Discover What’s Streaming On: Picture It: Northern New Jersey, 1976. A 5-year-old boy, after a hard day in kindergarten and a dinner of baked ziti, sits down to his new favorite show, The Muppet Show, ...

Clockwise from top left: Alice Cooper with the “School’s Out” monsters, Rita Moreno with Animal, and Diana Ross with Fozzie Bear ...

"I would have a really bad morning and I would go to set and shoot opposite the Muppets. I would be like, 'Oh my god, nothing's that serious. Look, the Muppets exist and everything's okay.'" Whether ...

The Muppets were made for TV. It just took TV 20 or so years to get ready for The Muppets. They’d been local favorites, staples of the talk-and variety-show circuits, and some of the earliest stars of ...