As Jim Henson searches for an opportunity to make puppet performances popular to an older audience, he gets the chance to bring the Muppets to a new segment on Saturday Night. Between Sesame Street and the Muppet Show sits Jim's ill-fated, short lived segment, known as "The Land of Gorch".

(Sometimes spelled Gortch.)

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A Mini-Documentary by Tyler Thompson

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Primary Sources:

Jim Henson: The Biography
by Brian Jay Jones

Live From New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, as Told By Its Stars, Writers
and Guests by James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales

“The Muppetry of Nightmares: Figures of Fear, Danger and Terror in The Cosby Show, Chappelle’s Show and Saturday Night Live ” by Michael J Bernsten

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Music Credits:

"California Woman" by Joachim Kuhn
"You're So Rude (2004 Remaster)" by Faces
"Home at Last (2006 Remaster)" by Sam & Dave
"Games People Play" by The Spinners
"Pineapple and the Monkey (2010 Remaster)" by Faces
“Kool Kats” by Kevin MacLeod

Kool Kats by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...

All music used with permission and sourced from YouTube's Creator Music Library.

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