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Show
Opening Animation Sequence
(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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All
images courtesy of The Jim Henson Legacy & the Henson Family, TM
& ©2008 The Jim Henson Company
All
Muppets, photos, and likenesses ©2008 The Jim Henson
Company.
Muppet,
Muppets, characters & elements TM The Jim Henson Company.
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(TV
Still Photos Donated by Jack Maier)
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Broadcast
live from WRC-TV studios,
originally
at the Wardman Park Hotel,
(After 5/58, at 4001 Nebraska Avenue, N.W..
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According
to Karen Falk, Archivist for The Jim Henson Company, "Jim
Henson
made
his first puppets in the spring of 1954, his senior year at
(Hyattsville's
Northwestern)
High School as part of a school puppet club. He performed
them
briefly on WTOP-TV 9 for
'The
Junior Morning Show' that summer.
Among
those puppets were 'Pierre', a Frenchman based on a cartoon
character that
Jim created for a high school publication...
... (T)he group who appeared on 'Sam and Friends' (were):
Kermit,
Sam, Harry the Hipster, Yorick, Mushmelon, Icky Gunk,
Moldy
Hay, Chicken Liver, Hank and Frank, the Professor, and Pierre."
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Jim
and Jane on the "Sam" set.
(From
"Jim Henson - The Works")
(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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-Bernie
Harrison's "On The Air" column (Sunday Star TV Magazine, 2/23/69),
stated
that Jim Henson's first TV job was on Roy Meachum's WTOP-TV
Saturday
show
in 1954. "The Junior Morning Show", a spin-off of Meachum's weekday
"The
Morning Show", lasted only three weeks. But when that show was dropped,
Meachum reportedly telephoned WRC-TV Program
Director Jim Kovacs to suggest that he find a place for the talented
lad
at that station. Kovacs complied.
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(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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All
images courtesy of The Jim Henson Legacy & the Henson Family, TM
& ©2008 The Jim Henson Company
All
Muppets, photos, and likenesses ©2008 The Jim Henson
Company.
Muppet,
Muppets, characters & elements TM The Jim Henson Company.
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Jim
Henson with Kermit
(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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Sources:
Trisha Katson's "Whatever Happened To Those Kiddie Show Hosts?" 1977,
George
Mason Univ. Phoebe Magazine, (provided by John Ahmad & Jack Maier).
Some photos from Sunday Star TV Magazine & Wilkins Coffee items
from
1989 ad campaign, donated by Jack Maier. Other photos from "Jim Henson:
The Works:The Art, the Magic, the Imagination" by Christopher Finch,
Charles
S. Finch, October 1993, Random House; "What is a Muppet?" TV Guide,
7/27
-8/2/63; 1994 PBS Great Performances program "The World of
Jim Henson". Directed by Judy Kinburg; & donated by Jack Maier. and
from the web site "Jim
Henson at University of Maryland". 45 RPM Phono record labels
provided
by Warrick.
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