The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or "co-productions", of "Sesame Street" broadcast in twenty countries. In 2001, there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of "Sesame Street", and by the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries.
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Sesame Street
Sesame Street | Introduction
Yes, it is on its second run. Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. Yes Yes, it started streaming on HBO Max in 2020.
when did the first episode of sesame street air
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10 November 1969.
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is it a series?
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Yes, an educational children's television series.
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Bert, Ernie & Cookie Monster tell everybody on Sesame Street that they'll be sad because they don't like to watch "Sesame Street" anymore. Then, we cut to Kermit the Frog in his "Sesame Street News" attire asking people (all of which are Grover) how to get to Sesame Street, occasionally running into people who were on the show when they were kids. The show ends with the characters all singing "Sing". The program was dedicated to the memory of Joe Raposo.
Sesame Street... 20 Years &amp; Still Counting | Introduction
Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry. It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) until June 2000) and was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its images communicated through the use of Jim Henson's Muppets, and includes short films, with humor and cultural references. The series premiered on November 10, 1969, to positive reviews, some controversy, and high viewership; it has aired on the U.S.'s national public television provider PBS since its debut, with its first run moving to premium channel HBO on January 16, 2016, then its sister streaming service HBO Max in 2020.
Sesame Street | Introduction
"Sesame Street" now airs on Treehouse TV, a Canadian channel aimed at preschoolers. Various segments, including Global Grover and Elmo's World, have aired separately on the channel for many years after "Open Sesame".
Sesame Park | After the cancellation
The special ranked 68th out of 80 shows that week and brought in a 7.7/14 rating/share, finishing third in its timeslot behind ABC's "Perfect Strangers" (13.0/25, 44th) and "Full House" (14.6/26, 30th), and CBS's "Beauty and the Beast" (10.7/20, 55th).
Sesame Street... 20 Years &amp; Still Counting | Nielsen ratings
The BBC has stood by its original decision, and its position that other children's programmes in the UK cover similar learning themes and values. In 2014, CBeebies launched a "Sesame Street" spin-off called "The Furchester Hotel", which included Elmo and Cookie Monster as well as new characters. The second season introduced more "Sesame Street" characters as visitors to the hotel.
Sesame Street in the United Kingdom | Absence from UK screens
Sesame Street... 20 Years & Still Counting is a 1989 American television special to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of "Sesame Street". Hosted by Bill Cosby, the special aired on Friday, April 7, 1989 on NBC. This special was originally produced by Children's Television Workshop, in association with The Jim Henson Company. (one of the few "Sesame Street" productions they directly produced, though an "Executive Producer for CTW" credit was included in the end credits) and was meant to air as part of "The Jim Henson Hour", but ended up airing as a solo special the week before the premiere episode aired.
Sesame Street... 20 Years &amp; Still Counting | Introduction
He also describes the research involved in the show's creation and production.
Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street | Introduction
Congress to the character.
The World According to Sesame Street | Introduction
In the special, comedian Bill Cosby details the history of the show while interacting with various Muppet characters. Among the subjects featured are the curriculum, the show's adult humor and even the foreign co-productions from around the world (e.g. "Plaza Sésamo"—now "Sésamo"—and "Rechov Sumsum"). There are also guest appearances; opera singer Plácido Domingo sings with Placido Flamingo, and Ray Charles sings Kermit's version of the song "It's Not Easy Bein' Green". Meanwhile, Bert and Ernie are taping the street with their video camera so they can watch "Sesame Street" on television, but Cookie Monster appears and eats both the video camera and the video tape.
Sesame Street... 20 Years &amp; Still Counting | Introduction
In 2017, in response to the changing viewing habits of toddlers, the show's producers decreased the show's length from one hour to thirty minutes across all its broadcast platforms. The new version focused on fewer characters, reduced the pop culture references "once included as winks for their parents", and focused "on a single backbone topic".
Sesame Street | Format
(The production officially disclaims any connection with either Sesame Workshop or The Jim Henson Company.) All of the characters (puppet and human) are young adults who face real-world problems with uncertain solutions, as opposed to the simplistic problems and invariably happy resolutions encountered by characters on children's television programming. Much of the show's ironic humor emerges from its contrasts with "Sesame Street", including the differences between innocent childhood experiences and complex adulthood. The storyline presupposes the existence of "monsters" and talking animals, and human actors sing, dance and interact with puppets, both human and non-human, as if they were sentient beings, in a light-hearted, quasi-fantasy environment.
Avenue Q | Background
Even though the vocal calypso theme was discontinued after Season 29 from November 17, 1997 to May 15, 1998, the instrumental calypso theme was still used at the beginning of street scenes up to Season 37 from 2006, the final season to use the instrumental opening.
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? | Opening sequences
The American children's television series has a long history in Japan, airing for three decades as a dubbed program, and recently restarting as a local co-production.
