Sam and Friends

Sam and Friends is an early live-action/puppet television show created by puppeteer Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel. It was taped and aired twice daily as a local series in Washington, D.C., on WRC-TV in black and white, and later color, on weeknights from May 9, 1955, to December 15, 1961. Most of the original episodes were wiped after airing on TV. A few surviving episodes can be viewed at the Paley Center for Media but many can also be found on popular video sites like YouTube, such as those digitally archived by The Jim Henson Company, while some have been documented by either the Henson Archives or some published newspaper articles while the show was still on the air. Some fans who grew up with watching Sam and Friends have posted comments online about some of the lost episodes which they remembered watching.