Movies & TV Shows/Series by Children's Television Workshop at a glance

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Square One Television(1987-1992)

30min per episode

1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Square One Television is an American children's television program produced by the Children's Television Workshop to teach mathematics and abstract mathematical concepts to young viewers. Created and broadcast by PBS in the United States from January 26, 1987 to November 6, 1992, the show was intended to address the math crisis among American schoolchildren. After the last episode aired, the show went into reruns until May 6, 1994. The show was revived for the 1995–1996 PBS season as a teacher instruction program, Square One TV Math Talk. Square One was also shown on the U.S. cable television channel Noggin in syndication beginning in 1999, but was removed from its lineup along with other Sesame Workshop shows on May 26, 2003.

With Reg E. Cathey, Larry Cedar, Cynthia Darlow, Beverly Leech, Joe Howard

Sesame Street(1969-)

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| 54min per episode | Kids & Family, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 111 votes)

On a special inner city street, the inhabitants—human and muppet—teach preschoolers basic educational and social concepts using comedy, cartoons, games, and songs.

Directed by John R. Dilworth, Stan Lathan - With Kevin Clash, Linda Bove, Sonia Manzano, Alan Muraoka, Charlotte Rae, Bob McGrath, ...

The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland(1999)

| 1h 13min | Music, Kids & Family, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 39 votes)

Elmo loves his fuzzy, well-worn blue blanket more than anything in the whole world. Elmo's blanket gets sucked into colorful, swirling tunnel into Grouchland, the yuckiest place on earth. Elmo goes on an adventure to Grouchland to retrieve his blanket.

Directed by Gary Halvorson - With Kevin Clash, Jerry Nelson, Carmen Osbahr, David Rudman, Steve Whitmire, Frank Oz, ...

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The New Ghostwriter Mysteries(1997)

30min per episode | Kids & Family, Mystery

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The New Ghostwriter Mysteries is a CBS television show that aired in 1997. It was loosely based on an earlier series on PBS called Ghostwriter. The New Ghostwriter Mysteries was canceled after a year due to low ratings. The show featured a new team of three kids: Camella Gorik, Emilie Robeson, and Henry "Strick" Strickland. Ghostwriter only had two colors, which were silver and gold. The show was filmed in Canada, and aired from September through December 1997.

With Charlotte Sullivan, Erica Luttrell, Kristian Ayre

Dragon Tales(1999-2005)

30min per episode | Animation, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Dragon Tales is an American-Canadian animated pre-school children's television series created by Jim Coane and Ron Rodecker and developed by Coane, Wesley Eure, Jeffrey Scott, Cliff Ruby and Elana Lesser. The story focuses on the adventures of two siblings, Max and Emmy and their dragon friends Cassie, Ord, Zak, Wheezie, and Quetzal. The series began broadcasting on the Public Broadcasting Service on their PBS Kids block on September 6, 1999, with its final episode aired on November 25, 2005. Re-runs ceased in 2010.

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration(2020-)

56min per episode | Kids & Family, Kids & Family

Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebrationis a special produced forSesame Street’s25th anniversary. Released in a slightly different form on video asSesame Street: 25 Wonderful Yearsin October 1993, the special was shelved for its broadcast premiere onPBSuntil1994, during pledge drive season, and in many markets, aired as part of a marathon block with three show episodes. The special was a companion to the prime-time network special,Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!

Directed by Mustapha Khan - With Caroll Spinney

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe(1979)

1h 35min | Animation, Kids & Family, TV Movie, Fantasy, Adventure

3.4/5 (with 19 votes)

This Emmy Award winner for Best Animated Special is based on the first book of C.S. Lewis' acclaimed series, "The Chronicles of Narnia." Four children pass through a mystic portal in a wardrobe and discover the magical kingdom of Narnia, a land of talking animals and mythical creatures. There, an evil witch's spell has cast the land into eternal winter. Fearing that an ancient prophecy is coming to fruition, and that the children are Narnia's rightful rulers, the White Witch tricks their youngest brother into betraying his family, enacting an ancient magic that she can use to halt the fulfillment of the prophecy. Now, only Aslan, noble lion and High King above all kings in Narnia, can help them defeat the witch, restore springtime to Narnia, and claim their rightful places on the throne.

Directed by Bill Melendez

Big Bag(1996)

36min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Big Bag is a live action television puppet program for preschoolers that was produced by Children's Television Workshop with the puppet characters made by The Jim Henson Company. It aired from 1996 to 1999 on the Cartoon Network. There were also localized versions for Canal J in France and Yorkshire Television in the UK.

Directed by Emily Squires - With Kevin Clash, Fran Brill, María Conchita Alonso, Alice Dinnean, Cullen Douglas

Cro(1993-1994)

| 30min per episode | Animation

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Cro is an American animated television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop and Film Roman. It debuted on September 18, 1993 as part of the Saturday morning line-up for fall 1993 on ABC. Cro did not do well with the viewers. The show had an educational theme in accordance with FCC-mandated educational/instructional requirements, introducing basic concepts of physics, mechanical engineering, and technology. The premise of using woolly mammoths as a teaching tool for the principles of technology was inspired by David Macaulay's The Way Things Work; Macaulay is credited as writer on the show. The last new episode aired on October 22, 1994. The show was released on video in a total of nine volumes.

