Aboard the Calliope

Aboard the Calliope: Around the World in Thirteen Hours with Muppets and Friends was a proposed series developed by Henson Associates and Calliope Productions in 1984.
The project stemmed from the social outreach efforts of financier Edgar Kaiser Jr., wishing to develop a program to counteract and prevent young people turning towards drugs and alcohol by exposing them to the wonders of the Earth.
The series would be set on Kaiser's yacht, the Calliope, and feature a cast of human and Muppet characters traveling the globe to see such locals as the Yangtze River in China or the wastelands of Antarctica. The human cast would include a scientist and a young naturalist. Scooter would be the only established Muppet character. New Muppets would include a rich, enlightened walrus as the ship's captain, a lemur, and a parrot, the latter two intended to be naturalistic puppets and be interchangeable with live animal counterparts (similar to the practice used for Foo-Foo). Celebrity guests were also planned to appear. 
The project, with thirteen episodes planned, was alternatively titled "We Are the Children," in reference to the song "We Are the World."
==See also==
*Muppet Voyager
==Sources==
*Jim Henson's Red Book: 9/16/1984 – ‘Met Edgar Kaiser- this begins Calliope Project.’
Category:Unfinished TV