I started watching SS in 1976 when I was a new baby! I grew up with this show! Watching Sesame Street enabled me to read by the time I went to kindergarten. This show has made me laugh, cry, scared me, and helped show me the power of television to teach.
Naming Sesame Street on an actual NYC street is real love and dedication! It was my learning platform during the 70s(The Electric Company comes in a close second during the same decade).
Thank you so much for posting this! I am reading "Street Gang" by Michael Davis, the story of how Sesame Street came to be, and it is fascinating to see how this group of people came together to produce something so special. I was born in 1967, so this show was created for me and some of my best preschool memories are of me and my mum watching Sesame Street.
I was born in 1973. Lots of those cartoons, skits, and songs were still being used when I watched Sesame Street. In the late 90s I even heard some of my younger cousins singing them.
Happy 55th anniversary Sesame Street! This show focuses on the inhabitants of a special inner-city street, consisting of a variety of humans and muppets, as they all sorts of fun-filled adventures that often result in a lesson being learned. Sometimes when something major or more serious happens, they always learn how to express their feelings about these situations. On top of a main plot, the show also features sketches and segments with other characters, songs, games, and short cartoons which either involve teaching the alphabet, counting, shapes, problem-solving skills, and others. And Sesame Street is my favorite show of all due to it being a massive success, and it has won the most Emmy awards out of any other show over its years.
It goes without saying that there was something unique about the early years of SS - partly due to Jim Henson’s involvement and partly due to the late 60s/early 70s vibe - that is impossible to replicate.
Poor ernie he didn't like that fact that Sesame Street didn't show a lot of stuff but then they could show it the next week some of the older episodes of Sesame Street I watched it when I was a little girl well I'm nearly 32 now I'm from Australia and thank u!!!!
I've never had the luxury to watch Sesame Street when i was little, so now that im older i want to watch it, though the streaming programs dont have all the seasons, thank you for uploading this, youve really done me wonders
Thanks so much for posting this! Where did you find it? My young daughter recently discovered Sesame Street just in time for the 50th anniversary, and it's brought up a lot of nostalgia in me, having watched the show myself over 30 years ago. I've been very curious about the history of the show, and I was just listening to the audiobook of "Street Gang" (read by Caroll Spinney, RIP), a history of Sesame Street, when it mentioned this preview special. I was amazed to find it on UA-cam! Thanks again.
Well let’s see, Vietnam was happening so explosions were popular and it was also the 60s so people roller skated a lot so Bert was kinda on the nose lol
gosh Dr. James E. Allen, Jr. is charisma incarnate. That sure was a different era, hiring someone who can do a job, not necessarily know how to talk to the media.
That was an asset to the Workshop. Nowadays, you'd have to throw in social media, which makes it almost impossible to achieve that goal. Even Jim Henson spent very little time, in as few words as possible, doing p/r for himself, *as* himself. He didn't need to; his body of work did that.
@@MonsterpieceTheatreI was just thinking of that yesterday! Although for a different reason, more about why posthumous Dr. Seuss adaptations are so relatively inconsistent and questionable. But ON that topic I also consider that Henson himself did not want to personally appear on "the Jim Henson Hour" but NBC insisted on it, among other demands that possibly resulted in it not working out.
That "This Way to Sesame Street" was NOT the pilot episode of "Sesame Street", but still, they went on the air for THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) on N-E-T (now PBS) in 1969, it was the second part of the episode from November 8, 1969, the first one was the pilot episode of "Sesame Street" was from July 21, 1969.
Did you guys know that Sesame St "old school" is listed for adults only? This is how screwed up our world has become. I started watching Sesame St about 1972 (I was born the same year SS debuted) and now what I grew up watching is considered for adults only? I used to love the guy with the pies who would drop them.
That makes two of us: I was born in 1969, months before the test shows went live. My earliest _Sesame Street_ memories date back to 1971, still old-school and adults-only by today's standards: I grew up seeing a scarier Count, a grumpier Oscar, a Cookie Monster who didn't preach about nutrition or self-control. And I still turned out OK; when I did behave badly in kindergarten, my family had the common sense to _not_ blame TV shows.
