The Mupclip Show

A trio of newspaper clippings for you today, this time from 1976 just as The Muppet Show was about to hit British teatime television screens. The first is from the Coventry Evening Telegraph on Wednesday 18th August.

The same paper told much the same story a few weeks earlier too, this time on the 4th August.

And here’s what the Daily Mirror had to say on the 19th August.

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