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As the classic children's television program celebrates its 40th anniversary, the producers of Sesame Street talk about how the show has changed.

Notes on the day by the staff of The New Yorker.

Sesame Street's spoof of "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," in which the detectives hunt down a missing letter M. Recorded from WNET, Channel 13, in New York City. Characters and related content owned by Sesame Workshop; no infringement intended.

Before you are introduced to the characters from Sesame Street you are handed a list of rules and suggestions - the sort of thing you are given before meeting members of a royal family.

Sesame Street’s been around for a long time! Here’s a look at how we got started and what we’ve accomplished since.

Here is an Oscar classic from 1969...at least the song is. This '69 song was dubbed into a much later video of Oscar singing it. This song has been posted twice but this version has not. Special thanks to Sesame Street Workshop for allowing me to post this here. ...

This month, we’re devoting the entire show to a problem plaguing the nation – and the Mid-South in particular – infant mortality, when a baby dies before turning one year old.

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