Sesame Street
It's from 1969, before you were born.
- Network
- PBS
- Genre
- Children's educational
- Premiered
- 1969
- Creator
- Children's Television Workshop
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About
As of 2026, it's 57 years old.
Sesame Street smuggled an entire education into children's television in 1969 by disguising the alphabet as the funniest thing happening on a friendly inner-city block. Generations learned to count from a literal Count, met a giant bird, and quietly absorbed lessons about kindness alongside the numbers.
Its Muppets became global icons, it tackled real subjects with rare honesty, and it proved that 'educational' and 'genuinely entertaining' were never actually enemies.
Warm, brilliant, and quietly world-changing, Sesame Street is the show that taught half the planet to read while everyone thought they were just watching Big Bird.
Sesame Street season by season
Sesame Street has run for 56 seasons (1969–2025) across 3532 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
