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.
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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
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
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
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
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Two days before the show's premiere, a thirty-minute preview entitled "This Way to Sesame Street" aired on NBC. The show was financed by a $50,000 grant from Xerox. Written by Stone and produced by CTW publicist Bob Hatch, it was taped the day before it aired. "Newsday" called the preview "a unique display of cooperation between commercial and noncommercial broadcasters". "Sesame Street" premiered November 10, 1969. It was widely praised for its originality, and was well received by parents as well as children. The show reached only 67.6% of the nation, but earned a 3.3 Nielsen rating, meaning 1.9 million households and 7 million children watched it each day.
History of Sesame Street | Premiere and first season (1969–1970)
"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"
Davis includes the biographies of key players in the show's development: Cooney, Morrisett, Jon Stone, Sam Gibbon, Tom Whedon, Evelyn Payne Davis, Jim Henson, Caroll Spinney, Gerald S. Lesser, Edward Palmer, Joe Raposo, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Will Lee, and Matt Robinson. There is also a discussion of the history of early children's television; specifically, "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Howdy Doody Show". Davis emphasizes the coincidence that many involved with the show had first names that started with the letter "J:" Joan Cooney, Jon Stone, Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, and Joe Raposo. Chapter 13 ("Intermission"): A description of the first episode of "Sesame Street," which debuted on PBS on November 10, 1969.
Street Gang | Summary
"Sesame Street"’s first episode centers on Gordon taking a girl named Sally around Sesame Street, to get acquainted with everyone and everything in her new neighborhood.
The Robinson family (Sesame Street) | 1969–1971
In "Sesame Street's" first season, the ETS reported that children who watched the show scored higher in tests than less-frequent viewers. In November 1970, the cover of "Time" magazine featured Big Bird, who had received more fan mail than any of the show's human hosts. The magazine declared, "... It is not only the best children's show in TV history, it is one of the best parents' shows as well". An executive at ABC, while recognizing that "Sesame Street" was not perfect, said the show "opened children's TV to taste and wit and substance" and "made the climate right for improvement".
History of Sesame Street | Premiere and first season (1969–1970)
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
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"
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
Other reviewers predicted commercial television would be forced to improve its children's programming, something that did not substantially occur until the 1990s. "Sesame Street" won a Peabody Award, three Emmys, and the Prix Jeunesse award in 1970. President Richard Nixon sent Cooney a congratulatory letter, and Dr. Benjamin Spock predicted the program would result in "better-trained citizens, fewer unemployables in the next generation, fewer people on welfare, and smaller jail populations".
History of Sesame Street | Premiere and first season (1969–1970)
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
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
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
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
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
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
This was because the producers had followed the advice of child psychologists who were concerned that children would be confused if human actors and Muppets were shown together. As a result of this decision, the appeal of the test episodes was lower than the target. The Street scenes, as Palmer described them, were "the glue" that "pulled the show together", so producers knew they needed to make significant changes. On the basis of their experience on "Captain Kangaroo", Cannell, Stone, and Gibbon thought the experts' opinions were "nonsense"; Cooney agreed. Lesser called their decision to defy the recommendations of their advisers "a turning point in the history of "Sesame Street"".
History of Sesame Street | July 1969 test episodes
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
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
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 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
The producers reshot the Street segments; Henson and his coworkers created Muppets that could interact with the human actors, specifically Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird, who became two of the show's most enduring characters. In addition, the producers found Saunders' role as Gordon not to be as likable by children watching the show, resulting in the character being recast by Matt Robinson, who was initially the show's filmed segments producer. These test episodes were directly responsible for what Gladwell called "the essence of "Sesame Street"—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults".
History of Sesame Street | July 1969 test episodes
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
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
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" 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
Sesame Street: Old School is the title of a series of DVD releases produced by Sesame Workshop, featuring episodes from the early years of the PBS series, "Sesame Street", plus highlights from that era. The first volume, "1969–1974", was released by Sony Wonder in Region 1 (North America) on October 24, 2006. The second volume, "1974–1979", was released by Genius Entertainment on November 6, 2007. The third volume, "1979–1984", was released by Warner Home Video on November 6, 2012. Each set featured three discs in a box set, with the exception of the third set, which instead features two discs.
