This Way to Sesame Street (complete)
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- A true Season's greeting, as in the introduction given on Saturday, November 8, 1969, with the help of Xerox Corporation, by then U.S. Commissioner of Education, Dr. James E. Allen, Jr., to the upcoming first season of Sesame Street. Here, for the first time on CZcams, is the complete broadcast.
#ClassicSesameStreet #SeasonsGreeting
If Jim Henson were still with us,he'd been happy to know that "Sesame Street" is still going strong 50 years later.
I started watching SS in 1976 when I was a new baby! I grew up with this show! Watching Sesame Street enabled me to read by the time I went to kindergarten. This show has made me laugh, cry, scared me, and helped show me the power of television to teach.
I was in Kindergarten in 1976 & used to watch Sesame Street before I went to school. I went to pm Kindergarten.
@@geraldinekearns8198afternoon kindergarten…?
Oh man, I remember seeing the one and only broadcast of this on early evening television when I was four!
Who had the heart to dislike this video? It's adorable! We need more of this kind of innocence in this world!
As of 9/8/2023, this video has 135 dislikes to the 952 likes, giving it 87.6% positivity.
@@MonsterpieceTheatredo you have Sesame Street episodes
@MonsterpieceTheatre do you have sesame Street episode 12
Thanks so much for uploading.I started watching SS in 1970 as a 5 year old and this brought back many happy memories!
I was born a year later!
I was born in 1973. Lots of those cartoons, skits, and songs were still being used when I watched Sesame Street. In the late 90s I even heard some of my younger cousins singing them.
knytrydr73 one two three four five six seven eight nine ten
Have you watched the 50th anniversary special.
Thank you so much for posting this! I am reading "Street Gang" by Michael Davis, the story of how Sesame Street came to be, and it is fascinating to see how this group of people came together to produce something so special. I was born in 1967, so this show was created for me and some of my best preschool memories are of me and my mum watching Sesame Street.
Lol. "Nobody cares about the executive producer" hilarious
This is so wonderful. All of this was people made. No computers no digital anything and the creativity shows
This was awesome!
Explosions? Roller derby? What WERE you thinking, Bert?!
Sesame Street was my serious escape! Thank you for this escape for me in my 66 years. Still works for me!❤❤❤❤❤
Good one! Amazing how a lot of these classic clips were made before the show even started!
Brings back memories of TVZ here in Zambia in the 70s..
Excellent graphics for 1969
Poor ernie he didn't like that fact that Sesame Street didn't show a lot of stuff but then they could show it the next week some of the older episodes of Sesame Street I watched it when I was a little girl well I'm nearly 32 now I'm from Australia and thank u!!!!
This is so cool to see. Thanks so much for sharing!
i grew up with Sesame Street :)
Thank you so very much for uploading this gem!
It was my 5th birthday on November 10, 1969, the day S.S. premiered!
so you were born in 1964?
Sesame Street came out 2 years before I was born!
@@geraldinekearns8198do you was born in 1967
the very old sesame street back then big bird has some feathers and Oscar was orange
Sally is Holly Robinson. Gordon is her real life father
I'd love it...I grew up with this show from the beginning :)
It goes without saying that there was something unique about the early years of SS - partly due to Jim Henson’s involvement and partly due to the late 60s/early 70s vibe - that is impossible to replicate.
I still say Zee instead of Zed now. And I'm British. Thanks Sesame Street.
They say you’re welcome 😉
(Did you watch it on London Weekend Television? Just curious)
Me too and i'm Irish.
Thanks Monster piece Theatre!!! 😁
Thanks for posting this.
4:57 and 6:53 were two of my favorites growing up.
And wanda the witch.
7! 7! 7! Seven-Seven-Seven! The answer is Seveeeeeennnnnn!
Thank you so much to the person who uploaded. The ending with Ernie was priceless. Lol
"Their mothers care." I loved that bit!
22:08 Listen, you... IIIIIII've had enough of that
Thanks so much for posting this! Where did you find it? My young daughter recently discovered Sesame Street just in time for the 50th anniversary, and it's brought up a lot of nostalgia in me, having watched the show myself over 30 years ago. I've been very curious about the history of the show, and I was just listening to the audiobook of "Street Gang" (read by Caroll Spinney, RIP), a history of Sesame Street, when it mentioned this preview special. I was amazed to find it on CZcams! Thanks again.