Sesame Street in Japan | Introduction
In order to keep the show running annually in the same cities, new plot lines are created and rotated through the tour. Because the target audience changes as children grow up, shows are often removed from the rotation for a few years, then return with some modifications. In order of their creation, the "Sesame Street Live" shows have been: VEE Corporation (1980–2015)
Sesame Street Live | Productions
A wide variety of characters have appeared on the American children's television series "Sesame Street". Many of the characters are Muppets, which are puppets made in Jim Henson's distinctive puppet-creation style. Most of the non-Muppet characters are human characters, but there are many characters that are animated.
Sesame Street characters | Introduction
The preschool educational television program "Sesame Street" was first aired on public television stations on November 10, 1969, and reached its 50th season in 2019. The history of "Sesame Street" has reflected changing attitudes to developmental psychology, early childhood education, and cultural diversity. Featuring Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, live shorts, humor and celebrity appearances, it was the first television program of its kind to base its content and production values on laboratory and formative research, and the first to include a curriculum "detailed or stated in terms of measurable outcomes". Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy and high ratings.
History of Sesame Street | Introduction
For the closing scenes that preceded the credits and a list of underwriting sponsors, an instrumental version of the old harmonica-style version in the opening sequence was first used. This version remained intact for 23 seasons. For the most part in the early seasons, the closing sequences showed the kids playing while the credits rolled. In season 2, children's paintings were shown while plastered on the credits. Midway in Season 3, the camera panned down on a mural of the brownstone 123 Sesame Street apartment as credits were written on the walls and sidewalks. This lasted until later in season 5, when that sequence was replaced with someone driving down a country road.
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? | Closing sequences
"Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" is the theme song of the children's television series "Sesame Street". It is the oldest song in "Sesame Street"s history, dating back to the show's beginning on November 10, 1969.
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? | Introduction
The producers of "Sesame Street" expanded the new format to the entire show in 2002. The format changed as the target audience did; by 2002 its main viewers were around two years old, while back in the 1960s the intended audiences were aged three through five.
Format of Sesame Street | Introduction
The show's success continued into the 1980s. In 1981, when the federal government withdrew its funding, CTW turned to, and expanded, other revenue sources, including its magazine division, book royalties, product licensing, and foreign broadcast income. "Sesame Street"s curriculum has expanded to include more affective topics such as relationships, ethics, and emotions. Many of the show's storylines were taken from the experiences of its writing staff, cast, and crew, most notably, the 1982 death of Will Lee—who played Mr. Hooper—and the marriage of Luis and Maria in 1988. By the end of the 1990s, "Sesame Street" faced societal and economic challenges, including changes in viewing habits of young children, competition from other shows, the development of cable television, and a drop in ratings.
Sesame Street | History
As a result of this decision, the appeal of the test episodes was lower than the target.
List of Sesame Street Muppets | Introduction
Original name: Sesame Street Origin: United States Date started: 1969 Creators: Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett First network to broadcast: National Educational Television First country to adapt: Brazil
List of television show franchises | "<a href="Sesame%20Street">Sesame Street</a>"
Sesamstraße (, Sesame Street in English) is the German-language version of "Sesame Street", a children's television series. It airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking countries. The show has been running on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) since 1973, premièring on 8 January in that year. "Sesamstraße" is also shown on the children's channel, KiKa.
Sesamstraße | Introduction
Sesame Street is a nationally syndicated comic strip inspired by "Sesame Street". Written and drawn by veteran Sesame animator Cliff Roberts, the earliest concept art was created in 1970, and by 1971, a promotional booklet was created as the comic entered the market, courtesy of King Features. The strip debuted on November 15, 1971, in more than 175 newspapers, and ran until 1975. The strip, which ran both daily and on Sundays, was conceptually similar to the series in its pedagogical goals, but, in the first year of the strip, conspicuous by the absence of the Muppets. Instead, the strip featured several new characters created by Roberts, such as Jasper and Julius, Christopher Clumsy, and Miss Fortune; in 1972, all of these characters appeared in animated inserts on "Sesame Street" itself.
Sesame Street (comic strip) | Introduction
As Davis states, "To see that first episode today—and the four succeeding ones in "Sesame's" first week—is to be transported back to 1969". The first show was sponsored by the letters "W", "S", and "E" and by the numbers "2" and "3".
Street Gang | Summary
In Season 46, a newsstand was added in between the Subway Station and what is currently the Laundromat. It is run by The Two Headed Monster. There previously was a newsstand Around the Corner run by Oscar in between the Subway Station and the park that sold Grouch newspapers, newspapers and magazines with dirt or fish inside and out of date newspapers. Hoopers Store has also functioned as a Newsstand with one lying in front of the building.
Sesame Street (fictional location) | Newsstand
The show was initially funded by government and private foundations but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales, and other media. By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or "co-productions", of "Sesame Street" broadcast in twenty countries. In 2001, there were over 120 million viewers of various international versions of "Sesame Street", and by the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, it was broadcast in more than 140 countries.
