Muppets on The Orson Welles Show

     The Orson Welles Show was an unsold television talk show pilot. It has never been broadcast or released. Filming began in September 1978 and the project was completed around February 1979. It ran 74 minutes and was intended for a 90 minute commercial time slot.

     Shot partly before a live audience, Welles interviewed Burt Reynolds (taking several questions from the audience,) Jim Henson and Frank Oz performed Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear. Other taped skits included Gonzo the Great, Sam and Animal. Unfortunately the show was never released to the public and only now have some of those segments begun to surface. Here is a clip that was released on Orson Welles’s movie “F for Fake”.
This clip was on the special features disk.