That guy counting down looks like Nixon
This is a great way to celebrate sesame street's 50th birthday by making a tribute to the original actor for big bird (Carrol Spinney) isn't it?
awesome preview
The rarest classic.
Ah, when TV was good! Sweet, sweet childhood!
I've never had the luxury to watch Sesame Street when i was little, so now that im older i want to watch it, though the streaming programs dont have all the seasons, thank you for uploading this, youve really done me wonders
its on here
Bob's in his 80's now.
Now 90.
Now deceased.
thanks for sharing :)
Who cares who wrote this thing. Hilarious ending.
"Their mothers care." I love that bit!
Did you guys know that Sesame St "old school" is listed for adults only? This is how screwed up our world has become. I started watching Sesame St about 1972 (I was born the same year SS debuted) and now what I grew up watching is considered for adults only? I used to love the guy with the pies who would drop them.
That makes two of us: I was born in 1969, months before the test shows went live. My earliest _Sesame Street_ memories date back to 1971, still old-school and adults-only by today's standards: I grew up seeing a scarier Count, a grumpier Oscar, a Cookie Monster who didn't preach about nutrition or self-control. And I still turned out OK; when I did behave badly in kindergarten, my family had the common sense to _not_ blame TV shows.
They didn’t say “adults only”. That’s misconstrusion.
Yeah, I'm right with you. I got the DVD set one Christmas and was surprised by the "warning" at the introduction. Guess times have changed.
I was born in 1971 & loved the skit Fred Get Me a 20 with Joe Raposo & Danny Epstein which 1st broadcasted January 11th 1971 and I was in my Mom's tummy as I born in June.
6:31 - Ernie making reference to the end of the first regular episode where he cries about those numbers.
The idea of Sesame Street being a new series that has to be promoted and explained is a strange concept to me XD
It makes sense. Of course it had to be but it's such a huge staple of children's entertainment now that it's hard to imagine
A.J. MACHETE
That IS hard to imagine :O
+A.J. MACHETE Right? Sesame Street shaped my life in so many ways, from my love of music to my love of literature.
Sneak Preview of Sesame Street. Premiering on PBS November 10, 1969.
They did the same thing for The Electric Company.
don't forget Zoom and Mister Rogers
I'd love to see those.
Jim Henson cracks up at 2:05.
And Bert's suggestion of "Roller Derby"!?
When bert said puppets I thought he broke the fourth wall because he puppets and they are puppets no pun intended
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@ 10:50 a distant relative of the guy with the beady eyes and big blue head from the restaurant shorts with Grover?
Maybe, as in a prototypical Johnson muppet.
It's funny hearing Ernie suggest that they make sesame street a half hour longer. Back in 2016 they made it a half hour shorter
Why do I feel like this is what Nickelodean should've done with the first three Nicktoons when they aired them in 1991 with Ren and Stimpy as the hosts
That would be awful, not educational at all
Happy 54th birthday Sesame Street.
I- I used to watch this when I was 1 all the to 7!!
Happy 50th Anniversary Sesame Street
That was funny Bert said to Ernie "Hey hey no you Ding a ling"
They should've had the Ding-a-Ling Sisters on the show.
I want to find the episode where Oscar takes a picture of Susan sneezing a bundle of papers out of her arms.
Pre dates PBS as seen in the closing comments. Sesame Street began in 1969 when Public Broadcasting was named ( NET ) National Educational Television.
except PBS was founded on November 4, 1969; just 6 days before Sesame Street began.
+ JsHalom65 This episode aired on TV on November 8, 1969
i was born on 2007 so sesame street is 39 when i am born
I'll bet this is way different from what you're used to. I hope you find Classic Sesame Street as enjoyable as a lot of us did all those years ago.
There are my shoes!!!
That "This Way to Sesame Street" was NOT the pilot episode of "Sesame Street", but still, they went on the air for THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) on N-E-T (now PBS) in 1969, it was the second part of the episode from November 8, 1969, the first one was the pilot episode of "Sesame Street" was from July 21, 1969.
Don't lie, you watched this show too when you was a kid once.
24:43 Poor Danny (Seagren)
Jim Henson was the best
hello, do you know where i could find a video of sesame street with alanis obomsawin ?
Where did you find this?
Happy New Year's Eve.
