Original title
Fraggle Rock
Released
1/10/1983
Origin country
US
Genre
Comedy, Family, Kids, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Production companies
HBO, The Jim Henson Company, CBC, Henson Associates, Jim Henson Television, Turner Broadcasting System
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
96
The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.
Gobo's Uncle Matt discovers the opening to Outer Space and sets off to explore it, leaving Gobo behind to explore Fraggle Rock and pick up the postcards Matt will send.
Wembley agrees with everyone, including the Gorgs, who decide he makes a great loyal subject.
Red's Swimming Extravaganza is canceled when the Pool goes dry and there's no water to fill it.
Boober is really brave until he loses his lucky hat.
Wembley has to decide what job he wants to do.
Mokey decides that eating Doozer constructions hurts their feelings, so she gets Convincing John to help her get the Fraggles to stop.
Everyone loves Mokey, so Red decides to be just like her.
Wembley accidentally finds the legendary Terrible Tunnel.
Gobo and Red find a map that leads to the Ancient Treasure of the Fraggles.
Gobo gets trapped in Outer Space when Doc boards up the hole in the wall.
It's been two weeks since Traveling Matt's last postcard, so Gobo decides to go into Outer Space to look for him.
Mokey wins Ruler of the Rock Day, but she has a lot of trouble being in charge.
Everybody wants Wembley to do something for them, except a Fraggle named Lou, who likes Wembley just for who he is.
Red challenges Gobo's leadership.
Boober is sick of everyone not respecting his feelings.
Gobo is the Moon-Greeter for this month's Festival of the Fraggle Moon, when Junior Gorg steals the Moon!
Boober's birthday is interrupted by a disaster (and didn't he just know this was going to happen?!).
The Fraggles meet the band of traveling musicians known as The Minstrels, led by the mysterious and wise Cantus. Everyone must find their own song, but Red is having a lot of trouble with hers.
The Trash Heap decides to teach the Fraggles, Doozers and Gorgs a lesson by magically making all the radishes in the Gorg's garden disappear.
Fraggle Rock is under attack from two sides when Sprocket tries to smash his way in, and Junior Gorg tries to pulverize it.
Gobo thinks he's lost his nerve and decides not to be an explorer anymore.
Nobody thinks Mokey is good at practical things, so she tries to deal with Junior Gorg's Fraggle trap on her own.
Wembley must choose between entering Red's splash-a-thon and accompanying Gobo on a scary journey.
Through a misunderstanding, Mokey becomes the new Trash Heap.
Wembley tries to take care of a baby Tree Creature when its egg falls down the well and into the Fraggle Pond.
Boober's had enough of the noise of Fraggle Rock, so he moves to the Caves of Boredom.
Ma Gorg wants a gazebo, so Junior has to get rid of the Trash Heap. Wembley and Boober have to figure out how to save her by themselves.
Red is jealous of Gobo, until she discovers a sea monster in Fraggle Rock.
Gobo's Uncle Matt comes home, but friction between them makes it a less than happy reunion.
Boober's fun side (his Sidebottom) wants to play!
Mokey decides that she wants to be a minstrel.
Cotterpin Doozer doesn't want to get her helmet and become a full-fledged Doozer worker. She wants to be a Fraggle!
Gobo and the gang trick the Gorgs into leaving the castle by impersonating the legendary Sir Hubris.
Sprocket gets stuck in the hole between Outer Space and the Rock and Gobo has to help him.
The Wizard, the shiftiest Fraggle in the Rock, has an ulterior motive in trading identities with Wembley.
Flange and Modem Doozer get involved in a building competition (something the Doozers haven't had for many years).
Red wants to be the leader, so she decides to start a club. When the idea takes off without her, Red finds herself with a club consisting of herself and Cotterpin Doozer.
Wembley can never make up his mind, until he gets Convincing John to help him.
When Gobo finds Doc's radio, the messages that come from it threaten to destroy the unity of the Fraggles.
Junior is tricked into selling the castle by the insidious Wander McMooch.
