This Way to Sesame Street (complete) 

I started watching SS in 1976 when I was a new baby! I grew up with this show! Watching Sesame Street enabled me to read by the time I went to kindergarten. This show has made me laugh, cry, scared me, and helped show me the power of television to teach.

If Jim Henson were still with us,he'd been happy to know that "Sesame Street" is still going strong 50 years later.

Who had the heart to dislike this video? It's adorable! We need more of this kind of innocence in this world!

Oh man, I remember seeing the one and only broadcast of this on early evening television when I was four!

Thanks so much for uploading.I started watching SS in 1970 as a 5 year old and this brought back many happy memories!

Thank you so much for posting this! I am reading "Street Gang" by Michael Davis, the story of how Sesame Street came to be, and it is fascinating to see how this group of people came together to produce something so special. I was born in 1967, so this show was created for me and some of my best preschool memories are of me and my mum watching Sesame Street.

I was born in 1973. Lots of those cartoons, skits, and songs were still being used when I watched Sesame Street. In the late 90s I even heard some of my younger cousins singing them.

Lol. "Nobody cares about the executive producer" hilarious

This is so wonderful. All of this was people made. No computers no digital anything and the creativity shows

Explosions? Roller derby? What WERE you thinking, Bert?!

Sesame Street was my serious escape! Thank you for this escape for me in my 66 years. Still works for me!❤❤❤❤❤

It goes without saying that there was something unique about the early years of SS - partly due to Jim Henson’s involvement and partly due to the late 60s/early 70s vibe - that is impossible to replicate.

Good one! Amazing how a lot of these classic clips were made before the show even started!

Thank you so much to the person who uploaded. The ending with Ernie was priceless. Lol

It was my 5th birthday on November 10, 1969, the day S.S. premiered!

Thanks so much for posting this! Where did you find it? My young daughter recently discovered Sesame Street just in time for the 50th anniversary, and it's brought up a lot of nostalgia in me, having watched the show myself over 30 years ago. I've been very curious about the history of the show, and I was just listening to the audiobook of "Street Gang" (read by Caroll Spinney, RIP), a history of Sesame Street, when it mentioned this preview special. I was amazed to find it on RU-vid! Thanks again.

Sally is Holly Robinson. Gordon is her real life father

Thank you so very much for uploading this gem!

This is so cool to see. Thanks so much for sharing!

Excellent graphics for 1969

Brings back memories of TVZ here in Zambia in the 70s..

the very old sesame street back then big bird has some feathers and Oscar was orange

It's funny hearing Ernie suggest that they make sesame street a half hour longer. Back in 2016 they made it a half hour shorter

Poor ernie he didn't like that fact that Sesame Street didn't show a lot of stuff but then they could show it the next week some of the older episodes of Sesame Street I watched it when I was a little girl well I'm nearly 32 now I'm from Australia and thank u!!!!

I've never had the luxury to watch Sesame Street when i was little, so now that im older i want to watch it, though the streaming programs dont have all the seasons, thank you for uploading this, youve really done me wonders

I still say Zee instead of Zed now. And I'm British. Thanks Sesame Street.

This is a great way to celebrate sesame street's 50th birthday by making a tribute to the original actor for big bird (Carrol Spinney) isn't it?

Thanks for posting this. 4:57 and 6:53 were two of my favorites growing up. And wanda the witch.

i grew up with Sesame Street :)

I'd love it...I grew up with this show from the beginning :)

I- I used to watch this when I was 1 all the to 7!!

7! 7! 7! Seven-Seven-Seven! The answer is Seveeeeeennnnnn!

That guy counting down looks like Nixon

Sneak Preview of Sesame Street. Premiering on PBS November 10, 1969.

22:08 Listen, you... IIIIIII've had enough of that

I love the classic Sesame Street episodes!

awesome preview

Ah, when TV was good! Sweet, sweet childhood!

@ 10:50 a distant relative of the guy with the beady eyes and big blue head from the restaurant shorts with Grover?

That "This Way to Sesame Street" was NOT the pilot episode of "Sesame Street", but still, they went on the air for THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING on the Children's Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) on N-E-T (now PBS) in 1969, it was the second part of the episode from November 8, 1969, the first one was the pilot episode of "Sesame Street" was from July 21, 1969.

Did you guys know that Sesame St "old school" is listed for adults only? This is how screwed up our world has become. I started watching Sesame St about 1972 (I was born the same year SS debuted) and now what I grew up watching is considered for adults only? I used to love the guy with the pies who would drop them.

