The Ghost of Faffner Hall
The Ghost of Faffner Hall is a British/American children's television series from The Jim Henson Company and the British ITV company Tyne Tees Television which aired from August 16, 1989 to November 11, 1989 in the UK, and slightly later in the US. The puppets for this show were created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, and the series was recorded at the Tyne Tees Studios in Newcastle upon Tyne and directed by Tony Kysh, then senior director within that company's children's department.
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An educational show that encourages children to appreciate different musical styles through the insights and antics of the harmonious haunts of an enchanted music conservatory and their musical guests.
- Ep 1
1.Your Body Is an Instrument
16-08-1989Farkus Faffner plans to auction off Faffner Hall's collection of musical instruments. The late Fughetta Faffner, a distant relative of Farkas and the founder of the hall, is horrif...
- Ep 2
2.Delighting in Sounds
23-08-1989Faffner Hall is holding a "Festival of Sounds", and the Wild Impresario is trying to find a sound to top the bill. He gets a note in the mail from his old girlfriend Zola of his fr...
- Ep 3
3.Sounds Become Music
30-08-1989When an infant alien lands in Faffner Hall, Farkus comes up with a plan to become rich while Fughetta and Mimi discover that the alien needs music.
- Ep 4
4.Music Is More Than Technique
06-09-1989Mimi informs Riff that the violinist virtuoso Piganini has booked a recording studio in town and plan to ask him to perform at Faffner Hall.
- Ep 5
5.The Voice Is an Instrument
13-09-1989Farkus Faffner enlists a zookeeper as his business partner where he sells Faffner Hall to the zookeeper so that he can turn it into a zoo.
- Ep 6
6.Reacting to Sounds
20-09-1989Fughetta Faffner does her half-century sound check around Faffner Hall where she must make sure that there is one ghost in Faffner Hall according to Page 17 Paragraph 4C of the "Ru...
- Ep 7
7.If You Can Play, It's an Instrument
27-09-1989Mimi discovers that a guy had broken the obo record by playing the longest note while on a tightrope. The original record holder was Fughetta's cousin Finkel back in 1853. Meanwhil...
- Ep 8
8.Improvised Music
04-10-1989A TV crew is coming to Faffner Hall for a special on the building; the regular residents hope it makes for good publicity. However, Farkas Faffner has another scheme: he wants to t...
- Ep 9
9.Notation The Sign That Gets the Sound
11-10-1989Guest Spot: James Taylor performs with the Wild Impresario.
- Ep 10
10.Discovering New Sounds
18-10-1989Guest Spot: Thomas Dolby demonstrates the sounds that you can make with a synthesizer. Patrick Moraz is the other musical guest.
- Ep 11
11.Music Brings Us Together
25-10-1989Using a talking skull (a recycled version of Yorick the Skull from The Muppet Show), Farkus Faffner traps Fughetta Faffner in her solidified state and traps her as part of his haun...
- Ep 12
12.The Power of Music
01-11-1989A ghost exterminator named Madame Mumu (a recycled version of the Geri and the Atrics piano player from The Muppet Show) arrives at Faffner Hall where Farkus enlists her to get rid...
- Ep 13
13.Anyone Can Make Music
08-11-1989Guest Spot: Michala Petri and Robin Williamson appear in this episode.
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