A chimpanzee named J. Fred Muggs became a major factor in keeping commercial television off the British air. Muggs, who wears rubber pants and a turtleneck sweater, gives U.S. viewers an occasional ...

J. Fred Muggs, Africa-born one-year-old, is the current rage of morning TV audiences. J. Fred, a cheerful little chimpanzee in rubber pants, is Dave Garroway’s romping sidekick on NBC’s 7 a.m. news ...

They should have quit while they were ahead. NBC’s “Today Show” was in its infancy in 1957 when it decided to install a character named J. Fred Muggs as a star on the show. An amusing Mr. Muggs gave ...

One of the first television shows I can remember seeing was “The Hathaways,” an early ’60s sitcom, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston, about a suburban couple and their three chimpanzees. Back in the ...

the moon, everywhere, while Dave Garroway and J. Fred Muggs drolly conversed with the mothers of River City. Sometimes he would get bored and they would just stick the camera out the window to watch ...

Comedian Dennis Miller hasn’t picked just any regular guest star for his new CNBC talkshow — he’s picked a monkey. Most folks attending the Television Critics Assn. tour Wednesday thought Miller was ...