Television & Movies

• Dinosaurs Season 3 begins airing on ABC, September 18
• Dog City Season 1 begins airing on FOX, September 26
• The Muppet Christmas Carol released December 11
• Secrets of the Muppets airs on Nickelodeon
• Sesame Street Season 24 on PBS, November 9
• Muppet Babies repeats begin in syndication on Nickelodeon
• Muppet Meeting Film collections "Muppet Breaking Point" and "Muppet Mayhem"

Appearances

• The Muppets appear in a series of five-minute comedy sketches on Good Morning America, beginning on February 18
• Elmo makes the first of several appearances on The Frugal Gourmet in March.
• The Muppets perform "It Feels Like Christmas" and Kermit and Miss Piggy do a sketch with Bob Newhart in the TV special Holiday Greetings from the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS.
• Miss Piggy appears on Terry Wogan's Friday Night

Albums

• Dinosaurs: Big Songs, October 9
• The Muppet Christmas Carol, November 10
• Sing: Songs of Joe Raposo, December 5

Storybooks

• Best Friends
• Big Bird's Adventure
• Big Bird Visits Navajo Country
• Bounce Along with Big Bird
• Bye-Bye, Blankie
• Ernie and His Merry Monsters
• Flip Flap Flop
• Fozzie Bear, Star Helper
• Grover's Guide to Good Manners
• Grover's 10 Terrific Ways to Help Our Wonderful World
• Happy and Sad, Grouchy and Glad
• I Want to Be a Cowboy
• I Want to Be a Veterinarian
• I'm Mad at You!
• It's Christmas!
• Kermit and the New Bicycle
• Kermit, Save the Swamp!
• Kermit's Cleanup
• Little Bert's Book of Numbers
• Little Elmo's Book of Colors
• Little Ernie's ABC's
• Little Grover's Book of Shapes
• New in Town
• Open Sesame
• Oscar's New Neighbor
• Piggy for President
• Piggy Isn't Talking
• Piggy Visits the Doctor
• Pop Goes the Santa!
• Rain Forest Adventure
• Say Bye-Bye
• Say Good Night
• The Sesame Street Book of Poetry
• Show-and-Yell
• Something Special
• Sweet & Silly Muppet Poems
• Too Little!
• We're Different, We're the Same
• What's Fair Is Fair

Videos

• The Big Squeak (UK release)
• Dinosaurs: Volume 4
• Dinosaurs: Volume 5
• Dinosaurs: Volume 6
• Disobedience School

Merchandise

• American Greetings cards
• Big Bird's Bucket of Fun
• Big Bird's Talking Bingo
• Carl's Jr. Muppet Parade of Stars Toys
• Dinosaurs Comics
• Dinosaurs View-Master reels
• Muppet Valentines (Gibson Greetings)
• MuppetZine is first published
• Li'l Busy Pals

People

• Richard Hunt dies, January 7
• Ton Hasebos dies
• The Jim Henson Legacy founded as a non-profit organization honoring Jim Henson as an artist

Awards

• Faz Fazakas, Brian Henson, Dave Housman, Peter Miller and John Stephenson, win the Academy Awards' Scientific and Engineering Award for developing the Henson Performance Control System.
• Lillias White wins the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series.

Music videos

• "I'm the Baby (Gotta Love Me)" from Dinosaurs: Big Songs

Behind the scenes

• Steve Whitmire begins to regularly perform Beaker starting with The Muppet Christmas Carol
• Starting with The Muppet Christmas Carol, Jerry Nelson begins to regularly perform Statler (until 2003)
• Dave Goelz begins to regularly perform Waldorf starting with The Muppet Christmas Carol

Stage Shows

• Sesame Street Live presents Where's the Birdie?

Muppet Character Debuts

• Big Mean Carl

Character Exits

• Uncle Wally leaves Sesame Street