“We started off with this fairly grand concept of, if you were to tackle it at a children's level, eliminating war. What would you do?”

—  Jim Henson

Henson on the motivation behind Fraggle Rock
Interview with Associated Press (1987)

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American puppeteer 1936–1990

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