How did the spaceship fall at 0:13? Was there redstone connecting the 2 together?
Probably so that the series would get more exposure before it premiered.
Dejavu! I can't believe how I've gotten old. The moment I saw this haha :)
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Can we smoke some pot for the e cartoon at 514
The Silicon Valley was the birthplace of Sesame Street as XEROX sponsored the show.
Xerox only sponsored this half-hour special on prime time TV. Silicon Valley only paid the car fare to Reeves' Teletape Studio.
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13:57 big bird. Are you ok? Do you need more feathers?
This is Sesame Street 😊❤🎉
Unfortunately, we now have to make the distinction that this *was* Sesame Street.
7:40 Vegas Lights PATD!
These early animated shorts were really creative. (TRIPPY, for sure, but still creative.)
Can't imagine getting away with some of this stuff nowadays. I mean, OMG. There were two cowboy characters with TOY GUNS in the one short. OH NOES.
(Hey, I grew up watching this stuff and *I* turned out ok. LOL.)
We've turned into a culture that of fools and special little snowflakes. There's nothing wrong with ANY of the old SS stuff. If anything, it highlights just how much we have degenerated. It's a stark contrast.
COULD YOU WOULD YOU UNPLOD SESAME STREET SEASON 1 IN 1969-1970
EPISODES PLEASE THANKS ALOT
60s humor
23:08 Are Program Guides for Sesame Street still available?
yes
the internet
Where on the internet?
@@jadsi I think sesameworkshop.com
@@StasioCZcams oh ok
It is as a matter of fact. Somebody on Rubylane have a copy for sale which it cost $107
Sesame Street is the genesis of all childhood educational shows! If only most people didn't take advantage of those of what Sesame Street started.
Big Bird smoked too much Seven before saluting Sally!
2:25 that’s so cute!!
larger audience
gosh Dr. James E. Allen, Jr. is charisma incarnate. That sure was a different era, hiring someone who can do a job, not necessarily know how to talk to the media.
That was an asset to the Workshop. Nowadays, you'd have to throw in social media, which makes it almost impossible to achieve that goal. Even Jim Henson spent very little time, in as few words as possible, doing p/r for himself, *as* himself. He didn't need to; his body of work did that.
@@MonsterpieceTheatreI was just thinking of that yesterday! Although for a different reason, more about why posthumous Dr. Seuss adaptations are so relatively inconsistent and questionable. But ON that topic I also consider that Henson himself did not want to personally appear on "the Jim Henson Hour" but NBC insisted on it, among other demands that possibly resulted in it not working out.
14:35 Big Bird - I nearly laid an egg right here on Sesame Street.
Definitely a brilliant and favorite line of mine delivered by Carroll Spinney. Wow, it's been more than a year now since we lost him.
cool
This aired 11-8-69, two days before the show officially premiered.
on NBC
"Who cares who wrote this thing?"
Did Jon Stone really put that in the script?
Probably hahaha
or Jim just added that in there
Maybe it was not in the script, but was said anyways.
@@stevennorthrup5790 I wish I could find out.
1:59 - 2:17 I had no idea Bert was that cute back then
I remember watching this when i was like 5 or 6 im now 13
Some of The Muppets in the video would eventually become Cookie Monster, Betty Lou and Little Jerry & The Monotones, some just AM's and others won't last longer than one season.
"Wow, Wanda the Witch is weird!"
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in some areas in was on commercal stations in the drist year it was on wpix channel 11 go figure that one
Wow Wanda the Witch is weird...whoaa...
I guess this was meant to be a pitch or something
Preview
I’m way too old to watch Sesame Street
Or maybe it's gotten too young to watch us.
@@MonsterpieceTheatre I’m 14 now
@@MonsterpieceTheatre I only Watch PG-13 And TV-14, Rated-R And TV-MA Movies And TV Shows
And one day, you'll be way too old for that as well.
I call this episode S1 E0
i call the test episodes season 0.
How come this was carried by NBC instead of NET?
drugs? drugs.
For a kid like me that was born in the year 2010 and grew up with this show... this was really cool to watch.
But i felt so bad for ernie cuz he didn't want the preview show to be over yet i think he wanted more time he really didnt care for the credits like me ofc.
Anyway ...Great video.
Big Bird was drunk
Sure seemed that way.
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Bert: Explosions
Dino Ignacio: That's enough proof that Bert is evil