Sesame Street
Genre: Puppet, Children's television series, Educational television, Education, Sketch comedy, Live action, Animation
Started: 10th November 1969
Episodes: 4109
Country: United States of America
Created by: Joan Ganz Cooney, Lloyd Morrisett
Starring: Bill Irwin, Desiree Casado, Emilio Delgado, Olamide Faison, Sonia Manzano, Steve Whitmire, Alaina Reed Hall, Frank Oz, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Pam Arciero, Fran Brill, Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly, Rachael Ray, Kevin Clash, Paul Benedict, Leslie Carrara, Louise Gold, Bob West, Linda Bove, Roscoe Orman, Caroll Spinney, Alan Muraoka, Michael Jeter, Richard Hunt, Andrea Martin, Jerry Nelson, Martin P. Robinson, Neil Patrick Harris, Kristin Chenoweth, Tatyana Ali, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Will Arnett, Lily Tomlin, Donald Faison, Madeline Kahn, Tyler James Williams, Judah Friedlander, Matt Robinson, Will Lee, Loretta Long, Bob McGrath, Michael Earl Davis, Jerry Nelson, Kermit Love
Sesame Street is an American children's television series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its educational content, and creativity communicated through the use of Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references. The series premiered on National Educational Television (NET) stations on November 10, 1969 to positive reviews, some controversy, and high ratings.
The show has undergone significant changes throughout its history. The format of Sesame Street consists of a combination of commercial television production elements and educational techniques which have evolved to reflect the changes in American culture and the audience's viewing habits. With the creation of Sesame Street, producers and writers of a children's television show used, for the first time, educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content. It was also the first time a show's educational effects on young children were studied, and the first time both summative and formative research were reflected in a television show's content.
Shortly after creating Sesame Street, its producers developed what came to be called "the CTW model" (named for
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