Sesame Street: Old School | Introduction
In 1977, a German street set was built at Studio Hamburg for German framing stories. Samson, a bear (1978–2009, and since 2013) and Tiffy the bird (1978–2005) replaced Big Bird (Bibo) and Oscar the Grouch (Oskar der Griesgram) as main characters, and the new version debuted on January 2, 1978. The early puppets were built by Kermit Love; nowadays, Sesame Workshop builds the puppets for Sesamstraße. Each episode featured the new puppets interacting with a pair of human characters; consistently one male, one female. The individual sketches of Sesame Street's original American inhabitants remained the dubbed main part of the show, but some were edited to omit intros that displayed words in English (such as The Adventures of Super Grover or the Sesame Street News Flash skits).
Sesamstraße | The Co-production Era: 1977-onwards
He also describes the research involved in the show's creation and production.
Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street | Introduction
"Sesame Street" premiered on public broadcasting television stations in the US on 10 November 1969, to positive reviews, some controversy, and high ratings. A few months after its debut, producers from several countries requested that the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) create and produce versions of "Sesame Street" in their countries, which came to be called "international co-productions". Producers in the UK began discussing plans to broadcast either a co-production or the American broadcast on British television within six months after the show debuted in the US. The BBC disliked the series from the very beginning and refused to air a British version, claiming that there were already children's television programmes that accomplished the same goals as "Sesame Street".
Sesame Street in the United Kingdom | BBC
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"
The Street (stylized as The $treet) is an American drama television series that aired on Fox from November 1 to December 13, 2000. It was created by Jeff Rake and Darren Star. Only 12 episodes were produced, and the series was pulled from U.S. airwaves after seven episodes aired. All 12 episodes aired overseas.
The Street (2000 TV series) | 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
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
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
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street is a non-fiction book chronicling the history of the children's television program, "Sesame Street". "Street Gang" is journalist and writer Michael Davis's first book, published by Viking Press in 2008. On bookshelves in time for the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, the book developed out of a "TV Guide" article Davis wrote to commemorate the show's 35th anniversary in 2004. Davis spent five years researching and writing the book, and conducted hundreds of interviews with the show's creators, cast, and crew. "Street Gang" begins with a description of Muppet creator Jim Henson's 1990 funeral, from the perspective of co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney.
Street Gang | Introduction
"Sesame Street" was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett. Their goal was to create a children's television show that would "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them", such as helping young children prepare for school. After two years of research, the newly formed Children's Television Workshop (CTW) received a combined grant of US$8 million ($ million in dollars) from the Carnegie Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the U.S. federal government to create and produce a new children's television show.
Sesame Street | History
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
Many likened the line to previous series like "Muppet Babies".
Sesame Beginnings | History of the line
The "Sesame Street" episode (#1839) in which the death of Mr. Hooper was discussed was structured as all episodes were structured at the time, with individual segments that took place on the main brownstone set and interrupted by inserts, or puppet skits, short films, and animations. The episode begins with a scene between Gordon (Roscoe Orman) and the Muppet Forgetful Jones (Richard Hunt). Gordon helps Forgetful remember something that had made him happy; as Davis states, "Later, Big Bird forgets something that makes him sad". After several inserts, Big Bird walks backward with his head between his legs; when Gordon asks him why, he answers, "Just because".
Mr. Hooper | Synopsis
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
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
"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 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
The series is a British-American-Canadian production. The series promotes problem-solving as the monsters try to figure out issues developed by their unique guests. Production of fifty-two 11-minute episodes (for two seasons) began on 24 February 2014 at dock10 studios, MediaCityUK takes about 3 months until May 2014. On 14 November 2014 Sesame Street's YouTube channel began airing full episodes of "The Furchester Hotel" each week. In February 2016, "The Furchester Hotel" was renewed for Season 2 which began production in May 2016. It consists of 50 episodes and a double-length Christmas episode as well as guest appearances by Big Bird, Count von Count, and the Yip Yips.
