The Jim Henson Company & The Muppets: Celebrating Puppets & Special Effects

This is an all-new book devoted to the Muppets, The Jim Henson Company, and Sesame Street to be released in 2015 as part of a 60-year celebration. It tells the behind-the-scenes story of Jim Henson, The Jim Henson Company, Sesame Street, Muppet appearances in commercials and variety shows, Muppet specials, Muppeteers, The Muppet Show, Muppet movies, The Jim Henson Creature Shop, Fraggle Rock, animated Muppet series, etc. The book includes a bonus DVD with two Muppet Show pilots (The Muppets Valentine Show and The Muppet Show: Sex and Violence), a Muppet Show pitch reel, and a 30-minute montage with clips of Jim Henson, Sam & Friends, Wilkin's Coffee commercials, The Jimmy Dean Show, classic commercials, IBM meeting films, The Tonight Show, The Jack Paar Show, The Mike Douglas Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Timepiece, animated Henson films, the Sesame Street pitch reel, Sesame Street, Muppet TV specials, The Dick Cavett Show, Muppet Show pilots, Saturday Night Live "Land of Gorch" segments, The Muppet Show, Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas, The Muppet Movie, The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, Fraggle Rock, Muppets Take Manhattan, Muppet Babies, the Starboppers test footage, Playhouse Video Muppet Show compilations (such as Gonzo Presents Muppet Weird Stuff), Little Muppet Monsters, Labyrinth, The Storyteller, Puppetman, Jim Henson Play-Along Videos (such as Neat Stuff To Know & To Do), The Jim Henson Hour, The Ghost of Faffner Hall, Mother Goose Stories, The Storyteller: Greek Myths, Muppet-Vision 3D, Dinosaurs, Good Morning America, Muppet Meeting Films, Dog City, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet music videos, Citykids, Jim Henson's Animal Show, Secret Life of Toys, Muppet Classic Theater, Muppet Time, Creature Shop appearances in commercials, Muppet Treasure Island, Muppets Tonight, Aliens in the Family, The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss, Bear in the Big Blue House, Buddy, B.R.A.T.S. of the Lost Nebula, Farscape, Mopatop's Shop, Construction Site, Muppets From Space, The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, Muppetisms, The Hoobs, Kermit's Swamp Years, Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Animal Jam, Muppet video games, Good Boy, Muppet Wizard of Oz, Mirrormask, Frances, Puppet Up shows, From the Balcony, The Skrumps, Muppet DXD videos, Muppet viral videos, Sid the Science Kid, Letters to Santa, Stuffed and Unstrung, Dinosaur Train, Pajanimals, The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora, Dinosaur Train, Me & My Monsters, The Muppets (2011), Neil Patrick Harris's Puppet Dreams, That Puppet Game Show, No You Shut Up!, Muppets Most Wanted (2014), and Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge, plus behind-the-scenes footages and cast and crew interviews.