Season 17

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Max Sterling · Streaming Confidential

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.

TV Flash files Season 17 of Sesame Street (1969–) on NET/PBS as a mid listed season (17; 17 of 56) — 130 listed hours, 1985-11-18–1986-05-16 from “Episode 2096” (S17E01) to “Episode 2225” (S17E130). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.