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If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

Well, Detroit Institute is kind of a key - probably the largest permanent collection of puppets in the US.

Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.

There was a little afternoon show that was called Afternoon. Back in those days in television, most local stations had a midday show for housewives that had a series of things. It was like a variety show for midday.