I was born in 1971 & loved the skit Fred Get Me a 20 with Joe Raposo & Danny Epstein which 1st broadcasted January 11th 1971 and I was in my Mom's tummy as I born in June.
The idea of Sesame Street being a new series that has to be promoted and explained is a strange concept to me XD It makes sense. Of course it had to be but it's such a huge staple of children's entertainment now that it's hard to imagine
Why do I feel like this is what Nickelodean should've done with the first three Nicktoons when they aired them in 1991 with Ren and Stimpy as the hosts
These early animated shorts were really creative. (TRIPPY, for sure, but still creative.) Can't imagine getting away with some of this stuff nowadays. I mean, OMG. There were two cowboy characters with TOY GUNS in the one short. OH NOES. (Hey, I grew up watching this stuff and *I* turned out ok. LOL.)
We've turned into a culture that of fools and special little snowflakes. There's nothing wrong with ANY of the old SS stuff. If anything, it highlights just how much we have degenerated. It's a stark contrast.
Some of The Muppets in the video would eventually become Cookie Monster, Betty Lou and Little Jerry & The Monotones, some just AM's and others won't last longer than one season.
The ending scene where ernie wants to show more but bert tells him that they've run out of time makes me feel like overall they did want to show more then what they showed in this in a half a hour no less but regardless of that I love the idea of bert and erine not being on TV untill the show premiered next week it's the little things like that make me really appreciate the uquinqeness and creativity that Sesame Street had when it was a new show at the time granted while I did watch the show when I was little I wasn't around when it came out in 1969 I started watching the show right when I was born in 2003 so in other words I was born during the more modern era of the show witch wasn't a bad thing but I always wondered what the show was like when it first came out and now thanks to UA-cam that dream eventually became a reality and I'm very much thankful for it
You were born at the perfect time. To be raised with the more current version of the show, and to have the advent of UA-cam with a community of old-time fans of the show, is like having the best of both worlds. I don't only say this from the perspective of a 1st-generation SS fan, but as an artist as well: how could anyone who has art and education in their DNA *not* appreciate watching how the show has evolved from its earliest days, and through the decades.
I started watching SS in 1976 when I was a new baby! I grew up with this show! Watching Sesame Street enabled me to read by the time I went to kindergarten. This show has made me laugh, cry, scared me, and helped show me the power of television to teach.
I was in Kindergarten in 1976 & used to watch Sesame Street before I went to school. I went to pm Kindergarten.
@@geraldinekearns8198afternoon kindergarten…?
If Jim Henson were still with us,he'd been happy to know that "Sesame Street" is still going strong 50 years later.
Jim would also be proud of the fact that there's an actual street in NYC NAMED Sesame Street dedicated by former mayor Bill DiBlasio.
Now 55 years! 🥳🥳🥳
Naming Sesame Street on an actual NYC street is real love and dedication! It was my learning platform during the 70s(The Electric Company comes in a close second during the same decade).
Who had the heart to dislike this video? It's adorable! We need more of this kind of innocence in this world!
As of 9/8/2023, this video has 135 dislikes to the 952 likes, giving it 87.6% positivity.
@@MonsterpieceTheatredo you have Sesame Street episodes
@MonsterpieceTheatre do you have sesame Street episode 12
Oh man, I remember seeing the one and only broadcast of this on early evening television when I was four!
Thank you so much for posting this! I am reading "Street Gang" by Michael Davis, the story of how Sesame Street came to be, and it is fascinating to see how this group of people came together to produce something so special. I was born in 1967, so this show was created for me and some of my best preschool memories are of me and my mum watching Sesame Street.
Thanks so much for uploading.I started watching SS in 1970 as a 5 year old and this brought back many happy memories!
I was born a year later!
I was born in 1973. Lots of those cartoons, skits, and songs were still being used when I watched Sesame Street. In the late 90s I even heard some of my younger cousins singing them.
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Have you watched the 50th anniversary special.
This is so wonderful. All of this was people made. No computers no digital anything and the creativity shows
This was awesome!
