To those who question the value of Twitter, I finally have a retort: this tweet led me to the invaluable (seriously, you try to put a value on this) discovery that someone has posted the extended Friday end credits from many (most? all?) seasons of Sesame Street on YouTube.
It certainly takes me back, and is also a helpful tool to identify the year when you watched the most Sesame Street. OK, maybe most people weren’t as obsessed with this show as kids as I was, but… well… I was. I watched it three to four times a day. Seriously. Even once I was in school, I’d get in at least an episode and a half before or after school up until probably about third grade. (Yeah, having an Atari is probably what killed it.)
Watching these clips, I’ve determined, not too surprisingly, that it was season 9, 1977-1978, when I watched it the most. I turned 4 during that season. I do remember the credits from the next few seasons after that, but this one is most firmly etched into my mind:
Here’s a handy guide to the first ten seasons:
- Season 1 (1969-1970)
- Season 2 (1970-1971)
- Season 3 (1971-1972)
- Season 4 (1972-1973) [not available]
- Season 5 (1973-1974) [not available]
- Season 6 (1974-1975)
- Season 7 (1975-1976)
- Season 8 (1976-1977)
- Season 9 (1977-1978)
- Season 10 (1978-1979)