When people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept for the storyteller.

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.