TSSR- Season 7 (1975-1976)
Season 7. This is when the Sesame crew got taken to new heights they had never been taken to before: Presidential campaigns, banned episodes, Native Americans, and trips outside of their humble street set. How did all of these things affect the show and were any of them any good? Well, that’s what I plan to find out, as we get into this new installment. Production History For the Children’s Television Workshop, it was business as usual, with the same cast and crew getting together to film on the same old Teletape Studio street set in Manhattan. …Until the spring of 1975, that is, when they packed their film equipment and headed off to New Mexico's Rio Grande Valley to film Sesame Street’s first-ever multi-episode story arc that WASN’T about snow, which was about Luis taking his friends with him to visit his family in New Mexico. I’ll talk about that in the next section in a minute. Anyway, Season 7 started airing on December 1st, 1975, and ended on May 28, 1976. Overview I don’t ...