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Adelaide Fringe Festival

In 2014, the event's mascot will be Disco Cuttlefish, a 13 m long street performance puppet inspired by the Giant Australian Cuttlefish of Spencer Gulf, South Australia.

Alive from Off Center

Notable episodes included "As Seen on TV," starring comic actor Bill Irwin as an auditioning dancer who becomes trapped in a television, wandering among daytime dramas, MTV, and PBS's own Sesame Street and the atmospheric puppet melodrama "Street of Crocodiles," adapted by the Brothers Quay from the Bruno Shultz story.

Andy's Gang

The green puppet, Froggy the Gremlin, appeared in a puff of smoke ("Hi Ya, Kids, Hiya, Hiya, Hiya!") and was always interrupting the story and causing trouble.

Battle of Jenkins' Ferry

France had invaded and occupied Mexico in June 1863, setting up a government under their puppet "emperor," Maximilian.

Bob Dermer

In the 1980s, he appeared on the children's show Today's Special, playing a puppet character named Sam Crenshaw, and starred in the animated Raccoons series and specials as Ralph Raccoon (and various other characters).

Brian Henson

As he got older, he built the very first Muppet penguin puppet for the opening "Lullaby of Broadway" segment of a season three episode of The Muppet Show, guest starring Gilda Radner.

BTQ

Within the same decade, BTQ was also a major production house for children's television - hosting popular shows as Wombat, Now You See It, Family Feud, Play Your Cards Right and Seven's Super Saturday featuring Agro (puppet).

Christine Glanville

In addition to her primary role of lead puppet operator, Glanville was also often responsible for the design and construction of the puppets themselves; for Thunderbirds (1965–66), she sculpted the marionettes of Scott Tracy, Alan Tracy, and Tin-Tin Kyrano.

Cousin Skeeter

Skeeter (performed by Drew Massey, voiced by Bill Bellamy) - Skeeter is a puppet whose life changed when he moved from Atlanta, Georgia to New York City to live with his cousin Bobby.

D. B.'s Delight

D.B.'s Delight featured two regular co-hosts- a live performer (successively, St. Louis media celebrities Julius Hunter, "Young" Bobby Day and later Guy Phillips) and a puppet character called "D.B. Doorbell" (performed, at various times, by puppeteers Dale Thompson, Doug Kincaid, and Bobby Miller).

Original puppeteer Dale Thompson built the first "D.B. Doorbell" puppet character in 1976; this was replaced in 1981 by a "Kincaid Karacter" puppet designed and built by St. Louis puppeteers William Kincaid and Doug Kincaid, when Doug Kincaid assumed the role of lead puppeteer that same year.

Dick Beals

In 1996, Beals provided the voice of the Pinocchio puppet in the horror film Pinocchio's Revenge.

Dougie Colon

Dougie David Colon (pronounced 'cologne') is a British puppet and television presenter best known as the presenter of the BBC One comedy series That Puppet Game Show in 2013.

Dr. Dre discography

!scope="row"|"Puppet Master"
(Soul Assassins featuring Dr. Dre and B-Real)

Ernst von Steinberg

Jeremy Black, George II: Puppet of the Politicians? (Exeter: UP, 2007), p.

Fascist Italy

Italian Social Republic, a puppet state of Nazi Germany from 1943 to 1945, ruled by the Republican Fascist Party under Benito Mussolini

Gdańsk Shakespeare Festival

Actors, human-shaped puppets and various artists, together with the residents of Dolne Miasto, march along Długi Targ, which is the centre of the Old Town of Gdańsk.

Gerard Parkes

After Fraggle Rock, in addition to returning as Doc in A Muppet Family Christmas, Parkes continued to work in children's television, guest starring as alcoholic photographer Phil (opposite Sesame Park puppeteer Nina Keogh) on the TVOntario puppet series Today's Special, and appearing regularly on PBS's Shining Time Station as store owner Barton Winslow.

Harlequin Puppet Theatre

From 1951 to 1956, Bramall performed increasingly elaborate puppet shows each summer in a temporary theatre built onto an existing bandstand in Colwyn Bay, North Wales.

Harry Hill's TV Burp

Series 8: Hole in the Wall and the catchphrase "Bring On The Wall" was often used, with a cameo from presenter Dale Winton, a wobbling jelly, originally from Heston Blumenthal series ...Feast, featured regularly, with the use of The Surfaris' "Wipe Out", a puppet shark, Eoghan Quigg's vote face, mimicked by Harry and mispronounced as 'EE-OG-HAN', and The Lion Man theme used in celebration.

Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others

Concurrently, B.P.R.D. agent Pauline Raskin encounters the innocent Mrs. Stokes, who is watching a puppet theatre production of Shakespeare'sHamlet” on television.

Hot Fudge

The duo of the bearded musician Larry (Larry Santos) and green fuzzy puppet Seymour (voiced by producer Bob Elnicky) took over after the first season.

