*" ABC – DEF – GHI ", a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street

He published a column (" Wrong Turn Onto Sesame Street ") challenging federally funded Public Television endowments in favor of educational comics — which, according to Capp, " didn't cost a dime in taxes and never had.

I pointed out that a kid could enjoy Sesame Street without learning how to read, but he couldn't enjoy comic strips unless he could read ; and that a smaller investment in getting kids to read by supplying them with educational matter in such reading form might make better sense.

* Sesame Street ( various cartoon segments, 1969 )

It was released in two versions, a 4 minute mix and a 6 minute mix and featured Holly Johnson & Brian ( Nasher ) Nash imitating ' The Count ' Vampire (" Ha ha ha / I am the count ") from the Children's TV show ' Sesame Street '.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

As a puppeteer, Henson performed in various television programs, such as Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, films such as The Muppet Movie and The Great Muppet Caper, and created advanced puppets for projects like Fraggle Rock, The Dark Crystal, and Labyrinth.

After suffering struggles with programs that he created, he eventually found success with Sesame Street.

The success of Sesame Street spawned The Muppet Show, which featured Muppets created by Henson.

Category: Sesame Street Muppeteers

Exceptions include characters appearing on Sesame Street ( as they were previously sold to Sesame Workshop, although they have always had creative rights, only reimbursing The Jim Henson Company to create and provide their Muppet characters for their use ) and the Fraggles of Fraggle Rock ( which are still owned by the Jim Henson Company ).

* 1969 – National Educational Television ( the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service ) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street.

* Oscar the Grouch, a Sesame Street character

In the late 1960s and early 70s, educational shows like Sesame Street, Vision On and The Electric Company routinely showed bits that involved Rube Goldberg devices, including the Rube Goldberg Alphabet Contraption, and the What Happens Next Machine.

* Sesame Street Live, a touring version of the children's television show

On October 15, 2009, Warner Bros. acquired the home entertainment rights to the Sesame Street library, in conjunction with Sesame Workshop.

* November 10 – Sesame Street premieres on the National Educational Television ( NET ) network.

** Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian ( Sesame Street )

* December 7 – Will Lee, American actor who played Mr. Hooper on Sesame Street ( b. 1908 )

** Joe Raposo, musician, composer for Sesame Street and The Electric Company ( b. 1937 )

* July 11 – Bob McGrath, American actor ( Sesame Street )

* Sherlock Hemlock from Sesame Street – teaching Occam's razor to young children, Sherlock Hemlock comes up with a complex solution to a simple problem.

A Sesame Street cartoon from the early 1970s features a hippo who lives in the country and likes it quiet, while being disturbed when the mouse who likes it loud moves in with her.

By 2006, there were independently produced versions, or " co-productions ", of Sesame Street broadcast in twenty countries.

By 2001 there were over 120 million viewers of all international versions of Sesame Street, and in 2006, there were twenty co-productions around the world.

By 2006, Sesame Street had become " the most widely viewed children's television show in the world ", with 20 international independent versions and broadcasts in over 120 countries.

The 2006 Sesame Street calendar features the Yip Yips for November, and they make an appearance on the front cover.

In 2006, the United States Department of State called Sesame Street " the most widely viewed children's television show in the world ".

Over half of the show's international co-productions were made after 2001 ; according to the 2006 documentary The World According to Sesame Street, the events of 9 / 11 inspired the producers of these co-productions.

By 2006, Sesame Street had won more Emmys than any other children's show, including winning the outstanding children's series award for twelve consecutive years — every year the Emmys included the category.

Veneman is an Honorary Member of Rotary International ( 2008 ), received Sesame Workshop ’ s Leadership Award for Children ( 2006 ), and a Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Association of New York ( 2006 ).

This performance is included on the 2006 DVD release Sesame Street: Old School 1969 – 1974.

* Clash won Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series for his work as Elmo and Hoots the Owl on Sesame Street in 1990, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, and 2012.

In 2001, K ’ Nex broke from this trend and introduced a line of toys using the BattleTech / MechWarrior label, and later launched the OCC ( Orange County Chopper ) line of toys in 2006 and a line of Sesame Street building sets in 2008.

The show has profiled the artist Trimpin, baseball legend Fred Hutchinson, and the Pacific Rim bonsai collection, and has featured many other stories, including a 2006 interview with Sesame Street's Bob McGrath.

In the first season of Sesame Street, Oscar was orange, and later became green in Season 2.

He lives in a large nest behind the 123 Sesame Street brownstone ( which had to be completely rebuilt during Season 32 after it was destroyed by a hurricane ) and he has a teddy bear named Radar, after Walter " Radar " O ' Reilly of M * A * S * H, who had a teddy bear and was also lovably naive and innocent.

This running gag ended with the Season 17 premiere of Sesame Street, episode 2096 ( first aired November 18, 1985, following the release of the Sesame Street film Follow That Bird ).

The Count debuted on Sesame Street in Season 4 ( 1972 – 73 ), and was conceived by Norman Stiles, who wrote the first script.

In Season 33, the Count got a daily segment on Sesame Street, simply called The Number of the Day.

** Jim Henson: Sesame Street Season 1 ( 1969 ) – Season 21 ( 1990 )

** Steve Whitmire: Sesame Street Season 32 ( 2001 )

Martin has played Wanda the Word Fairy in numerous short segments on Sesame Street She appeared in one episode from Season 5 ( 1988 ) titled " UNICEF ".

Season 4 also introduce a new recurring segment inspired by Prairie Dawn ’ s art show from Play with Me Sesame where Businka shows artwork done by kids.

Sugarland also appeared on a Sesame Street episode that first aired during Season 38 on September 14, 2007.

His personality has been kept the same, up until about Season 8 when he became more curious about the world around ; almost in resemblance to Sesame Street's Elmo.

* The puppet used for one of the Wickershams used for Nascount Greasemonkey in Season 41 of Sesame Street.