Alongside the felt-free Alain Resnais retrospective, this month the Gene Siskel Film Center is rerunning a substantial portion of “Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson’s Legacy,” which was a significant ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The Muppets have been part of the pop culture landscape since 1955, when Jim Henson and his future wife Jane Nebel created Sam and Friends, a series produced for WRC-TV ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Muppets are a cultural institution. They are not just characters, they are absolute stars. Icons, even. Since their debut back ...

This may come as a shock, but the Muppets are passé. Two or three generations have matured since the late Jim Henson introduced his hairy, gregarious puppets in 1955, on local TV in Washington, DC.

Celebrated, Mississippi-born puppeteer Jim Henson died in 1990, but his name is still alive through the Muppets.

Today’s page looks at the life of Muppet-Master Jim Henson. JIM HENSON was born on Sept. 24, 1936 in Mississippi. His family moved to Washington, D.C. By the time he was in high school, Henson had ...

David Steffey decorates his middle-school classroom with relics from his childhood. Hanging on his wall is a framed original soundtrack album cover of "The Muppet Show," which ran from 1976 to 1981 on ...