Sesame Street History

[The Count]

A few things...
1 BWSmith, if you know them, what are the names of the actors who played the roles of Buffy, Sheldon, and "Cody"?
2 Sinister Sam was seen in a skit where he wanted to know who bought the last box of crayons. After cornering the AM who had the last box of crayons, he wanted to know "why", when he was refering to know "y". He then took a black crayon and drew a letter Y on the sign poster on the back wall and gave the AM the crayon back.
3 Uh, shouldn't the question be what was the name of the song sung by Polly Darton? Unless the real-life singer Dolly Parton appeared on Sesame Street, the name of the character who was a spoof of her was named Polly Darton.
Hope this helps and hope to hear from you guys soon.

 

[Mark The Shark]

A few things...
1 BWSmith, if you know them, what are the names of the actors who played the roles of Buffy, Sheldon, and "Cody"?

"Buffy" is a real person: folk singer Buffy Sainte-Marie (credited on the show as Buffy Sainte-Marie Wolfchild, I'm guessing her married name). She wrote a bunch of songs and had some hits in the 1960s, including "Until It's Time For You To Go."

As far as whether that was her real-life husband and child, that I do not know. Anyone?

 

[The Count]

Thanks Mark, reason I asked is cause the three of them are in my ML and I'm missing the real names for Sheldon and Cody. Though I guess I should add the last name "Wolfchild" to Buffy's entry since you say that was her full real name. And I guess I've had Cody's real name all along. He's listed in the D's as Dakota "Cody" Starblanket Wolfchild (SS, ) the space after the comma reserved for a human character's actor's real name. But I guess he should be moved to the C's under Cody (SS, Dakota Starblanket Wolfchild) eh?
Well, hope to hear from you guys soon and keep on truckin' down Cripple Creek.

 

[mikebennidict]

Hello. I remember everything about Sesame Street now. Here is the history of it:

July 1969 (before Sesame Street):
First human regulars-Gordon, Susan, Bob, Mr. Hooper and the kids
First Muppets-only Kermit, Bert and Ernie, and the Cookie Monster (which he is named 'Monster')
Five first shows tested

November 1969 (now Sesame Street!):
More muppets added-Big Bird, Oscar (ORANGE), Grover (BROWNISH-GREEN), the Anything Muppets and various monsters
Animated dots series
Animated openings before the theme song
The falling baker counting series
"Jazzy Spies"-animated counting series that end with spies that reveal the numbers 1-10
Three letters and two numbers sponsored
Kids can count up to ten
Oscar's trash can and Big Bird's home added
Live-action closing

1970's:
Grover's brownish-green fur changes into blue fur
Oscar's orange fur changes into green fur
Cookie Monster got his name from the 1971 premiere
Ernie's pink-and-orange shirt changes into red-and-blue shirt
Big Bird has more feathers
More muppets added-Herry, the Count, Little Bird, Sherlock Hemlock, Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, etc.
Mr. Snuffleuphagus-Big Bird's imaginary friend, nobody believes him
More live human actors added-David, Maria, Luis, Molly, Tom, Rafael, etc.
Sam the Robot-the full-body muppet robot that talked and walked slowly that is shown only on street scenes and greets the SS inhabitants like friendly 9th-10th graders
the animated pinball machine series added in the late '70's-took place of the race cars/spies series
Animated openings change into the regular theme song with the episode number in the late 70's
A large and friendly muppet dog named Woof-Woof changes into Barkley
Animated closing with muppets
Two letters and one number are sponsored
Kids can count up to 20
Sesame Street On Ice shows are produced

1980's:
Mr. Hooper dies, David re-runs Hooper's Store-1983
Everyone finally sees Mr. Snuffleupagus-1985
David hires Gina to work at Hooper's-1987
Maria and Luis got married-1988
Maria is pregnant and she and Luis got their new daughter named Gabriella-1989
Gordon and Susan's son Miles is born-1985
More human regulars added like Gina and Uncle Wally
More muppets added like Telly Monster, Elmo, the Honkers, the Dingers, Forgetful Jones and Placido Flamingo
David dies-1989
Two letters and one number are still sponsored
Kids can count up to 40
Live-action closing with Barkley
Sesame Place theme park opens
Sesame Street Live arena show is produced
Joe Raposo dies

early-mid 1990's:
Jim Henson and Richard Hunt dies
Mr. Handford re-runs Hooper's
Even more muppets added like Zoe, Rosita, Baby Bear, Benny the Bunny and Davey & Joey Monkey
the "Around the Corner" set is behind Sesame Street for just a couple of years
Telly and Baby Bear become best friends
The SS opening changes, the music is calypso, scenes with muppets
Tickle Me Elmo dolls are available in stores
Two letters and one number are still sponsored
Animated closing with Elmo, Big Bird and the kids
Jon Stone dies

1998-2000:
Elmo becomes more and more popular and appears on his own segment, "Elmo's World"
Alan is introduced and re-runs Hooper's
The SS opening changes-scenes with Big Bird following the kids to Sesame Street
New segments added like Sesame Street Goes to Day Care, Monster Day Care and Ernie's Show-and-Tell
Jeffery Moss dies
Muppets like Bert, Ernie, Big Bird, Zoe, etc. present the letter/number of the day
New animated segments like Suzie Kaboozie skits
One letter and one number sponsored
Lulu-the Anything Muppet monster

Today:
Frank Oz quits in 2001 and returns in 2003
Much newer segments like Cookie Monster presenting the Letter of the Day, the Count presenting the Number of the Day, Big Bird's own opening scene, Monster Time: features classic monster segments and the Monster Clubhouse, the newest monster segment, Hero Guy with Baby Bear and his imaginary animated friend named Hero Guy, Global Grover, and Journey To Ernie (segments where Big Bird has to search for Ernie before it fades to the classic Ernie and Bert segment).
Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle dies-2003
One letter and one number are sponsored
Kids can count up to 100

That's the history of Sesame Street...

you know, i might of misread this but on the Hooperfan page it i thought it was mentioned the piot shows were made in 1968. and this was from the 1971 publication that is a part of the site.

 

[MuppetDude]

The book "All About Sesame Street" said that the very first Sesame-related item created was a cartoon about the letter "J" ("Joe and the Junebug"), released in the winter of 1968. It was used to test how kids responded to educational concepts while being entertained at the same time, as well as how much repetition works.

 

[nweakland]

oops

 

[nweakland]

I believe the guy you are thinking of was "Bad Bart, the meanest hombre in the west" - He wanted to know Y.

 

[MuppetDude]

Actually, Sinister Sam wanted to know "Y".

 

[BEAR]

Hi everyone! I just stumbled over this thread in the archives and thought it could use a bump. I feel we should update this regularly.

 

[salemfan]

Oh, not to forget, in the timeline, for 1998-2000, include, "2000: Children's Television Workshop changes its name to Sesame Workshop."