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| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 400+ |
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| Running time | 3-5 minutes per sketch (and episode) |
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| Network | WRC-TV (NBC O&O in Washington, D.C.) |
| Release | May 9, 1955 – December 15, 1961 |
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Sam and Friends is an American live-action and puppet sketch comedy television series and a lead-in to The Tonight Show created by puppeteer Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel.
The show aired live twice daily as a local series in Washington, D.C., on WRC-TV in black and white, and later color[citation needed], on weeknights from May 9, 1955, to December 15, 1961. However, due to network budget issues,[1] most of the original episodes were never preserved to film/kinescope, and are considered lost.
A few of the show's surviving episodes can be viewed at the Paley Center for Media, but many can also be found on video websites like YouTube,[2][3] such as those digitally archived by The Jim Henson Company. Some have also been documented by either the Henson Archives or newspaper articles published while the show was still on air.
- ^ Shemin, Craig. Sam and Friends: The Story of Jim Henson's First Television Show. pp. ebook location 212.
- ^ "Sam and Friends on YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
- ^ "Sam and Friends clips yet to be released". YouTube. Retrieved May 6, 2017.
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