Jerry Juhl became the first full-time employee of Jim Henson Co. in 1961 after meeting Henson at a puppeteer's convention. The company coined the term Muppet, a combination of the words marionette and puppet, and created a series of short skits parodying television news people. Juhl worked on Jim Henson's first television show, "Sam and Friends" (1955) as a puppeteer and later spent six years writing for "Sesame Street" (1969) after its 1969 premiere. He created scripts for t ...[Read Story]