History Series / SesameStreet

* OddCouple roommates Bert and Ernie, the former a seriously uptight fan of pigeons and oatmeal and the latter an imaginative dreamer and prankster;

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). As of 2023, the main humans on the show are the Japanese Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew and co-owner of Hooper's Store Chris (2007-present), Hispanic college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), Charlie (2020-present), a preteen white girl whose parents were in the military, and gay couple Dave and Frank (2022-present).

->Sesame Street was brought to you today by the letter "T", and the number "6".\\
Sesame Street is a production of the [[Creator/SesameWorkshop Children's Television Workshop]].

Beginning in 2016, [[http://www.vox.com/2015/8/13/9149091/sesame-street-hbo-pbs due to PBS having trouble paying the show's licensing fee,]] [[ChannelHop the show aired first]] on Creator/{{HBO}}, whose deep pockets have even allowed increasing the episode count to 35 per season, before airing on Creator/PBSKids a few months later. The show also switched to a half-hour format. In July 2020, the series completed its run on HBO; beginning with season 51, the show premieres on the streaming service Creator/HBOMax, though it maintains its current relationship with PBS Kids.

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The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). As of 2022, the main humans on the show are the Japanese Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew Chris (2007-present), Hispanic college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present), a preteen white girl whose parents were in the military.

->Sesame Street was brought to you by the letter "T", and the number "6".\\

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are the Japanese Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew Chris (2007-present), Hispanic college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present), a preteen white girl whose parents were in the military.

''Sesame Street'' is a long-running Creator/{{PBS}}[[note]]It debuted on the National Educational Television (NET) network, but NET transitioned into PBS right before the beginning of its second season, and it now also airs on Creator/HBOMax.[[/note]] children's television show that debuted in 1969. The Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now Creator/SesameWorkshop), a project spearheaded by producer Joan Ganz Cooney, created the show as a means to prepare young inner-city children for kindergarten. Instead, it got to ''everybody'' and became one of the all-time great educational shows.

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are the Japanese Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew Chris (2007-present), Puerto Rican college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present), a preteen white girl whose parents were in the military.

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are the Asian Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew Chris (2007-present), Puerto Rican college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present).

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are the Japanese Hooper's Store owner Alan (1998-present), Gordon and Susan's nephew Chris (2007-present), Puerto-Rican college student and new Fix-It Shop owner Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present).

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician and music teacher Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Mexican "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are Alan (1998-present), Chris (2007-present), Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present).

The set has expanded and contracted over the years but in classic form is a typical New York cul-de-sac, with a brownstone apartment block, a convenience store, a boarded-off vacant lot, and a big open area at one end used as a playground. This urban setting, multiracial human cast (plus guest stars, including Jesse Jackson and Creator/BillCosby) and multicolored Muppets added to the hip, inclusive feel.

* Various other fuzzy monsters, notably Telly, a neurotic worrywart with a strange enthusiasm for cheese, triangles, and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs cheese triangles]]; Herry, an athlete who DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength; the gibberish-talking Two-Headed Monster who sounded out words, Rosita, a cyan monster who is also Hispanic, and Zoe, a ballet-dancing preschooler added in later years;
* Abby Cadabby, a pink-and-purple "fairy-in-training" who--despite having a cell phone for a wand--is perpetually wowed by learning basic concepts about the human world ("That's so ''magical''!"). In 2017, she got a monster stepbrother named Rudy.

* Kermit the Frog, seen most often in the guise of a trenchcoat-sporting roving reporter, whose "fast-breaking exclusives" on fairy tales and other Street developments tended to run into the same problems as [[Radio/BobAndRay Wally Ballou's]];

* Prairie Dawn, a pretty, prim, sometimes bossy little overachiever, who's gotten a ''lot'' more facetime lately thanks to being one of very few major female Muppets in the cast;

-->-- '''Gordon''' (Matt Robinson), introducing a girl named Sally (and the audience) to the street in the first scene of the first episode in 1969.

The human cast has varied over the years, but for many years the core remained relatively stable: black married couple Susan and Gordon (1969-2016) (and later their adopted son Miles (1985-2008), who work as a nurse and a junior-high science teacher, respectively; Puerto Rican college student Maria (1971-2015); black student and store clerk David (1971-1989); white freelance musician Bob (1969-2016); his librarian girlfriend Linda (1971-2002), who is deaf; Hispanic "Fix-It Shop" owner Luis (1971-2016), who later married Maria, and their daughter Gabriella (1989-2013); white Gina (1986-2015) who started as teenager working in Hooper's Store, then a day-care center, and then becoming a veterinarian, and adopting a baby named Marco (2006-2014) from Guatemala; Indian laundromat owner Leela (2008-2015). The main humans on the show are Alan (1998-present), Chris (2007-present), Nina (2016-present), and the newest Charlie (2020-present).