#Sesame street series#
#Sesame street tv#

(It later collaborated with Sesame Street to produce a limited series in Hebrew and English called Shalom Sesame.) In 1998, a joint Israeli-Palestinian co-production launched, featuring two separate streets: Rechov Sumsum and Shara’a Simsim. Rechov Sumsum was an Israeli co-production of Sesame Street that debuted in 1982. Jordan also has a version, called Hikayat Simsim. Egypt has its own Arabic-language Sesame co-production called Alam Simsim, which debuted in 2000 and features an ambitious girl named Khokha who empowers girls to wish for great things through her desire to be a writer, police officer, or astronaut. Its name translates to “Open Sesame,” and the street in the original version was called “Shari’ ‘Ishrin,” or “Twentieth Street.” It featured a cast and crew from across the Arabic world, and was relaunched in 2015.

The Arabic-language Iftah Ya Simsim first aired in 1979 and was broadcast in various Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa for the next ten years. Puppeteer Michel Jabali with the Muppet Habeeb from 'Iftah Ya Simsim.' Photo: Sabban31/Wikimedia Commons Characters include the piglet Purk, who was introduced as a baby in a 2003 holiday special and wears a diaper Pino, a Big Bird-esque baby blue bird and Ieniemienie the mouse. It’s also the runner-up for longest-running international Sesame Street co-production, after Germany’s Sesamstraße, which debuted in 1973.

#Sesame street tv#

One of the longest-running children’s TV shows in the Netherlands is Sesamstraat, which began airing in 1976. Plaza Sésamo now airs throughout Latin America, and includes such local characters as Abelardo, a giant parrot who is Big Bird’s cousin. Both debuted in 1972, only three years after the show premiered in the United States. Mexico’s Plaza Sésamo was the first international co-production, along with Brazil’s Vila Sésamo. 'Plaza Sésamo' 's Abelardo is a cousin of Big Bird. Take a look at some of the international Sesame Streets here. Many of the adaptations of Sesame Street are changed to fit the local culture and issues, and some versions even have their own unique characters. 'We thought the Muppets were quintessentially American, and it turns out they’re the most international characters ever created.”ĥ0 years after the series debuted in the U.S., Sesame Workshop, the educational nonprofit behind Sesame Street and related programs, operates in some 150 countries, and there are more than 30 international co-productions of the show. “We thought we were creating the quintessential American show,' she said. Joan Ganz Cooney, the co-creator of Sesame Street, never thought her beloved children’s shows would be popular outside the United States.