TSSR- Season 3 (1971-1972)
Season 3. This was the season where Sesame Street started to pick up the slack in terms of being an educational and entertaining show for kids. It’s the season that introduced certain character and status quo changes that would become huge staples of the show as it continued. And it’s the season that started to redefine just how far the show was willing to go to teach lessons to its audience. As you can imagine, those were all quite huge tasks, so just how did the Children’s Television Workshop manage to pull it off? Let’s jump in and find out. Production History Don’t really have much to say here. Not a lot of changes happened with the production history of this season, and I can’t locate any production dates. But, the season debuted on November 15, 1971, and ended on May 12 of the next year. Also, here’s a fun fact. Since Big Bird and Oscar were really the only characters Caroll Spinney was performing, and since they didn’t really make that many appearances off of the street ye...