Happy 55th Anniversary to Sesame Street! 🥳🥳 Still the Sunny Days, man. ☀️
Happy 55th anniversary Sesame Street! This show focuses on the inhabitants of a special inner-city street, consisting of a variety of humans and muppets, as they all sorts of fun-filled adventures that often result in a lesson being learned. Sometimes when something major or more serious happens, they always learn how to express their feelings about these situations. On top of a main plot, the show also features sketches and segments with other characters, songs, games, and short cartoons which either involve teaching the alphabet, counting, shapes, problem-solving skills, and others. And Sesame Street is my favorite show of all due to it being a massive success, and it has won the most Emmy awards out of any other show over its years.
Sesame Street was my serious escape! Thank you for this escape for me in my 66 years. Still works for me!❤❤❤❤❤
this weekend 55 years ago, Sesame Street premiered.
Good one! Amazing how a lot of these classic clips were made before the show even started!
Thank you so very much for uploading this gem!
It was my 5th birthday on November 10, 1969, the day S.S. premiered!
so you were born in 1964?
Sesame Street came out 2 years before I was born!
@@geraldinekearns8198do you was born in 1967
Excellent graphics for 1969
It goes without saying that there was something unique about the early years of SS - partly due to Jim Henson’s involvement and partly due to the late 60s/early 70s vibe - that is impossible to replicate.
Poor ernie he didn't like that fact that Sesame Street didn't show a lot of stuff but then they could show it the next week some of the older episodes of Sesame Street I watched it when I was a little girl well I'm nearly 32 now I'm from Australia and thank u!!!!
I've never had the luxury to watch Sesame Street when i was little, so now that im older i want to watch it, though the streaming programs dont have all the seasons, thank you for uploading this, youve really done me wonders
This is so cool to see. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thank you so much to the person who uploaded. The ending with Ernie was priceless. Lol
"Their mothers care." I loved that bit!
“Oh they left out Danny’s credit”
Sneak Preview of Sesame Street. Premiering on PBS November 10, 1969.
Thanks so much for posting this! Where did you find it? My young daughter recently discovered Sesame Street just in time for the 50th anniversary, and it's brought up a lot of nostalgia in me, having watched the show myself over 30 years ago. I've been very curious about the history of the show, and I was just listening to the audiobook of "Street Gang" (read by Caroll Spinney, RIP), a history of Sesame Street, when it mentioned this preview special. I was amazed to find it on UA-cam! Thanks again.
Brings back memories of TVZ here in Zambia in the 70s..
the very old sesame street back then big bird has some feathers and Oscar was orange
Lol. "Nobody cares about the executive producer" hilarious
"Well, their mothers care!"
Thanks for posting this.
4:57 and 6:53 were two of my favorites growing up.
And wanda the witch.
Explosions? Roller derby? What WERE you thinking, Bert?!
Well let’s see, Vietnam was happening so explosions were popular and it was also the 60s so people roller skated a lot so Bert was kinda on the nose lol
I still say Zee instead of Zed now. And I'm British. Thanks Sesame Street.
They say you’re welcome 😉
(Did you watch it on London Weekend Television? Just curious)
Me too and i'm Irish.
Thanks Monster piece Theatre!!! 😁
i grew up with Sesame Street :)
This is a great way to celebrate sesame street's 50th birthday by making a tribute to the original actor for big bird (Carrol Spinney) isn't it?
I'd love it...I grew up with this show from the beginning :)
Sally is Holly Robinson. Gordon is her real life father
gosh Dr. James E. Allen, Jr. is charisma incarnate. That sure was a different era, hiring someone who can do a job, not necessarily know how to talk to the media.
That was an asset to the Workshop. Nowadays, you'd have to throw in social media, which makes it almost impossible to achieve that goal. Even Jim Henson spent very little time, in as few words as possible, doing p/r for himself, *as* himself. He didn't need to; his body of work did that.
@@MonsterpieceTheatreI was just thinking of that yesterday! Although for a different reason, more about why posthumous Dr. Seuss adaptations are so relatively inconsistent and questionable. But ON that topic I also consider that Henson himself did not want to personally appear on "the Jim Henson Hour" but NBC insisted on it, among other demands that possibly resulted in it not working out.
