Stuart Kenny asked for something like this a year ago. It's 50 years old today, but this isn't a history of the show, just of the show's broadcast in the UK, and particularly why it was never brought to you by the letters BBC.
The legendary Muppet-saturated preschoolers edutainment programme is fifty years old. But, although it feels like a regular fixture in Britain as much as anywhere else, it was only shown in the UK for less than half of that time, altogether, and in a very piecemeal fashion - and not at all for nearly twenty years.
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