideas, WIND - SIBERIAN WIND, WEATHER (Heard in "I Don't Care".)
- Elektra Records, Car Skid/Sound Ideas, AUTO, SKID - TIRE SKID 01
- Elektra Records, Car Skid And Crash/Sound Ideas, AUTO, CRASH - SKIDS AND CRASHES 03/Sound Ideas, CRASH, AUTO - AUTO APPROACH, SKID AND CRASH, CARTOON
- Elektra Records, Factory Whistle/Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, STEAM - FACTORY WHISTLE, LARGE FACTORY
- Elektra Records, Overstuffed Closet - Contents Crash To Floor/Hollywoodedge, Debris Misc Falling PE1054301 (Heard in various episodes when anything crashes.)
- H-B BABOONS - CALLING, ANIMAL, APE (Heard in "Gobo's Discovery".)
- H-B BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S LITTLE BOING (Heard once in "The Lost Treasure of the Fraggles".)
- H-B HIT, CARTOON - SMALL BONK 01
- H-B SPIN, CARTOON - WACKY SPIN WITH DRUM
- Sound Ideas, AUTO, SKID - TIRE SKID 03 (Heard in "The Voice Inside".)
- Sound Ideas, BAT - SQUEALS, ANIMAL (Heard in "Gobo's Discovery" and "Pebble Pox Blues".)
- Sound Ideas, BEES - BEEHIVE, ANIMAL, INSECT 01 (Heard in "Space Frog Follies".)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, OWL - EAGLE OWL: SINGLE CALL, ANIMAL (Possible debut; heard often in "Home is Where the Trash Is".)
- Sound Ideas, BIRD, SEAGULLS - CHIRPING, ANIMAL
- Sound Ideas, BIRDS, VARIOUS - GENERAL AMBIENCE: OUTDOORS, LIGHT WIND, ANIMAL, COUNTRY, RESIDENTIAL (Heard in "The Gorg Who Would Be King".)
- Sound Ideas, BITE, CARTOON - BONE BITE
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - BOINK AND WIGGLE
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - FLAT JEWS HARP BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOING
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOING COLLECTION 01
- Sound Ideas, BOING, CARTOON - RIPPLE BOING (Heard once in "Boober and the Glob.")
- Sound Ideas, BOINK, CARTOON - HOYT'S BOINK
- Sound Ideas, Cartoon, Whooshes: Comedy - One whoosh, two whooshes 1, 1 - 1967 (7D, reprocessed)
- Sound Ideas, CATAPULT, CARTOON - CATAPULT FIRE (Heard once in "Don't Cry Over Spilt Milk".)
- Sound Ideas, CLOCK, CUCKOO - FOUR O'CLOCK (Heard in "I Don't Care".)
- Sound Ideas, CLOCK, CUCKOO - TWELVE O'CLOCK
- Sound Ideas, CLOCK, TICK - OLD CLOCK TICKING (Heard often in a low pitch in "The Gorg Who Would Be King".)
- Sound Ideas, COUNTRY, AMBIENCE - BIRDS, CRICKETS AND FLIES (Heard in "The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer" and "Beyond the Pond".)
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, GLASS - GLASS SHATTERING, SMASH
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, JUNK - JUNK FALL AND CRASH
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, LIGHT BULB - GLASS, LIGHT BULB CRASH, SMASH 02
- Sound Ideas, CRASH, METAL - CLANGY METAL CRASH
- Sound Ideas, ELECTRICITY - HIGH VOLTAGE ELECTRICAL ARCING 01 (Heard in "The Cavern of Lost Dreams" and "Mokey Then and Now".)
- Sound Ideas, ELEPHANT - TRUMPET, ANIMAL 03 (Heard in "Wembley and the Mean Genie".)
- Sound Ideas, Elephant - Trumpeting. (Heard in "Red's Sea Monster".)
- Sound Ideas, FLEXITONE - ACCENT, DOWN SCALE, MUSIC, PERCUSSION, COMEDY (Heard once in "The Gorg Who Would Be King".)
- Sound Ideas, FLEXITONE - ACCENT, UP SCALE, MUSIC, PERCUSSION, COMEDY (Heard once in "The Gorg Who Would Be King".)
- Sound Ideas, FROG, BULLFROG - CROAKING, ANIMAL, AMPHIBIAN 02 (Heard often in "Space Frog Follies".)
- Sound Ideas, FROGS, AFRICAN - CROAKING, ANIMAL, AMPHIBIAN (Heard often in "The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers".)
- Sound Ideas, HIT, CARTOON - FLAT BONK (Heard once in "Junior Faces the Music".)
- Sound Ideas, MONKEY - SMALL MONKEY SQUEAKS, ANIMAL, APE (Heard often in "The Invasion of the Toe Ticklers".)
- Sound Ideas, MOUTH HARP - SINGLE BOING, MUSIC, COMEDY, JEW'S HARP 06
- Sound Ideas, MOUTH HARP - SINGLE BOING, MUSIC, COMEDY, JEW'S HARP 07
- Sound Ideas, PIG - GRUNTING IN PEN, ANIMAL 01 (Heard in "I Want to Be You".)
- Sound Ideas, PLUCK, CARTOON - SINGLE BLURP
- Sound Ideas, SLIDE, CARTOON - FAST SLIDE UP AND DOWN 02 (Heard once in "All Work and All Play", "The Wizard of Fraggle Rock" and "Red's Club".)
- Sound Ideas, TELEPHONE, BELL - RING SEVERAL TIMES, OFFICE 02 (Heard in "A Dark and Stormy Night".)
- Sound Ideas, THUNDER - BIG THUNDER CLAP AND RUMBLE, WEATHER 01/02 (Heard several times in "Catch The Tail By The Tiger")
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - BOWANG (Heard once in a high pitch in "The Garden Plot".)
- Sound Ideas, TWANG, CARTOON - HEAVY BOW TWANG
- Sound Ideas, WHISTLE, SLIDE - DOWNWARD SLIDE, MUSIC, COMEDY 02 (Heard twice in the intro, high pitched in both normal and reversed.)
- Sound Ideas, ZIP, CARTOON - BIG WHISTLE ZING OUT (Heard once in "The Trial of Cotterpin Doozer".)
- Sound Ideas, ZOOM, CARTOON - BROOM TAKE OFF (Used for Wander McMooch in "Junior Sells the Farm".)
- Valentino Boings (3 Different)
- Valentino Crow Caws (Used for ambience in the Gorgs' Garden.)
- Valentino Sheep (Small Group) (Heard in "Gobo's Discovery".)
- Valentino Submarine Dive Horn