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Sesame Street
American children's television program / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sesame Street is an American children's television series with many Muppets (puppet characters) and non-Muppet characters (human characters). There are also many animated characters. The show deals with issues like music, song, alphabet, numbers, and teaching children basics in learning, as well as more serious issues like death, divorce, HIV/AIDS, autism, and foster care. Part of the profits, go to an international project for children's schools. 54 seasons to 4,701 episodes.
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Opening theme | "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" |
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Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 53 |
No. of episodes | 4666[note 1] |
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Production company | Sesame Workshop[note 2] |
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Release | November 10, 1969 (1969-11-10) – present |
The show has been on TV since November 10, 1969. Jim Henson made the Muppets and a lot of writers and puppeteers worked together to make the show. The Muppets were used afterwards in a different show called The Muppet Show. Sesame Street has been on TV in 120 countries all over the world. More than 4000 episodes have been made over 50 seasons. One unique feature of the show is that the episode number appears at the start of each episode.
For most of its history, Sesame Street had been shown on PBS. In 2015, new episodes began airing on PBS in January 2016, but those episodes would be shown on PBS nine months. In 2020, Sesame Street aired on PBS for the last time. After five seasons on PBS, the show returns to PBS as its first-run program, for the newer episodes, starting with the 51st season.