Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
It was 40 years ago that Sesame Street made its debut on television. Since then, Sesame Street has become one of the longest running children’s educational programs ever to hit the airwaves.
- Originally titled 123 Avenue B, the show’s creators changed it to Sesame Street because they felt 123 Avenue B was too New York specific.
- The first episode of Sesame Street highlighted the letters W, S, and E and the numbers 2 and 3.
- Ernie and Bert, Grover, the Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird
were the original Muppets. The Count (1972), Elmo (1980) and all the others debuted later on.
- Big Bird has been played by Carroll Spinney right from day one. He’s 75!
- Kermit the Frog was the first Sesame Street balloon to be added to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (1977).
- Early previews of the show with only real people and cartoon sequences mixed in bombed with children, but took off when Jim Henson’s Muppets were introduced!
- Sesame Street has won numerous Emmys. But its most memorable one was when real life characters explained the death of Mr. Hooper to Big Bird.
- Sales of the “Tickle Me Elmo” doll were so successful that it afforded the Sesame
Enterprise enough money to buy the rights to the Muppets from the estate of Jim Henson, who died in 1990.
- My 14 year old daughter Laura created the picture that accompanies this blog using Photoshop7. I don’t know where she gets her skills from or where she got her sense of humor, but I love her to death!!!
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