Will the first entire season of Sesame Street ever be available?

[fuzzygobo]

A few of the musical numbers have turned up on youtube last year. They were dubbed in German and Hebrew, but were only up for a short time before they got pulled. But for an old-timer like me, it was great to at least see the visuals again after a few decades.

I am hoping just as much as you are to see some of these clips again, but I know Sesame Workshop has to cut through a lot of legal red tape to make it happen. Ain't lawyers great?

 

[armslength]

Not only would does Sesame pose a challenge in being a daily show meaning that it would take a heckuva lot of dvd's to get all the episodes from a season to fit, but season 1 in particular would be hard to release in a box type format given how insanely repetitive the first season was. Not only for having a relatively small number of segments they could repeat (being new and not having a back collection) but the educational staff wanted to repeat several things on a daily and weekly basis - if we could somehow manage to watch the first season episodes back to back in order as adults, we may find ourselves doing a lot of fast forwarding!

 

[Tim Kelly]

if we could somehow manage to watch the first season episodes back to back in order as adults, we may find ourselves doing a lot of fast forwarding!

Exactly! I've fast forwarded through the episodes I've gotten on VHS over the years.

 

[ISNorden]

In spite of all the repeats we'd skip, I'd still love to see a whole early season's worth of episodes (especially one that I was too young to remember the first time around). The only way I could see 130 full hours getting released on DVD, though, would be as a multi-volume set...which would take decades to finish producing the way things are now. (Thirteen ten-disc collector sets? Whew!)

 

[Oscarfan]

I think getting an entire season of Sesame Street would be near impossible; There's over 100 episodes per season! I could see Season 34 to now on DVd since those seasons are short, but I doubt they would release those seasons first.