So, is it basically true that I will never again be able to see the first half of The Jim Henson Hour shows? Does anyone know of a way to get a hold of some episodes?
Also, I remember a particular 2nd half story about a mermaid and a guy who fell in love with her and bought these special shoes that turned him into a merman or something like that, but I couldn't find that story anywhere on my Stoyteller DVD. :O( Anyone know what story I'm talking about and where I can find it???
I think it's called Lighthouse Island. I too have been searching high and low for this episode. Weird how there seems to be no trace of it anywhere!
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Lighthouse Island wasn't an episode of The StoryTeller, which is why it wasn't released on The StoryTeller DVD. I know that reruns of the first half of The Jim Henson Hour were shown alongside reruns of The Muppet Show and Muppets Tonight on a canadian television station (but I don't live in canada, so I didn't get to see them). I don't know if they are still being rerun there, but in those reruns, the show title was altered: it now read "The Jim Henson Show".
Hopefully, those of us who care will get to see the firs thalf again. Hopefully Disney will release these sequences on DVD someday, or maybe they will be rerun on american TV.
The problem is, Disney bought the rights to the Muppets and not the rest of the stuff that was in the Jim Henson Hour. So while the Story Teller parts have managed to get out, and the Muppets are Disney's to release if they want, the rest are a bit up in the air as to who owns them and who has the rights to release a DVD. That, and they were not well known enough to have too many people demanding them.
I love The Lighthouse, the twist at the end where the old witch is laughing at the boy for buying Silver Slipers for a mermaid, who the witch knew was a mermaid all along, and the look on her face when the boy reveals the he knew too and that the slippers were for him cause they could make him into a fish person too was great.
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