What about The Great Space Coaster? This was an awesome 1980's morning children's live action/ puppet t.v. show that ran syndicated 7 years from 1980 to 1987. The show had puppets such as Goriddle Gorilla, Gary Gnu, Baxter The Clown, Edison Elephant, Knock Knock, The Bird, Evil Circus Ringleader M.T. Promises, Rockin with Rory ,The D J, Baffle ,the spiked green caterpillar magician from the planet blip, The Huggles, 4 small furball puppets named Fluffy, Puffy, Scruffy, and Baby Huggle, a human named Speedreader, and 3 human Teenage Singers in a rock band called The Spacecoasters named Frannie, Danny, and Roy. This show had many gentle skits, music videos, live footage segments,songs,cartoons, such terrific special effects,animation segments, and many lessons for for life for grade school children. The show also had many celebrity guest stars such as Sally Struthers, Bess Armstrong, "Mary" Kathleen Turner, Linda Gray, Aileen Quinn AKA "Annie", Valerie Harper, Mark Hamill, Richard Kiel, Henry Winkler, Dr. Joyce Brothers, Carol Channing, Charlotte Rae, Geri Jewell, Rock Steady Crew Dancers, Ice Skaters Tai Babilonia and Randy Garner, and Singer Karen Carpenter- May she always rest in peace in heaven. Please sign the bring back the great space coaster online petition @ www. petitiononline.com/TGSC because it now has 2,107 signatures. The Great Space Coaster Homepage @ www. great space coaster .com has recently been updated for 2006 with new pictures, video clips, a product museum, a bio page, a guest star page, and there is also much more information on the cast. Does anyone remember Frannie, the very attractive 16 year old brunette singer/guitar player/ female lead of the TGSC? She used to play many practical jokes on Puppet Goriddle Gorilla! Does anyone remember The Great Space Coaster being shown as reruns on Cartoon Network back in the year 1994? This was a classic live action/ 1980's puppet t.v. show! I emjoyed watching it as much as Fraggle Rock! The Great Space Coaster Puppets were created by Kermit Love, a former Muppet Designer, at his Great Jones Studios. The Great Space Coaster was Produced by Sunbow Productions and Claster Television. It sponsors were Keloggs Cereals and Hasbro Toys.It was a Non- Jim Henson Puppet t.v. show though. The Great Space Coaster had many Muppeteers that worked for The Jim Henson Company before and after the show's 7 year run back in the 1980's such as John Lovelady, Kevin Clash, Jim Martin, Noel Macneal, Pam Arcerio, and Francis Kane. Does anyone remember the anti- gravity day episode, in which everything in Coasterville including Frannie's guitar went flying up in the air!Let's get this classic 1980's t.v. show back into rerun syndication and on dvd for another generation to enjoy!
Greg Casiglia
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