Editing Fraggle Rock (section)

==International co-productions==
The producers made the series with the intention of it airing in various forms internationally. That concept grew out of Jim Henson's experience adapting ''Sesame Street'' to the requirements of foreign markets.<ref name="Random House 1993"/> The human "wraparound" segments were produced separately in several countries, so the viewer could always relate to the world of the program. The series has appeared now in over 10 countries and languages. The head producer was Wesley James Tomlinson.
* The original North American version, filmed in Toronto, features an [[Invention|inventor]] named Doc (played by [[Gerard Parkes|Gerry Parkes]]) and his dog Sprocket. This wraparound was also used in Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the Republic of Ireland, Scandinavia, Spain, Japan, and Eastern Europe. Dutch, Scandinavian, Spanish, Japanese, and Eastern European shows were [[Dub localization|dubbed]] in their respective languages.
* The British inserts were filmed first at the [[Television South#TVS Television Theatre|TVS Television Theatre]] in [[Gillingham, Kent|Gillingham]], Kent (since closed and demolished), and later at their [[The Maidstone Studios|larger studio complex]] in [[Maidstone]], and presents ''Fraggle Rock'' as a rock-filled sea island with a [[lighthouse]]. Exterior footage was that of [[St Anthony's Lighthouse]] located near [[Falmouth, Cornwall|Falmouth]] in Cornwall. The [[lighthouse keeper]] is The [[Sea captain|Captain]] (played by [[Fulton Mackay]]), a retired sailor who lives with his faithful dog Sprocket. In the third season, as MacKay had died in 1987, the role was played by [[John Gordon Sinclair]] as P.K., (the Captain's nephew) and in the fourth and final season by [[Simon O'Brien (presenter)|Simon O'Brien]] as B.J. (son of the lighthouse's owner, Mr. Bertwhistle). In 2014, 35 of these British ''wraparounds'' were still [[Lost television broadcast|missing, believed wiped]], although subsequent recoveries have gradually reduced this number.<ref name="nightshade.org.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.nightshade.org.uk/fraggleuk.html |title=Fraggle Rock UK - Missing Episodes |publisher=Nightshade.org.uk |access-date=April 12, 2017}}</ref> As of December 2020, all 96 wraparounds have been found and handed over to the [[British Film Institute|BFI]], confirming that the entire UK production still exists in some shape or form.<ref name="youtube.com">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XQ1iJkYwwKA Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201213124958/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1iJkYwwKA Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ1iJkYwwKA |title=Missing Believed Wiped 2020 - The Fraggles Are Coming - 25-12-83
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 |publisher=YouTube |access-date=December 27, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> [[Nickelodeon UK|Nickelodeon]] repeated it in the UK from 1993, as did [[Boomerang UK|Boomerang]] and [[Cartoonito]] in 2007. The episodes shown were the original North American versions.
* In France, the wraparound segments take place in a bakery with its version of Doc (played by [[Michel Robin]]) who worked as a baker and a French Sprocket called Croquette. Doc inherited the home from his eccentric Uncle Georges (who was a noted inventor). Thus, when the frame story required the use of a mechanical device, Doc would find yet another of Uncle Georges's machines. Plot-lines also frequently involved the elegant but unseen Madame Pontaven (whom Doc repeatedly attempted to impress and invite to dinner with no success). Not all of the 96 episodes were produced in French.
* In the German version, the action takes place beneath the workshop of the inventor Doc (played by Hans-Helmut Dickow). The series was named ''Die Fraggles'' with 85 of the 96 produced episodes being presented in German.