While camping far from home, Mokey and Red discover a band of Fraggles who are humorless and cruel. After Mokey is captured, both sides get ready for war!
Gobo's writing of the Glory Song is interrupted when the Ditsies, the creatures whose bodies supply light to Fraggle Rock, start dying.
Boober accidentally creates a magical soup when he throws out old laundry water and a failed radish gumbo.
Red and Mokey decide to find a cave and live together.
Wembley and Gobo's friendship is strained when Wembley beats Gobo in a race.
Wrench Doozer meets strong peer pressure when the other Doozers in his team start ""flooping"".
Boober's relaxation is disturbed when his alter-ego Sidebottom shows up and puts some excitement in his day.
When Mokey brings a big furry caterpillar to the Rock to save her from the Gorgs, she has no idea what she's in for.
It's winter time in Fraggle Rock, and Cantus arrives to help the Fraggles celebrate the Festival of the Bells. However, Gobo's holiday spirits aren't up and he's forgotten the true meaning. So to make this holiday extra special, he decides he's going to find the Great Bell of Fraggle Rock and bring it back before the celebration begins. But the Rock grows colder, and as Red, Mokey, Boober and Wembley wait, they grow closer to becoming frozen. Cantus goes to find Gobo and bring him back, but Gobo's still wanting to bring the Great Bell back. Will he be able to bring the bell back before his friends freeze? Or will he finally understand the true importance of the Festival of the Bells?
Red absolutely loves her radish bars (which are the equivalent of Pop-Tarts in our world). So when she sees that whenever she wakes up from sleeping that her bars are missing, she sets out to find the crook, which leads her to think her roommate Mokey stole them. She also gets Gobo to hide in a hole outside her room to watch and see if it really is Mokey; after Gobo gets distracted from reading a postcard, the bars go missing again, but Gobo claims he didn't see anything. So finally she gets Wembley to stay the night with her to catch the thief, and what Wembley finds ends up being quite surprising.
It's Joke Day in Fraggle Rock, and Boober's trying to get out before his friends find him and make him participate in the holiday he hates. But before he leaves, a huge purplish-pink glob rolls into the Great Hall. Boober ends up meeting Cotterpin Doozer as well, and the Doozers are on their way to start building near the Blob. However, the Glob starts to eat the Doozers, one by one, and soon enough, Cotterpin's inside the Glob too. Even though a part of Boober really just wants to run away and pretend it isn't happening, he's forced into action and must find a way to set the Doozers free.
Gobo finds the legendary "Grapes of Generosity", mystical fruits which are rumored to compel anyone who eats them to share them with others. However, when Gobo brings them back, he ends up eating them and keeping them all to himself. Before long, Gobo becomes weightless, and tries to hide it from everyone else. But when he hears that Red climbed to the very top of the Great Hall, it's up to him to get Red down safely, and finally admit to everyone that his own problem was caused by being greedy.
Mokey's been making too many promises lately; most notably, she was supposed to knit a tarpaulin for the Trash Heap before the next big snow. But she ends up being too late, and when she sees Philo and Gunge mourning over the frozen Marjorie, she decides she has to fix her mistake. When she overhears the Gorgs need to throw out some yucky, hot soup, she along with the help of Gobo go into the Gorg's castle to find a way to get the soup on the Trash Heap so she can thaw out.
Gobo's come down with the Pebble Pox, so it's up to Boober and Wembley to go to the Cave of Shadows to get Gobo's cure. However, Boober's not too fond of the idea, and shares his worries with Wembley along the way. Before long, Wembley comes up with a bad case of the Pebble Pox, too. Will Boober leave his sick friend behind and ditch the journey, or will Boober put his germ-worries aside to help his friends?
Philo and Gunge are sick and tired of being around Marjorie, so they decide to go off and find their home. The only problem is, they don't know where they originally came from. After a failed attempt to live in Mokey and Red's room, they travel far away, were caught and made slaves of Wander McMooch, the Trash Heap's biggest enemy. When the Fraggle Five see that Marjorie is becoming weak without her rodent duo, it's up to Gobo, Mokey, Wembley, Boober and Red to save Philo and Gunge from McMooch before it's too late.
