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'Fraggle Rock' to return to HBO

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Dance your cares away, worry’s for another day. Guess what’s coming back? Yep, it’s Fraggle Rock.

The children’s series, which aired on HBO in the 1980s, will soon be available to watch again in digitally remastered form, our sister site Deadline reports.

The puppet show followed a bunch of Jim Henson-created characters and originally ran from 1983 to 1987. The Fraggles, Doozers and Gorgs played music and interacted with each other underground despite huge differences in their ways of life.

HBO confirms to TVLine that the series will air on its broadcast channels and will be available for streaming via HBO Go, HBO Now and HBO On Demand, and that Fraggle Rock will return at the end of the year.
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https://tvline.com/2016/10/10/fraggle-rock-hbo-return/
 
While its laughable now I can remember when Fraggle Rock first aired on HBO. Because it was HBO there were many people who had felt that Fraggle Rock would be "dirty". Still can remember the general manager of our local radio station who in those days did daily editorials. In one such editorial he was warning parents to NOT allow their kids to watch this "..X-rated version of the Muppets !! Disgusting trash !!". Back in 1983 I was in the 8th grade. My math teacher was a man in his early 60s and also a preacher at one of our local churches. One day during lunch he spotting a girl with a Fraggle Rock notebook. At first when he saw it he had thought it was cute and went on to ask the girl about the show. When she said it was on HBO he started SCREAMING saying how "decent parents" would not allow to have HBO in their home with children much less let them to watch "HBO SMUT"...and he took her Fraggle Rock notebook and threw it in the trash. Again it's laughable now but in those days there were way too many people who really believed that everything on HBO was chock full of "F" words, hardcore violence, nudity, graphic sex and nothing else. Of course it's a safe bet to say that none of those poor souls had ever watched that channel at all. And to think that now Sesame Street is now airing on HBO and nobody cares..times have really changed. Looking back I can't recall the same reaction with Shelley Duvall's Fairy Tale Theatre when that show aired on Showtime. Perhaps they had felt that Showtime was "less dirty" than HBO.
 
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