The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson is a one-hour special that aired on CBS on November 21, 1990. The program was a tribute to Muppet creator Jim Henson, who had died earlier in 1990 due to toxic shock syndrome caused by a streptococcus infection, and featured characters from "The Muppet Show", "Fraggle Rock", and "Sesame Street". It marked Steve Whitmire's first onscreen performance as Kermit the Frog. This was also one of Richard Hunt's final puppetry works before his death in 1992. Kermit the Frog is away traveling, leaving Fozzie Bear and the other Muppets in
Masha and the Bear the stories by often adding an additional ending so that way it could fit with what she's telling her toys. "Masha's Tales" premiered on Cartoon Network UK's sister pre-school channel, Cartoonito on June 20, 2016. Another spin-off of the "Masha and the Bear" franchise – "Masha's Spooky Stories" – premiered on Cartoonito UK and Netflix in October 2016. Debut dates listed per Treehouse TV: Masha and the Bear Masha and the Bear (; ) is a Russian animated television series created by Oleg Kuzovkov and produced by Animaccord Animation Studio (Moscow, the Russian Federation), loosely based on the oral children's