Preorder Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show!

As we told you earlier this month, Craig Shemin's long-awaited book about Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show will be rereleased September 24 and is now available to pre-order through Bear Manor Media. 

We also now have the official description:

Long before Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, college students Jim Henson and Jane Nebel created a long-running daily local Washington, D.C. television program called Sam and Friends, where Jim developed his unique approach to comedy and introduced the world to a puppet named Kermit.

In this book, President of The Jim Henson Legacy and author of The Muppets Character Encyclopedia, Craig Shemin, explores the story behind Sam and Friends and creates an episode guide from surviving scripts and recordings.

Includes a foreword by longtime Henson collaborator Frank Oz, several complete scripts and more than 150 rare photos from The Jim Henson Company Archives. 604 pages.

The Museum of the Moving Image will celebrate the book's release on September 24th with a Sam and Friends screening, a discussion about the book with the author and Museum Deputy Director Barbara Miller, the presentation of a newly unearthed Sam and Friends episode and a book signing.

Pre-order your copy now through Bear Manor Media, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon in both Hard cover and paperback!