Fraggle Rock (also known as Jim Hensons Fraggle Rock or Fraggle Rock with Jim Hensons Muppets) is an American/British/Canadian childrens live action puppet television series created by Jim Henson, about a society of Muppet creatures called Fraggles. Fraggle Rock was co-produced by British television company Television South (TVS), the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, U.S. pay television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates. Unlike Sesame Street (which had been created for a single market and only later adapted for international markets), Fraggle Rock was intended from the start to be an international production and the whole show was constructed with this in mind. Fraggle Rock debuted in 1983 as one of the first shows involving the collaboration of Henson International Television (HIT Entertainment from 1989), the international arm of Jim Henson Productions and of Deluxe Digital Studios. The co-production brought together British regional ITV franchise-holder Television South (TVS), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates (later Jim Henson Productions). Filming took place on a Toronto sound-stage (and later at Elstree Studios, London). The avant-garde poet bpNichol worked as one of the shows writers. In the early days of development, the script called the Fraggles Woozles pending the devising of a more suitable name. Henson described the Fraggle Rock series as a high-energy, raucous musical romp. Its a lot of silliness. Its wonderful.While the program proved accessible to audiences of all ages, it used the fantasy creatures as an allegory to deal with serious issues such as prejudice, spirituality, personal identity, the environment, and social conflict. In 2009, as part of the Jim Henson Foundations donation of puppets to the Center for Puppetry Arts, the Atlanta museum displayed many of the original puppet characters from Fraggle Rock in their exhibition Jim Henson: Wonders from his Workshop.
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