Yesterday HIT! Entertainment announced that
November 4th will see the DVD release of
Fraggle Rock - The Complete Series Collection. This will be just a week after the
already-reported Oct. 28th release date of the 4th and final season as an individual season set. While retail distributor Lionsgate Entertainment hasn't shown it (or Season 4) on their official release schedule yet, the exciting news came yesterday from the folks at HIT! Entertainment themselves. Our thanks to reader William Mitchell for the heads-up, after he read about it in the
MuppetCentral.com discussion forum.
HIT! says that this 20-disc set will contain 38 hours of content, consisting of all 96 episodes from the show's 4-season run. That includes 100 original songs, and more than two hours of all-new bonus features. Those extras include an all-new
Fraggle Rock short featuring "Red Fraggle," and produced by The Jim Henson Company itself. Plus an original
Fraggle Rock illustrated poster, "
all presented together in custom premium, collectible packaging!" A picture of the package art is not available just yet, however.
The studio information comments multiple times about never-before released Season 4 content in this package, which makes us wonder if the 4th Season set might not get rescheduled to come out a week later, on the same 11/4 date as
The Complete Series Collection. For example, when describing the content and extras on this set, HIT's literature has the following:
Never-before released episodes from season four included in the Fraggle Rock Complete Series Collection are "Sprocket's Big Adventure," "Wembley's Wonderful Whoopie Water," "Sidebottom Blues," "Uncle Matt's Discovery," "Junior Faces the Music," "A Tune For Two," "The Perfect Blue Rollie," "A Brush With Jealousy," "Wembley's Flight," "Red's Blue Dragon," "Wonder Mountain," "Space Frog Follies" and "Boober Gorg."
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES
- ALL-NEW exclusive Fraggle Rock short created for the Complete Set by The Jim Henson Company and starring Red Fraggle, written by Cory Edwards, writer and director of the upcoming Fraggle Rock feature film
- Original Fraggle Rock illustration poster
- Let the Music Play featurette
- Directing the Fraggles featurette
- The Inner Gorg: Interviews with performers inside the costumes
- Designing the Puppets: Interviews with puppetmakers
- You Cannot Leave the Magic: Last day of Shooting
- Celebrating Fraggle Rock: Excerpts from wrap party
- Dance Your Cares Away: Evolution of Fraggle Rock Theme Song
- Alternative Show Opens from UK Fraggle Rock series
Video is listed as full frame, with audio as English 2.0; it is also closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Running time is 2186 minutes. Cost will be $139.98 SRP. Stay tuned for package art for
Fraggle Rock - The Complete Series Collection (and for
Season 4), just as soon as we can get it to you!
