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Sesame Street is a beloved American educational children’s television series that first aired on November 10, 1969. Created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett, and produced by Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children’s Television Workshop), the show combines live-action, puppetry, and animation to teach children the basics of literacy, numeracy, social skills, and emotional intelligence.

Key Features:
Famous Characters:
-1). Big Bird: A tall, curious yellow bird.
-2). Elmo: A red, cheerful monster with a distinctive voice.
-3). Cookie Monster: Known for his obsession with cookies.
-4). Oscar the Grouch: A grumpy green monster who lives in a trash can.
-5). Bert and Ernie: Best friends with a comedic dynamic.
-6). Grover, Count von Count, Abby Cadabby, and many others.

Educational Impact:
Sesame Street was one of the first shows to base its curriculum on cognitive research, helping millions of children learn letters, numbers, and important life lessons in a fun, inclusive environment.

Diversity and Inclusion:
The show has long been praised for showcasing diverse characters and addressing topics like race, disability, family dynamics, grief, and more, in age-appropriate ways.

Global Reach:
Sesame Street has been adapted into over 150 countries, with local versions tailored to reflect different cultures and languages (e.g., Takalani Sesame in South Africa, Sesamstraße in Germany, Plaza Sésamo in Latin America).

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Nostalgic feelings I tell ya. One of our favorite television program of those good old days. Big bird, Bert and Ernie were my favorite characters. Gather here if you feel the vibes. Genz generation unu kpachara anya

Famous Characters:
-1). Big Bird: A tall, curious yellow bird.
-2). Elmo: A red, cheerful monster with a distinctive voice.
-3). Cookie Monster: Known for his obsession with cookies.

-4). Oscar the Grouch: A grumpy green monster who lives in a trash can.
-5). Bert and Ernie: Best friends with a comedic dynamic.
-6). Grover, Count von Count, Abby Cadabby, and many others

Who was your favorite character(s) back then?

Racoon:
Who was your favorite character(s) back then?

I never liked this show as a child and this is me that absolutely love cartoons. I prefered the superheroes.

I barely tolerated Barney and friends too. I downright hated teletubbies.

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In your neighborhood.
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The people that you meet each day.

Racoon:
Nostalgic feelings I tell ya. One of ourfavorite television show of those good old days. Big bird, Bert and Ernie were my favorite characters. Gather here if you feel the vibes. Genz generation unu kpachara anya

Troublesome Ernie, and Cookie Monster. I enjoyed the episode when Ernie's double showed him shege 🤣

I never like sesame street as a kid but on few occasions I have seen it as an adult I find it entertaining and educative.

How time flies. Person don dey old gradually


This is why person ought to be mindful of what you do with your time because once you loose it, you can't regain it.

Nostalgia!

Bert & Ernie were my favorites!

How time flies

You just reminded me of the good 80's.
It was usually on NTA by 4:30pm.
What an educative And informative program of the yesteryears.

There's this other one I missed so much we call it baby rubber. They're of only 2 characters, 1 white doll n 1black doll like that(I mean humans wearing a big doll like a dog or something)
They don't speak nor say anything but only act and there acting always goes with a sound like that that made it more funny.
It's mostly shown on kwara TV here in kwara then

Characters all day
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Oh yes. Good times. Fortunate to be among the sesame street generation

When Television and most importantly NTA was fun even without "cable" tv. Just ur regular tv antenna atop the TV or your fluorescent invented antenna was enough to give u access to multiple local stations. Weekends were fun for families and children especially. Sesame street was only enjoyable because of it was educational but those action cartoons were what some of us looked forward to. SuperTed, Voltron, Birdman, Muppet Babies, Fragle Rocks, Chuckle Hounds (I used to find this boring then because they didn't speak), Jimbo. Weekends were goated because of those German sports games Telematch and then other non cartoon shows like Rentaghost(They pressed their noses to disappear wasn't cartoon though) and Tales by Moonlight

1980s. NTA Kaduna would start showing sesame street at 4 pm. Would sit and watch till 5 pm, then playtime or homework.

Sadly by 1993, they stopped showing the program.

Also most of the episodes they showed then we're from the early 1980s..up to 1983. Nothing later than that. If you wanted more recent versions , you have to have access to.a.VHS recording.

Nowadays, cable has displaced regular tv. And since the street was taken over by HBO, I doubt that anyone trying to show it in Nigeria would be able to afford the cost. Also in a way kids tv has moved on. Too many options. In 1987, the idea of a kids channel was foreign to this country, now we have several of them.

Still, classic sesame street is available on YouTube. Episodes from the 1970s and 80s. Including the first ever episode from 1969. When Gordon had hair!

Yes ooo
I remember.
Thanks for bringing back the memories

Mynd44:
I never liked this show as a child and this is me that absolutely love cartoons. I prefered the superheroes.

I barely tolerated Barney and friends too. I downright hated teletubbies.

