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Sesamstraße (1973)

Sesamstraße poster
Genre
family, kids, comedy
Country
Germany
Length
34 seasons, 162 episodes
Rated
TV-Y
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This is a German children's show where puppet characters and human actors teach letters, numbers, and social skills to preschool and early elementary kids. It adapts the format of the American Sesame Street for German audiences with local characters and segments.

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What happens

Sesamstraße (German: [ˈzeːzamˌʃtʁaːsə] , Sesame Street in English) is a German children's television series that airs primarily in Germany and the surrounding German-speaking countries. It is a spin-off of the first preschool programme Sesame Street. The show has been running on Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) since 1973, premiering on 8 January in that year. Sesamstraße is also shown on the children's channel, KiKa. It is made for children between the ages of three and seven. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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