It used songs, stories and conversation to teach kids about many topics including feelings, family life, cultural diversity and the environment. The show that started in 1968 and ended in 2001. Jim Henson’s Creature Shop created many of them, although it was originally supposed to feature human actors who wore animal masks but they looked too real so they were scrapped. It featured a bunch of Muppet characters with an educational curriculum, including Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch and Elmo. The PBS show that started in 1969 and continues today. The adventures were set in some kind of weird jungle land called Tiki Island, and there’s plenty of songs between each adventure segment including their most famous one “Tra La La Song.” Sesame Street … King of 1970s Children’s TV Shows! It starred a quartet of animal characters: Fleegle the dog, Bingo the gorilla (voiced by Frank Welker), Drooper the lion and Snorky the elephant. The Banana Splits Adventure Hourīarely breaking into the decade, this show aired on Saturday mornings from 1968 to 1970. In fact, if you grew up during that era, just the mention of these 1970s children’s tv shows probably make you long for the “good old days” for three channels and static. The number of channels may have been limited during the Disco Decade, but that doesn’t mean kids got left out.

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