With Max Casella, Jim Cummings, Charlie Adler, Cree Summer, Ruth Buzzi, Candi Milo, ...

Encyclopedia(2024-)

Encyclopedia is a television series created by the HBO Network and the for-profit branch of the Children's Television Workshop, Distinguished Productions. The series premiered on the HBO network in 1988. Each episode covered a letter or series of letters in the alphabet, with short skits of sketch comedy devoted to up to twelve corresponding encyclopedia topics. Several topics were related through song. Three of the six writers of the show had also been writers for NBC's Saturday Night Live: Patricia Marx, Brian McConnachie, and Mitchell Kriegman. The series featured the band BETTY, who performed both the opening and closing themes as well as individual songs for selected topics.

With Ethyl Eichelberger

The House of Dies Drear(1984)

1h 56min | Fantasy, Drama, Crime, TV Movie

A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.

Sesame Street: Do the Alphabet(1996)

| 40min | Music, Comedy, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Do The Alphabet is a 1996 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, with a framing sequence starring Big Bird and Baby Bear.

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Sesame Street: Rock & Roll!(1990)

30min | Kids & Family, Music

Rock & Roll! is a Sesame Street video compilation released by Random House in 1990 in the "Sesame Songs Home Video" series. It was hosted by Jackman Wolf, who played various rock & roll songs from Sesame Street on his Sesame Street Rock & Roll Request Show.

Don't Eat the Pictures: Sesame Street at the Metropolitan Museum of Art(1983)

| 1h | Kids & Family, Fantasy, Music

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

As the Metropolitan Museum of Art closes, Big Bird decides to leave his Sesame Street friends behind in search of Snuffy. Once locked inside for the night, educational hilarity ensues as Big Bird and Snuffy team up to help a small Egyptian boy solve a riddle - as the rest of the cast searches for their big, yellow friend.

Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!(1990)

30min | Music, Kids & Family

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar, Ernie, the Count, and more as they tickle your funny bone with tunes like, "Everything in the Wrong Place Ball," "Mary Had a Bicycle," and more. James Taylor drops by to sing "Jellyman Kelly," and Jeremy Irons, Jane Curtin, and Paul Simon lead an all-star cast of celebrities in the showstopper, "Put Down the Duckie." Songs: The Honker-Duckie-Dinger Jamboree; Ladybug Picnic; Jellyman Kelly; Wavin' Goodbye to You with My Heart; Old MacDonald Cantata; Everything in the Wrong Place Ball; One Banana; Calcutta Joe; Mary Had a Bicycle; Ten Tiny Turtles on the Telephone; Put Down the Duckie.

A Walking Tour of Sesame Street(1979)

30min

Sesame Street celebrated its 10th anniversary in the spring of 1979 with a half-hour PBS special hosted by James Earl Jones titled A Walking Tour of Sesame Street. The special aired on individual PBS stations at various times between March and May 1979. (Muppet Wiki)

The Wish That Changed Christmas(1991)

| 30min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

Ivy, an orphan wants a grandmother and a doll for Christmas. She mistakes a sign greeting her into a town, she jumps off a bus and shouts, "It's me, Ivy!". In the cold she looks for a grandma unsucessfully. She finally finds a woman who always wanted children and a doll, Holly. Based on the book The Story of Holly and Ivy.

A Special Sesame Street Christmas(1978)

48min | Comedy, Kids & Family

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, Imogene Coca, and Dickie Smothers try to get Oscar to stop being such a Grouch on Christmas.

Sesame Street: Monster Hits!(1990)

30min | Kids & Family, Music

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

You'll have a monstrously good time with Herry Monster as he hosts the Monster Music Award Show! Everyone's favorite furry monsters from Sesame Street sing eleven of their greatest hits: Clap along as Cookie Monster croons his classic "C Is for Cookie." Tap along as Grover and his friends perform the lively "Fuzzy and Blue." Delight in Herry Monster's heartwarming rendition of "That Furry Blue Mommy of Mine," and so much more! Sing along with Monster Hits! and bring out the little bit of monster in you.

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Big Bird in Japan(1988)

1h | Kids & Family, TV Movie, Adventure, Comedy

4.6/5 (with 3 votes)

While visiting Japan, Big Bird wanders off from a guided tour bus in Tokyo, and is lost until a Japanese woman helps him get to where he needs to go. The woman, however, is hiding a secret.

Directed by Jon Stone - With Caroll Spinney

Big Bird in China(1983)

1h 15min | Fantasy, Adventure, TV Movie, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Big Bird and his Sesame Street companion, Barkley, the big, fluffy dog, travel across China in search of the legendary Feng Huang, the Phoenix Bird. Along the way they visit with Chinese schoolchildren, watch a Tai Ji demonstration, learn some Chinese words and songs, and meet the mischievous Monkey King.