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.

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 ).

The legal trademark on the term " Muppet " is currently held by The Muppets Studio, a wholly owned division of the Walt Disney Company, although Sesame Workshop and the Jim Henson Company continue to occasionally use the term on their characters with certain permissions from Disney.

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

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

Many of the puppeteers also worked on Sesame Street.

It has also been adapted to films, The Sacrifice ( 1909 ), Love's Surprises Are Futile ( 1916 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1917 ), Dary magów ( Poland, 1972 ), part of O. Henry's Full House ( 1952 ), The Gift of Love ( 1978 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 1958 ), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street ( 1978 ), Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas gift ( 1999 ), The Gift of the Magi ( 2004 ) and the short film for the Irish band The Script in 2010 called For the First Time.

Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called " the CTW model " ( named for the show's production company, The Children's Television Workshop ), a system of television show planning, production, and evaluation based on collaborations between producers, writers, educators, and researchers.

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 ".

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

Cameraman Frankie Biondo worked on Sesame Street from its first episode.

Most of the cast and crew found jobs on Sesame Street through personal relationships with Stone and the other producers.

When Sesame Street premiered in 1969, it aired on only 67. 6 % of American televisions, but it earned a 3. 3 Nielsen rating, which totaled 1. 9 million households.

As of 2001, there were over 1, 000 research studies regarding Sesame Streets efficacy, impact, and effect on American culture.

Additional studies conducted throughout Sesame Streets history demonstrated that the show continued to have a positive effect on its young viewers.

Historian Robert Morrow, in his book Sesame Street and the Reform of Children's Television, which chronicled the show's influence on children's television and on the television industry as a whole, reported that many critics of commercial television saw Sesame Street as a " straightforward illustration for reform ".

According to Morrow, change regarding how women and girls were depicted on Sesame Street occurred slowly.

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

" G " is for Growing: Thirty Years of Research on Children and Sesame Street.

** Mielke, Keith W., " A Review of Research on the Educational and Social Impact of Sesame Street ", pp. 83 – 97.

They reined in before the town marshal's office, a box-sized building on Main Street.

They returned to the street, mounted their horses, rode through the rain to the big house on Houston Street.

When he finally left the sinister mansion on Perdido Street, he was carried out in a coroner's basket.

the coachman and Delphine were gaining on her as she raced down Perdido Street.

In the American `` hardboiled '' detective story of the '20s and '30s, the spirit of the mad genius from Baker Street lives on.

But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.

`` President Kennedy's enlargement of the American military program was welcomed on Wall Street as a stimulus to the American munitions industry.

The crisis was artificially stirred up by the Kremlin ( Wall Street ) and the Red Army ( Pentagon ) egged on by the West Germans ( East Germans ).

The 15th Street deposit is not to be confused with the nearby famous Mayflower Hotel cypress swamp on 17th Street reported in The Washington Post, August 2, 1955, which was probably formed during the second interglacial period and is therefore much younger.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

the Catholic Saint Mary's Church, with an even taller steeple and a cross on top, stood on Ball Street.

He trailed Ludie to the baseball game in the lot on Kingston Street near the Dutch Reformed.

It was a walk up on Hudson Street.

And there I was shacked up with Eileen in that filthy fourth floor attic on Hudson Street.

In fiscal year 1959, the Medical Museum was moved to Chase Hall, a temporary building on Independence Avenue at Ninth Street, Southwest, and continued to display to the public the achievements of the Armed Forces Medical Services.

The sewer on Bonnet Street was constructed when there were only a few houses on the street.

The next step was construction by the Manchester Light and Power Company of a plant on the west bank of the Battenkill south of Union Street bridge.

The only available field that could be used near flood-ravaged Montpelier was on the Towne farm off upper Main Street, a narrow hillside where takeoffs and landings could be safely made only under light wind conditions.

The men's shops on Hanover's Main Street compare favorably with those in Princeton and New Haven.

As things now stand, there is a grievous disparity between the unity in Christ which we profess in ecumenical meetings and the complacent separateness of most congregations on any Main Street in the nation.

They range from the Soviet Embassy on Sixteenth Street, a gray shuttered pile suggesting a funeral-accessories display house, to what Congressman Rooney has called `` that monstrosity on Thirty-fourth Street '', the modern cement-and-glass chancery of the Belgians.