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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] |
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Production company | Sesame Workshop[note 2] |
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Release | November 10, 1969 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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