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Confussed

posted 19 years ago by joey_pesci
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Use to watch this in the 80s when I was a kid. Looking back now, its stood the test of time and looks like it was made yesterday. But I just noticed something. In the first ever episode I have, Doc is in it and when Uncle Traveling Matt leaves he comes out onto the streets of what might be New York. Yet my memory of Fraggle Rock, living in the UK, was that they were in a light house.

Then I find another episode named 1x21 (not sure which episode it is) and Doc isn't in it. The guy from the British comedy Porriage is in it instead and they are infact in a Light House. Then I check a few other episodes, one apprently from series 4, and Doc is in it again.

I'm confussed. Looking on imdb I see Doc was in it for its entire run but so was the guy from porridge. So were there to slightly different versions for the USA audience and UK audience?

[–] rocketXpert 19 years ago

If you look under the "alternate versions" section, it'll tell you that they filmed different "outer space" wraparound segments with different actors, tailored to suit whatever country the show aired in, so that the kids watching could relate more easily. So in the U.S. and Canada, we got Doc, but in the U.K., you had the Captain and the lighthouse. The human in the French version was a chef, and the guy in the German version was an inventor, like Doc. Also, the guy playing the Captain in the U.K. version died partway through the show, so was replaced with a younger actor.

[–] lonevision 19 years ago

That's interesting.

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