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3 unusual facts about Sesame Street: Old School


Sesame Street: Old School

Among the most notable extra segments is one of James Earl Jones counting to 10 (which was actually created before production of the series officially began (it was a test film shown to children to gauge effectiveness of the format), and Jesse Jackson leading a group of children in reciting his poem, "I Am - Somebody".

Sesame Street: Old School is the title of a series of DVD releases produced by Sesame Workshop, featuring episodes from the early years of the PBS series, Sesame Street, plus highlights from that era.

Several segments were replaced on the DVD versions of the episodes because of rights issues, including a musical number by Stevie Wonder produced specifically for the show, 123 Sesame Street (this musical segment, cut from the end of the 1973 season premiere, was a rerun segment from an earlier episode from that year).


A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum

A Visit to the Sesame Street Museum is a 1987 Sesame Street storybook.

Alive from Off Center

Notable episodes included "As Seen on TV," starring comic actor Bill Irwin as an auditioning dancer who becomes trapped in a television, wandering among daytime dramas, MTV, and PBS's own Sesame Street and the atmospheric puppet melodrama "Street of Crocodiles," adapted by the Brothers Quay from the Bruno Shultz story.

Angelo Oddi

Oddi has written music for the television programs Sesame Street, Baxter, Overruled (Family/ Disney), Hammerboy, Ice Storm: The Sale and Pelletier Affair, (CTV), Teletoon, Taste Buds (TVO).

Bert is Evil

Bert is Evil is the name of a web site, founded by Dino Ignacio, which featured Bert, a character on the American children's television program Sesame Street.

Birthday Emotions

Birthday Emotions is a Sesame Street song sung by jazz musician John Pizzarelli over a live-action film of various kids jumping through the air and celebrating a birthday for one of the guests of honor.

Chez Hélène

But CBC executives cancelled the series claiming that the series had run its course, and that the network's broadcasts of Sesame Street would incorporate five minutes of French-language segments per episode.

Children's music

The quality of Sesame Street's children's music (much of it created by noted composers Joe Raposo and Jeff Moss) has dominated the children's music landscape to this day - the show has won 11 Grammy Awards.

Circle Square

Mixing human actors — both youth and adult counselors — with puppets in a Sesame Street-like manner, the series was set at a Circle Square Library.

Creative Wonders

It created computer games based on children's characters like Sesame Street, Madeline, Schoolhouse Rock!, Arthur, Little Bear, Dr. Seuss and ABC World Reference.

Denny Zeitlin

The results were first heard in 1969 when Zeitlin composed and performed music for the "Jazzy Spies" sequences on the first season of Sesame Street, featuring vocal overdubs by Grace Slick.

Emil Ganz

The book was commissioned by granddaughter Joan Ganz Cooney, a television producer who co-created Sesame Street; the biography is part of her papers, donated to the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University.

Ernie's Work of Art

This view of Sesame Street is that of the open-ended street, and includes a store called "Spotless Cleaners", right after the Fix-It Shop.

Fernando Rivas

Rivas composed for the popular show Sesame Street for singers as diverse as Celia Cruz, Gloria Estefan and Cyndi Lauper sharing two Emmy award wins with the Music team in 1994 and 1995.

Fundidora park

Parque Plaza Sesamo is a thematic park devoted to Sesame Street franchise.

Geert Hoste

After the premiere of his mime solo "Vlaas is zot" (Vlaas is crazy) in 1983, Hoste was approached by the BRT (Belgian Radio and Television) with the request to cooperate on a new children's programme for Sesame Street.

George Washington Bridge

On Sesame Street, Ernie often sang the words "George Washington Bridge" to the tune of Sobre las Olas ("The Loveliest Night of the Year").

Go Stewie Go

The new characters include parodies of the Sesame Street characters Big Bird, who describes himself as a "big bird," and a self-described "grouch" named "Moody Green Garbage Creature", who resembles Oscar the Grouch, and butch and femme versions of Bert and Ernie, who try to protect Karina and Julie from Oscar.

Halloween Spooktacular

Halloween Spooktacular generally features attractions such as special Sesame Street shows, trick-or-treating, party zones, face painting, hayrides and other strolling park entertainment such as costumed characters.

Hellen Huisman

Hellen Huisman (born 26 March 1937 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland - died 29 January 2012 in Blaricum Noord-Holland) was a voice actor who did voiceover work on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street.

Imani Patterson

Imani Patterson was the second actor to play Miles Robinson on Sesame Street.

