The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years is a one-hour special starring Jim Henson's Muppets. It was shot in Toronto, Ontario in 1985 and aired January 21, 1986 on CBS. Various Muppets from "The Muppet Show", "Sesame Street", "Sam and Friends", Uncle Traveling Matt and Sprocket the Dog from "Fraggle Rock", and other Muppet-related characters host a banquet to celebrate their thirtieth anniversary by presenting a retrospective of their film and television appearances. After a montage of various Muppet clips dating from 1955 to 1984, and overlaid with Ethel Merman singing "There's No
The Muppet Show national landmark. In the film "The Muppets", a badly deteriorated version of the Muppet Theatre is located next to Muppet Studios in Los Angeles. The Muppets reunite in hopes of raising enough money to buy the theatre from oil magnate Tex Richman before he can demolish it and start drilling for oil on the site. Many of the characters who appeared on "The Muppet Show" have appeared in previous and subsequent Muppets productions. No guest star ever appeared twice on "The Muppet Show", although John Denver appeared both on the show and in two specials ("" and "John Denver &