Red and Wembley decide they're going on an adventure out in the Gorg's Garden today. At the same time, Ma is trying to get Pa and Junior to clean the basement, which is something that they really don't want to do. Junior catches a fluffy little creature named Skinfrith, and then Red and Wembley set him free so they can have some fun. But what they don't know is, this Skinfrith is a magical creature that can change into anything that someone can imagine. And before long, Skinfrith gets into the Gorgs' basement, and Ma thinks there's a terrible beast inside, which is what Skinfred turns into. Wembley and Red sneak in to save their new friend, but they need to convince Ma Gorg, who's trapped in the basement with them, that Skinfrith isn't all as bad as he seems.
When Gobo, Red and Wembley are searching for unique items, Wembley comes upon an old green bottle. He takes it back to his cave, and while he's polishing the bottle up, a genie appears. Wembley can hardly believe his luck, but this genie has his own agenda. He destroys all the items Gobo and Red found, then he scares Boober half to death by making his laundry look like ghosts. Gobo says he needs to get rid of the mean genie, but the genie says he needs to stop letting Gobo boss him around. Later on, Wembley decides Gobo was right, and they create a plan to get the genie back in the bottle, then bury it. The plan works, but Wembley feels sorry for the genie, and lets him out. Later on, when Gobo's trying to show everyone the bottle, he accidentally breaks it, but Wembley confesses he let him out. The genie shows up again, and turns all the Fraggles into something that looks like a Fraggle army. It's up to Wembley to stick up for himself to make things right again.
Mokey really, really wants to be a part of the Secret Society of Poohbahs, even though Red keeps telling her it's just a silly club. Then one day Mokey gets a letter saying that the Poohbah's would like to see her and find out if she's worthy of being a part of the club. She tells Red of her invitation, only to find out that she wasn't supposed to tell anyone about it. She goes back to find out if she can be a part of the society, but when a member called the Mind-Reader knows that Mokey told her roommate of the invitation, she's immediately rejected, but the Beggler Beg and the Vanguard (who look an awful lot like Gillis Fraggle and Convincing John) say that, if she brings her roommate to verify that Mokey's legit, she can be a Poohbah. Mokey gets all worked up about this, but when she brings Red back so she can be a Poohbah, Mokey finally learns not to take anything too serious that these Fraggles tell her.
It's time for the annual Beanbarrow Race, and it's Gobo and Wembley vs. Red and Mokey. But when Mokey gets delayed, Red ends up having to do the race with Lanford, Mokey's annoying plant. As they're racing, Red and Lanford get lost at Table Rock Cavern which is where the Clinging Creepers live. When the Clinging Creepers start to attack them, Red and Lanford must work together in order to escape.
Gobo finds out about Uncle Matt's Secret Rules for Exploring through a postcard, and decides to open up a school for explorers. On his first expedition, he- along with Red, Wembley and Mokey- must travel to the Hole To Who-Knows-Where. Gobo becomes so fixated on the rules that he starts to disregard common sense, and of course, he and Red go at it again. Wembley and Mokey start to agree with Gobo's rules, but before long, they both side with Red. Gobo decides to go find the Hole To Who-Knows-Where by himself, not knowing that he is still tied on to Red. When Gobo and Red fall through the Hole, Gobo needs to use logic to get back home.
Boober's been testing belouviouses, which are the part of a Fraggle's tail that flares up when scared. And when he tests Wembley's, Wembley wants to get even, so Philo and Gunge give him ideas on how to test his belouvious back. When hiding in the laundry and shouting "Boo!" doesn't work, he goes with an elaborate plan of setting up scary masks, spiders and snakes. Wembley goes back to Philo and Gunge to tell him of what he's set up, Marjorie tells him that when the boys tried scaring her, she nearly blew up. Wembley misunderstands this, and tries to go back to tear down his plan before Boober shows up, but he's too late, and thinks that Boober's blown up. Did Wembley go too far?
