The Muppets First Big Break…The Jimmy Dean Show

This one surprised me too! From 1955 til 1961 Jim Henson and company had a local kids show on Washington D.C.’s WRC TV. Across town at WTOP, Jimmy Dean was doing a daytime show called ‘Country Style’ which was later picked up as (the first) ‘The Jimmy Dean Show’ by CBS for a couple of years. While in DC, they met but that was all until Dean went to ABC. (More on that in the post above). In this clip Frank Oz talks about meeting Dean and being Henson’s right hand man, literally, on Rowlf sketches. Jimmy Dean is as easy going and graceful as any host I’ve ever seen. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pbKHDpOmYU

This is a clip off a documentary I bought years ago entitled “The World of Jim Henson.” The doco was a biography on Jim Henson’s career with the muppets and …

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