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
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
- 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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