Picture Book Specials (by The Jim Henson Company)

These are the revived versions of a series of ten planned (but not finished) Picture Book Specials (following "The Tale of the Bunny Picnic" and "The Christmas Toy") that Jim Henson would have liked to place in 1988, including a canine Valentine special "Puppy Love" and "The Lizards". However, unfortunately the specials were aimed at ages too young to draw a prime-time audience, which was probably the reason why they never continued past the first two specials. The ten picture book specials series will continue following the death of Jim Henson on May 16, 1990, and later Disney's Muppets purchase.

Scheduled Picture Book Specials

 * "Puppy Love" (Valentine's Day program with Muppet dogs)
 * "The Lizards" (A special featuring several Muppet lizard species including a gecko, iguana, chameleon, and anole together with live-actors)
 * "Astro G.N.E.W.T.S." (An hour-long special originally conceived as a proposed 30-minute television special that could air as the second-half of an episode of "The Jim Henson Hour", but didn't following the show's early cancellation; it will be revived to blend puppets with animation, computer graphics, and video effects)
 * "The Elephant and the Dragon" (Another hour-long special that will also blend puppets with animation, computer graphics, and video effects; it focuses on new Muppet characters: a full-body African elephant and a large hand-puppet fire-breathing dragon)
 * "The Caveman in the Valley of Dinosaurs" (Thanksgiving special featuring live-action cavemen with life-size Muppet dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals (including pterodactyls, saber tooth cats, and woolly mammoths)
 * "Gus the Ghost"
 * "The Undersea Treasure Hunt"
 * "The Land of Kangaroo Country" (Earth Day special featuring old-school Muppetry—hand puppets and marionettes)
 * "The Butterflies"
 * "Monster Town" (Another Halloween special with Muppet versions of the Yeti, Sasquatch, Loch Ness Monster, Mongolian Death Worm, and Chupacabra with assorted Muppet monsters from early Muppet productions)