What is Sesame Street?
Q: What is Sesame Street?
A: 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.
Q: Who created the Muppets?
A: Jim Henson created the Muppets.
Q: When did Sesame Street first air?
A: Sesame Street first aired on November 10th 1969.
Q: How many episodes have been made over 50 seasons?
A: More than 4000 episodes have been made over 50 seasons.
Q: How do viewers recognize each episode of Sesame Street?
A: Each episode of Sesame Street has a unique feature where the episode number appears at the start of each episode.
Q: Where was Sesame Street shown before 2015?
A: Before 2015, Sesame Street had been shown on PBS. In 2015 new episodes began airing on HBO in January 2016 but those episodes would be shown on PBS nine months later. In 2020 it aired on HBO for the last time and after five seasons returned to PBS as its first-run program for newer episodes starting with season 51st .
