*" 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.

Since 1969, Sesame Street had given Jim Henson's Muppet creations exposure ; however, Henson began to perceive that he was pigeonholed as a children's entertainer.

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.

By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was the fifteenth-highest rated children's television show in the United States.

Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.

By its 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in over 120 countries, and 20 international versions had been produced.

As author Malcolm Gladwell has stated, " Sesame Street was built around a single, breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them ".

According to CTW researchers Rosemarie Truglio and Shalom Fisch, Sesame Street was one of the few children's television programs to utilize a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum, garnered from formative and summative research.

Consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who had previously appeared on Sesame Street, called for a boycott of the show, saying that the CTW was " exploiting impressionable children ".

As Dave Connell, one of Sesame Streets original producers, has stated, it was difficult to find adults who could identify a preschooler's interest level.

Director Jon Stone, talking about the music of Sesame Street, said: " There was no other sound like it on television ".

Shortly after Sesame Street debuted in the US, the CTW was approached independently by producers from several countries to produce versions of the show at home.

By the show's 40th anniversary in 2009, Sesame Street was broadcast in more than 140 countries.

Henson was initially reluctant, but he agreed to join Sesame Street to meet his own social goals.

Sesame Street was praised from its debut in 1969.

Sesame Street was not without its detractors, however.

In May 1970, a state commission in Mississippi voted to ban Sesame Street because of its " highly integrated cast of children " which " the commission members felt ... Mississippi was not yet ready for ".

According to Children and Television, 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.

Head Start director Edward Zigler was probably Sesame Streets most vocal critic in the show's early years.

In 2002, Sesame Street was ranked # 27 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

Sesame Workshop was instrumental in the establishment of education children's television in the 1960s, and continues to provide grants for educational children's programming four decades later.

The result was Sesame Street, a landmark program which has been reproduced in countries around the world.

The CTW name was officially changed to Sesame Workshop on New Years Day 2000 to reflect the company's reach into new media and capitalize on the worldwide recognition provided by the Sesame Street name ( although Sesame Street continued to use the CTW name until April 2000 ).