1983

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Contents 1 Television & Movies 2 International Television 3 Storybooks 4 Non-fiction Books 5 Albums 6 Videos 7 Merchandise 8 Stage Shows 9 People

Television & Movies

• The World of the Dark Crystal on PBS, January 9
• Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on HBO, January 10
• Rocky Mountain Holiday on ABC, May 12
• Don't Eat the Pictures on PBS, November 16
• Sesame Street Season 15, November 21
• Sesame Street Episode 1839 (Mr. Hooper's death) on PBS, November 24
• Big Bird in China on NBC

International Television

• Die Fraggles (Fraggle Rock) begins airing in Germany on ZDF, November 12
• Barrio Sésamo begins its second run in Spain
• Sesame! begins airing in the Philippines
• Germany's Sesamstrasse celebrates 10th Anniversary

Storybooks

• Big Bird and Little Bird's Big & Little Book (reissue version with new illustrations by A. Delaney)
• Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-up
• The Case of the Missing Mother
• The City Worm and the Country Worm
• Don't Cry, Big Bird
• Early Bird on Sesame Street
• Ernie's Little Lie
• Everyone Makes Mistakes
• Grover Goes to School
• I Can Dress Myself
• The Little Red Hen
• The Muppets on the Road
• People in My Family
• Pigs in Space
• Puppy Love
• The Radish Day Jubilee
• Red and the Pumpkins
• The Sesame Street Question and Answer Book About Animals
• The Sesame Street Treasury series begins
• The Sesame Street Word Book
• The Twiddlebugs' Dream House
• You Are the Star of a Muppet Adventure

Non-fiction Books

• The Making of the Dark Crystal

Albums

• The Best of Bert
• The Best of Big Bird
• The Best of Cookie Monster
• The Best of the Count
• The Best of Ernie
• The Best of Grover
• The Best of Oscar the Grouch
• Born to Add
• Fraggle Rock
• The Gang's All Here!
• Rocky Mountain Holiday
• Surprise!

Videos

• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Muppet Home Video)
• De Freggels 1 (from the Dutch coproduction of Fraggle Rock)
• De Freggels 2
• De Freggels 3
• De Freggels 4
• De Freggels 5
• De Freggels 6

Merchandise

• Muppet Magazine begins, January
• American Telecommunications Kermit phone
• Atari Sesame Street games
• The Fraggle Trap Game
• Happy House Books coloring books
• Miss Piggy Telephone
• Pigs in Space video game
• Doozer wind-up toys
• Fraggle Rock dolls (Tomy)
• Tomy Muppet wind-up toys

Stage Shows

• Sesame Street Live show Around the World debuts

People

• Olamide Faison born

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