here is ossie ostrich from Australia from the tv show Hey Hey its Saturday Ozzie Ostrich Hey Hey It's Saturday Compile - GTV 9 - Classic Australian Television - YouTube
this is the tv show "shirl's neighbourhood" Shirl's Neighbourhood "Our Neighbourhood" Theme Tune - YouTube Shirl (the guy) was actually Graeme Strachan Former lead singer of Australian Music group Skyhooks. he died in 29 August 2001 in a helicopter crash Rip. the person who did the puppets was so good that Jim Henson offered him a job but he declined ! this show was on air in the 1980's great kids show !
here is Claude the Crow and Shirl hosting music tv show Countdown Countdown (Australia)- Shirley Strachan and Claude The Crow Guest Host- July 29, 1979- Part 1 - YouTube
Loved Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd. Edgar Bergen and Mortimer are having a discussion, when Mr. Bergen asks Mort, “Would you care to elucidate?” And Mort responds, “Ah no, I feel fine!” .
My favorite puppet was my Herman Munster hand puppet I got as a kid. As for celebrity puppets, Farfel.
This one by far: JABBA THE HUT QUOTE: In Return of the Jedi, Jabba is portrayed by a one-ton puppet that took three months and half a million dollars to construct. While filming the movie, the puppet had its own makeup artist. The puppet required three puppeteers to operate, making it one of the largest ever used in a motion picture.[42] Stuart Freeborn designed the puppet, while John Coppinger sculpted its latex, clay, and foam pieces. Puppeteers included David Alan Barclay, Toby Philpott, and Mike Edmonds, who were members of Jim Henson's Muppet group. Barclay operated the right arm and mouth and read the character's English dialogue, while Philpott controlled the left arm, head, and tongue. The tongue was a light beige color and came out of Jabba’s mouth several times. When he encountered Leia Organa for the first time and enslaved her, he extended his tongue and licked at her face. The reason Leia reacted with such disgust upon seeing the tongue, was because in one take, Philpott moved the tongue closer than Carrie Fisher was comfortable with, and it licked her unintentionally. Edmonds, the shortest of the three men (he also played the Ewok Logray in later scenes) was responsible for the movement of Jabba's tail. Tony Cox, who also played an Ewok, would assist as well. The eyes and facial expressions were operated by radio control.[12][40][42] -Wikipedia QUOTE: Lucas voiced displeasure in the puppet's appearance and immobility, complaining that the puppet had to be moved around the set to film different scenes. In the DVD commentary to the Special Edition of Return of the Jedi, Lucas notes that if the technology had been available in 1983, Jabba the Hutt would have been a CGI character similar to the one that appears in the Special Edition scene of A New Hope.[40] -Wikipedia so thank god there was no CGI back then!
WGN - Chicago channel 9 (1952 - 1976) https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0322367/ Frazier Thomas hosting with Garfield Goose & Friends Romberg Rabbit, Beauregard Burnside III, Garfield Goose, Mackintosh Mouse, Frazier Thomas and Chris Goose on Garfield Goose and Friends.
Always loved the Muppets. In later years, the Spitting Image with its devastating political satire and puppets to match... C.