Description: Jim Henson, the man behind the Muppets, began working as a puppeteer in college, creating characters like Kermit the Frog. He worked as a producer on Sesame Street, a popular kids’ show that launched in 1969, and created The Muppet Show in 1976. The Muppet Movie, the first of many movies featuring Henson’s famous characters, appeared in 1979. Henson received several accolades for his work, including Emmys, Grammys and a Peabody Award. Here is a list of Movies and TV Shows where Jim Henson & Company creations were used.
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Sesame Street
( 1969 )
Sunny days are here! This freshly reimagined "Sesame Street" series features characters you love, fan-favorite segments — and new ways to play.
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The Muppet Show
( 1976 )
The Muppet Show is a half-hour variety show in which Kermit the Frog and the Muppets put on a weekly musical/comedy revue at the Muppet Theater. Unfortunately for them, things never quite go according to plan, for the Muppets or their weekly guest stars.
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The Muppet Movie
( 1979 )
Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
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The Great Muppet Caper
( 1981 )
Kermit the Frog, The Great Gonzo, and Fozzie Bear are reporters who travel to Britain to interview a rich victim of jewel thieves and help her along with her secretary, Miss Piggy.
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The Dark Crystal
( 1982 )
On another planet in the distant past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of a magical crystal, and to restore order to his world.
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Fraggle Rock
( 1983 )
Somewhere in the world, there is a workshop owned by a an inventor named Doc and his Dog, Sprocket. While Doc spends his days coming up with new ideas, Sprocket is peering into a large hole in the baseboard. He knows that something lives behind the wall. Through the hole and down the tunnel, hidden from everyday reality, are brightly lit caves filled with wonderful creatures. This land, bound together by Magic, is called Fraggle Rock. The most notable of the creatures who inhabit this beautiful place are the Fraggles. Fraggles are furry, have tails, and come in all sorts of colors. The Fraggles spend their days laughing, splashing, running, singing, playing games, and telling jokes. They live by a simple care-free code.
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The Muppets Take Manhattan
( 1984 )
Kermit and his friends go to New York City to get their musical on Broadway only to find it's a more difficult task than they anticipated.
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Follow That Bird
( 1985 )
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker named Miss Finch. Unhappy, he runs away from there, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
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Labyrinth
( 1986 )
Teenage Sarah journeys through a maze to save her baby brother from the Goblin King.
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The Witches
( 1990 )
A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even after he has been turned into a mouse.
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
( 1992 )
The Muppets put their spin on the tale of an elder, Christmas-hating miser who is visited by spirits who foretell his future and share secrets from his past and present, which helps change his view on life.
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Muppet Treasure Island
( 1996 )
The Muppets set sail in search of treasure, with Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver.
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Buddy
( 1997 )
A depiction of the true life story of Gertrude Lintz, an eccentric 1920s socialite who tries to raise a gorilla, like many chimps before him, as part of her family.
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Muppets from Space
( 1999 )
Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it's up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.
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Rat
( 2000 )
A woman becomes furious when her husband arrives home from the local pub and turns into a rat.
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Kermit's Swamp Years
( 2002 )
At 12 years old, Kermit the Frog and best friends Goggles and Croaker travel outside their homes in the swamps of the Deep South to do something extraordinary with their lives.
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Good Boy
( 2003 )
An intergalactic dog pilot from Sirius (the dog star), visits Earth to verify the rumors that dogs have failed to take over the planet.
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Five Children and It
( 2004 )
Five children staying in their eccentric uncle's labyrinthine mansion for protection during World War I befriend a sand fairy who has the power to grant wishes.
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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz
( 2005 )
This version of The Wizard of Oz is played by the Muppets. A remake of the 1939 film.
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Mirrormask
( 2006 )
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a fifteen-year-old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
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The Muppets
( 2011 )
A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures.
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Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
( 2014 )
Alexander's day begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by more calamities. However, he finds little sympathy from his family and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him, his mom, dad, brother and sister - who all find themselves living through their own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.
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Muppets Most Wanted
( 2014 )
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves wrapped into an European jewel-heist caper headed by a Kermit the Frog look-alike and his dastardly sidekick.
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Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
( 2015 )
The Emmerson family heads to the quaint town of Turkey Hollow to visit Aunt Cly. Tim and Annie quickly grow bored without the Internet, and soon try to track the howling hoodoo, an elusive monster the locals dismiss as a legend.
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The Happytime Murders
( 2018 )
When the puppet cast of a '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
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The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
( 2019 )
When three Gelfling discover the horrifying secret behind the Skeksis' power, they set out on an epic journey to ignite the fires of rebellion and try to save their world.
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