Sesame Street | Introduction
Also regularly seen was Professor Drummond Bugle, a lecturer, similar to more generic characters used in Roberts' animated segments. Roberts fleshed out the strip's cast with a vast menagerie of newly minted animal characters. Amongst them were Lotta Elephant, Richard Bird, Hedda the frog, Balderdash the mouse, Titus the snake, Thomas Turtle, Crawley the worm, and an errant spider. A pair of nameless, Muppet-esque monsters also skulked through on occasion. Though the earlier version of the strip avoided the Muppets, Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Cookie Monster joined the cast in December 1972, and appeared through the end of the strip's run in 1975.
Sesame Street (comic strip) | Introduction
As Lesser stated, "It is unlikely that any other approach would have provided enough room to present material on the wide range of goals we had selected". Producers found that if the show's segments were sufficiently varied in character, content, style, pace, and mood, children's attention was able to be sustained throughout each episode. The show's magazine format accommodated both the curriculum and its demanding production schedule.
Format of Sesame Street | Original format
This title is an upgraded version of Super Grover, a superheroic Muppet who saves the world helping the others. One of the segments has a talking Chicken in the Great Wall of China. 18 episodes were aired over four seasons. Season 1 had 6 episodes from September 27, 2010 to December 14, 2010. Season 2 had 6 episodes from September 26, 2011 to December 30, 2011. Season 3 had 2 episodes from February 4, 2013 to April 4, 2013. Season 4 had 4 episodes from September 15, 2014 to February 19, 2015.
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | Super Grover 2.0
Play with Me Sesame is an American children's television series, created by Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon for their former joint venture Noggin. It is a spin-off of "Sesame Street" hosted by Bert, Ernie, Grover, and Prairie Dawn. The series' backgrounds and animated elements were made by Nickelodeon Digital in New York City. Nickelodeon and Sesame developed the show to expand on "Sesame Street" by directly encouraging young viewers to interact with the characters. To do this, they combined classic "Sesame Street" footage with new segments, where the hosts invite preschoolers to join them in games. The show was in development since 1999, when the Jim Henson Company still co-owned the rights to the "Sesame" characters.
Play with Me Sesame | Introduction
It also stated that the producers of children's television programmes in Britain should follow the producers of "Sesame Street's" example and base their content on the feedback of its audience.
Sesame Street in the United Kingdom | Introduction
Sesame Workshop’s other shows have included "The Electric Company" and "Pinky Dinky Doo".
Lloyd Morrisett | "Sesame Street"
This is a list of miscellaneous recurring segments on the children's daytime program, "Sesame Street".
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | Introduction
Rechov Sumsum (Hebrew: רחוב סומסום, "Sesame Street") is an Israeli educational television program for preschoolers based on the popular U.S. children's show "Sesame Street". The first three series of the show were a joint production of the Israeli Educational Television and the Sesame Workshop, a Worldwide American non-profit organization which has been co-producing the original American "Sesame Street" since 1969. The story line and casts of Rehov Sumsum are tailored to an Israeli audience.
Rechov Sumsum | Introduction
From its first episode, "Sesame Street" has structured its format by using "a strong visual style, fast-moving action, humor, and music," as well as animation and live-action short films. When "Sesame Street" premiered, most researchers believed that young children did not have long attention spans; therefore, the new show's producers were concerned that an hour-long show would not hold their audience's attention. At first, the show's "street scenes"—the action taking place on its set—consisted of character-driven interactions and were not written as ongoing stories. Instead, they consisted of individual, curriculum-based segments which were interrupted by "inserts" consisting of puppet sketches, short films, and animations.
Sesame Street | Format
"Sesame Street" is an American children's television program that is known for its use of format and structure to convey educational concepts to its preschool audience, and to help them prepare for school. It utilizes the conventions of television such as music, humor, sustained action, and a strong visual style, and combines Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references. The show, which premiered in 1969, was the first to base its contents, format, and production values on laboratory and formative research. According to researchers, it was also the first to include a curriculum "detailed or stated in terms of measurable outcomes".
Format of Sesame Street | Introduction
Sesame Street is a fictional street located in Manhattan (a borough in New York City). The street serves as the location for the American children's television series of the same name, which is centered around 123 Sesame Street, a fictional brownstone building.
Sesame Street (fictional location) | Introduction
In 2018, the show was the second-highest-rated program on PBS Kids.
Sesame Street | Ratings
On 24 November 1970, a half hour extract of the programme was shown at a meeting for the Society for Film and Television Arts. One member stated, "There is not much chance of it appearing on British television, but the Department of Education and Science was looking into using the programme in schools". Cooney said, "One day we thought: Can't we use commercials, not to sell products but to teach letters and numbers".
