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The birth of Jim
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Jim Henson's passing
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Jim Henson got a show
By his freshman year at the University in washington at University of Maryland, College Park` in 1955, Henson had scored a bi-weekly bit on a local NBC affiliate, Sam and Friends. -
Henson got his first award
Jim Henson's first award was a local Emmy in 1959 for "Sam and Friends," a nightly five-minute show that introduced Kermit the Frog. -
Hensons first company
henson founded the Jim Henson company -
Rowlf got some attention
Rowlf the Dog was the first Muppet to reach national stardom as a cast member of The Jimmy Dean Show from 1963 to 1966. He was also the first puppet to gain national exposure -
Jim began making films
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Sesame Street was born
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The Muppet show launch
The hit series has Kermit the frog as the host. -
More of muppet characters were created
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Feb 5, 1976, Quotes by Jim Henson
"life's like a movie write your own ending. keep believing keep pretending" "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye" -
"Ladies and gentlemen, it's the Muppet Show!"
Henson's bigger TV fame came along in the 1970's, Henson produced two pilot episodes for ABC in 1974 and 1975. but neither went forward as a series, while other networks in the United States rejected Henson's need for eating the show financed, British producer Lew Grade expressed enthusiasm for the project and agreed to co-produce The Muppet Show for ATV in the United Kingdom for ITV network. -
Henson was still creating
The Muppet show also lead to feature films such a as The Muppet Movie in 1979, Including an animated spin off of Jim Hensons Muppet Babies. This gained four consecutive Emmys (outstanding animated program). -
Jim steps away from the muppets
Henson didn’t limit his TV puppetry to his original Muppets. In the 1980s, he developed the TV series Fraggle Rock, The Jim Henson Hour and Jim Henson's The Storyteller -
Jim henson started making films
Mr. Henson started making movies, including 1982’s The Dark Crystal, a groundbreaking film mixing puppetry and animatronics, and 1986’s Labyrinth, which was produced by George Lucas and starred David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly. -
Jim Henson's passing
came down with what he thought was a bad cold in early May 1990, but within a couple of weeks, his illness escalated into a serious bacterial infection, ultimately leading to his death on May 16. He was 53 years old.
At the time, Henson was in the middle of a deal with Disney to sell the Muppets to the entertainment company.