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Season 15 (1983-1984)

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Sesame Street Season 15 aired from November 21, 1983 to May 18, 1984.

1 Season Overview
2 Episodes
3 Notes
4 Cast
5 Season 15 Credits
6 Sources

Season OverviewEdit

This season "attempts to explain death and computers to its young viewer."^[1]

EpisodesEdit

Episodes 1836 - 1965 (130 episodes)

Episode 1836 -- 15th season premiere; Gordon and Snuffy run the NYC marathon
Episode 1839 -- Death of Mr. Hooper
Episode 1845 -- Dr. Nobel Price "Discovers" The Law Of Gravity
Episode 1854 -- Snuffy is Sick
Episode 1858 -- Proud To Be A Cow/Captain Vegetable Returns
Episode 1899 -- Bob talks to the Phone
Episode 1927 -- Gordon and Susan baby-sit
Episode 1933 -- The new computer
Episode 1952 -- Hooper's has a broken window
Episode 1957 -- Election Day on Sesame Street

NotesEdit

This is the first season to have the Sesame Street sign and the CTW logo on the top of the screen.
After a nine year absence, Joe Raposo returned to his old job as musical director and would remain with the show until his death.
This was the first season with the Muppets Inc. copyright, in addition to the Children's Television Workshop copyright, at the end of the episodes.

CastEdit

Muppet Characters

Anything Muppets, Barkley, Bert, Big Bird, Buster the Horse, Captain Vegetable, Dr. Nobel Price, Elmo, Ernie, Forgetful Jones, Fred the Wonder Horse, Gilbert and Sullivan, Grover, Honkers, Kermit the Frog, Oscar the Grouch, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster

Human Characters

Gordon, Susan, David, Maria, Luis, Linda, Bob, Olivia

Actors

Linda Bove, Northern Calloway, Emilio Delgado, Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Roscoe Orman, Alaina Reed

Muppeteers

Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Richard Hunt, Brian Muehl, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz, Martin P. Robinson, Bryant Young, Noel MacNeal (uncredited)

Season 15 CreditsEdit

Executive Producer: Dulcy Singer
Producer: Lisa Simon
Directed by: Lisa Simon
Head Writer: Norman Stiles
Writers: Joseph A. Bailey, Sara Compton, Judy Freudberg, Judy Freudberg, Tony Geiss, Jeff Moss, Emily Perl Kingsley, Tom Dunsmuir, David Korr, Gary Belkin
Music Director: Joe Raposo
Supervising Film Producer: Edith Zornow
Associate Producer: Arlene Sherman
Muppets by: Don Sahlin, Kermit Love, Caroly Wilcox, Cheryl Blalock, Richard Termine, Susan Moore, Ed Christie
Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
Assistant Music Director: Dave Conner
Post Production Supervisor: Ted May
Associate Director: Andy Bamberger
Production Supervisor: Frieda Lipp
Art Director: Victor Di Napoli
Production Stage Manager: Chet O'Brien
Stage Manager: Mortimer J. O'Brien
Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
Costume Designer: Bill Kellard
Graphic Artist: Gerri Brioso
Senior Scenic Artist: Jane Asch
Production Assistants: Diane P. Mitchell, Cheryl Ann Jung, Lynn Roberge, Stuart Lovery, Danette Morganelli, Joseph M. Catalano, Mercedes Polanco, Thelma Moses, Noel McNeil
Unit Manager: Eleanor McIntosh
Technical Director: Ralph Mensch
Lighting Director: Randy Nordstrom
Sound Effects: Dick Maitland
Audio: Blake Norton
Video: Martin Gaujenieks
Cameras: Frank Biondo, Arnold Giorando, Miguel Armstrong
Videotape Editors: John Hutchison, Evamarie Keller
Make-Up: Lee Halls
Hair Stylist: Karen Specht
Wardrobe: Grisha Mynova
Curriculum Coordinator: Robert J. Emerick
Vice President for Research: Edward L. Palmer
Director of Research: Valeria Lovelace, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Research: Istar Schwager
Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser
Vice Presidents of Production: David D. Connell, Al Hyslop