Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American children's television show co-created by Joan Ganz Cooney and produced by non-profit Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop). The series, which debuted in November 1969, is known for educational content and images communicated through the use of puppetry, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references. It has aired on public television stations on PBS since its debut, with first-run airings of episodes moving to premium cable channel HBO in 2016.

Sesame Street was the first children's television show to use educational goals and a curriculum to shape its content, and the first show to study its educational effects on children. The program was intended to teach preschool children such things as letters and numbers, socialization and cooperation; but through the use of its humor, cultural references, celebrity guest appearances and Jim Henson's Muppets, the show was also able to have strong appeal to parents. Sesame Street has been part of the childhoods of over 77 million Americans, spawned twenty international versions, and holds the record for the most Emmy Awards won by a children's television series.

Floats

 * Original (1974-1978)
 * 10th Anniversary (1979-1982)
 * Reading and Writing (1994-1997)
 * Pop-Up Book (1998-2001)
 * International (2002-2003)
 * 1-2-3 Sesame Street (2004-present)

Years

 * 1974-present

Publishers

 * Children's Television Workshop (1974-1999)
 * Sesame Workshop (2004-present)
 * Applause, Inc. (1994)
 * NAMM (2009-2011)
 * Cardstore (2012)

Floats
Sesame Street has featured floats in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since 1974, with six unique floats based on the series. These have generally featured the vast majority of the show's Muppet and human characters singing songs of their own (mostly from Sesame Street itself), sometimes accompanied in recent years by popular musicians. The original float appeared in 1974, featuring two buildings: the "123 Sesame Street" brownstone, and Hooper's Store. Also featured were a streetlight with the Sesame Street sign located at the front of the float, and a ramshackle fence at the back, decorated with numbers and letters. Big Bird was perched on the roof, Cookie Monster and other Muppet characters stuck their heads out of the windows, and human cast members Mr. Hooper, Gordon, and Bob stood in front. This float was retired After the 1978 parade and replaced by a new float celebrating the show's 10th anniversary, where the buildings were replaced with a single two-story structure, with Big Bird sitting in a nest atop the building and the cast members and kids appearing in front.