John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together is a 1979 Christmas television special starring Jim Henson's Muppets and singer/songwriter John Denver. The special first aired December 5, 1979, on ABC. The special has never been commercially released on any standard home video media format. The special opens with Denver and the Muppets singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas". To add comedic effect, Fozzie Bear forgets his line ("Seven swans a-swimming.") and Miss Piggy over-emphasizes hers ("Five gold rings, ba-dum, bum, bum.") The main plot of the rest of the special is
The Muppets "The Muppet Show" ended its five-year run. "The Muppets Comic Strip" was printed daily from 1981 to 1986. By the end of its initial run, the comic strip was seen in over 660 newspapers worldwide. Special strips were also created in color, exclusively for issues of "Muppet Magazine". The only film in the franchise to see a comic book adaptation was "The Muppets Take Manhattan". The comic book series was adapted by Marvel Comics in 1984, as the 68-page story in "Marvel Super Special" No. 32, August. The adaptation was later re-printed into three limited series issues, released under Marvel's