Preview Show

Preview Show was a short-form promotional series that aired on The Disney Channel in the 1980s and early 1990s during the then-premium channel's free preview weekends. 
A behind the scenes look at the then-upcoming Mother Goose Stories aired during the channel's August 1990 preview weekend. Hosted by actress Markie Post and featuring voiceover from the channel's announcer Jerry Bishop, the segment included interviews with director Brian Henson and producer Roberta Kurtz. The piece included footage from Jim Henson's Creature Shop, including the making of rat, donkey, wolf, and spider puppets used in the series intercut with clips from the episodes.
The segment aired on August 26, 1990, just two days before the series debuted on Disney Channel.
==Transcript==
Markie Post 	Hi, I'm Markie Post and I'm here to show you what's coming to The Disney Channel in the months ahead.
 	
Jerry Bishop (v/o)	On the Northern outskirts of London, in Hampstead, is a stately brick building which once served as a postal sorting office. Today, it delivers characters for a new Disney Channel series, for this is the Jim Henson Creature Shop where the characters are made for Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories.
 	
Roberta Kurtz 	Mother Goose Stories is a show based on the familiar nursery rhymes and we've made it into a story using puppets and children.
 	
Jerry Bishop (v/o)	Jim Henson's son Brian, who directs the series, explains why children were used along with puppets.
Brian Henson 	A show that is purely puppets, you never give the audience a chance to see a human relating to those characters on-screen. If you put a human into that world with the puppets, then immediately the kids can relate to the child in the show who's relating to the characters, and it becomes their own world and they're pulled right into it.
 	
Jerry Bishop (v/o)	Combining traditional puppetry with the mechanics of modern animatronics results in characters that are quite sophisticated.
Brian Henson 	Well, we've been mixing the special effects motion control technology in with traditional hand puppeteering. That's been very successful, actually. That means that some of our characters are extremely realistic and have very realistic movements, and the whole idea is the show is meant to look very storybook, with a beautiful simple style—a Max Parrish illustration style—to the whole thing.
 	
Roberta Kurtz 	We all have, um, these memories of these rhymes and it is so fun as an adult to really be working within that childhood time again.
 	
Jerry Bishop (v/o)	Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories, a new series for the whole family on The Disney Channel.
 	
==See also==
*Behind the Ears Preview
*Disney Channel on the Set
==External links==
*The Disney Channel "Preview Show" - Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories
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