The show's ability to be there with us on sunny and cloudy days has made it a foundational piece of our lives for nearly six ...

NEW YORK – Most Americans born since the mid-1960s have a favorite “Sesame Street” skit. Jennifer Kotler Clarke watched hers on a black-and-white television set in her family’s Bronx apartment. There ...

"Sesame Street" writers design their shows to have those effects. From the start, the program rooted its scripts in an academic curriculum designed to help children — particularly low-income urban ...

Writer Tony Geiss, who helped “Sesame Street” win 22 daytime Emmys for scriptwriting and songwriting by means of the words he put in the mouths of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and Elmo, died on Jan. 21 ...

"It was thrilling for Robin Williams to be on the show," she says Sonia Manzano is remembering one of her favorite guest stars from her Sesame Street days: Robin Williams, who appeared on the show ...

There are not many shows on television that deserve to be called true American institutions but one of them is surely "Sesame Street." It's been on the air now for almost 50 years. When "Sesame Street ...

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 ...

Associated Press files Muppet character Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a 2008 taping of the children's program "Sesame Street" in New York. NEW YORK — Most Americans born since ...

Writer Tony Geiss, who helped “Sesame Street” win 22 daytime Emmys for scriptwriting and songwriting by means of the words he put in the mouths of Kermit the Frog, Big Bird and Elmo, died on Jan. 21 ...

NEW YORK — Most Americans born since the mid-1960s have a favorite “Sesame Street” skit. Jennifer Kotler Clarke watched hers on a black-and-white television set in her family’s Bronx apartment. There ...