Sesame Street

Sesame Street
Genre	Children's television series Educational
Created by	Joan Ganz Cooney Lloyd Morrisett
Theme music composer	Joe Raposo Jon Stone Bruce Hart
Opening theme	"Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?"
Ending theme	"Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" (instrumental)
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	53
No. of episodes	4666[note 1]
Production
Executive producers	David Connell (1969–72)[1][2] Jon Stone (1972–78)[3][4] Al Hyslop (1978–80) (credited as "producer" in season 10)[5] Dulcy Singer (1980–93)[6][7] Michael Loman (1993–2002)[8][9] Lewis Bernstein (2003–05)[10][11] Carol-Lynn Parente (2006–17)[12] Brown Johnson (2017–19) Benjamin Lehmann (2018–present)
Production locations	Reeves Teletape Studios (1969–92) Unitel Video, Inc. (1987–93) Kaufman Astoria Studios (1993–present)
Running time	60 minutes (1969–2015) 30 minutes (2014–present)
Production company	Sesame Workshop[note 2]
Original release
Network	NET (1969–2009) PBS (1969–present)
Release	November 10, 1969 (1969-11-10) – present
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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. It was distributed 54 seasons to 4,701 episodes. Produced by Sesame Workshop, the show has been on TV since November 1969.

For most of its history, S ad 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.
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1. ↑ "Sesame Street season 1 End Credits (1969-70)". YouTube. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
2. ↑ "Sesame Street season 3 End Credits (1971-72)". YouTube. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
3. ↑ "Sesame Street season 4 End Credits (1972-73)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
4. ↑ "Sesame Street season 9 end credits (1977-78)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2020-01-22. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
5. ↑ "Sesame Street season 10 end credits (1978-79)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2012-10-08. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
6. ↑ "Sesame Street season 12 end credits (1980-81)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
7. ↑ "Sesame Street season 24 (#3010) closing & funding credits (1992) ["Dancing City" debut]". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
8. ↑ "Sesame Street - Season 25 End Credits (1993-1994)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
9. ↑ "Elmo Writes a Story - Sesame Street Full Episode (credits start at 55:37)". YouTube. Sesame Street. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
10. ↑ "Sesame Street Season 34 credits & fundings (version #1)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
11. ↑ "Elmo and Zoe Play the Healthy Food Game - Sesame Street Full Episodes (credits start at 52:50)". YouTube. Sesame Street. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.
12. ↑ "PBS Kids Program Break (2006 WFWA-TV)". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11. Retrieved June 18, 2020.