Sesame Street season premire dates

[mikebennidict]

this year and last year the new seasons seem to be starting in April. i even found this to be the case with the cuerrent Zoom series. the this seaon and the previous season also began in April. the 1st 3 or 4 years of the new Zoom had it's season premire dates in Jan. matter of fact i understand that was also the case with the original series. i was reading from previous posts where SS where it's been claimed the Nov. not only the 1st year SS was on but for many years after that Nov. was always the start of it's new season. why was that and not Sept. when when most shows start? sometimes when a network show's ratings is so low they will axe the series in mid season and replace it with another. and whil i don't know about every PBS show kid or grown up shows, past or present, i know some starting date for other past PBS shows.now Mr. Rogers Neighborhood witch is often credited to 1968 as it's debut actually began in 1967 in May of that year and for some reason didn't go national till Feb. of the following year. The Electric Company debuted in Oct. of 1971 and 321 Contact debuted in Jan. 1980. so what's the story on this?

 

[Mark The Shark]

this year and last year the new seasons seem to be starting in April. i even found this to be the case with the cuerrent Zoom series. the this seaon and the previous season also began in April. the 1st 3 or 4 years of the new Zoom had it's season premire dates in Jan. matter of fact i understand that was also the case with the original series. i was reading from previous posts where SS where it's been claimed the Nov. not only the 1st year SS was on but for many years after that Nov. was always the start of it's new season. why was that and not Sept. when when most shows start? sometimes when a network show's ratings is so low they will axe the series in mid season and replace it with another. and whil i don't know about every PBS show kid or grown up shows, past or present, i know some starting date for other past PBS shows.now Mr. Rogers Neighborhood witch is often credited to 1968 as it's debut actually began in 1967 in May of that year and for some reason didn't go national till Feb. of the following year. The Electric Company debuted in Oct. of 1971 and 321 Contact debuted in Jan. 1980. so what's the story on this?

I can definitely confirm that the "Sesame Street" premiere first aired November 10, 1969, and the Season 2 premiere aired November 9, 1970. Also, the 1983-1984 season began the week of Thanksgiving, which places it later in the month. Beyond that, I have no idea. Maybe if someone looked up what show was airing before November 10, 1969, which "Sesame Street" replaced.

One other thing which remains a mystery is, why did Season 2 have 145 episodes, when every other season for at least the first two dozen years had 130 episodes? I don't understand that.

Of course, back in those days, SS was on about 10 times a day, and I'm not exaggerating (well, at least not by much). I have a Chicago TV supplement where it lists SS, Mr. Rogers and The Electric Company pretty much alternating for the whole day, into the evening and on weekends.

This raises a question, and this could be confirmed by going to a downtown library and checking out old TV Guides on microfilm (assuming they have episode descriptions). With the show airing so many times a day, in my memory, I don't recall them airing the same specific episode more than one time in the same day. So what was the deal with that? Were they a week behind, or what? Also, this would seem to suggest that when they "changed Gordons," maybe you'd see Matt in the morning and Hal in the afternoon for a week or two, which seems strange, although I don't remember that. In fact, I remember feeling slightly traumatized when Gordon changed, at least the first time. As far as I was concerned, the new guy *wasn't* Gordon.

Hey, next time I'm on vacation I just might attempt to start that TV Guide microfilm project. Then that could be the beginnings of a sort of makeshifty episode guide, at least to some degree.

A friend also mentioned to me that he once saw a listing in "TV Guide" which made reference to Gordon's last name (very early on in the series) and he said he didn't think it was Robinson. Anyone know? Well, if I ever do this, I suppose I'll find it...