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(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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.
Started
in 1957, snappy 10-second ads for Wilkins Coffee featured Muppets with
opposing temperaments... cheerful "Wilkins" (l.) and sourpuss
"Wontkins"
(r.).
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Wilkins
is Santa in the "Merry Christmas" spot.
(Donated
by Jack Maier)
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"Wontkins"
reportedly got his bad attitude from
drinking
a competitor's bitter brew.
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Wilkins
asks: "How 'bout a cup
of Wilkins Coffee?"
Wontkins
replies: "No!
Let me have 'Brand X'."
(1963
TV Guide Photo) (Donated by Jack Maier.)
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Hear
The Actual Wilkins Coffee Spots
"Brand
X" and "Merry Christmas" at Kidshow
Klips.
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Jim Henson
died May 16, 1990 at age 53 of streptococcus
pneumonia
and a heart attack in New York, NY.
"TV
Guide" Cover - November 17-23, 1990
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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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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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