Who was the original executive producer of the children's television series, produced by Sesame Workshop and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett?
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David Connell (television producer) David Connell (1931–1995) was the original executive producer for "Sesame Street", and Children's Television Workshop's vice-president in charge of production. Connell, who had been a producer for the CBS children's program "Captain Kangaroo", played a key role in establishing the basic format of the "street" skits. He was also the principal creative behind The Man from Alphabet, a series of live action skits starring Gary Owens which failed in child tests and were never aired on "Sesame Street". Connell received his B.A. in 1955 and his M.A. in 1956, both from the University of Michigan.
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Sesame Street Sesame Street is a long-running American children's television series, produced by Sesame Workshop (formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop) and created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. The program is known for its educational content, and images communicated through the use of Jim Henson's Muppets, animation, short films, humor, and cultural references. The series premiered on November 10, 1969, to positive reviews, some controversy, and high viewership; it has aired on the U.S.'s national public television provider (PBS) since its debut, with its first run moving to premium channel HBO on January 16, 2016.
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Sherrie Rollins Westin Sherrie Rollins Westin is Executive Vice President for Global Impact and Philanthropy at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street. Westin oversees the Workshop’s programs addressing the needs of children from India to South Africa to the United States, providing early education through mass media and targeted initiatives.
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Loretta Long Loretta Mae Long ("née" Moore) (born June 3, 1940) is an African American actress, singer, media personality, and educator, best known for playing Susan Robinson on "Sesame Street", having starred on the show since its debut in 1969.
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Sesame Beginnings Sesame Beginnings is a line of products and a video series, spun off the children's television series "123 Sesame Street". The line is targeted towards infants and their parents, and products are designed to increase family interactivity.
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Goodtime Girls Goodtime Girls is an American sitcom which ran on ABC from January 22, 1980 until August 29, 1980. It was created by Leonora Thuna, and produced by Thomas L. Miller, Edward K. Milkis and Robert L. Boyett, in association with Garry Marshall's Henderson Productions and Paramount Television. It is a period piece comedy set during World War II, which was the producers' 1940s answer to their top 1950s-themed hits "Happy Days" and "Laverne & Shirley".
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Dulcy Singer Dulcy Singer served as an American television producer for "Christmas Eve on Sesame Street" in 1978 and as executive producer for "Sesame Street" from 1982-1995.
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Claster Television Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bert and Nancy Claster as Romper Room Inc. It was originally a producer of the children's show "Romper Room". "Romper Room" was one of the first pre-schoolchildren's programs, predating "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "Sesame Street", and "Barney & Friends".
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Michael Jacobs (producer) Michael Jacobs (born June 28, 1955) is an American television creator, writer and producer whose work has appeared on Broadway, Off Broadway, television and film. He is the creator/producer or has written and developed several television series including "Boy Meets World", "Dinosaurs", "Charles in Charge", "My Two Dads", "The Torkelsons" and "Girl Meets World". His television shows have won the Emmy, People's Choice, Parent's Choice, Environmental Media Awards, and more.
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Oobi (TV series) Oobi is an American children's television series created by Josh Selig of Little Airplane Productions. It began as a series of shorts commissioned by the Noggin network during a three-year period in which all of the channel's programming was co-produced by Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop. Full-length episodes of the show began airing on April 7, 2003, and the series ended its run on February 11, 2005.
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Noggin (brand) Noggin is a British-American entertainment brand, launched on February 2, 1999 as a joint venture between Viacom and Sesame Workshop. The Jim Henson Company also held a stake in the company when it was founded. Noggin was initially advertised as both a linear television network and a website. The brand has since expanded to include three mobile subscription services, a second website, and four defunct programming blocks worldwide. It was initially aimed at a pre-teen audience and shifted its target demographic to preschool-aged children in April 2002.
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Sesame Place Sesame Place is a children's theme park, located on the outskirts of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based on the "Sesame Street" television program. It includes a variety of rides, shows, and water attractions suited to young children. It is one of 11 parks owned and operated by SeaWorld Entertainment with a license from Sesame Workshop (formerly known as Children's Television Workshop).
