A warm Yuletide special, A Muppet Family Christmas pairs the Muppet gang with the perennial favorite Sesame Street cast for a holiday celebration. With a blizzard brewing outside, Fozzie's childhood farmhouse on Christmas Eve becomes the backdrop for a medley of holiday tunes--eight in all--ranging from the Muppet band's rousing "Jingle Bell Rock" to Big Bird's sweet rendition of "The Christmas Song." Though the script meanders in part, the 42-minute program shines as a musical revue, seasoned with quick-witted interludes by the culinary comedic Swedish Chef, slapstick odd couple Ernie and Bert, and the diva-like escapades of Miss Piggy. While lacking the irresistible sizzle of The Muppet Movie, the show's finale, which includes Kermit and Piggy under the mistletoe and a cameo appearance by Jim Henson, proves that nothing can dim the Muppets' appeal. --Lynn Gibson

Customer Rating:
Summary: I wont be buying the DVD of this favorite Christmas movie
Comment: I came to Amazon a few weeks ago in order to buy the DVD version of Muppets Family Christmas for my grandsons. Its been a family fave of ours for 20 years now. Imagine my surprise when I saw the price of it! That alone was enough to deter me and then I read the reviews and saw that several of the best parts of this movie had been edited out.

Whats the point in spending almost $200 when it isnt even the original movie?

Amazon: A word of advice here. Dont bother trying to sell this movie at such an exorbitant price and then let people know that key parts have been edited due to something as stupid and trivial as "production rights".

I still have my original VHS tape and will continue to watch that with my grandsons until the powers that be grow up and stop penalizing the viewing public for something we have absolutely no control over.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: soo glad i read this review before
Comment: i have this video but on vhs without any commercials and was hoping to find the whole thing intack so i can have it on dvd. i am soo glad that i read the review from Fritogirl.. those edits make the show almost unwatchable in my opinion... tho being able to see Elmo before he was so big is also a funny thing..in this version Elmo is just one of the other monsters, but he is there none the less. just singing along....with Harry Monster and Grover.. is also before Zoey.. the Fraggles are included which makes it a must see for any Fraggle Rock-er...hands you a Christmas pebble.. Merry Christmas

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Customer Rating:
Summary: MUPPET FAMILY CHRISTMAS, VHS
Comment: This is one of the best, if not the best videos that the late, great Jim Henson produced prior to his untimely death. I resell a lot of the children's videos that I purchase on line, at private sales and from my own distributors, and this one literally flys off my auction site as soon as I list one. This is an out of print video, so its not very easy to find copies of same.Of course, as with most of Henson's videos, violence is not present, the majority of his videos are all feel good ones and they are absolutely great for the young children.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: There's hope out there!!
Comment: Like everyone else, I've been searching for this show on DVD for YEARS! It was a favorite of mine when I was little. We had it on VHS, but sometime between me moving out and my brother, it got lost. As much as I loved this, I wasn't going to spend 200 bucks for it. However, I found a website that tracks down old, hard to find DVDs and sells them for an appropriate price. Lo and behold, they had a copy for $18 plus $4 shipping!! I bought it and just got it in the mail today and I've already watched it. It's a two disk set. The first disc is the remastered, yet chopped up version and the second disc was the original, televised broadcast! The quality wasn't the best in the world....you can tell it was recorded off of a beta or VHS, but it's still completely watchable if you don't mind the occasional glitches (hey, after 20+ years, my VHS was in worse shape than this). So there's hope out there! Here's the link....hopefully, they'll have more for all those out there still looking for a copy....

http://shop.vendio.com/mostwanteddvd/item/913241760/index.html

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Please someone respond and help!!!!
Comment: There sre so many of us that are suffering without a copy of the unedited version of mupp. fam. christmas we remember as children....... i beg for one of you out there that owns such a copy please please please make a copy and sell it so i can pass it on to the rest of us, i will pay whatever u want, vhs, beta, dvd, dont care i need to find this before its too late...ANYONE???? please respond!!!

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