Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Logistically, the execution of this special required determining the appropriate scale for the Muppet Theater. To that end, ...

Jim Henson pitched American television his idea for an adult-leaning puppet variety show twice, and both times it went nowhere. A 1974 ABC pilot called The Muppets Valentine Show, featuring Mia Farrow ...

The original incarnation of The Muppet Show lasted five seasons and 120 episodes, from 1976 to 1981, and in that time some of the biggest names in show-business lined up to take the stage alongside ...

ABC aired two pilots ― “The Muppets Valentine Show” in 1974 and “The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence” in 1975 ― then passed on a series, which led Jim Henson to create a new pitch for the series for CBS ...

Kermit the Frog, the most famous creation of the late puppeteer and producer Jim Henson, has a lineage almost as old as TV itself. Kermit first appeared as a character on a local TV show in Washington ...

The Muppets are a world-famous puppet group created in the mid-1950s by Jim Henson. Henson would develop the characters into bigger and better projects into the future, namely The Muppet Show, ...

The Muppet Show team pulled out all the stops to give fans of the original an authentic feel. Director Alex Timbers spoke with the LA Times about what went into filming the production and about ...