Sam and Friends was an early live-action/puppet television show created by puppeteer Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel. It was taped and aired locally in Washington, D.C., on WRC-TV in black-and-white, and later, color on weekdays from May 9, 1955, to December 15, 1961. Most of the original episodes were taped over after airing. The few surviving episodes can be viewed at the Paley Center for Media.