The Junior Morning Show (Lost 1954 local children's show, Existence Unconfirmed)

The Junior Morning Show was a short-lived local children's show, featuring youngsters, in Washington, D.C. that premiered on June 19, 1954. Muppeteer Jim Henson got his start in television on this show in 1954 before he began his own show Sam and Friends in 1955.

Pierre the French Rat, a character that Henson created for a comic strip during his high school years, appeared in puppet form on this show (as pictured to the right). He would later go on to appear in Sam and Friends about a year later.

According to Jim Henson's Designs and Doodles: "One afternoon in his senior year of high school, two production assistants from local station WTOP visited Henson's high school puppetry club. The station manager had sent them to find puppeteers for a Saturday morning children's program, called The Junior Morning Show. Jim jumped at the opportunity... The show only aired for three weeks, but out of the experience Jim got a favorable mention in a local newspaper and a chance to work in front of a television camera."

To this day, the show is completely unknown, no episodes have been archived and are believed to be destroyed, and it is most likely that the entire show itself has been forever lost due to legal action from the new child labor law ("permitting that children appearing on stage here applies to theater and not television") striking against the show's production and eventually cancelling the show three weeks later.