Entertaining and educating children on television for almost 50 years, the residents of "Sesame Street" have become household names. There's Big Bird, Abby Cadabby, and Oscar the Grouch. Some, like ...

Few pop culture success stories have been analyzed as thoroughly as that of Jim Henson and The Muppet Show, tracking a long, frequently unbelievable path from early stage shows, to talk show favorites ...

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...

Apart from the giant yellow bird, the red furry monster and the blue Muppet with an insatiable appetite for cookies, “Sesame Street” appears as real as the New York City streets that inspired it.