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''On the Muppet Show tonight!"'' }}
The immense popularity of [[The Muppets]] they created for ''[[Sesame Street]]'' gave [[Jim Henson]], Jerry Juhl and Frank Oz the impetus to create a variety show for family viewing, but with social and political satire. [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] aired a pair of [[Pilot]] specials, ''The Muppets Valentine Show'' (1974) and ''The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence'' (1975), but when all the U.S. networks rejected their ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KorhvVQRUM frankly awesome]) pitch for a weekly series, they instead finagled a distribution deal with Britain's ITC, under the auspices of Lord Lew Grade.
''[[The Muppet Show]]'' was produced for worldwide weekly syndication from 1976 to 1981. It was videotaped at the London studios of ITC's parent company ATV. The choreography for the human guests was created by Gillian Lynne, who later went on to design all of the ballet sequences in Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage version of ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]''.
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