Other shows like " Secrets of the Muppets " went behind the scenes at Henson studios, showing how the Muppets are built and operated.

We went back then and I could see that my footprints were the first at the spot .” Henson then proceeded to plant the American flag.

The Hallmark / Henson version of Odyssey launched on April 4, 1999, and the airing of religious programs went down to four hours a day.

In September 1992 this production went on to be featured at the First International Festival of Puppet Theater presented at The Public Theater in New York which was a co-production of Joseph Papp and the Jim Henson Foundation.

The series was co-created by Kermit Love, original Muppet designer and builder for Jim Henson ; and Jim Martin, who later went on to work on a number of Henson-related projects.

For the third time in his career, Michigan and Henson would face a Southeastern Conference team when Michigan went on to play Auburn in the Citrus Bowl and for the third time, Michigan again emerged victorious, winning 31 – 28.

While playing for the Yankees ' AAA affiliate, the Columbus Clippers, Henson was often booed because he went to Michigan.

Henson went 4 – 12 for 31 passing yards in the first half before leaving the game with the score tied at seven.

In a single report, the death of Jacqueline Henson was found to be related to swelling in her brain, which was associated with excessive water consumption over a short period of time, while she was on a special water diet.

Several sources dispute this, including Jim Henson himself, who said he based Animal's looks and style primarily on his friend, Grammy-winning drummer, Steve Mitchell.

( 2008 ) directed by John Crowley and starring Michael Caine, score composed by Joby Talbot ; It's a Boy Girl Thing ( 2006 ) directed by Nick Hurran, score composed by Christian Henson and has featured on TV soundtrack and themes tunes, most recently for Psychoville, composed by Joby Talbot and episodes of Wallander, composed by Ruth Barrett.

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

The conquest of the North Pole was for many years credited to US Navy engineer Robert Peary, who claimed to have reached the Pole on 6 April 1909, accompanied by Matthew Henson and four Inuit men, Ootah, Seeglo, Egingwah, and Ooqueah.

Avery writes on his web site that " The admiration and respect which I hold for Robert Peary, Matthew Henson and the four Inuit men who ventured North in 1909, has grown enormously since we set out from Cape Columbia.

In 1999, the reruns moved to Odyssey Network ( which was co-owned by Henson's company ), featuring new introductions by Brian Henson, until Odyssey shut down Henson's half of the channel in 2001 ; the show has not been seen on American television since.

Author Christopher Finch reported that Stone, who had worked with Henson previously, felt that if they could not bring him on board, they should " make do without puppets ".

Jon Stone, who'd worked with Henson on ABC television special Hey, Cinderella !, discussed the idea with a reluctant Jim.

Shortly afterward Henson was ordered on a trip south to New Orleans, and when he learned that he was to be sold there he obtained a weapon and contemplated murdering his white companions, but decided against violence because his Christian morals forbade it.

Denver was also a guest star on The Muppet Show, the beginning of the lifelong friendship between Denver and Jim Henson that spawned two television specials with The Muppets.

Matthew Henson was reinterred nearby on April 6, 1988.

* John Henson, one of the hosts of ABC's Wipeout, has vitiligo that has caused a white patch of hair on the right side of his head.

The character was developed by Sesame Street head writer Jon Stone and Henson, based on the personality of a “ magnificently rude ” waiter.

Stowe was partly inspired to create Uncle Tom's Cabin by The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself the 1849 slave narrative of Josiah Henson, a former enslaved black man who had lived and worked on a tobacco plantation in North Bethesda, Maryland, owned by Isaac Riley.

When Stowe's work became a best-seller, Henson republished his memoirs as The Memoirs of Uncle Tom and traveled on lecture tours extensively in the United States and Europe.

Films produced by current Disney subsidiary The Jim Henson Company have also aired on Disney Channel in the past, although most of them are not presently owned by Disney, including The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Buddy, The Muppet Movie, The Muppets Take Manhattan, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets From Space, The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz and The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland.

In 2007, the Jim Henson Company announced plans to produce a feature film based on The Doubtful Guest to be directed by Brad Peyton.

It was a co-production between British regional ITV franchise holder Television South ( TVS ), CBC Television, United States pay-television service Home Box Office and Henson Associates ( later Jim Henson Productions ), the show was filmed on a Toronto sound stage, ( later at Elstree Studios, London ).

