Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After premiering for the first time in 1969, the beloved children’s show “Sesame Street” soon found itself at the center of a ...

In 1970, an obscure magazine printed by the U.S. government for distribution in the Soviet Union, called Amerika, commissioned New York City-based photographer David Attie to shoot behind-the-scenes ...

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...

50 Years of Sunny Days on ‘Sesame Street’: Behind the Scenes of TV’s Most Influential Show Ever As Sesame Street celebrates being on-air for five decades, its producers offer extraordinary access ...

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...

The revolution will be televised — on a kids’ show, no less, according to a new documentary. “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street,” in select theaters nationwide on Friday and inspired by a ...

The show is one of the longest-running shows on television in the U.S. The only shows running longer are daytime soap operas like General Hospital and Days of Our Lives, which both have more than 50 ...