Television & Movies[]
- The World of the Dark Crystal on PBS, January 9
- Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on HBO, January 10
- Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on CBC
- Rocky Mountain Holiday on ABC, May 12
- Big Bird in China on NBC, May 29
- 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
International Television[]
- The French co-production of Fraggle Rock begins airing in France on FR3, November
- 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
Appearances[]
- Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Russell Harty, February 15
- Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Good Morning Britain, February 16
- Big Bird and Oscar on The Richard Simmons Show, March 25
- Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and Shivers the Penguin, at the Cleveland Orchestra, June 26
International Appearances[]
- Oscar the Grouch co-hosts the CBC broadcast of the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, November 13
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 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[]
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!
- My Record
- Rocky Mountain Holiday
- Surprise!
Videos[]
- The Dark Crystal (Thorn/EMI Video UK release)
- 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
- Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Muppet Home Video)
- Fraggle Songs
- The Frog Prince (Muppet Home Video)
- The Great Muppet Caper (20th Century Fox Video)
- Hey Cinderella! (Muppet Home Video)
- The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (Muppet Home Video)
Merchandise[]
- Miss Piggy's Calendar of Calendars
- Big Bird's sprinkler
- Big Bird Xylophone
- Muppet Magazine begins, January
- Kermit telephone (American Telecommunications)
- Alpha Beam with Ernie
- Big Bird's Egg Catch
- Cookie Monster Munch
- Doozer wind-up toys
- Fraggle Rock plush (Tomy)
- The Fraggle Trap Game
- Happy House Books coloring books
- Oscar's Trash Race
- Pigs in Space video game
- Tomy Muppet wind-up toys
- Muppet stationery set (Empire Pencil Corp.)
Stage Shows[]
- Sesame Street Live show Around the World debuts
Muppet Character Debuts[]
- Sesame Street: Captain Vegetable
- Fraggle Rock: Gobo Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Red Fraggle, Wembley Fraggle, Boober Fraggle, Uncle Traveling Matt, Sprocket, Marjory the Trash Heap, Philo and Gunge, Pa Gorg, Ma Gorg, Junior Gorg
- Sesamstrasse: Finchen
People[]
- Olamide Faison born
<< | 1982 | Timeline | 1984 | >> |