Sam and Friends
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| Original title | Sam and Friends |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English (AE) |
| Year (s) | From May 9, 1955 to December 8, 1961 |
| length | 5 minutes |
| Episodes | 86 in 1 season |
| genre | Comedy |
| idea | Jim Henson , Jane Ann Nebel |
| production | Jim Henson , Jane Ann Nebel , Bob Payne , Jerry Juhl |
| First broadcast | May 9, 1955 (USA) on WRC TV |
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Sam and Friends was an American , black and white puppet theater - television broadcast made by Jim Henson and his future wife Jane Ann fog (Jane Henson) was created. It ran twice a day from May 9, 1955 to December 8 (according to other information December 15) 1961 on WRC-TV, an NBC television station in Washington, DC The programs had a length of 5 minutes. The production team took on the speaking roles of the puppets personally. The scripts were by Jim Henson (1955-1961) and Jerry Juhl (1961).
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Sam was a bald, human-like doll, with big eyes, ears and a nose. His friends were Yorick, a kind of crimson skull with a constant appetite, Harry the hipster (or beatnik ) and Kermit, an early preform of Kermit the frog . Many other characters were added later. At first the puppets mostly sang songs and danced to them. Later, skits written and performed in the show. One of these early skits was the so-called "Inchworm" (to German caterpillar); a doll - mostly Kermit - nibbled on a supposed worm (or a caterpillar), which suddenly turned out to be the nose or tongue of a large monster, and the figure was devoured by this monster. This sketch was picked up again and again in Henson's later productions.
Web links
- Sam and Friends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sam and Friends in the Muppet Wiki (English)