Blast From the Past: A Tale of the 1987 Stock Market Crash, ‘Nightline,’ Muppets and the Genius of Jim Henson and Frank Oz

Bill Prady is a veteran writer and co-creator/executive producer of “The Big Bang Theory.” Here he shares a memory from early in his career, when he was a staff writer for the Jim Henson Co. during a moment of global economic instability.

On November 6, 1987, after a devastating stock market crash, the Muppets appeared on a special “Town Hall” edition of ABC’s “Nightline” in segments designed to explain the financial system. I wrote those segments and I hadn’t thought about them in years — until John Oliver aired one of them recently on “Last Week Tonight.”

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