Well this was the very beginning of the Nixon administration and a lot of the Johnson people were on their way out
@ 10:50 a distant relative of the guy with the beady eyes and big blue head from the restaurant shorts with Grover?
Maybe, as in a prototypical Johnson muppet.
22:08 Listen, you... IIIIIII've had enough of that
It's funny hearing Ernie suggest that they make sesame street a half hour longer. Back in 2016 they made it a half hour shorter
7! 7! 7! Seven-Seven-Seven! The answer is Seveeeeeennnnnn!
They did the same thing for The Electric Company.
don't forget Zoom and Mister Rogers
I'd love to see those.
awesome preview
I- I used to watch this when I was 1 all the to 7!!
That guy counting down looks like Nixon
+ JsHalom65 This episode aired on TV on November 8, 1969
Ah, when TV was good! Sweet, sweet childhood!
its on here
The rarest classic.
6:31 - Ernie making reference to the end of the first regular episode where he cries about those numbers.
I love the classic Sesame Street episodes!
cool
Who cares who wrote this thing. Hilarious ending.
"Their mothers care." I love that bit!
That "This Way to Sesame Street" was NOT the pilot episode of "Sesame Street", but still, they went on the air for THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) on N-E-T (now PBS) in 1969, it was the second part of the episode from November 8, 1969, the first one was the pilot episode of "Sesame Street" was from July 21, 1969.
Bob's in his 80's now.
Now 90.
Now deceased.
Pre dates PBS as seen in the closing comments. Sesame Street began in 1969 when Public Broadcasting was named ( NET ) National Educational Television.
except PBS was founded on November 4, 1969; just 6 days before Sesame Street began.
@@TOT3SecondAlt Founded in November 1969, yes, but launched in October 1970 when it formally replaced NET.
The Song Of Ten segments are what I remember the fondest.
Did you guys know that Sesame St "old school" is listed for adults only? This is how screwed up our world has become. I started watching Sesame St about 1972 (I was born the same year SS debuted) and now what I grew up watching is considered for adults only? I used to love the guy with the pies who would drop them.
That makes two of us: I was born in 1969, months before the test shows went live. My earliest _Sesame Street_ memories date back to 1971, still old-school and adults-only by today's standards: I grew up seeing a scarier Count, a grumpier Oscar, a Cookie Monster who didn't preach about nutrition or self-control. And I still turned out OK; when I did behave badly in kindergarten, my family had the common sense to _not_ blame TV shows.
They didn’t say “adults only”. That’s misconstrusion.
Yeah, I'm right with you. I got the DVD set one Christmas and was surprised by the "warning" at the introduction. Guess times have changed.
I was born in 1971 & loved the skit Fred Get Me a 20 with Joe Raposo & Danny Epstein which 1st broadcasted January 11th 1971 and I was in my Mom's tummy as I born in June.
The idea of Sesame Street being a new series that has to be promoted and explained is a strange concept to me XD
It makes sense. Of course it had to be but it's such a huge staple of children's entertainment now that it's hard to imagine
A.J. MACHETE
That IS hard to imagine :O
+A.J. MACHETE Right? Sesame Street shaped my life in so many ways, from my love of music to my love of literature.
COULD YOU WOULD YOU UNPLOD SESAME STREET SEASON 1 IN 1969-1970
EPISODES PLEASE THANKS ALOT
Sesame Street is the genesis of all childhood educational shows! If only most people didn't take advantage of those of what Sesame Street started.
Why do I feel like this is what Nickelodean should've done with the first three Nicktoons when they aired them in 1991 with Ren and Stimpy as the hosts
That would be awful, not educational at all
Happy 50th Anniversary Sesame Street
24:43 Poor Danny (Seagren)
thanks for sharing :)
i was born on 2007 so sesame street is 39 when i am born
I'll bet this is way different from what you're used to. I hope you find Classic Sesame Street as enjoyable as a lot of us did all those years ago.
That was funny Bert said to Ernie "Hey hey no you Ding a ling"
They should've had the Ding-a-Ling Sisters on the show.
I want to find the episode where Oscar takes a picture of Susan sneezing a bundle of papers out of her arms.
Jim Henson cracks up at 2:05.
