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The Ghost of Faffner Hall
1989 7.5 (2 votes) 1 Seasons
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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.

Seasons

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Season 1 (1989)

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.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Your Body Is an Instrument
1989-08-16

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. The residents of the hall, including Riff, Mimi, the Wild Impresario and the ghost of Fughetta, attempt to teach Farkas that instruments are worth more than their monetary value.

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Episode 2: Delighting in Sounds
1989-08-23

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 his from his days in the Wild Bunch. Zola says in her note that she is coming to see Wild. Meanwhile, Farkus Faffner plans to blow up Faffner Hall where he will blame its residents and claim the insurance money.

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Episode 3: Sounds Become Music
1989-08-30

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.

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Episode 4: Music Is More Than Technique
1989-09-06

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.

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Episode 5: The Voice Is an Instrument
1989-09-13

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.

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Episode 6: Reacting to Sounds
1989-09-20

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." Fughetta soon starts to hear the voice of J.J. Ready (who invented the cash register in 1877)

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Episode 7: If You Can Play, It's an Instrument
1989-09-27

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 use the instruments as scrap metal.

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Episode 8: Improvised Music
1989-10-04

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 into an amusement park!

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Episode 9: Notation The Sign That Gets the Sound
1989-10-11

Guest Spot: James Taylor performs with the Wild Impresario.

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Episode 10: Discovering New Sounds
1989-10-18

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

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Episode 11: Music Brings Us Together
1989-10-25

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, Riff, and Wild Impresario end up summoning Fughetta's Great Uncle Fishknife for help.

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Episode 12: The Power of Music
1989-11-01

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 the time when Farkus has a cold.

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Episode 13: Anyone Can Make Music
1989-11-08

Guest Spot: Michala Petri and Robin Williamson appear in this episode.

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