Television

• The Cube on NBC, February 23
• Hey Cinderella! on Canadian broadcaster CBC, March 16
• Sesame Street premieres on NET, November 10
• Muppet Puppet Plays

Commercials

• Munchos
• Sprint Chocolate Wafers
• Thom McAn training films

Muppet Character Debuts

• Sesame Street: Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Professor Hastings, Little Bird, Betty Lou, Guy Smiley, Grover, Anything Muppets

• The Ed Sullivan Show: Beautiful Day Monster, Mahna Mahna, Snowths

• Munchos: Fred, Arnold (early Cookie Monster)

Magazine Appearances

• The Jerry Juhl story The Purple-Necked Black-Bearded Blatch appears in the December issue of Woman's Day

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