The Furchester Hotel | Production
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
After "Sesame Street"s first season, its critics forced its producers and researchers to address more overtly such affective goals as social competence, tolerance of diversity, and nonaggressive ways of resolving conflict. These issues were addressed through interpersonal disputes among its Street characters. During the 1980s, the show incorporated the real-life experiences of the show's cast and crew, including the death of Will Lee (Mr. Hooper) and the pregnancy of Sonia Manzano (Maria) to address affective concerns. In later seasons, "Sesame Street" addressed real-life disasters such as the September 11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina.
Sesame Street | Educational goals
In 1969, television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and her staff at the Children's Television Workshop were impressed by the quality and creativity of the Henson-led team, so they asked Henson and staff to work full-time on "Sesame Street", a children's program for public television that premiered on National Educational Television on November 10, 1969. Part of the show was set aside for a series of funny, colorful puppet characters living on Sesame Street, including Grover, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, and Big Bird. Henson performed the characters of Ernie, game-show host Guy Smiley, and Kermit, who appeared as a roving television news reporter.
Jim Henson | "Sesame Street": 1969
Following the big wave of immigration from Russia to Israel in those years, the series was also dubbed in Russian. In 2006 the series came out in the United States in a DVD bundle which included all episodes of the series (without the Hebrew dubbing).
Rechov Sumsum | The second series – "Shalom Sesame" (1989–1990)
He would comment in 1972 that the series didn't "teach Spanish, we teach in Spanish."
Emilio Delgado | Early years on Sesame Street (1971-1988)
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
The producers of "Sesame Street, "which premiered in 1969", "used elements of commercial television such as music, humor, sustained action, and a strong visual style, in structuring the format of the show. They also used animation and live-action short films. The show's staff produced segments filmed in-studio with their human and Muppet cast and they contracted out the animations and short films to independent producers. Co-creator Joan Ganz Cooney was the first to suggest that they use commercial-like 12–90-second shorts that consistently repeated several key concepts throughout an episode. The studio segments were written to concentrate on the African-American child, a key component of the show's audience.
Format of Sesame Street | Original format
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
Since the premiere of the children's television program "Sesame Street" on November 10, 1969, it has included what writer Malcolm Gladwell has called "the essence of "Sesame Street"—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults". The original cast, chosen by original producer Jon Stone, consisted of four human actors—Matt Robinson, who played Gordon; Loretta Long, who played Gordon's wife, Susan; Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper; and Bob McGrath, who played Bob. Unlike most children's television programs at the time, the producers of "Sesame Street" decided against using a single host and cast a group of ethnically diverse, primarily African American actors/presenters, with, as "Sesame Street" researcher Gerald S.
List of human Sesame Street characters | Introduction
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
(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
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
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
They were able to record almost every second of "Sesame Street" this way; if the episode captured the children's interest 80–90% of the time, the producers would air it, but if it only tested 50%, they would reshoot. By the fourth season of the show, the episodes rarely tested below 85%.
History of Sesame Street | Use of research in production
His policies provided the show with a succession of female producers and writers, many of whom went on to lead the boom in children's programming at Nickelodeon, the Disney Channel, and PBS in the 1990s and 2000s. One of these women was Dulcy Singer, who later became the first female executive producer of "Sesame Street". After the show's initial success, its producers began to think about its survival beyond its development and first season and decided to explore other funding sources. The CTW decided to depend upon government agencies and private foundations to develop the show. This would protect it from the financial pressures experienced by commercial networks, but created problems in finding continued support.
History of Sesame Street | 1970s
The series stars Abby Cadabby and her stepbrother Rudy in animated form. The segment premiered on HBO on November 17, 2018 and has aired 13 episodes so far. Season 1 was aired from November 17, 2018 to July 13, 2019. Season 2 was aired from November 23, 2019 to June 27, 2020.
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | Abby's Amazing Adventures
Its first twelve chapters describe the origin, development, and early years of "Sesame Street" and the Children's Television Workshop, the organization created to oversee the production of the show and other projects. Davis includes the biographies of many of the key people involved with the creation and production of "Sesame Street". Subsequent chapters chronicle the rest of the show's history, up to its 40th anniversary in 2009. Reviews of "Street Gang" were mostly positive. Most reviewers were impressed by Davis' research and attention to detail, but some felt that it was too episodic and was more of an oral history than a dispassionate history of the show's history.