Sesame Street in the United Kingdom | BBC
In 2014, in response to increased online and mobile viewing and to the increase in competition from other preschool programs, Sesame Workshop and PBS began producing, airing, and streaming a half-hour version of the program. The hour-long version continued to air on PBS in the mornings and the new version, which consisted of fewer segments, aired in the afternoons, when more children watched television. PBS also began to stream full-length episodes on its website, mobile app, and Roku channel. Also in 2014, Sesame Workshop began an online streaming subscription service called Sesame Go, which aired both old and new episodes of the show.
History of Sesame Street | 2010s
During the second season of "Sesame Street", to capitalize on the momentum the Workshop was enjoying and the attention it received from the press, the Workshop created its second series, "The Electric Company", in 1971. Morrisett used the same fund-acquisition techniques as he had used for "Sesame Street". "The Electric Company" stopped production in 1977, but continued in reruns until 1985; it eventually became one of the most widely used TV shows in American classrooms and was revived in 2009. Starting in the early 1970s, the Workshop ventured into adult programming, but found that it was difficult to make their programs accessible to all socio-economic groups.
Sesame Workshop | Early years
No pretension was going to be allowed".
Gerald S. Lesser | "Sesame Street"
After the turn of the 21st century, "Sesame Street" made major structural changes. For example, starting in 2002, its format became more narrative and included ongoing storylines. After its thirtieth anniversary in 1999, due to the popularity of the Muppet Elmo the show also incorporated a popular segment known as "Elmo's World". In 2009, the show was awarded the Outstanding Achievement Emmy for its 40 years on the air.
Sesame Street | History
federal government to create and produce a new children's television show. By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, nine million American children under the age of six were watching "Sesame Street" daily, and several studies showed it was having a positive educational impact. The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. In 1981, the federal government withdrew its funding, so the CTW turned to other sources, such as its magazine division, book royalties, product licensing and foreign income. During the 1980s, "Sesame Street"s curriculum expanded to include topics such as relationships, ethics and emotions.
History of Sesame Street | Introduction
In 2020, first-run "Sesame Street" episodes will move to HBO Max starting with its 51st season. On July 25, 2018, it was announced that an animated series entitled "Esme & Roy", also produced by Sesame Workshop, which premiered on August 18th of that year.
HBO Kids | History
Sesame Park is the Canadian version of "Sesame Street". In its first format, it was referred to as Sesame Street Canada and later, Canadian Sesame Street and was a re-edited version of the American series; it adopted a new format and the "Sesame Park" title in 1996.
Sesame Park | Introduction
When he reached the number of the day, the Countess shouted, ""STOP!"" Also in 2005 and 2006, the number of the day was found by using a jack-in-the-box, and starting in season 40 Murray Monster hosts both the Letter and the Number of the Day segments. A brief clip of this was seen in "Sesame Street"'s 2002-2006 opening sequence.
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | Number Of The Day
By the early 1990s, "Sesame Street" had been on the air for over 20 years and was, as author Michael Davis put it, "the undisputed heavyweight champion of preschool television". The show's dominance began to be challenged throughout the decade by other television shows for preschoolers such as "Barney & Friends" and "Blue's Clues", by the growth of the children's home video industry, and by the increase of thirty-minute children's shows on cable. "Sesame Street"s ratings declined, so the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) (now Sesame Workshop), the organization responsible for putting the show on the air, responded by researching the reasons for their lower ratings.
Elmo's World | Background
Iftah Ya Simsim (; meaning "Open Sesame") is the first international co-production of the American children's television series "Sesame Street" created in the Arab world. It premiered in Kuwait on September 14, 1979 and was broadcast in 22 Arabic-speaking countries, running until June 23, 1989. The program continued to be well-known decades after it went off the air. In 1978, educators, mass media officers, and social planners agreed to adopt "Sesame Street" as a feasible and economical solution for the low attendance in preschools and illiteracy that plagued the region. They approached the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), the producers of the American show, and purchased the rights to create an Arab version for US$2.5 million.
Iftah Ya Simsim | Introduction
During the same period there were discussions about broadcasting the U.S. version in Britain or producing a British version of Sesame Street, but British broadcasters found the show too controversial and rejected the idea. The American version was broadcast throughout the UK on a limited basis starting in 1971, but went off the air in 2001.
Sesame Street international co-productions | History
In seasons 10 and 11, the same footage from the previous sequence (without the blue-screen driver's steering wheel) was combined in between new videotaped footage of railroad tracks and a canyon. In Season 12, the closing sequence featured Barkley playing with some kids in a park, which lasted through season 23. In Episodes 1620 and 1625, An alternate closing sequences features shots of Sesame Street covered in snow. In Episode 1710, Stills from Big Bird's week at Camp Echo Rock are shown for the closing sequence.
Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? | Closing sequences
In addition, the PBS stations and statewide networks that aired the show often complained of the Children's Television Workshop "soaking up so much money in public television", said veteran television producer Samuel Gibbon, who worked on the show. "The stations demanded that one of the programs—either "Sesame Street" or "The Electric Company"—be put into reruns to save money. By that time, "Sesame Street" was a cash fountain for the Workshop. The show was almost supporting itself by then with all the productions, books, records, and games. There was no way, it was felt, that they could reduce the number of original shows of "Sesame Street".
The Electric Company | Cancellation
Many likened the line to previous series like "Muppet Babies".
Sesame Beginnings | History of the line
After "Sesame Street"s initial success, its producers began to think about its survival beyond its development and first season and decided to explore other funding sources. From the first season, they understood that the source of their funding, which they considered "seed" money, would need to be replaced. The 1970s were marked by conflicts between the CTW and the federal government; in 1978, the U.S. Department of Education refused to deliver a $2 million check until the last day of CTW's fiscal year. As a result, the CTW decided to depend upon licensing arrangements with toy companies and other manufacturers, publishing, and international sales for their funding.
Sesame Street | Funding
Influence of Sesame Street
Sesame Street Live | See also
The American children's television series "Sesame Street" is known for its extensive merchandising. Licensees include a variety of companies which manufacture books, magazines, video/audio media, and toys using the characters and themes of "Sesame Street".
Sesame Street licensing | Introduction
Sesame Street Live is a live touring show based on the children's television show "Sesame Street" produced by Feld Entertainment.
Sesame Street Live | Introduction
On November 10, 1969, "Sesame Street" — starring Jim Henson’s Muppets — debuted. “Lloyd underplays his role in the development of "Sesame Street",” said John Gardner, former president Carnegie Corporation of New York. “He’s modest, but people who saw the beginnings of "Sesame Street" agree that he played a very significant contributing role as a member of that very small group.” As of 2008, the series has received 118 Emmy Awards — more than any other television series. An estimated 77 million Americans watched the series as children. In addition to "Sesame Street", at least seventeen indigenous, locally produced versions of the show are seen in countries around the world.
Lloyd Morrisett | "Sesame Street"
According to "The New York Times", the move "drew an immediate backlash". Critics claimed that it favored privileged children over less-advantaged children and their families, the original focus of the show. They also criticized choosing to air first-run episodes on HBO, a network with adult dramas and comedies.
Sesame Street | Funding
According to Morrow, the CTW's generalization from this study, which was later supported by outside studies, was that although repetition was an effective teaching method, repeated exposure "determined instructional effectiveness". "The J commercial" was a part of CTW's promotional film about "Sesame Street" and was used to demonstrate its teaching style to the press. "Sesame Street"s animations and live-action films were usually commissioned to outside studios. For example, Misseri Studio in Florence, Italy provided animations for the show for its entire run. Many animations, as well as the show's live-action films and longer segments like "Elmo's World" were created to accompany specific episodes, and became part of its library of shorts available for use in later episodes.
Format of Sesame Street | Animation, films, and other media
Director Jim Martin called "Sesame Street" "an urban show kids could relate to" and "a reality show with a sprinkling of fantasy". When "Sesame Street" was developed, most researchers assumed that young children did not have long attention spans, so the new show's producers were concerned that an hour-long show would not hold their audience's attention. As a result, each episode was structured like a magazine, which made it possible for the producers to create a mixture of styles, paces, and characters. The structure allowed them to have flexibility, meaning that segments were dropped, modified, or added without affecting the rest of the show.
Format of Sesame Street | Original format
In late 2015, as part of a five-year programming and development deal, it was announced that premium television service HBO would air first-run episodes of "Sesame Street". Episodes became available on PBS stations and websites nine months after they aired on HBO. The move came after "sweeping changes in the media business". "Sesame Street" was operating at a loss of $11 million in 2014; according to the "Hollywood Reporter" in 2019, it was one of the reasons for the move to HBO the following year. The deal allowed Sesame Workshop to produce more episodes, about 35 new episodes per season, compared to the 18 episodes per season it aired previously, and provided the opportunity to create a spinoff series with the "Sesame Street" Muppets and a new educational series.
History of Sesame Street | 2010s
Open Sesame is a children's television series composed solely of the skits and segments of the long-running American television series "Sesame Street". While some countries air the American program in whole, and some create their own versions of the show, many more air this title of loosely associated skits, as "Open Sesame". The name is a pun based on the magic words "Open sesame" which are used in the legend of Ali Baba. The first "Open Sesame" packages debuted in 1975 and 1976, in Spain, Sweden, France, and Montreal, Canada. By 1979, Portugal and Italy had followed suit. Some of these countries, based on the success of the dubbed series, later expanded into co-productions, with varying levels of success.
Open Sesame (TV series) | Introduction
Svenska Sesam is the second Swedish adaptation of the popular US children's series "Sesame Street". The series aired at 5:30 p.m. on the channel then called TV2.