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The Electric Company (2009 TV series) The Electric Company is an American television series for young children ages 6 to 9 on PBS, derived from the 1971 series, and which has the same Alphakids from that series. The series premiered as a four-episode mini-marathon on PBS on January 23, 2009, then became a weekly series with an episode shown each Friday. On September 7, 2009, it became a daily series. Like the original, this version was produced by Sesame Workshop. The last new episode aired on April 4, 2011. A fourth season was planned, but the show was canceled before it went into production. Subsequent showings were reruns. The series was sometimes referred to as The New Electric Company to distinguish it from the 1970s series. It aired on PBS Kids Go! from 2009 to 2013.
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Muppet Babies Jim Henson's Muppet Babies, commonly known by the shortened title Muppet Babies, is an American animated television series that aired from September 15, 1984 to November 2, 1991 on CBS. The show portrays childhood versions of the Muppets living together in a nursery under the care of a human woman called Nanny. Nanny appears in almost every episode, but her face is never visible, only the babies' view of her pink skirt, purple sweater, and distinctive green and white striped socks is shown. The idea of presenting the Muppets as children first appeared in a dream sequence in "The Muppets Take Manhattan" (1984), released two months before "Muppet Babies" debuted, in which Miss Piggy imagined what it would be like if she and Kermit the Frog had grown up together.
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Sesame Street international co-productions "Sesame Street" international co-productions are educational children's television series based on the American "Sesame Street" but tailored to the countries in which they are produced. Shortly after the debut of "Sesame Street" in the United States in 1969, television producers, teachers, and officials of several countries approached the show's producers and the executives of Sesame Workshop (2000-present) about the possibility of airing international versions of "Sesame Street". Creator Joan Ganz Cooney hired former CBS executive Michael Dann to field offers to produce versions of the show in other countries.
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Vegetable Soup (TV series) Vegetable Soup is an American educational children's television program produced by the New York State Education Department that originally ran on PBS from September 22, 1975 to December 14, 1978. (NBC concurrently broadcast the series on Sunday mornings, with at least some affiliates showing it along with NBC's regular Saturday morning cartoon lineup; this was a rare instance of a television program seen on both commercial and public television at the same time.)
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Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street? "Can You Tell Me How to Get to Sesame Street?" is the theme song of the children's television series "Sesame Street". It is the oldest song in "Sesame Street's" history, dating back to the show's very beginning on July 21, 1969.
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Bert (Sesame Street) Bert is a yellow Muppet character on the long-running children's television show, "Sesame Street". Bert was originally performed by Frank Oz. Since 1997, Muppeteer Eric Jacobson has been phased in as Bert's primary performer, like Grover, although Frank Oz still performs Bert occasionally. Bert has also made cameo appearances within "The Muppets" franchise, including "The Muppet Show", "The Muppet Movie", and "The Muppets Take Manhattan".
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The Space Kidettes The Space Kidettes is an American Saturday morning cartoon produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, originally airing on NBC during the 1966-67 season.
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Supercar (TV series) Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis' AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. Thirty-nine episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication (the first Anderson series to be shown overseas) debuting in January 1962. The series uses Supermarionation, based on the complex and difficult Czech style of marionette puppetry. The creation of the show was credited to Gerry Anderson and Reg Hill, but it incorporates elements of "Beaker's Bureau", a series proposed to the BBC by Hugh Woodhouse that was never produced. Anderson would later claim that the whole point of having a series based on a vehicle was to minimize having to show the marionettes walking, an action which he felt never looked convincing.
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List of human Sesame Street characters Since the premiere of the children's television program "Sesame Street" on November 10, 1969, it has included what writer Malcolm Gladwell has called "the essence of "Sesame Street"—the artful blend of fluffy monsters and earnest adults". The original cast, chosen by original producer Jon Stone, consisted of four human actors—Matt Robinson, who played Gordon; Loretta Long, who played Gordon's wife, Susan; Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper; and Bob McGrath, who played Bob. Unlike most children's television programs at the time, the producers of "Sesame Street" decided against using a single host and cast a group of ethnically diverse, primarily African American actors/presenters, with, as "Sesame Street" researcher Gerald S. Lesser put it, "a variety of distinctive and reliable personalities".
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Corymore Productions Corymore Productions is an American television production company that was created and founded in 1987 by producer Peter Shaw, the late husband of actress Angela Lansbury.