Sam and Friends

Jim Henson's first television program. A five-minute show filler show, that aired on Washington DC's WRC TV (The local NBC affiliate of the area) while studying at the university the University of Maryland. His wife Jane and later Jerry Juhl were collaborators on the show. One of Sam's "friends" was the amphibian-like straight man known as Kermit who would eventually become a frog and Henson's flagship character.