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Sesame Street (1969)

  • Comedy
  • Kids
  • 54 min episodes
  • 56 seasons
  • AL age guide
  • ★ 7.1/10 from 293 ratings

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

Created byLloyd Morrisett, Joan Ganz Cooney, Jim Henson

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  1. 01

    The Muppet Show

    Same creator

    1976 · 26 min · Comedy · Family

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    Go behind the curtains as Kermit the Frog and his muppet friends struggle to put on a weekly variety show.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same creator
    • several principal cast members
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  2. 02

    Fraggle Rock

    Same creator

    1983 · 30 min · Comedy · Family · Kids · Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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    The Fraggles are a fun-loving community of creatures who live in a subterranean fantasy land where they love to play, sing and dance their cares away, sharing their world with the tiny Doozers and the giant Gorgs. The series teaches empathy and tolerance and encourages children to understand people different from themselves.

    Why it connects

    • the same creator
    • principal cast overlap
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  3. 03

    Muppet Babies

    Same creator

    1984 · 25 min · Animation · Kids

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    The Muppet Babies (Kermit, Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzy and company) live in a large nursery watched over by Nanny. The babies have active imaginations, and often embark upon adventures into imaginary worlds.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same creator
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  4. 04

    Rainbow

    Similar atmosphere

    1972 · 20 min · Comedy · Kids

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    Children's puppet programme featuring music and stories. Join George, Bungle, Zippy, and all their friends at the Rainbow House, always an exciting place to be.

    Why it connects

    • strong genre and series-style overlap
    • shared themes: educational and puppet
    • a closely matched era
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  5. 06

    Reading Rainbow

    Genre overlap

    1983 · 30 min · Kids

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    Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
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  6. 07

    Sesamstraße

    Same creator

    1975 · 30 min · Comedy · Family · Kids

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    Sesamstraße is the German-language version of Sesame Street, a children's television series. It airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking countries. The show premièred on 8 January 1973, Sesamstraße has been running on Norddeutscher Rundfunk since 1973; it's now in its 40th season. Sesamstraße is also broadcast on Das Erste and KiKa.

    Why it connects

    • the same creator
    • strong genre and series-style overlap
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  7. 08

    Rugrats

    Genre overlap

    1991 · Animation · Comedy · Family · Kids

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    Focuses on a group of toddlers, most prominently Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, and Angelica, and their day-to-day lives, usually involving common life experiences that become adventures in the babies' imaginations. Adults in the series are almost always unaware of what the children are up to; however, this only provides more room for the babies to explore and discover their surroundings.

    Why it connects

    • substantial genre overlap
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  8. 09

    5, Rue Sésame

    Same creator

    2005 · 26 min

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    5, Rue Sésame is a French language children's television series based on the popular U.S. children's show Sesame Street, aired by France 5. This series is the second Sesame Workshop co-production for France, the first being 1, rue Sesame. Seventy-five 26-minute-long episodes were created for the first season, directed by François Basset and Jul Mallard. The series is produced for France 5 by Expand-Drama with Sesame Workshop. Executive producer of the series is Georges Campana. The show debuted airing daily, Sunday to Friday at 6:30 am, and Saturdays at 7:00 am and 12:30 pm. Terry Fitzpatrick, Sesame Workshop's executive VP for distribution:

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    • the same creator
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