Sesame Street
Episode 1748
TV Flash files “Episode 1748” as hour 1747 of 4662 in the TV Flash guide — Sesame Street (1969–) on NET/PBS, season 14, episode 43, aired 1983-01-19, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S14E43: listed hour 1747 of 4662 in the Sesame Street guide, hour 43 of 130 in season 14. It aired 1983-01-19 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Episode 1747” (S14E42). Next is “Episode 1749” (S14E44). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Episode 1748 sit in the Sesame Street guide?
S14E43 is listed hour 1747 of 4662 — hour 43 of 130 in season 14, season 14 episode 43.
When did Sesame Street S14E43 air?
Episode 1748 aired 1983-01-19 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any classic street-and-Muppets hour shows the mix: live-action block, animation, Henson characters, letters and numbers with jokes. Early NET/PBS seasons are the civil-rights-era assignment; later years add franchise familiar faces.
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Why this series still plays
Sesame Street mixed Muppets, street scenes, and research-backed teaching into a 1969 public-TV project that treated kids as smart and cities as home. Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's Workshop put Big Bird, Oscar, Bert, and Ernie into daylight with jokes attached to letters. Still the template for how television can teach without condescending.
November 10, 1969, is a public-TV drop that treated kids as smart and cities as home. Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's Children's Television Workshop mixed Muppets, street scenes, and research-backed teaching into *Sesame Street* on NET, then PBS. Letters and numbers arrived with jokes; diversity was built into the block. Jim Henson and Frank Oz performed the Muppets. Carroll Spinney became Big Bird and Oscar. **Fifty-six seasons and 4,662 episodes** later, the street still has not closed. Rex can keep the…
Filed against
- Jim Henson as Muppet Performer / Creator
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- Frank Oz as Muppet Performer
Frank Oz’s Muppet performing made Sesame Street a daylight argument that kids were smart — 1960s catalog letters with jokes, then The Muppet Show stretching the felt into Piggy-adjacent vaudeville chaos. TV Flash files him as the right…
- Carroll Spinney as Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch
Carroll Spinney played Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street — Muppets, street scenes, research-backed teaching that treated kids as smart and cities as home. Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett's 1969 public-TV project, jokes…