On August 10, 2009, Lionsgate Home Entertainment announced that they had reached a deal with The Jim Henson Company to acquire the rights to release Fraggle Rock on DVD.

According to Henson, " When we hit the editing, I did the first cut, and then George was heavily involved on bringing it to the final cut.

When Jerry Nelson left the Muppets citing health reasons, Muppeteer Steve Whitmire ( also a puppeteer for Sesame Street ) took over adding yet another new role to his credits ; his first two were that of Kermit the Frog ( Jim Henson ) and Beaker ( Richard Hunt ).

He commented on the collaboration with Henson: " When they first made him he looked too much like Kermit.

The story ends with the Muppets having a friendly meeting at Mickey Mouse's office where the signature characters of Walt Disney and Jim Henson compare their companies ' theme songs, " When You Wish Upon a Star " and " The Rainbow Connection " ( sung by a young Raven-Symoné to cheer up Kermit ) respectively and the ideals behind them.

When the new subject experiences seizures upon the device's activation, Dr. Henson realizes the man had indeed been telling the truth about his innocence.

When NMSU alumnus Lou Henson returned to the school as head coach in 1966 and quickly began building the basketball program into a perennial NCAA Tournament participant the push for a new facility began in earnest, and the next year the New Mexico State Legislature approved a $ 22 million capital outlay program that included provisions for a new arena at NMSU ( the same bill also funded construction of NMSU ’ s student union building ).

" I liked what you were trying to do ," Henson said, and he asked once more if they could " talk about the Muppets ".

" Henson noted that " even if you have the characters together, the puppeteers start working with them, they find problems or they try to figure out what they're going to do with these characters.

He also appeared as Jareth, the Goblin King, in the 1986 Jim Henson film Labyrinth, for which he wrote five songs.

He was also an Oscar-nominated film director, Emmy Award-winning television producer, and the founder of The Jim Henson Company, the Jim Henson Foundation, and Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

* In 1986, the film Labyrinth was released, directed by Jim Henson, and starring David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly.

Edith Sornow, who was not yet the film producer for Sesame Street, called Cooney, asking her to come to the Johnny Victor Theatre to see a reel of commercials by Jim Henson.

" Oscar also appeared in the Jim Henson holiday special, A Muppet Family Christmas, when the Sesame Street Gang comes to the Grizzly Farm House for the holidays, in the film he befriends Rizzo the Rat ( whose name parodies that of the Midnight Cowboy character Ratso Rizzo ) who asks the Grouch if he could stay in his trash can for the night.

Oz began his behind-the-camera work when he co-directed the fantasy film The Dark Crystal with long-time collaborator Jim Henson.

Jim Henson ( 1936 – 1990 )— artist, puppeteer, film director and producer — created elaborate imaginary worlds filled with unique characters, objects, environments and even languages and cultures.

Henson and Oz also frequently worked in film, including directing and puppeteer work in the 1982 film The Dark Crystal and the 1986 film Labyrinth.

Labyrinth is a 1986 British-American fantasy film directed by Jim Henson, produced by George Lucas and based upon conceptual designs by Brian Froud.

Labyrinth started as a collaboration between Jim Henson and Brian Froud, with ideas for the film first being discussed between them following a screening of their previous collaboration, The Dark Crystal.

The commercial failure of the film demoralized Henson to the extent that his son Brian Henson remembered the time of the film's release as one of the most difficult periods of his father's career.

It would be the last feature film directed by Henson before his death in 1990.

The film also features an end credit stating that " Jim Henson acknowledges his debt to the works of Maurice Sendak ".

According to the film's conceptual designer Brian Froud, Labyrinth was first discussed between himself and director Jim Henson during a limousine ride on the way back from a special screening of their 1982 fantasy film The Dark Crystal.

' With the thought of Bowie starring in the film in mind, Henson decided he wanted Jareth to sing and appear throughout the film, something Jones considered to be the " wrong " decision.

Henson noted that he wished to " make the idea of taking responsibility for one's life-which is one of the neat realizations a teenager experiences-a central thought of the film.

Veteran performers Frank Oz and Dave Goelz operated various puppets in the film, as did Karen Prell, Ron Mueck and Rob Mills who had all worked with Henson on Fraggle Rock.

Jim Henson received help editing the film from executive producer George Lucas.