Street Gang | Introduction
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
Producer Joan Ganz Cooney has stated, "Without research, there would be no "Sesame Street"". In 1967, when Cooney and her team began to plan the show's development, combining research with television production was, as she put it, "positively heretical". Shortly after creating "Sesame Street", its producers began to develop what came to be called "the CTW model", a system of planning, production, and evaluation that did not fully emerge until the end of the show's first season. According to Morrow, the CTW model consisted of four parts: "the interaction of receptive television producers and child science experts, the creation of a specific and age-appropriate curriculum, research to shape the program directly, and independent measurement of viewers' learning".
Sesame Street | Research
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
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
What's My Part? was a recurring segment on Sesame Street that was introduced in Season 1 (1969-1970). It was a spoof of "What's My Line?" and was hosted by Guy Smiley. Only two skits were made: the Nose and the Foot. However, Guy Smiley continued to appear in other recurring game show segments for many future seasons, such as Name That Sound and Beat the Time.
List of Sesame Street recurring segments | What's My Part?
Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit organization that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, "Sesame Street"—that have been televised internationally. Television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and foundation executive Lloyd Morrisett developed the idea to form an organization to produce "Sesame Street", a television series which would help children, especially those from low-income families, prepare for school. They spent two years, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new series. Cooney was named as the Workshop's first executive director, which was termed "one of the most important television developments of the decade." "Sesame Street" premiered as a series on National Educational Television (NET) in the United States on November 10, 1969, and moved to NET's successor, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), in late 1970.
Sesame Workshop | Introduction
ITV's federal structure, which allowed each television company to decide what programmes it would broadcast, meant that it took over 15 years before "Sesame Street" was broadcast in all parts of the UK. The show was broadcast on Saturday mornings or during week-day school holidays. ITV continued to broadcast the series until early 1987, when, after an 8-month hiatus, it reappeared daily on Channel 4 from 30 November 1987 until March 2001. It then continued to air on Saturday mornings until 22 September 2001, when it was replaced by "The Hoobs".
Sesame Street in the United Kingdom | "Sesame Street" broadcast dates in Britain
The format of "Sesame Street" consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and techniques which have evolved to reflect the changes in American culture and the audience's viewing habits. With the creation of "Sesame Street", producers and writers of a children's television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a show's educational effects were formally studied. The show, therefore, has undergone significant changes in its history as adjustments to the format and content have been made to reflect change sources to the curriculum. Shortly after creating "Sesame Street", its producers developed what came to be called the "CTW model" (after the production company's previous name), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers.
Sesame Street | Introduction
The first season of 65 programs began airing January 14, 1980, on select PBS member stations; it featured a cast of three college students who socialized and discussed science in an on-campus room known as "the workshop". This season came to an end on April 11, 1980, and continued in reruns (or removed entirely from scheduling on some stations) for the following three years, as funding for additional episodes was not yet sufficient. When production finally resumed for the second season, which premiered on October 17, 1983, the show presented a more realistic appearance, as the new cast convened in a suburban basement (these segments were shot at Reeves Teletape, which also housed "Sesame Street" at the time).
3-2-1 Contact | Seasons production
Previously, from November 3, 1974 to March 29, 1978, segments of the American "Sesame Street" were simply acquired and dubbed into Spanish to be aired with the title "Ábrete Sésamo" (es. Open Sesame) as part of a program "container" called "Un globo, dos globos, tres globos"
Barrio Sésamo | Ábrete Sésamo (1974-1978) (1st Run)
The first DVD set was also released by Abbey Home Media in the United Kingdom on October 27, 2008, coded Region 2, and rated "U" by the BBFC. It has not been announced when the second volume will be released in the U.K. While most DVD releases by Sesame Workshop focus on segments from more recent years of "Sesame Street", these DVDs are aimed primarily at adult viewers who grew up watching the series in the 1970s and 1980s and even comes with a warning for adults only on the package.
Sesame Street: Old School | Introduction
Congress to the character.
