Discover What’s Streaming On: Picture It: Northern New Jersey, 1976. A 5-year-old boy, after a hard day in kindergarten and a dinner of baked ziti, sits down to his new favorite show, The Muppet Show, ...

Clockwise from top left: Alice Cooper with the “School’s Out” monsters, Rita Moreno with Animal, and Diana Ross with Fozzie Bear ...

“It’s The Muppet Show with our special guest Miss Rita Moreno.” – Kermit Episode five of The Muppet Show sees another Oscar winner join the ranks of guest stars, with the appearance of West Side Story ...

Rita Moreno is a legend. She’s one of only 19 members in the EGOT club with an Emmy for The Muppet Show (!), a Grammy for The Electric Company, an Oscar for West Side Story, and a Tony for The Ritz.

The Muppets were made for TV. It just took TV 20 or so years to get ready for The Muppets. They’d been local favorites, staples of the talk-and variety-show circuits, and some of the earliest stars of ...