And Bert's suggestion of "Roller Derby"!?
When bert said puppets I thought he broke the fourth wall because he puppets and they are puppets no pun intended
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These early animated shorts were really creative. (TRIPPY, for sure, but still creative.)
Can't imagine getting away with some of this stuff nowadays. I mean, OMG. There were two cowboy characters with TOY GUNS in the one short. OH NOES.
(Hey, I grew up watching this stuff and *I* turned out ok. LOL.)
We've turned into a culture that of fools and special little snowflakes. There's nothing wrong with ANY of the old SS stuff. If anything, it highlights just how much we have degenerated. It's a stark contrast.
How did the spaceship fall at 0:13? Was there redstone connecting the 2 together?
hello, do you know where i could find a video of sesame street with alanis obomsawin ?
This aired 11-8-69, two days before the show officially premiered.
on NBC
in some areas in was on commercal stations in the drist year it was on wpix channel 11 go figure that one
This is Sesame Street 😊❤🎉
Unfortunately, we now have to make the distinction that this *was* Sesame Street.
7:40 Vegas Lights PATD!
Probably so that the series would get more exposure before it premiered.
There are my shoes!!!
2:25 that’s so cute!!
Jim Henson was the best
The Silicon Valley was the birthplace of Sesame Street as XEROX sponsored the show.
Xerox only sponsored this half-hour special on prime time TV. Silicon Valley only paid the car fare to Reeves' Teletape Studio.
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13:57 big bird. Are you ok? Do you need more feathers?
Don't lie, you watched this show too when you was a kid once.
Big Bird smoked too much Seven before saluting Sally!
Dejavu! I can't believe how I've gotten old. The moment I saw this haha :)
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Can we smoke some pot for the e cartoon at 514
I remember watching this when i was like 5 or 6 im now 13
1:59 - 2:17 I had no idea Bert was that cute back then
larger audience
Some of The Muppets in the video would eventually become Cookie Monster, Betty Lou and Little Jerry & The Monotones, some just AM's and others won't last longer than one season.
"Wow, Wanda the Witch is weird!"
14:35 Big Bird - I nearly laid an egg right here on Sesame Street.
Definitely a brilliant and favorite line of mine delivered by Carroll Spinney. Wow, it's been more than a year now since we lost him.
Where did you find this?
The ending scene where ernie wants to show more but bert tells him that they've run out of time makes me feel like overall they did want to show more then what they showed in this in a half a hour no less but regardless of that I love the idea of bert and erine not being on TV untill the show premiered next week it's the little things like that make me really appreciate the uquinqeness and creativity that Sesame Street had when it was a new show at the time granted while I did watch the show when I was little I wasn't around when it came out in 1969 I started watching the show right when I was born in 2003 so in other words I was born during the more modern era of the show witch wasn't a bad thing but I always wondered what the show was like when it first came out and now thanks to UA-cam that dream eventually became a reality and I'm very much thankful for it
You were born at the perfect time. To be raised with the more current version of the show, and to have the advent of UA-cam with a community of old-time fans of the show, is like having the best of both worlds. I don't only say this from the perspective of a 1st-generation SS fan, but as an artist as well: how could anyone who has art and education in their DNA *not* appreciate watching how the show has evolved from its earliest days, and through the decades.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre yeah as an adult I've come to appreciate the show a lot more and honestly I still enjoy watching the show to this very day
SCENE, not sence
@@sralyn I went back to my previous comment
That I had left on this video and edited it
I guess this was meant to be a pitch or something
Preview
A preview of Sesame Street before its premiere on November 10th
Bert: Explosions
Dino Ignacio: That's enough proof that Bert is evil
60s humor
I call this episode S1 E0
i call the test episodes season 0.
"Who cares who wrote this thing?"
Did Jon Stone really put that in the script?
Probably hahaha
or Jim just added that in there
Maybe it was not in the script, but was said anyways.
@@stevennorthrup5790 I wish I could find out.
Wow Wanda the Witch is weird...whoaa...
The pushing and shoving of Bert must have been an awful idea to let kids watch, because they push and shove other kids!
Shhh snowflake
💓👍👍
drugs? drugs.