The Muppets desperately need and deserve a revival on Disney+, and this new live Netflix series proves that it could be ...

Airing from 1963 to 1966, “The Jimmy Dean Show” featured Jim’s puppet Rowlf. It was the first regular network appearance of a Muppet character. The studio wasn’t ideal for shooting puppets.

Graduates wore Kermit T-shirts and showed off stuffed animals while listening to the beloved Muppet speak at the ceremony.

Between a certain theme park making their Muppet move or Sesame Street finding a new home (again), the most famous Muppets ...

I wrote those segments and I hadn’t thought about them in years — until John Oliver aired one of them recently on “Last Week Tonight ... featured Jim’s puppet Rowlf. It was the first regular network ...

He coined the term “Muppet” as a portmanteau of “marionette” and “puppet.” The Muppets made their first appearance in the show Sam and Friends in 1955 for local TV station WRC-TV in ...

Muppets creator Jim Henson graduated from Maryland in 1960. A home economics major, he fashioned the original frog puppet from one of his mother’s coats and a Ping-Pong ball cut in half ...