Television & Movies

• The Frog Prince in syndication, May 12
• Sesame Street Season 3 begins on PBS, November 15

International Television

• Sesamo Apriti begins airing in Italy

Appearances

• Sesame Street cast and crew on Telescope, January 5
• Some Muppet musicians, joined by Mahna Mahna on drums, perform in "The Wild String Quartet" on The Ed Sullivan Show, January 17
• The Muppets make their last appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show with "The Glutton," February 12
• The Muppets appear as guests on Goldie Hawn's TV special Pure Goldie, February 15
• The Muppets perform with Nancy Sinatra in her stage show, Nancy `71, June 16-July 18
• Kermit and Rowlf on This Is Tom Jones, July 8
• Many of the regular characters on Sesame Street join the Boston Pops Orchestra for Evening at Pops, September 12

Storybooks

• Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
• The Monster at the End of This Book
• People in My Family
• People in Your Neighborhood
• The Sesame Street Storybook
• The Together Book

Non-fiction Books

• All About Sesame Street

People

• Eric Jacobson born, January 15
• Stephanie D'Abruzzo born, December 7

Albums

• The Frog Prince
• The Muppet Alphabet Album
• The Official Sesame Street 2 Book-and-Record Album
• The Year of Roosevelt Franklin

Muppet Character Debuts

• The Frog Prince: Robin the Frog, Sweetums, Frogs, King Rupert the Second

• Sesame Street: Mr. Snuffleupagus, The Amazing Mumford, Harvey Kneeslapper, Mr. Johnson, The Busby Twins, Little Jerry and the Monotones, Prairie Dawn, various Twiddlebugs

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