Infolepsy EP

The first track samples almost exclusively from the Sesame Street segment Pinball Number Count, while the second track, "Where's Bill?", samples heavily from the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill.

Ismael Cruz Córdova

Ismael Enrique Cruz Cordova (born April 7, 1987, Puerto Rico), known by his stage name Ismael Cruz Córdova is a Broadway, television, stage and film actor who gained national attention playing Mando on Sesame Street.

Jennings Bryant

Bryant was a Spencer Foundation Fellow in Formative Evaluation for Children's Television Workshop in New York in 1972 where he worked on research underpinning the creation of new segments and formats for Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

Judy Valentine

Goggle was a hand-puppet and operated by then unknown puppeteer Caroll Spinney (later known as ‘Big Bird’ of Sesame Street).

Kimnotyze

The song also features the title melody of the German version of Sesame Street.

Little People

In the middle 1970s, Fisher-Price produced the Sesame Street town, with various Sesame Street stores, a bridge with stop lights and Sesame Street characters such as Bert, Ernie, and the only Little People toys that have been modeled after celebrities -- Loretta Long (Susan), Roscoe Orman (Gordon) and Will Lee (Mr. Hooper).

Martin P. Robinson

Robinson was married to Sesame Street writer Annie Evans on August 9, 2008 on the set of Sesame Street in the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, NY.

Mel Welles

Jonathan Haze, who played Seymour in the original film, attended the opening, and Welles also received a visit from Martin P. Robinson, the designer of the Audrey II plant puppets used in the off-Broadway production (Robinson is also famous for his puppetry on Sesame Street).

Paul Haenen

Paul Haenen is a well-known comedian in the Netherlands and also provides the voices of Bert, Grover and other minor characters on Sesamstraat, the Dutch co-production of Sesame Street, since Sesamstraat's first season in 1976.

Peter Sís

He has occasionally returned to filmmaking, producing commercials for Nickelodeon & PBS Kids, plus shorts for Sesame Street based on his book Madlenka.

PortAventura

Themed to the Sesame Street characters, this area is aimed for the younger visitors of the park.

The park, located in the south of Barcelona, features five theme areas based on historic civilizations (Mediterrània, Far West, México, China and Polinesia) and one theme area based on Sesame Street which was opened for the 2011 season of the park.

Random Killing

In 1995, their song "12," from Thoughts of Aggression (Raw Energy 1994), was re-recorded at CBC Studios and released as an animated video by Sesame Park and subsequently picked up by Sesame Street where it aired internationally for almost a decade.

Reyher v. Children's Television Workshop

Children's Television Workshop (CTW) produced the Sesame Street TV program and published a related magazine, Sesame Street Magazine.

Roger Allers

He landed a job with Lisberger Studios, where he worked on the animation end for projects such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Make a Wish, and various commercials.

Sesame Street Unpaved

Sesame Street Unpaved is a name used for numerous Sesame Street related productions.

Show'N Tell

Licensed film strip and record packages were produced for many different children's properties, including Disney and Sesame Street.

Terence Tao

When asked by his father how he knew numbers and letters, he said he learned them from Sesame Street.

The Fantastic Miss Piggy Show

An Ernie and Bert segment from Sesame Street can be seen on some of the monitors in the control room.

The Sesame Street Dictionary

The Sesame Street Dictionary is an illustrated children's dictionary featuring Muppet characters from the popular television show Sesame Street.

Todd Kessler

According to author Malcolm Gladwell, who wrote about Blue's Clues in his book The Tipping Point, Kessler worked for Sesame Workshop's "Sesame Street", but found traditional children's television too static and not visual enough.

Trash Gordon

Played by Roscoe Orman, who also plays the character of Gordon on the show, Trash Gordon is a parody version of the science fiction hero Flash Gordon.

Triggerfish Animation Studios

From 1998-2008 Triggerfish produced animation for Sesame Workshop for the South African version of Sesame Street, Takalani Sesame, as well as the US domestic and international versions of the pre-school kids' program.

Victor DiNapoli

Production Designer on Shalom Sesame (1987), The Muppets at Walt Disney World, Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration (1994), Elmo Saves Christmas (1996), Sesame Street: Three Bears and a New Baby (2003), and Sesame Street (2005 - 2007)

Westfield Plaza Bonita

The mall has featured such now defunct chains as Waldenbooks, Garden Botanika, and was one of four original locations of the concept Sesame Street General Store.

What Kind of Fool Am I?

Kermit the Frog performed this song on The Ed Sullivan Show on May 31, 1970, where he was repeatedly interrupted by the Sesame Street character Grover.


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