The World According to Sesame Street | Introduction
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
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
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
Oobi is an American children's television series created by Josh Selig for Nickelodeon and its sister channel Noggin. The show follows the everyday adventures of four bare hand puppet characters with eyes and accessories. It began in 2000 as a series of two-minute interstitial shorts commissioned by Noggin, which was jointly owned by Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop at the time. It was later developed into a long-form series, with 13-minute episodes airing from April 2003 to February 2005. The show has three seasons: the first season of shorts and two later seasons of long-form episodes. Selig created the series shortly after leaving "Sesame Street", which he had worked on since its first season.
Oobi (TV series) | Introduction
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
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
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
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
"Sesame Street", which premiered in 1969, was the first children's television program to use a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum, with specific educational goals, in its content. The show's goals included both cognitive and affective objectives. Initially, the cognitive skills of its young viewers were stressed over affective skills, which were addressed indirectly because the producers, writers, and researchers believed that focusing on cognitive skills would increase children's self-esteem and feelings of competency. Eventually, after the show's first season, its critics forced its staff to address affective goals more overtly, which occurred after "extensive research and planning". According to writer Michael Davis, "Sesame Street"'s curriculum began addressing affective goals more overtly during the 1980s.
Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce | Background
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)
The original show aired on NHK until April 2004.
Sesame Street in Japan | "Sesame Street"'s dubbed original (1971-2004, 2020-onwards)
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
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
This is a list of episodes for the television series "The Streets of San Francisco", which ran from 1972 to 1977; a Made-for-TV-movie sequel aired in 1992.
List of The Streets of San Francisco episodes | Introduction
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 Bavaria, Bayerischer Rundfunk felt that the "Sesame Street" set was too gritty to suit German children, and consequently developed its own children's programme called "Das feuerrote Spielmobil" ("The fire-red Play-mobile"). Variety shows like "Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten" in 1975 promoted the show by visiting the original United States set and taping special footage. From 1976 through 1977, the street scenes were dropped, partly as the resultof a constant onslaught by protesting parents who were unhappy with the "controversial" character of Oscar the Grouch. Instead, a new framing story was created, following the antics of a boy named Bumfidel and his mother.
Sesamstraße | The Dubbed Era: 1973-onwards
As a result of this decision, the appeal of the test episodes was lower than the target.
List of Sesame Street Muppets | Introduction
The appeal of the test episodes was lower than they preferred, so the producers re-shot the street segments. Henson and his team created Muppets that could interact with the human actors; specifically, as the show's researchers put it, "two of "Sesame Street"s most enduring Muppets: Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird". The test episodes were responsible for what writer Malcolm Gladwell called "the essence of "Sesame Street"—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults". CTW researcher Gerald Lesser called the producers' decision to defy the recommendations of their advisers "a turning point in the history of "Sesame Street"".
Format of Sesame Street | "Street scenes"
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)
In "Sesamstraat's" early years, Belgium television participated in its production, so it also aired there. France aired "Open Sesame" in the early 1970s before creating its own co-production. One version created in 1974, "Bonjour Sésame", was fifteen minutes long and had no street scenes. "1, Rue Sésame "began in 1976; its set consists of a courtyard of a building in a small French town.
Sesame Street international co-productions | 1970s
During "Sesame Street"s development in 1968, the producers followed the recommendation of child psychologists, who advised them to not allow the direct interaction of the human actors and Muppets because the experts were concerned it would confuse and mislead young children. Shortly before the show's premiere, the producers created five one-hour episodes so that they could test if children found them comprehensible and appealing. They were never intended for broadcast, but were presented to preschoolers in 60 homes throughout Philadelphia in July 1969. The producers found that the results were "generally very positive". However, children attended to the shows during the Muppet segments, but their interest was lost during the street scenes, which featured only humans and were considered "the glue" that "pulled the show together".
Format of Sesame Street | "Street scenes"
During the hiatus period, two primetime episodes were produced and aired as specials: a Christmas show in December 1977 and a "springtime"-themed show in June 1979. In 1978, production of the series resumed, with an eye towards "freshening up" the show by producing 15 new episodes per year. These "second series" episodes, which began airing in August 1979, would be mixed in with the already-airing cycle of repeats from the so-called "first series" (i.e., the color episodes of seasons 2–9, aired from 1969–76).
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood | Broadcast history