 After being hired, the two women spent the next year developing "The Magic Garden", with the help of former Muppets puppeteer Cary Antebi, who created Sherlock.Many of the folk songs featured on the show came from material that Demas and Janis had created as schoolteachers.Fifty-two half-hour episodes, a one-hour holiday special (which aired on December 13, 1981)and a 1 hour retrospective THE MAGIC GARDEN STILL GROWING (which aired in 2002) were produced.