Junior Gorg's only friend is a huge radish named Geraldine, a fact which he discovers thanks to Mokey.
The Storyteller's having a story-telling session in Gobo's room, so Gobo decides that he wants to hear about Uncle Matt's first big journey. We see a flashback of little Matt- who's dressed like Gobo is now-with his Uncle Gobo, who thinks that his nephew Matt is annoying and clueless. Back then, Fraggles either ate mushrooms or Doozer constructions, but when the mushrooms run out, Uncle Gobo and Matt try to find some food. However, Matt causes a rock quake, and breaks Uncle Gobo's leg. So Matt goes off by himself to find food, and as he's wandering, a rock slide occurs, and when it's over, Matt finds a hole out into the Gorg's Garden. He goes out to explore, scares Ma and Pa Gorg, and brings back to the Rock a radish, which Matt thinks is a shiny red boulder, thus giving the Fraggles a new food source.
It's about to rain, and Ma wants Pa to fix the hole in the roof before it starts to pour. At the same time, Boober and Mokey are out getting radishes, and when Ma accidentally picks Boober up, he loses his hat. Boober's too afraid to go back out there, so Mokey goes out by herself to get the hat. Meanwhile, Ma's having a terrible time getting Pa to fix the roof, because he's too scared of heights. Will Pa get over his fear and fix the hole in the roof before the rainfall?
It's time for Rock Hockey, and Red's especially excited because her idol, Rock Hockey Hannah, is coming to watch her play. Her excitement's cut short, however, when she injures herself. She's still determined to play, and she escapes from her room to try it again, only to get even more hurt. But Red is becoming more and more stubborn; she doesn't want Hannah to think she's a wimp. So she decides to fool Feeny Fraggle and takes his place as goalie. But is playing the game to impress her hero worth the risk?
Pa Gorg decides to rid his and Ma's "Kissing Rock" of Fraggles once and for all with the Boredom Juice that Junior found, but things go horribly wrong.
When Cotterpin Doozer hears that Gobo is the bravest Fraggle in the Rock, she gets him to help her find the Cavern of Lost Dreams, which is where the original tower was built. When they get there, the remaining two Doozers, Yeaster and Crusty, don't want to come back. Will these two Doozers finally accept the changes that have occurred and move back to the Rock and help build once again?
Mokey and Red are putting on a puppet show and on their way to the production, Mokey hears the cries of a strange creature named Begoony, a magical fluffy critter who clings himself to Mokey and wants all of her attention. But when Mokey's torn between helping Begoony and putting on their show, Begoony puts a curse on her that makes her shrink, and then Begoony places her in a dollhouse. Mokey must find a way out and teach Begoony what being a friend means.
Gobo feels as if he's done it all and wishes there was someplace he could explore. But when he hears that the Gorgs are going on a vacation, he thinks his problem is solved, and decides to map the inside of the Gorg's castle. So she gets Boober and Mokey to help scare Gobo, who's got Wembley by his side for the overnight stay. But when the Crown Jewel becomes missing, Junior gets scared and thinks somebody's in the castle. When Gobo and the gang reveal themselves to Junior, Junior later thinks that there's a real thief outside. Junior must work with the Fraggles to catch the jewel thief in order to prove to his parents he's mature enough to watch over the castle.
When the Architect Doozer is teaching some younger Doozers about the great Doozer king (who looks a LOT like Gunge) Gunge wanders in the middle of the teaching session while looking for the M'Geecky vines for Marjorie. The Doozers think he's their long lost king, which makes Philo jealous, and he convinces the Doozers that the king isn't Gunge, it's Philo. Their friendship is divided, but the Trash Heap later reminds Philo that friendships last much longer than all the riches in the world.
After Doc pulls up the floorboards in the workshop, Sprocket enters Fraggle Rock.
