The Ghost of Faffner Hall

Overview

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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Episodes

S01E01 Your Body Is an Instrument

August 16, 1989
Farkus 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 horrified when she learns of Farkas' plans....

S01E02 Delighting in Sounds

August 23, 1989
Faffner 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...

S01E03 Sounds Become Music

August 30, 1989
When 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.

S01E04 Music Is More Than Technique

September 6, 1989
Mimi informs Riff that the violinist virtuoso Piganini has booked a recording studio in town and plan to ask him to perform at Faffner Hall.

S01E05 The Voice Is an Instrument

September 13, 1989
Farkus 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.

S01E06 Reacting to Sounds

September 20, 1989
Fughetta 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 "Rules of the Dead."...

S01E07 If You Can Play, It's an Instrument

September 27, 1989
Mimi 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. Meanwhile, Farkus Faffner plans to...

S01E08 Improvised Music

October 4, 1989
A 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 turn the hall...

S01E09 Notation The Sign That Gets the Sound

October 11, 1989
Guest Spot: James Taylor performs with the Wild Impresario.

S01E10 Discovering New Sounds

October 18, 1989
Guest Spot: Thomas Dolby demonstrates the sounds that you can make with a synthesizer. Patrick Moraz is the other musical guest.

S01E11 Music Brings Us Together

October 25, 1989
Using 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 haunted house plot. Mimi,...

S01E12 The Power of Music

November 1, 1989
A 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 of Fughetta at...

S01E13 Anyone Can Make Music

November 8, 1989
Guest Spot: Michala Petri and Robin Williamson appear in this episode.

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