Sesame Street Premiered Date, Network, Genre, Cast

Premiered Date

November 10, 1969

Genre

Comedy

Network

PBS

Cast

Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Caroll Spinney, Kevin Clash, Jerry Nelson, Bob McGrath, Sonia Manzano, Fran Brill, Emilio Delgado, Martin P. Robinson, Loretta Long

1936-1990

Jim Henson

as Ernie

Frank Oz

as Bert

1933-2019

Caroll Spinney

as Big Bird

Kevin Clash

as Elmo

1934-2012

Jerry Nelson

as Two-Headed Monster

Bob McGrath

as Bob

Sonia Manzano

as Maria

Fran Brill

as Prairire Dawn

1940-2022

Emilio Delgado

as Luis

Martin P. Robinson

as Telly Monster

Loretta Long

as Susan

About Sesame Street

About

Long-running children's show about the human and puppet inhabitants of an inner city street. The show ran on PBS until it switched over to HBO in 2016.

Trivia

The show aired over 4,000 episodes as of 2017. The series won its first Daytime Emmy Award in 1976 for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Children's Programming.