Sesame Street
Elmo Runs the Race
TV Flash files “Elmo Runs the Race” as the first listed hour of season 55 — Sesame Street (1969–) on NET/PBS, season 55, episode 1, aired 2025-11-10, 31 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S55E01: listed hour 4658 of 4662 in the Sesame Street guide, first listed hour of season 55. It aired 2025-11-10 (31 min). The listed hour before it is “Prairie Dawn's Cookie Party” (S54E35). Next is “Cookie Monster's Big Puzzle” (S55E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
The Sesame Street Races are about to begin! The winner will get a sparkly gold medal, but Elmo's so excited he forgets to fuel up with healthy food.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Elmo Runs the Race sit in the Sesame Street guide?
S55E01 is listed hour 4658 of 4662 — first listed hour of season 55, season 55 episode 1.
When did Sesame Street S55E01 air?
Elmo Runs the Race aired 2025-11-10 and is listed at 31 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.
In the series
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…