Poll: Who grew up with PBS in their childhood like myself?

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I don't know any program that gave Muppets renown fame before Sesame Street. So the show had to be the first to really utilize them, in my opinion. Long before the Muppet Show, and all of the Muppet Movies. So when Jim Henson passed away, it did really put the show at a crossroads. Since the innovator of the programs most important feature was gone as well the voice of many of the characters, where does the show go now?

Oh, and Bert and Ernie were never gay. They just had a heart-warming relationship. They were openly faithful to each other.

Actually I'm an Elmo fan and so are my two children and they seem to learn a fair bit from just Elmo's segment alone. It addresses much younger children than the other parts of Sesame Street does so it doesn't leave out babies and toddlers that don't quite understand alphabet and letters and all. You have to remember Elmo was introduced in 1984... he was intended to be a 3 1/2 yr old monster, that is why kids relate better especially in baby/toddler years to the character than likely to a lot of the other characters. He is essentially on their peer level. His level of communication is easier for them to adapt to. I wouldn't say Elmo started the fall of Sesame Street. There are many other factors... they didn't upgrade as well with each generation unfortunately either. There are cartoon segments on there that date back to when I was like 5 or 6 yrs old... I'm going on 32. I think the issue is what may have also worked when I was a child with kids, doesn't with the newer generations and in some ways, you can't keep something the same and expect a newer generation to adopt it and all like it's the greatest thing when there are shows like "Blue's Clues" and all that are more up to date and all.

Heck yeah! That was my absolute favourite episode of the entire show! It was amazing how they went behind the scenes and showed everyone how they did some of the simpler special effects and all of that, as well as how many times they had to shoot the scenes to get all the camera angles just right. If you were wondering, I saw it with my younger brother sometime this summer, so that's how I remember all the random details.

Yeah, I remember the early episodes from when I was a kid. I could tell them apart because of the different-looking model neighborhood, the walls inside being painted beige instead of blue, and the different closing song ("Tomorrow" instead of "Good Feeling"), but these didn't really freak me out or anything like that. In fact, I've become fascinated with the changes made over the years.

For the record, the show produced 65 episodes a year from 1969-75. Then in 1976, a week's worth of clip shows were produced, and the show then went out of production for three years. Then in 1979, they started producing new episodes again, but not at the same rate. Eventually there were enough new episodes for them to start gradually phasing out older shows year by year. The last of the "pre-79" shows were phased out in 1994 or 1995, I believe.

But yeah, I see no reason not to dust off these episodes again. After all, parents are going to have to explain to their kids sooner or later that Fred has passed away. And quite frankly, I'm not even sure if the differences over the years would even be that noticeable to most NT kids - I just happened to pay a lot of attention to them due to my Aspie mind. Furthermore, it's not like Fred didn't age between 1979 and 2001 (the last year of production), and other changes occured during that 22-year span as well.

I watched PBS around 7 or 8. I watched Sesame Street and Lamb Chop Play Along. Also my favorite at that time was Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. They were good learning tools for me at that time.

It's also not so surprising that Reading Rainbow did a feature Star Trek:TNG since RR's host, Levar Burton, was in the cast as Mr. LaForge. I thought the space eye frames seemed cool at first.

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Maybe you could try to get them into The Electric Company when the DVD comes out.

I've never seen the other shows you mentioned though (in fact, I've never even heard of Hot Fudge). Of course, I'm a child of the late 80s/early 90s.

yes i remember the pbs cartoon, my fav shows, lamb chops play along, mister rogers reading rainbow, shining time station and another show NOBODY mentioned, it was caled kidsongs, its a music video type show with kids running a studio

for those who dont remember:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGgQejjbIQ[/youtube]

^^^^^^ loved that show soo much when they took it off the air I CRIED!!

I used to watch Sesame Street and the Electric Company as a child. As an adult, I still enjoy Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat.