# Jim Henson - The Early Years

In the days before the iconic breakout of Sesame Street , Jim Henson was an experimental jack of all trades - puppeteer, comedian, designer, actor, Oscar-nominated filmmaker, singer - who used his gifts for legitimately thousands of hours of content. Honing numerous characters, themes and even verbatim sketches for later projects, Henson's genius was apparent even from these early works - his understanding of television, filmmaking, puppetry and character being put to great use. Included here is a variety of different content, such as: The surviving episodes of Sam and Friends , his landmark first series Appearances on television shows, such as The Ed Sullivan Show and The Jimmy Dean Show with Rowlf Numerous commercials spanning around a decade of work in advertising Experimental shorts and side projects, including the Oscar-nominated Time Piece and the Beckett-esque The Cube. TV specials and pilots featuring early versions of famed Muppet characters, like Kermit the Frog Jim Henson was one of the greatest minds to ever grace the small screen, and these early works showcase both the talents he had at the time and the successful future yet to come.

- Kind: Commercial
- Year: 1954
- By: Jim Henson
- Genres: Comedy, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/jimhensontheearlyyears)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/jimhensontheearlyyears?play=1)