The bits where Kermit does news reports about things like the 3 Little Pigs, and also 'Supergrover'. There was a hell of a lot of good stuff in Sesame Street, and it's only really been marketed over here in the last 5 years, which is a pity. I think it's often underestimated how popular it is in the UK.

> There was a hell of a lot of good stuff in Sesame Street, and it's only really been marketed over here in the last 5 years, which is a pity. I think it's often underestimated how popular it is in the UK.

I grew up in Wales, and HTV was one of only about three ITV regions that screened it for years, apparently (LWT was one of the others, from 1971), so that might explain why marketing it took time. I don't think it got networked prior to Channel 4 buying the series in 1987.

Sesame Street might be the very first programme I remember loving on TV (Vision On must have been about the same time, though), and it was certainly the first one I really laughed at. On the rare occasions I've seen it in recent years, it hasn't lost its sparkle. And the Muppet bits are still very very funny.

I really loved this - I think it is one of the coolest kids shows ever. The trumpet guy was a masterpiece, and the animations were great too - remember the pinball machine? "1-2-3-4-5, 6-7-8-9-10, 11, 12!"

And the chef with all the pies falling down stairs? Fantastic!

>And the chef with all the pies falling down stairs? Fantastic!


Who do you think that was, then?




Anyone?


























The late, great Jim Henson. Fact!

(There's proof that, despite his hatred of Frank Spencer, Al does not necessarily hate slapstick. Am I right, Al?!)

>The late, great Jim Henson. Fact!
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>(There's proof that, despite his hatred of Frank Spencer, Al does not necessarily hate slapstick. Am I right, Al?!)

It was his world weary look at the end that did it for me. And the fact that he sung a line about different, highly complex desserts every week even though they were clearly the same ones.

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>It was his world weary look at the end that did it for me. And the fact that he sung a line about different, highly complex desserts every week even though they were clearly the same ones.

There'd be good reason for that wearied expression - apparently they filmed them (like R Herring's milk sketches) in one day.

I remember watching it when I was quite young, so Tyne Tees or YTV must have had the rights to it too.

Cookie Monster is fantastic, and I absolutely adored Big Bird and Snuffy. I was a tad scared of Oscar the Grouch, but I do remember being chuffed every time he told one of those horrid stage school kids to get lost. CTW should sue the Beeb too IMO 'cos that dog on The Tweenies is a dead ringer for Barkley, the Sesame Street dog.

Oh that pinball sequence....they don't make kids TV like they used to. There's not one British kids show that can touch Sesame Street. Playschool was too patronising and middle class, but Rainbow was at the opposite end of the spectrum, and was very plebby.

Oh! I forgot 'The Count'! Always trying to count different things to help him get to sleep because of his insomnia!


My only gripe about Sesame Street was that it was always the same dozen episodes shown in rotation. Still the same apparently, but with a more recent 12 doing the rounds.

What about Mary, Mungo and Midge - the definitive socialist kids show set atop a block of council flats.

"Do you live in a town?" In a nation that force feeds its kids with the countryside idyll (Beatrix Potter, enid Blyton etc.) this was a real joy for me as a little boy.

>Oh! I forgot 'The Count'! Always trying to count different things to help him get to sleep because of his insomnia!
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I think I reached adulthood before I discovered that his full name was Count Von Count.

Oh yes, and the TV parodies. What about:

Monsterpiece Theatre with Alistair Cookie
"Twin Beaks"
"Here Is Your Life"
"Upstairs Downstairs" (Grover goes up and down some stairs until....oh, you guessed.)

Peerless, every last one.

Don't remember that, but I'm only 22. I did enjoy you and me, but probably cos I had some sort of kiddie crush on Cosmo and Dibs!!

>What about Mary, Mungo and Midge - the definitive socialist kids show set atop a block of council flats.
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The narrator was 9 O Clock News presenter Richard Baker, who also did Teddy Edward. (Sorry, Suiii, this is early 70s kids stuff!) Can you imagine Huw Edwards doing Bob The Builder or whatever? Of course not.

Ah well I am an old man (30 next week!) And yes The Count. Double yes - Twin Beaks - one of the funniest things ever on kids TV. Sesame Street - we salute you.
<raises virtual hat - throws in air>

I have a mate at work who looks like the Count. True he doesn'y have purple skin, but apart from that... ya, ha, ha!

<throws baseball cap to the skies>

"Bob The Builder, can you fix it?"

Hmmm, not exactly genius is it??

And to think, Sesame Street started off as a programme broadcast only on a private schools only cable network in the US, primarily to sell the products advertised during it's ad breaks. Amazing.

Timeless.

Didn't one of the SSt presenters get busted for drugs a few years back?

It was Elmo.

Do you remember Mr Cooper?


"Hooper! It's Hooper!"

Interesting Sesame Street episode when they had to explain to Big Bird that Mr Hooper had died. Most tragic '
70s death of all.

(Yes, I'm old)

Sooooooper Grover!
Surely the most wonderful of all Sesame Street characters?

Big Bird and Snuffy were/are boring.


Doo doo do do doo - mna mna.

kermit: "hello and welcome everyone! this was the show voted best of all shows hosted by a frog!"

I think that was Muppets Tonight, but both that and Sesame Street were fantastic.

I still laugh when remembering Ernie looking for a crayon franticly, he grabs a phone and shouts down it "hello? seen a crayon?" and throws it away. Still funny after all this time.

oh, and I remember the pinball animation.

I'm suprised no one on this thread has mentioned what is probably the best Seasame Street sketch - the one where this blue guy goes to a resteraunt where Grover is a waiter but something always goes wrong. They were absoloutely fantastic, and the skits are still running, I think (been going for at least 10 years).