The Bells of Fraggle Rock

🎄 It’s 1984, and it’s time to let the music play down in Fraggle Rock as we ring in Christmas in July on a quest to find the true meaning of the Festival of the Bells. 

🎙 Tommy Coombs and Donnie Storms join us on a journey to Outer Space as Doc teaches Sprocket — and us — about the Winter Solstice, Saturnalia, and Christmas around the world. 

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💬 Topics & Tangents: 

A clip from the British airing of “The Bells of Fraggle Rock,” in which Doc is replaced by a lighthouse captain. 

Gerald Parkes (Doc) as the Ghost of Christmas Present in “An American Christmas Carol.” 

Doc’s tool-themed Christmas tree. 

Philadelphia’s John Wanamaker Christmas Light Show and Dickens Village. 

The Weebabeast, in pictures. 

Gobo’s maze-like map to the Cave of the Great Bell. 

St. Nicholas Day. 

“Mokey and the Festival of the Bells,” a Christmas-themed Fraggle Rock storybook. 

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📼 Commercials: 

Fraggle Rock Book Club (1985) 

McDonald’s Fraggle Rock Happy Meal Toys (1988) 

Hyrule Podcasters, an audio “Let’s Play” through The Legend of Zelda. 

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“The Bells of Fraggle Rock” © 1984 Jim Henson Productions. 

Theme song by Bronwen’s Ghost. 
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