The Muppet Show Muppets Tonight from 10 March to 10 April in "Complete Muppets". In 2014, Kermit, Fozzie and Sweetums visited the PuppeTV studios in Sussex for the "When The Muppets Visited PuppeTV". Following Steve Whitmire's firing as Kermit's puppeteer, the channel dedicated a month to the puppeteer's best performances in "Kermit And Steve: A Match Made In Heaven" in Feb 2017. "The Muppet Show Theme" (written by Henson and Sam Pottle in 1976) is the show's theme song. It is the opening and closing theme for every episode of "The Muppet Show" and was performed by The Muppets in a scene of
The Muppets Primetime Emmy Award nominations during its run and won four, including Outstanding Variety Series in 1978. The success of "The Muppet Show" allowed Henson Associates to diversify into theatrical films centered on the Muppets; the first of these, "The Muppet Movie", was released in 1979. Following "The Muppet Movie" were "The Great Muppet Caper" and "The Muppets Take Manhattan", released in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Collectively, the three films received four Academy Award nominations. In 1983, Henson debuted another television series, "Fraggle Rock", which ran on HBO in the United States until 1987. In the late 1980s, Henson entered discussions