Svenska Sesam | Introduction
The CTW approached Random House to establish and manage a non-broadcast materials division. Random House and the CTW named Christopher Cerf to assist the CTW in publishing books and other materials that emphasized the curriculum. In 1980, the CTW began to produce a touring stage production based upon the show, written by Connell and performed by the Ice Follies.
History of Sesame Street | 1970s
1, rue Sésame was a French children's television series based on the popular U.S. children's program "Sesame Street". The show first aired January 4, 1978, at 6:00 a.m. on TF1. Its musical director was Roger Elcourt, composer Jean Morlier. The series was executive produced by Michel Berthier from TF1 and Lutrelle Horne from CTW. The show ran for a total of 82 episodes and ceased production in June 1982. The series is occasionally called Bonjour Sésame, or la Rue Sésame. In October 2005, a new series by Sesame Workshop was launched, called "5, Rue Sésame".
1, rue Sésame | Introduction
Starting season 25 (episode 3136, [1993-1994]) Sesame Street expands their street to Around the Corner. This expansion brought a boatload of new locations and human and Muppet characters to Sesame Street including but not limited to: the newsstand, The Park, the Daycare Center, the Furry Arms Hotel, Zoe, Ruthie, Celina, Jamal, and Angela. According to Martin P. Robinson (Puppeteer who performed on Sesame Street since 1981) said:"In Season 25, we opened up the whole "Around the Corner" set filled with new humans and dozens of new puppets. Remember The Furry Arms Hotel? It was a great cast and the plot lines were hilarious, but research discovered that kids couldn't keep track of all these people and puppets, making the shows visually exciting and entertaining for adults, but confusing for kids." By the end of season 29 (1997-1998) the Around the Corner expansion was removed.
Sesame Street (Around the Corner Book/Era) | Television show
"Sesame Street" was not without its detractors, however. The state commission in Mississippi, where Henson was from, operated the state's PBS member station; in May 1970 it voted to not air "Sesame Street" because of its "highly [racially] integrated cast of children" which "the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for". According to "", Lesser's account of the development and early years of "Sesame Street", there was little criticism of the show in the months following its premiere, but it increased at the end of its first season and beginning of the second season. Historian Robert W.
Sesame Street | Critical reception
The original show aired on NHK until April 2004.
Sesame Street in Japan | "Sesame Street"'s dubbed original (1971-2004, 2020-onwards)
According to puppeteer Marty Robinson in 2019, longevity was common among the show's cast and crew.
Sesame Street | Cast, crew and characters
The following series are based on or directly related to "Sesame Street". Dubs of the original American version have been produced for international markets since 1971, but are not listed. Programs with guest appearances by "Sesame Street" characters that were not produced by Sesame Workshop, such as "The Muppet Show" and "Between the Lions", are also excluded.
List of Sesame Workshop productions | "Sesame Street"
When he wrote "Television and Children", most American children received no preschool education. The first two chapters of the book detail the reasons for the experiment of creating an educational television program like "Sesame Street", especially in regards to its audience.
Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street | Synopsis
Sesame Square is the Nigerian version of "Sesame Street". It is West Africa's first "Sesame Street" adaptation. Nigerians produce and voice the series in Standard English. The show is scheduled to have three seasons, with the first containing 26 episodes, one for each letter of the English alphabet. It is due to be screened on Nigerian Television Authority network. The set of "Sesame Square" resembles a traditional Nigerian village with a central mango tree. The series stars Kami, an HIV-positive Muppet (who was originally part of the South African version of Sesame Street), and Zobi, a blue, furry Muppet who is a 'Yam Monster' (the Nigerian version of the Cookie Monster in the American original).
Sesame Square | Introduction
Going out the window, it travels into Finders Keepers, and then into the Park, where Big Bird catches it and ends the game. Along the way, the book introduces the new characters that debuted in Season 25—Jamal and Angela in the Day Care Center, Sherry Netherland and Benny Rabbit in The Furry Arms Hotel, Celina in the Dance Studio, and Ruthie in "Finders Keepers". Zoe was also introduced in Season 25, and she's pictured prominently on the cover.
Sesame Street (Around the Corner Book/Era) | Introduction
"Open Sesame" is a half hour compilation series of older "Sesame Street" sketches, seen on Nick Jr. in Australia. The series follows the same format as other "Open Sesame" packages, only retaining the original soundtrack. On March 1, 2004, separate from the package, the Australian Muppet Ollie (who is the cousin of Elmo) appears in Play Along with Ollie interstitials scattered throughout the programming schedule.
Open Sesame (TV series) | Australia
With exception to the latter, the segments were often parodies and diverged from the traditional tellings.
Sesame Street News Flash | Introduction
During the production of "Sesame Street's" first season, producers created five one-hour episodes to test the show's appeal to children and examine their comprehension of the material. Not intended for broadcast, they were presented to preschoolers in 60 homes throughout Philadelphia and in day care centers in New York City in July 1969. The results were "generally very positive"; children learned from the shows, their appeal was high, and their attention was sustained over the full hour. However, the researchers found that although children's attention was high during the Muppet segments, their interest wavered during the "Street" segments, when no Muppets were on screen.
