Holiday special The First Snow of Fraggle Rock, featuring Jim Hensen’s puppet creatures known as Fraggles, premieres December 5th on Apple TV.
What’s Fraggle Rock about?
In a house belonging to a woman named Doc (Lilli Cooper)and her dog Sprocket, there is a hole that leads into Fraggle Rock: The fun-loving, musical Fraggles – Gobo, Red, Wembley, Monkey and Boober — and new Fraggle friends go on adventures that teach them about the magic that happens when we celebrate and care for our interconnected world.
The special finds Gobo (John Tartaglia) struggling to write the perfect holiday song. The arrival of only one snowflake adds to Gobo’s severe case of writer’s block. He wants to write the song everyone is expecting and make it even better than the one he wrote the year before.
For the first time, Gobo goes to “Outer Space” which is what the Fraggles call the real world. While there, Gobo meets Lele Pons, the Youtube singer, who is facing her own writer’s block.
In the end, Gobo and the other Fraggles realize that holidays (and songs) don’t have to be perfect and that “like a snowflake, every moment and every holiday is unique”.
Apple TV+’s Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock , with two seasons and two Christmas specials , is a reboot of the 1983 series Fraggle Rock from Jim Henson.
The First Snow of Fraggle Rock
Working titles: NIVALIS & DOLLY TROLLEY.
Calgary filming dates: April 28 2025 – May 16 2025.
Showrunner: Alex Cuthbertson.
Cast: John Tartaglia, Lilli Cooper, Lele Pon.
Sound Stages: Calgary Film Centre
Producers: Lisa Henson, Jim Henson Company, Apple.