Muppet Voyager

A 1988 article in Channels, a magazine for the television industry, mentioned an international Muppet project: "There are children in the world who have never heard of the Muppets, in China, Africa, India and the Soviet Union, and Henson is excited about reaching audiences in those countries. One project in development, Muppet Voyager, could serve as a vehicle for reaching some of them. It would shoot in a different country every week."Loevy, Diana. "Inside the House That Henson Built", Channels. March, 1988. 
Henson wrote the proposal for IBM Europe while in France during the first weekend of March 1986.Jones, Brian Jay, Jim Henson: The Biography, Kindle location 8441 Character designs for Muppet Voyager were completed by Kirk Thatcher in 1987.
According to the Henson Company archivist:
A sketch from the Archives (right) features a concept for a robot character with the following description:
While the series did not go forward, the Jim Henson Company would later go on to produce a series with a similar concept, The Hoobs.
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