Sesame Street
Wing in a Sling
TV Flash files “Wing in a Sling” as hour 4205 of 4662 in the TV Flash guide — Sesame Street (1969–) on NET/PBS, season 40, episode 20, aired 2010-01-19, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S40E20: listed hour 4205 of 4662 in the Sesame Street guide, hour 20 of 26 in season 40. It aired 2010-01-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Inspected By 4” (S40E19). Next is “The Planet G” (S40E21). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Wing in a Sling sit in the Sesame Street guide?
S40E20 is listed hour 4205 of 4662 — hour 20 of 26 in season 40, season 40 episode 20.
When did Sesame Street S40E20 air?
Wing in a Sling aired 2010-01-19 and is listed at 60 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…