Why do I feel like this is what Nickelodean should've done with the first three Nicktoons when they aired them in 1991 with Ren and Stimpy as the hosts

The rarest classic.

The idea of Sesame Street being a new series that has to be promoted and explained is a strange concept to me XD It makes sense. Of course it had to be but it's such a huge staple of children's entertainment now that it's hard to imagine

They did the same thing for The Electric Company.

its on here

The Song Of Ten segments are what I remember the fondest.

2:25 that’s so cute!!

Who cares who wrote this thing. Hilarious ending.

6:31 - Ernie making reference to the end of the first regular episode where he cries about those numbers.

Bob's in his 80's now.

This is Sesame Street 😊❤🎉

thanks for sharing :)

That was funny Bert said to Ernie "Hey hey no you Ding a ling"

I want to find the episode where Oscar takes a picture of Susan sneezing a bundle of papers out of her arms.

Sesame Street is the genesis of all childhood educational shows! If only most people didn't take advantage of those of what Sesame Street started.

+ JsHalom65 This episode aired on TV on November 8, 1969

Jim Henson cracks up at 2:05.

i was born on 2007 so sesame street is 39 when i am born

24:43 Poor Danny (Seagren)

Pre dates PBS as seen in the closing comments. Sesame Street began in 1969 when Public Broadcasting was named ( NET ) National Educational Television.

Don't lie, you watched this show too when you was a kid once.

Probably so that the series would get more exposure before it premiered.

These early animated shorts were really creative. (TRIPPY, for sure, but still creative.) Can't imagine getting away with some of this stuff nowadays. I mean, OMG. There were two cowboy characters with TOY GUNS in the one short. OH NOES. (Hey, I grew up watching this stuff and *I* turned out ok. LOL.)

Happy 50th Anniversary Sesame Street

The Silicon Valley was the birthplace of Sesame Street as XEROX sponsored the show.

Where did you find this?

How did the spaceship fall at 0:13? Was there redstone connecting the 2 together?

COULD YOU WOULD YOU UNPLOD SESAME STREET SEASON 1 IN 1969-1970 EPISODES PLEASE THANKS ALOT

cool

There are my shoes!!!

Dejavu! I can't believe how I've gotten old. The moment I saw this haha :)

hello, do you know where i could find a video of sesame street with alanis obomsawin ?

13:57 big bird. Are you ok? Do you need more feathers?

This aired 11-8-69, two days before the show officially premiered.

"Wow, Wanda the Witch is weird!"

Can we smoke some pot for the e cartoon at 514

23:08 Are Program Guides for Sesame Street still available?

gosh Dr. James E. Allen, Jr. is charisma incarnate. That sure was a different era, hiring someone who can do a job, not necessarily know how to talk to the media.

1:59 - 2:17 I had no idea Bert was that cute back then

7:40 Vegas Lights PATD!

Jim Henson was the best

Big Bird smoked too much Seven before saluting Sally!

💓👍👍

"Who cares who wrote this thing?" Did Jon Stone really put that in the script?

in some areas in was on commercal stations in the drist year it was on wpix channel 11 go figure that one

Bert: Explosions Dino Ignacio: That's enough proof that Bert is evil

larger audience

Some of The Muppets in the video would eventually become Cookie Monster, Betty Lou and Little Jerry & The Monotones, some just AM's and others won't last longer than one season.

14:35 Big Bird - I nearly laid an egg right here on Sesame Street.

60s humor

I remember watching this when i was like 5 or 6 im now 13

59 and still enjoy this im a wack job

I call this episode S1 E0

For a kid like me that was born in the year 2010 and grew up with this show... this was really cool to watch. But i felt so bad for ernie cuz he didn't want the preview show to be over yet i think he wanted more time he really didnt care for the credits like me ofc. Anyway ...Great video.

The ending sence where ernie wants to show more but bert tells him that they've run out of time makes me feel like overall they did want to show more then what they showed in this in a half a hour no less but regardless of that I love the idea of bert and erine not being on TV untill the show premiered next week it's the little things like that make me really appreciate the uquinqeness and creativity that Sesame Street had when it was a new show at the time granted while I did watch the show when I was little I wasn't around when it came out in 1969 I started watching the show right when I was born in 2003 so in other words I was born during the more modern era of the show witch wasn't a bad thing but I always wondered what the show was like when it first came out and now thanks to RU-vid that dream eventually became a reality and I'm very much thankful for it

I guess this was meant to be a pitch or something

drugs? drugs.

1:19

Wow Wanda the Witch is weird...whoaa...