Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Happy Birthday, Jim Henson!

Happy Jim Henson Day! Today Jim would have turned 83. Let's take a look back at his life as well as check out a few rare clips. 




In the last 70's Jim Henson and Frank Oz along with Fozzie and Kermit were joined by Ethel Merman and Paul Williams on Dinah Shore's talk show Dinah!


In April of 1989, Jim Henson and Kermit appeared on The Tonight Show appear to promote The Jim Henson Hour.  Future Muppets Tonight guest Jay Leno substituted for Johnny Carson that night, and Muppet Show guest Loretta Lynn was a guest as well,



With The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance continuing Jim's legacy, let's take a look at Jim Henson & Frank Oz discussing The Dark Crystal on the BBC show Harty in 1983. 



The Muppets have a new show coming out next year, the new version of Muppet Babies is a hit of Disney Jr, Sesame Street is still going strong and is celebrating its 50th anniversary, HBO is airing reruns of Fraggle Rock,  The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance just came out and already looks like a huge hit for Netflix. 

It's great to see that while Jim may be gone, his creations are living on. 

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