• Gerald S. Lesser wrote Children and Television in 1974 to defend Sesame Street against its critics?
• according to Street Gang, a discussion at a dinner party, hosted by Joan Ganz Cooney in 1966, led to the creation of the children's television show, Sesame Street?
• of the hundreds of Sesame Street picture books illustrated, Ernie's Work of Art is one of the few with voice bubbles?
• Sesame Beginnings was spun-off the long-running Sesame Street, and is designed to increase family interactivity?
• C is for Cookie is a song by Joe Raposo, first performed on Sesame Street by Cookie Monster on March 28, 1972?
• Slimey the Worm is the smallest character on Sesame Street?
• Sesame Street's street scenes were centred around the fictional African-American Robinson family in early seasons, before the Muppets took on an increased role?
• children in a test audience for Sesame Street’s episode Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce were so distressed by the show that producers declined to air it?

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• Irwin Rosten's 1975 documentary The Incredible Machine, which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?
• Robert Kenner won an Emmy in 2006 for producing and directing the Vietnam War documentary "Two Days in October" for the PBS television program American Experience?
• guests on the American PBS television series Soul! (1967–1971) included Stevie Wonder, African musician Hugh Masekela, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan?