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TSSR- Season 9 (1977-1978)

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  Hi, everyone! Welcome back to the Sesame Street Retrospective! Where we’re just trucking along from one awesome season to another. This time we’re tackling season 9. I gotta say revisiting this era of the show has been a very wild and pleasing experience, and season 9 was no different. A lot of really fun stories and bits spawned in this era, and I can’t wait to talk about them, so let’s jump right into it. Production History Sixth verse, same as the first. The Children’s Television Workshop crew came back to their studio in Teletape to film episodes for the new season, and not a lot changed while doing so. …But then, in the summer from July to August, the street gang headed off to the Hawaiian island of Kauai for another multi-episode story arc about them going to visit Buffy in her new home, which again, I will talk about in the next section. But before that, really quickly, I’d like to say that season 9 debuted on November 28, 1977, and ended on May 26, 1978. Overview To be honest
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TSSR- Season 8 (1976-1977)

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  Oh boy. Season 8. I was really looking forward to covering this season because I already knew how awesome it was prior to starting this retrospective. It has some of the best bits, some of the best street stories, and it felt like a different experience when I was watching episodes of it for the first time. And re-visiting it for this retrospective has only made me love it more. Also, after season 1, season 8 is probably the season with the most content I’ve had to watch so far. So strap yourselves in, because we’ve got a LOT of ground to cover. Production History Once again, filming a new season was business as usual for the Children’s Television Workshop, and nothing really noteworthy happened while making the eighth season of the show. Except for one thing. While Sesame Street was incredibly progressive, especially for its time, at this point, it was still getting a bit of flack for really having only two girls among its main cast, so to remedy this, the show decided to put more f
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