Fraggle Rock: Seasons Four & Five

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Title: Fraggle Rock: Seasons Four & Five
Year: 1986 / 1987
Network: CBC, HBO & ITV
Episodes: 26, at 25 minutes
Creator: Jim Henson
Directors: Terry Maskell (season 4, 5 episodes; season 5, 4 episodes), Eric Till (s4, 3; s5, 5), George Bloomfield (s4, 2; s5, 1), Norman Campbell (s4, 2), Wayne Moss (s5, 2), Les Rose (s4, 1), Richard Hunt (s5, 1)
Writers: Jerry Juhl (season 4, 4 episodes; season 5, 3 episodes), David Young (s4, 3; s5, 1), Laura Phillips (s4, 1; s5, 3), Jocelyn Stevenson (s5, 4), Sugith Varughese (s4, 2; s5, 1), Susan Juhl (s4, 2; s5, 1), Robert Sandler (s4, 2), B.P. Nichol (s4, 1; s5, 1)
Starring: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Richard Hunt, Gerard Parkes
Music: Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee

My reaction
Synopsis: fun-loving, cave-dwelling creatures don’t understand their neighboring species
How I saw it: on video (have on DVD), over the past few weeks
Concept: Great.
Story: Great.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Great.
Pacing: Great.
Cinematography: Indifferent.
Special effects/design: Good.
Acting: Good.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 10/10 (Favorite of my favorites). Absolutely wonderful. Toward the end of the last season, characters and relationships develop as if this were a stand-alone movie, not a potentially-syndicated franchise. Everything is changed and completely resolved by the end. It's pretty exciting to watch it all happen. But it makes me wonder how they could possibly think it's a good idea to make a Fraggle Rock movie.
Objective Rating: 3.6/4 3.7/4 (Great)

Fraggle Rock: Season Three

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Title: Fraggle Rock: Season Three
Year: 1984-1985
Network: CBC, HBO & ITV
Episodes: 22, at 25 minutes
Creator: Jim Henson
Directors: Terry Maskell (7 episodes), George Bloomfield (7), Doug Williams (3), Eric Till (2), Jim Henson (1), Les Rose (1), Norman Campbell (1)
Writers: Jocelyn Stevenson (6 episodes), Jerry Juhl (4), B.P. Nichol (4), Robert Sandler (3), Sugith Varughese (3), Laura Phillips (2), Susan Juhl (1), David Young (1)
Starring: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Richard Hunt, Gerard Parkes
Music: Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee

My reaction
Synopsis: fun-loving, cave-dwelling creatures don’t understand their neighboring species
How I saw it: on video a couple times (have on DVD), most recently over the past few weeks
Concept: Great.
Story: Good.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Great.
Cinematography: Bad.  But improving a little.
Special effects/design: Good.
Acting: Good.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 10/10 (Favorite of my favorites). The writing is back up to near where it was for the first season. Some episodes are a little weak, but none of them are bad. The relationships between species are developing; I'm pretty excited to see where it goes in the last two seasons (which we have but haven't watched yet).
Objective Rating: 8/10 (Good) 3.3/4 3.4/4 (Very good).

Fraggle Rock: Season Two

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Title: Fraggle Rock: Season Two
Year: 1984
Network: CBC, HBO & ITV
Episodes: 24, at 25 minutes
Creator: Jim Henson
Directors: George Bloomfield (12 episodes), Eric Till (6), Jim Henson (3), Norman Campbell (2), Terry Maskell (1)
Writers: Jerry Juhl (6 episodes), Jocelyn Stevenson (5), Laura Phillips (3), B.P. Nichol (3), Sugith Varughese (3), David Young (3), Susan Juhl (2), John Pattison (1), Robert Sandler (1)
Starring: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Richard Hunt, Gerard Parkes
Music: Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee

My reaction
Synopsis: fun-loving, cave-dwelling creatures don’t understand their neighboring species
How I saw it: on video several times (have on DVD), most recently over the past few weeks
Concept: Great.
Story: Good.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Great.
Cinematography: Bad.
Special effects/design: Good.
Acting: Good.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 9/10 (One of my favorites). Not as good as season one. There are a few bad episodes (the ones that focus on Doozers instead of Fraggles), and not as many that stand out as exceptional.  And there's very little progress made toward the over-arching plot of Everyone Learning to Get Along.  But it's still Fraggle Rock, and Fraggles are the sh**.
Objective Rating: 8/10 (Good) 3.3/4 3.4/4 (Very good).

Fraggle Rock: Season One

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Title: Fraggle Rock: Season One
Year: 1983
Network: CBC, HBO & ITV
Episodes: 24, at 25 minutes
Creator: Jim Henson
Directors: Jim Henson (7 episodes), George Bloomfield (7), Perry Rosemond (5), Norman Campbell (1), Peter Harris (1), Stephen Katz (1), Doug Williams (1), Martin Lavut (1)
Writers: Jerry Juhl (9 episodes), Jocelyn Stevenson (7), David Young (3), Carol Bolt (1), David Brandes (1), B.P. Nichol (1), Susan Juhl (1), Sugith Varughese (1), Laura Phillips (1)
Starring: Dave Goelz, Jerry Nelson, Steve Whitmire, Kathryn Mullen, Karen Prell, Richard Hunt, Gerard Parkes
Music: Philip Balsam & Dennis Lee

My reaction
Synopsis: fun-loving, cave-dwelling creatures don't understand their neighboring species
How I saw it: on video several times (have on DVD), most recently over the past couple weeks
Concept: Great.
Story: Great.
Characters: Great.
Dialog: Good.
Pacing: Great.
Cinematography: Eh.
Special effects/design: Okay. Great design, so-so special effects.
Acting: Good.
Music: Great.
Subjective Rating: 10/10 (Favorite of my favorites). It fills me with joy just to look at a fraggle.
Objective Rating: 9/10 (1 point off for cinematography) 3.4/4 3.5/4 (Very good).