Wembley's got a special talent; he can hear water in the rock walls. But when Gobo and Red don't believe him, he sets out to prove he's right. When water finally breaks out, the Fraggles discover that this type of water is special. But when the water starts to cause rock quakes and Gobo falls into the cracks, is it finally time to shut down the fun?
Boober worries that he bores his friends, leading to the return of his alter ego, Sidebottom. Doc, meanwhile, pretends to be an old sailor.
Uncle Matt returns home from Outer Space, and disgraces himself in front of Gobo and his friends. But all that changes when he makes an incredible discovery.
It is the night of the blue moon and Junior Gorg is summoned by a mysterious figure to play the Royal Kazoo. If he succeeds, Junior will prove himself to be truly royal. But if he fails, he will be banished for a hundred years.
Wembley loves the annual Duetathon — a contest in which Fraggles sing duets. But the entire Rock is dumbfounded to learn who Wembley chooses as his singing partner.
Boober believes his life is complete when he is given a rare and legendary gift. But he soon finds out gifts are meant to be shared.
When a new artist shows up in Fraggle Rock, Mokey is determined to prove that she is better. She even goes as far as to acquire a magic paintbrush — one that brings danger to anyone who uses it.
Wembley, feeling unhappy because he never gets to show off in front of his friends, meets a magical creature that gives him the power to fly. But his friends refuse to believe he has this magical gift and restrain him from flying. Other Fraggles believe him but want to exploit his gift. Wembley finally learns to fly for the right reasons.
Red Fraggle tries to follow Uncle Travelling Matt into Outer Space and finds a world that's exactly like her imaginary one — complete with a fire-breathing blue dragon.
Mokey is planning a trip to Wonder Mountain — alone. Red thinks Mokey is too dreamy and ethereal to be able to take care of herself, so she secretly follows Mokey in order to protect her from trouble. But it's Red who needs protection.
Uncle Matt has gotten Gobo a frog from Outer Space for his birthday, but when it gets loose while Wembley is supposed to be hiding it, things get really crazy!
After being hit on the head by an exploding radish, Boober gets amnesia and thinks he's a Gorg. When he tells Ma and Pa Gorg, they believe him, because they think a sorceror has changed Junior, who is missing, into a Fraggle.
It's Red's 28th birthday in a row since the Festival of the Bells when she finds a magic mirror (named Mavis) that leads her to a very special birthday party.
In setting out to solve the riddle of Rhyming Rock, Gobo learns from the Storyteller about a book of magic spells his Uncle Matt discovered. The book includes a spell for solving riddles. But he doesn't hear the whole story and when he uses the spell everything goes wrong and Gobo has to find a way to right the damage he has done.
Gobo doesn't believe he has an "inner voice" so he doesn't heed the warning that he, Sprocket and Wrench Doozer might be in danger.
Cotterpin Doozer is accused of consorting with Fraggles, and she must prove that Fraggles are noble and intelligent and worthy of the respect of the Doozers.
When Fraggle Rock's water supply is contaminated by the Silly Creatures, only Boober can save the day.
Red and Gobo's swimming competition is interrupted by the annual arrival of the Knobblies, pink vine-like plants which are particularly thick this year, and which turn out to lead to something quite unexpected.
On his first solo overnight hike, Wembley meets Mudwell the Mudbunny, whose behavior first entertains, and then confuses him.
Mokey, Wembley and Boober get transported back in time, to an era when Fraggles are bald, have leaders, and never laugh.
It's Ma and Pa Gorg's 513th anniversary, and they must get married again. But where's the ring?
The Fraggle Horn is missing, and Red tries to find it, accusing many along the way.
The leaves of the Nirvana tree have fallen, and it's time for Junior Gorg to become king, but not until he has a chance to get a different perspective on the Universe.
Cantus and the Minstrels are back and ready to perform the Song of Songs, but first Gobo must find the Honk of Honks. Along the way, he meets Doc face to face for the first time.
Doc finally knows of the Fraggles, when he and Sprocket have to move. Will Gobo be able to relay the Trash Heap's message ""You cannot leave the magic"" in time?
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