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Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation, and puppetry.It is produced by Sesame Workshop (known as the Children's Television Workshop until June 2000) and was created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.
The preschool educational television program Sesame Street was first aired on public television stations on November 10, 1969, and reached its 54th season in 2023. The history of Sesame Street has reflected changing attitudes to developmental psychology, early childhood education, and cultural diversity.
Sesame Workshop (SW), originally known as the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), is an American nonprofit organization that has been responsible for the production of several educational children's programs—including its first and best-known, Sesame Street—that have been televised internationally.
Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television writer and producer.She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street, which was co-created by her.
Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Marilyn Agrelo.Based on the non-fiction book Street Gang by Michael Davis, the film chronicles the development and airing of the children's television program Sesame Street, featuring interviews with series creators Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, as well as writers, actors, and artists involved in ...
In 1969, the children's television show Sesame Street premiered on the National Educational Television network (later succeeded by PBS) in the United States.Unlike earlier children's programming, the show's producers used research and over 1,000 studies and experiments to create the show and test its impact on its young viewers' learning.
The earliest international versions were what then-CTW vice-president Charlotte Cole called "fairly simple", [1] consisting of dubbed versions of the show with local language voice-overs and instructional cutaways.
The children's television show Sesame Street, which premiered on public broadcasting television stations in 1969, was the first show of its kind that utilized a detailed and comprehensive educational curriculum, with specific educational goals, in its content.