History of Sesame Street | July 1969 test episodes
A few months after the 1969 debut of "Sesame Street" on PBS in the US, producers from several countries all around the world approached the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, later the Sesame Workshop, or "the Workshop"), the organization responsible for the show's production, to create and produce versions of "Sesame Street" in their countries. Co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney was approached by German public television officials about a year after the US version debuted. Many years later, Cooney recalled, "To be frank, I was really surprised, because we thought we were creating the quintessential American show. We thought the Muppets were quintessentially American, and it turns out they're the most international characters ever created".
Iftah Ya Simsim | Background
These episodes have also premiered on the second Monday in April, which deviates from HBO's regular airing of Sesame Street episodes on Saturdays.
Julia (Sesame Street) | Introduction
The 2008–2009 recession, which led to budget cuts for many nonprofit arts organizations, severely affected "Sesame Street"; in spring 2009, Sesame Workshop had to lay off 20% of its staff. By the show's 40th anniversary, it was ranked the fifteenth most popular children's show on television. When the show premiered in 1969, 130 episodes a year were produced; in 2009, because of rising costs, twenty-six episodes were made. According to the "Hollywood Reporter", corporate funding "dried up" and DVD sales "bottomed up". Also by 2009, Sesame Workshop started a new website containing a large library of classic and more recent free video clips, as well as a series of podcasts.
History of Sesame Street | 2000s
Despite this segment being very popular among the younger viewers, it appeared less frequently in Season 36 and was dropped from the show in Season 37 because the writers and producers felt that it was not 'Sesame' enough, that the look and feel of the animation was too similar to other shows on the television schedule and it did not mesh with the whole show.
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | Journey to Ernie
In 1996, the show changed its name to "Sesame Park", and was cancelled in 2002. As of 2014, many of the show's Muppet characters were displayed in the CBC Museum in Toronto. In 1973, West Germany, one of the first countries to approach CTW, began airing "Sesamstraße". It has been continually produced since. At first, this co-production incorporated original German animation and live action segments into the U.S. version. Starting in 1978, its producers began using puppets filmed in their own studio in Germany. The Netherlands' version, "Sesamstraat", began in 1976. This show has aired in both Dutch and Flemish.
Sesame Street international co-productions | 1970s
Several segments of "Sesame Street" produced in the 1970s also made use of music from "The In Sound from Way Out", as did other television programs, such as "The Red Skelton Show". A skit from the October 23, 1976 airing of "Saturday Night Live" titled "Jeopardy! 1999" used "Unidentified Flying Object" as the opening and closing themes.
Perrey and Kingsley | Commercial period (1967–1980)
Sesamstraat () is a Dutch children's television show in the Netherlands, and a spin-off of the U.S. children's program "Sesame Street". In its early days the show was broadcast in Flanders (Belgium) as well. It is the second longest-running foreign adaptation of "Sesame Street" without interruptions, behind only "Sesamstraße".
Sesamstraat | Introduction
"Parade Magazine" reported in 2019 that the show's music had been honored with 11 children's Grammys. The show's dominance, however, was soon challenged by another PBS television show for preschoolers, "Barney & Friends", and "Sesame Street's" ratings declined. The producers of "Sesame Street" responded, at the show's twenty-fifth anniversary in 1993, by expanding and redesigning the show's set, calling it "Around the Corner". With Michael Loman as the new executive producer of the show, new human and Muppet characters were introduced, including Zoe (performed by Fran Brill), baby Natasha and her parents Ingrid and Humphrey, and Ruthie (played by comedian Ruth Buzzi).
History of Sesame Street | 1990s
"Sesame Street"s format remained intact until the 1990s. By then, its dominance was challenged by other programs such as "Blue's Clues", and its ratings declined. New research, the growth of the children's home video industry, and the increase of 30-minute children's shows on cable demonstrated that the traditional magazine-format was not necessarily the most effective way to hold young viewers' attention. For "Sesame Street"s 30th anniversary in 1999, its producers researched the reasons for the show's lower ratings. For the first time since the show debuted, the producers and a team of researchers analyzed "Sesame Street"s content and structure during a series of two-week-long workshops.
Format of Sesame Street | Format changes after the 1990s
The show is part of the HBO programming in Spain under its original title, Sesame Street, with dubbed episodes of the HBO seasons from 2017 to 2021.
Barrio Sésamo | Sesame Street - <a href="HBO">HBO Era</a> (9th Run)
When a script was completed, the show's research team analyzed it to ensure that the goals were met. Then each production department met to determine what each episode needed in terms of costumes, lights, and sets. The writers were present during the show's taping, which for the first twenty-four years of the show took place in Manhattan, and after 1992, at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens to make last-minute revisions when necessary.