Watching this Sesame Street in the early 90s, I never really understood what the fuss was about too as I also preferred cartoons to any other type of children's TV programme. However, I loved Barney and Friends. Certainly hated Teletubbies when the TV Africa that was syndicated on different private TV stations in Nigeria and Africa, used it to replace other cartoons that had previously been scheduled for that time slot in the afternoon. Now that I am older and with kids of my own, I realise that Teletubbies was introduced into their programming schedule to cater for toddlers and preschoolers.

It was popular then here in Abuja, every Saturday 4pm. though I never really liked it, just using it to while away time till another program begins on NTA. I preferred Voltron, Power Rangers , and Tom & Jerry .

Mynd44:
I never liked this show as a child and this is me that absolutely love cartoons. I prefered the superheroes.

I barely tolerated Barney and friends too. I downright hated teletubbies.

Barney was really hated back in the day, to the point that there were online screeds against the purple dinosaur, and even an online fictional story called Day of the Barney.( Basically , Barney takes over the world and gets rid of the adults and anyone over 12. And there is a lot of awful stuff as well , that's the synopsis)

As for teletubbies, whoever greenlit that idea deserves to be sacked and stripped of their pensions.

Nbotee:
When Television and most importantly NTA was fun even without "cable" tv. Just ur regular tv antenna atop the TV or your fluorescent invented antenna was enough to give u access to multiple local stations. Weekends were fun for families and children especially. Sesame street was only enjoyable because of it was educational but those action cartoons were what some of us looked forward to. SuperTed, Voltron, Birdman, Muppet Babies, Fragle Rocks, Chuckle Hounds (I used to find this boring then because they didn't speak), Jimbo. Weekends were goated because of those German sports games Telematch and then other non cartoon shows like Rentaghost(They pressed their noses to disappear wasn't cartoon though) and Tales by Moonlight

U got it bro... especially Saturdays early morning shows...biker mice, Bill cosby show, family matters..then weekday Sportbilly, DoDo...movies like Moonlight by BruceWillis, Robinhood..
Trying to remember that kinda movie where they are all like robot ZEROs, and then the guy on bike(SUPER FORCE will be right back)😁
I loved my childhood... there's nothing now

Racoon:
Nostalgic feelings I tell ya. One of ourfavorite television show of those good old days. Big bird, Bert and Ernie were my favorite characters. Gather here if you feel the vibes. Genz generation unu kpachara anya

I miss the good old days. God can you please rewind the earth back to Buhari military regime?

They're now promoting these gay stuffs. These 'woke' culture is just destroying our childhood memories

Cookie Monster was my favourite character.

FIRST PHOTO: "COOKIE!", C is for cookie!, Me want cookie!", "Me love cookies!", "Me eat cookie!",

SECOND PHOTO: "Om nom nom nom nom nom nom"

Sesame street was a huge part of my childhood. Really loved it then.

xristos:
U got it bro... especially Saturdays early morning shows...biker mice, Bill cosby show, family matters..then weekday Sportbilly, DoDo...movies like Moonlight by BruceWillis, Robinhood..
Trying to remember that kinda movie where they are all like robot ZEROs, and then the guy on bike(SUPER FORCE will be right back)😁
I loved my childhood... there's nothing now

Those robot ZEROS are from a 3D animation TV programme known as TERRAHAWKS...that witch, Zelda, always shows them shege when she looks into her crystal ball...lol...


Sesame Street was shown on NTA Yola by 4pm every single day. NTA also aired other children programmes or cartoons like:

JAMES BOND JUNIOR,
LEO THE LION,
BIONIC SIX,
VOLTRON,
CAPTAIN PLANET,
FRAGGLES ON THE ROCK,
THE MUPPET SHOW, etc.


...And one cartoon like that in which the main character wears a cowboy hat. He transforms whenever he encounters challenges by imagining things..then his eye glow for a second. The character also has a horse that can also transform by standing on its rear legs...never got the name of the cartoon, even till now..


Saturdays were for TELEMATCH, Saturday matinee, and the likes...

Chaiii....the good old days...

Hmmmmmm, old age don dey come small small o. I remember this program, I also remember the song, my mum still buy us clothes with the sesame street characters on the cloth.

Hmmm, I still have this program and my kids still watched it.

I love the Count, and Oscar and Maria

Do the rubber duckies song too by ernie

When man was a child



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Most of the original cast members have passed on. The programs have evolved in diversity to lean in LGBTQ issues and lately the Trump administration has moved to cut funding to the PBS which includes icons such as VOA - Voice of America.

Can we all say an adieu....

Omo... This is relieving my childhood memories. We would start waiting for television to start by 3pm.... Television those days started by 4pm it was sesame street that was the first program of the day. And we would select 2 alphabets and one number.

Growing up was fun then... Something genz wouldn't understand.

Very soon gen z's would have then zzzs