The availability of classic Sesame Street

[greenberger]

I agree with your kids’ opinions on classic sesame street, but this has nothing to do with HBO’s deal. In fact, part of HBO’s on-demand content offering will be a sampling of classic sesame episodes that haven’t seen the light of day in ages. If enough people watch those, you can bet HBO and Sesame will both realize the goldmine they have and release more. There are other issues that also prevent some of that material from seeing the light of day, especially music rights and so on, which has more to do with our dumb copyright laws than anything else.

Continuing the discussion from Trickle-down kids' TV: Sesame Street will air on HBO 9 months before PBS:

@FunkDaddy

No man, the real beef is mirrored in the latest Star Wars thread about where the fuckin originals can be had.

My kids loved the 1969 pilot that is available on youtube, and I would like to give them more episodes from the 69-74, some of which can be had in clips, some of which can be seen in the short “classics” series available, but for the most part all of those hundreds of episodes can’t be had.

There’s some clips on PBS, but not for Canadians, though I don’t care about that I’ll use a US DNS, except 14 two minute clips is a tease & doesn’t capture the flow that made them so watchable, so unique & new.

My boys looooove original Oscar, they loooove Johnny Cash singing Nasty Dan to Original Oscar. & they don’t show anywhere near the same reaction to modern sesame street.

Except for clips there’s just 5 episodes available from the 69-74 period & I think it’s a loss.