The Muppets film, "Muppets from Space", released by Columbia Pictures in 1999. In 2000, Henson was sold to EM.TV & Merchandising AG for $680 million. However, EM.TV was plagued with financial problems and the Henson family re-acquired the company in 2003, with the exception of the rights to the "Sesame Street" characters, which had been sold by EM.TV to Sesame Workshop. Fourteen years after initial negotiations began, Disney acquired the Muppets intellectual property from the Jim Henson Company for $75 million on February 17, 2004. The acquisition consisted of the Muppets and "Bear in the Big Blue House" properties, as well as
Switch (TV series) Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner are the only actors to appear in every episode. Sharon Gless appeared in all but three episodes, and Charlie Callas did not appear in four episodes during the run. The short-lived ABC 1976-1977 crime drama "The Feather and Father Gang" was seen as an unsuccessful attempt to imitate "Switch". Coincidentally, Wagner would later costar with one of the stars of "The Feather and Father Gang", Stefanie Powers, in another crime drama "Hart to Hart" which ran for 5 seasons beginning in 1979. Switch (TV series) Switch is an American action-adventure detective series starring Eddie Albert