Sesame Street | Writing
Sesame Street Magazine is an American monthly magazine based on the long-running children's television series "Sesame Street". The magazine features characters from the television series, and emphasizes "Sesame Street"s educational goals. The intended audience includes children under the age of five and their parents. Sesame Workshop (formerly called the Children's Television Workshop) published the magazine from October 1970 to 2001. The Parenting Group then assumed publication, and until 2008 distributed it optionally to subscribers of "Parenting". Since 2008 the Parenting Group has distributed Sesame Street Magazine electronically and without charge. The Parents' Choice Foundation commended "Sesame Street Magazine" with the Parents' Choice Award on 18 occasions between 1970 and 2007.
Sesame Street Magazine | Introduction
Sesame Street Stays Up Late! is a 1993 New Year's Eve special with guest appearances by characters from some of the international versions of Sesame Street The special was first broadcast on December 29, 1993 with the subtitles: "A Monster New Year's Eve Party." Everyone on Sesame Street is preparing to celebrate New Year's Eve as they all go "Around the Corner" to hold the party.
Sesame Street (Around the Corner Book/Era) | Sesame Street Stays Up Late!
Sesame Street, Special is a pledge-drive special that is based on the children's series, "Sesame Street". It aired on PBS stations in March 1988 as part of PBS' March fundraiser. Random House Home Video released the special on VHS in 1994; the release changed the title to Put Down the Duckie and removed the pledge break segment.
Sesame Street, Special | Introduction
Sesame Beginnings is a line of products and a video series, spun off the children's television series "Sesame Street". The line is targeted towards infants and their parents, and products are designed to increase family interactivity.
Sesame Beginnings | Introduction
The producers requested that Henson and his team create Muppets such as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to interact with the human actors, and the Street segments were re-shot. "Sesame Street"s format remained intact until the 2000s, when the changing audience required that producers move to a more narrative format. In 1998, the popular "Elmo's World", a 15-minute-long segment hosted by the Muppet Elmo, was created. Starting in 2014, during the show's 45th season, the producers introduced a half-hour version of the program. The new version, which originally complemented the full-hour series, was both broadcast weekday afternoons and streamed on the Internet.
Sesame Street | Format
The earliest seasons of "Sesamstrasse", while not officially part of the format, used a variation, but incorporated a greater amount of local film and cartoon inserts.
Open Sesame (TV series) | Earliest known use
"Sesamo Apriti (Open Sesame)" is the Italian version of "Sesame Street", first broadcast in 1971. Approximately 50 episodes of the American show were cut to a half hour, and translated into Italian. A "Sesamo Apriti" board game and record album were released in 1978. "Performers" The voices on the series were dubbed into Italian. Ernesto (Ernie): Dario Mazzoli
Open Sesame (TV series) | "Sesamo Apriti"
In 1969, the children's television show "Sesame Street" premiered on the National Educational Television network (later succeeded by PBS) in the United States. Unlike earlier children's programming, the show's producers used research and over 1,000 studies and experiments to create the show and test its impact on its young viewers' learning. By the end of the program's first season, the organization founded to oversee "Sesame Street" production, Children's Television Workshop (CTW), had developed what came to be called "the CTW model": a system of planning, production, and evaluation that combined the expertise of researchers and early childhood educators with that of the program's writers, producers, and directors.
Sesame Street research | Introduction
The program premiered on public television stations on November 10, 1969. It was the first preschool educational television program to base its contents and production values on laboratory and formative research. Initial responses to the show included adulatory reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. By its 50th anniversary in 2019, there were over 150 versions of "Sesame Street", produced in 70 languages. As of 2006, 20 international versions had been produced. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s "Sesame Street" the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, with emphasis on the hiring of women crew members and the addition of minorities to the cast.
Sesame Street | History
The format of "Sesame Street" consisted of a combination of commercial television production elements and educational techniques. It was the first time a more realistic setting, an inner city street and neighborhood, was used for a children's program. At first, each episode was structured like a magazine, but in 1998, as a result of changes in their audience and its viewing habits, the producers researched the reasons for its lower ratings, and changed the show's structure to a more narrative format. The popular, fifteen-minute long segment, "Elmo's World", hosted by the Muppet Elmo, was added in 1998 to make the show more accessible to a younger audience.
Format of Sesame Street | Introduction
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader urged parents to protest the move by boycotting the show. For "Sesame Street"s 30th anniversary in 1999, its producers researched the reasons for the show's lower ratings. For the first time since the show debuted, the producers and a team of researchers analyzed "Sesame Street" content and structure during a series of two-week-long workshops. They also studied how children's viewing habits had changed since the show's premiere. They found that although "Sesame Street" was produced for three -to five-year olds, children began watching it at a younger age. Preschool television had become more competitive, and the CTW's research showed the traditional magazine format was not the best way to attract young children's attention.
History of Sesame Street | 1990s