If you’ve read or seen any biographical material about the late Jim Henson, you probably know that the original Kermit the Frog was created out of his mother’s old coat and two-halves of a ping-pong ball.
One of the first Muppets , Kermit (not yet a frog) became a regular face on Henson’s Sam and Friends, a five-minute TV show that ran twice a day on WRC-TV in Washington, DC. The series ran from May 1955 until December 1961.
Kermit has come a long way since then and looks quite a bit different today. The original Kermit puppet still exists though and has just been donated to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Kermit has returned to his old stomping grounds.
