Sam and Friends
1950s Washington DC puppet show / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sam and Friends is an American live-action and puppet sketch comedy television series and a lead-in to The Tonight Show created by puppeteer Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel. It was aired live twice daily as a local series in Washington, D.C., on WRC-TV in black and white, and later color, on weeknights from May 9, 1955, to December 15, 1961. However, most of the original episodes were never recorded, and are considered lost. A few surviving episodes can be viewed at the Paley Center for Media but many can also be found on video websites like YouTube,[2][3] such as those digitally archived by The Jim Henson Company. Some have been documented by either the Henson Archives or newspaper articles published while the show was still on air.
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 1,000 + |
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Running time | 5 minutes per sketch (and episode) |
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Network | WRC-TV (NBC O&O in Washington, D.C.) |
Release | May 9, 1955 (1955-05-09) ā December 15, 1961 (1961-12-15) |