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    Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, created what show at a local TV station during his freshman year at the University of Maryland, which was just five minutes long and ran twice a day?

    Question #83446. Asked by dletwin. (Jul 17 07 5:24 AM)


    Candi5843

    		Sam & Friends found at Answers.com under Jim Hensons Biography

    Jul 17 07, 5:32 AM
    McGruff

    		In 1954, while still in high school, Jim began his television career performing puppets on a local Washington, DC Saturday morning program on WTOP-TV. The following year, as a freshman at the University of Maryland, he was given his own twice-daily, five-minute show, Sam and Friends, on the local NBC affiliate, WRC-TV. Jim along with his assistant, fellow University of Maryland student and future wife, Jane Nebel, introduced many Muppet mainstays—music, snarky humor and innovative technical tricks (such as eliminating the puppet stage and using the television itself as the proscenium). Perhaps most memorably, the show featured an early version of Kermit the Frog™.
    http://www.henson.com/company/jim_henson.html

    Jul 17 07, 12:46 PM

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