Watch the First Episode of Sesame Street and 140 Other Free Episodes

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FYI: Sesame Street has released on YouTube more than 140 full episodes from past sea­sons. On the Sesame Street Clas­sics chan­nel, you’ll find some icon­ic episodes, start­ing with the very first 1969 broad­cast. Watch it above. Also on that same chan­nel you can revis­it episodes where Big Bird reveals that Snuffy is real, Mr. Rogers vis­its the show, Maria and Luis get engaged, and the death of Mr. Hoop­er gets del­i­cate­ly addressed. Beyond these episodes, you can also watch 129 com­plete episodes on Sesame Street’s main YouTube Chan­nel here. Enjoy!

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Relat­ed Con­tent

When Mis­sis­sip­pi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Show­ing a “High­ly Inte­grat­ed Cast” (1970)

Watch the Sesame Street Episode Banned for Being Too Scary, Fea­tur­ing The Wiz­ard of Oz’s Wicked Witch of the West (1976)

Watch Jazzy Spies: 1969 Psy­che­del­ic Sesame Street Ani­ma­tion, Fea­tur­ing Grace Slick, Teach­es Kids to Count

Philip Glass Com­pos­es Music for a Sesame Street Ani­ma­tion (1979)