Netflix recently ran an interview with Rian Johnson and asked the director if his charmingly outsized Southern detective Benoit Blanc could, say, meet the Muppets and the director gave his ...

Not bad for a second try. Availability:The Great Muppet Caper in available on DVD, which can be obtained through Netflix, and to purchase through the major digital services.

Just go watch The Great Muppet Caper, again, with your jaded grown-up eyes, and marvel at the loosely-controlled absurdity of the whole experiment. It’s barely 90 minutes long.

One I came back to recently is The Great Muppet Caper. The 1981 film isn’t the best muppet movie – that would be 1979’s The Muppet Movie – but to my mind it’s the funniest and weirdest.

Detective Grover and Sherlock Hemlock have yet to respond to the Union Leader’s Right-to- Know request for a list of possible suspects, but we’re told the Great Cookie Thief has been ruled out.

While the rest of The Great Muppet Caper revels in its silliness, Lady Holiday never loses her chic edge. That’s because Dame Diana Rigg played her totally straight.