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The Rosie O'Donnell Show on Sesame Street: 1999 CinderElmo: Sesame Street Unpaved: 2000 The Greatest TV Moments: Sesame Street Music A-Z: 2001 A&E Biography: Sesame Street: 2003 Sesame Street 4-D Movie Magic: United States Japan 2004 Sesame Street: The Street We Live On: United States 2005 Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet: 2006 The World ...
Another goal of the international co-productions of Sesame Street was, as executive producer Lutrelle Horne stated in 1987, the improvement of "the overall quality of a country's television". He added, "We give a country a model of how television can be used effectively to address people's needs".
Pages in category "Sesame Street international co-productions" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Sesame Street has many international versions across the world. Each uses some original characters, created specifically to represent their own culture. The following list highlights some of these characters. All characters are Muppets, unless otherwise mentioned.
Many Sesame Street songs were recorded by well-known artists such as Barbra Streisand, Lena Horne, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, and Jose Feliciano. [120] By 2019, there were 180 albums of Sesame Street music produced. [104] The show's first album, Sesame Street Book & Record, recorded in 1970, was a major success and won a Grammy Award. [121]
Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.Their goal was to create a children's television show that would "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them," [16] such as helping young children prepare for school.
Frank Oz, who performed many Muppets throughout his career, from the debut of Sesame Street to most Henson productions Caroll Spinney performed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch from the show's debut in 1969 until his retirement in 2018 Steve Whitmire, who took over many of Jim Henson's characters after Henson's death in 1990, including Ernie and Kermit the Frog [12] Kevin Clash, with Elmo, his ...
Unlike most children's television programs at the time, the producers of Sesame Street decided against using a single host and cast a group of ethnically diverse, primarily African American actors/presenters, [2] with, as Sesame Street researcher Gerald S. Lesser put it, "a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities". [3]