Before settling on “Homelamb” as the punny title for a parody of the hit Showtime series, veteran “Sesame Street” scribe Belinda Ward toyed around with many iterations, none of them quite ...

"Sesame Street" marks 45th birthday November 3, 2014 / 12:12 PM EST / AP You don't get to be the longest-running children's show in U.S. TV history by doing the same thing over and over.

BOSTON (CBS) - Monday is the 45th anniversary of the debut of Sesame Street, arguably the most influential show in the history of television. Within a decade, nine millions kids were watching ...

Cookie Monster and Big Bird are still there, but many things have changed on the popular show.

So even though parents who grew up watching "Sesame Street" can still see old favorites like Big Bird, things on the street have changed since the show debuted 45 years ago on Nov. 10, 1969.

In 1973, it was one of two shows on U.S. television for preschoolers. Now it's competing with 84 kids' shows on TV and countless others online.

Before settling on “Homelamb” as the punny title for a parody of the hit Showtime series, veteran “Sesame Street” scribe Belinda Ward toyed around with many iterations, none of them quite ...

Sesame Street marks 45th birthday . Published: Nov. 03, 2014, 12:27 p.m. By . ... things on the street have changed since the show debuted 45 years ago on Nov. 10, 1969.

So even though parents who grew up watching "Sesame Street" can still see old favorites like Big Bird, things on the street have changed since the show debuted 45 years ago on Nov. 10, 1969.

So even though parents who grew up watching “Sesame Street” can still see old favorites like Big Bird, things on the street have changed since the show debuted 45 ...

Yet "Sesame Street" still holds its own, ranking 20th among kids ages 2 to 5 with 850,000 viewers per TV episode, according to Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind the show. But now ...