Sesame Street

Sesame Street is the original American version of the Dutch children's programme Sesame Street .

It was set up in 1969 as an educational program to children in deprived areas to help their learning in a playful way of lag. The program was successful by hand dolls by puppeteerJim Henson and Doll maker Don Sahlin, the Muppets, which also got an important role later in The Muppet Show .

The first episode was broadcast on 10 november 1969. The program was sold to 120 countries and 20 different international versions were produced. In total, so far from the original series made over 4000 episodes spread over more than 40 seasons. The program is produced by Sesame Workshop, formerly known as children's Television Workshop.