Ian Angus Wilkie

He is probably best known for his recurring role as the Vicar in the sitcom Barbara, though he also appeared in the 1994 short film Blue Christmas, played the title character in CBBC show Mr. Wymi and provided the voice for Hamish in the cult puppet sitcom Pets.

Jim Henson Television

The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss 1996—1997 - Live-action/puppet series produced for Nickelodeon

Johann Philipp von Hattorf

Jeremy Black, George II: Puppet of the Politicians? (Exeter: UP, 2007).

Judy Valentine

Goggle was a hand-puppet and operated by then unknown puppeteer Caroll Spinney (later known as ‘Big Bird’ of Sesame Street).

Kenneth Lyen

Monkey (2009): Puppet musical of an episode from Monkey: Journey to the West.

Kuroda Puppet Troupe

The Kuroda Puppet Troupe also hosted a summer puppetry training program in 2006 for American students at the Kuroda Puppetry Hall in conjunction with the University of Missouri and the American-based Japanese theater group, Bunraku Bay Puppet Troupe.

Lambs Anger

The album cover pays homage to the 1928 surrealist film "Un Chien Andalou", where in place of Simone Mareuil is a puppet named Flat Eric, who appeared in the music video for Flat Beat.

Ma Shaowu

In 1937, during the Xinjiang War (1937), Ma Shaowu was accused by the Soviet puppet Sheng Shicai of being part of a "Fascist-Trotskyite" network, including Khoja Niyas Hajji, Ma Hushan, along with other totally ridiculous claims, which Sheng Shicai used as an excuse to conduct his own purge in Xinjiang along with Joseph Stalin's Great Purge.

Miss Peach

From 1982, several television movies were based on the strip: Miss Peach of the Kelly School featured a live actor as Miss Peach and puppets as the children (some voiced by Martin Short).

Pepsi Power Hour

On other installments, independent artists such as Mif from Slash Puppet were brought in for live, in-studio interview segments.

Pictures with Woofer

Patty (Donna Miller) and her dog Woofer (a puppet) introduced short films produced by the CBC and by The Walt Disney Company.

Ping Chong

Recent productions have included several large scale puppet theatre works, Cathay: Three Tales of China (2005), Obon: Tales of Rain and Moonlight (2002), and Kwaidan (1998).

Puppetoons

Pal also used the Puppetoon name and the general Puppetoon technique for miniature puppet characters in some of his live-action feature films, including The Great Rupert (1949), Tom Thumb (1958), and The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1963).

Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Darrell Till covered "Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head" for a They Might Be Giants tribute album.

Rebecca Taylor

One of her first jobs on the scheme was making clothes for Peter Jackson's Meet the Feebles’ puppet characters.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–1981

For example, in one episode he tells his viewers that their hopes and dreams are pointless because its impossible to find a job in the current economy and another episode contains a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment in which a puppet Ronald Reagan (who Robinson consistently blames for his lack of a job and dire financial situation) tells all the neighborhood's hand puppets that he can't do anything to help them out of poverty in a very dismissing manner.

Reg Hill

A line of successful puppet and live-action TV series followed: Fireball XL5, Stingray, Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90, The Secret Service (which combined puppetry with live action), UFO (produced mostly in live action), The Protectors and Space: 1999.

Rothley Temple

Shortly after, King Philip IV of France, heavily indebted to the order, started a campaign against the Knights Templar, using his puppet Pope Clement V.

Sad Kermit

The video first appeared on YouTube in March 2007, showing a store-bought Kermit puppet performing a version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt" in a style similar to Johnny Cash's version.

Song to the Auspicious Cloud

Several puppet governments established by the Japanese army, such as Provisional Government of the Republic of China, Reformed Government of the Republic of China, also used this anthem, as these puppet state recommissioned all the old Republic of China national symbols before Kuomintang came to power in 1928.

Stacey Levine

She wrote the libretto for an historical puppet opera, The Wreck of the St. Nikolai (2004); this work was directed and performed in Seattle by cellist Lori Goldston and accordionist Kyle Hanson.

Superstar Limo

Riders were introduced to animated figures modeled in the likeness of celebrities (some of whom appeared at the time on ABC shows.) The celebrities were Joan Rivers (appearing only in puppet-form on TV screens in the attraction's queue), Regis Philbin, Melanie Griffith, Antonio Banderas, Cindy Crawford, Tim Allen, Jackie Chan, Drew Carey, Cher, and Whoopi Goldberg.

Swap Shop

Basil's Swap Shop, a 2008 relaunch of the BBC show, starring puppet character Basil Brush

Toby Hull

Toby Hull is the son of Rod Hull, a popular entertainer who appeared with an arm-length puppet known as Emu.

When Games Attack

Each puppet would pick one of two video games that were similar such as Tekken vs Virtua Fighter or Grand Theft Auto vs True Crime: Streets of LA.

Yaya Coulibaly

Later he studied art at the Bamako National Institute of the Arts, and puppet theatre at the Institute International de la Marionette in France.

Born in a family of puppeteers with roots in the Bamana, he began his initiation into the of puppet and masquerade figures at the age of ten as an apprentice to his father.


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