Season 49 (2018-2019)

Sesame Street
Premiere	November 17, 2018 (4901)
Finale	July 13, 2019 (4935)
Episodes	35

Season49CastAndCrew — The Season 49 cast and crew.

AbbysAmazingAdventures — Abby's Amazing Adventures

Sesame Street’s 49th season premiered on HBO on November 17, 2018 and on PBS on September 2, 2019. The season was preceded the week prior by the prime time special, When You Wish Upon a Pickle.

Season overview

The season's main curriculum is "Learning Through Play," seeing the characters learn about different jobs through games and creative activities.

The season features Abby's Amazing Adventures, a new animated segment.

Production

Primary production started the week of October 16, 2017, and wrapped on December 15. Additional filming took place during the week of April 9, 2018^[1]

Guest stars this season include Jack Antonoff, Chance the Rapper, Whoopi Goldberg, Andy Grammer, Tiffany Haddish, Keegan-Michael Key, Zoë Kravitz, Bill Nye, Patton Oswalt, Questlove, and Allison Williams. Other celebrities who filmed material during this season include Zooey Deschanel, Jenny Slate and Ellie Kemper (taping online segments of Cookie Monster's Foodie Truck), and Amanda Seyfried and Blake Lively (who guest starred in When You Wish Upon a Pickle). Solange Knowles was also announced as a guest star, but her filmed segment (a song entitled "I Remember," intended for inclusion in Episode 4931) was left unaired.

Celebrities who visited the set during production of the season included Ann Harada‏, Kate Micucci, Meredith Salenger, Bindi and Robert Irwin,^[2] and Anne and Wil Wheaton.

Episodes

Episode 4901 - When You're a Vet
Episode 4902 - Picture This
Episode 4903 - Hey! Sesame Street News
Episode 4904 - So You Think You Can Choreograph
Episode 4905 - Elmo’s Factory
Episode 4906 - Math Magic (repeat)
Episode 4907 - New Year’s Eve on Sesame Street
Episode 4908 - Play Time
Episode 4909 - Bath Time for Blanky
Episode 4910 - Astronaut Elmo (repeat)
Episode 4911 - Honk if You Love Libraries
Episode 4912 - Elmo's Happy Little Train
Episode 4913 - The Big Pretend Band
Episode 4914 - Sesame Friendship
Episode 4915 - Rudy Rides the Bus
Episode 4916 - Mechanics in Space
Episode 4917 - Fixing X (repeat)
Episode 4918 - Elmo Goes to Chicken School (repeat)
Episode 4919 - Walking the Dog
Episode 4920 - Elmo the Engineer
Episode 4921 - Julia's Haircut
Episode 4922 - Dinosaur in the Laundromat
Episode 4923 - Earth Day
Episode 4924 - Four Furry Superheroes (repeat)
Episode 4925 - Welcome to Sesame Hospital
Episode 4926 - Wild Adventure on Sesame Street (repeat)
Episode 4927 - Little Bo Peep Lost Her Cow (repeat)
Episode 4928 - How to Build a Dinosaur (repeat)
Episode 4929 - Oscar Uncanned
Episode 4930 - Counting Critters
Episode 4931 - Grocery Games
Episode 4932 - Baby Bear’s Just Right Cafe
Episode 4933 - Camp Grover
Episode 4934 - Slimey at the Car Race (repeat)
Episode 4935 - Cookie Monster's Museum Mystery (repeat)

Notes

This marks the first season with Peter Linz performing Ernie.
The second season of Matt Vogel's web-series, "Below the Frame," was produced during the production of Season 49.

Characters

Abby Cadabby, The Amazing Mumford, Anything Muppets, Baby Bear, Bert, Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Count von Count, Mrs. Crustworthy, Elmo, Ernie, Frankie, Freddy, Gladys the Cow, Goldilocks, Gonger, Grouches, Grover, Grundgetta, Guy Smiley, Herb, Herry Monster, Honkers, Mr. Johnson, Julia, Louie, Mae, Mama Bear, Oscar the Grouch, Prairie Dawn, Rosita, Rudy, Slimey, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster, Two-Headed Monster, Uncle Ernisimo, Zoe

Cast

Alan: Alan Muraoka
Chris: Chris Knowings
Nina: Suki Lopez
Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar^{[note 1]}

Sesame Street Muppet™ Performers

Pam Arciero, Jennifer Barnhart, Tau Bennett, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Tyler Bunch, Leslie Carrara-Rudolph, Frankie Cordero, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Ryan Dillon, Stacey Gordon, Eric Jacobson, Haley Jenkins, John Kennedy, Kathleen Kim, Peter Linz, Spencer Lott, Carmen Osbahr, Martin P. Robinson, David Rudman, Matt Vogel, Bryant Young

Credits

Executive Producer: Brown Johnson, Benjamin Lehmann
Senior Producer: Stephanie Longardo
Coordinating Producer: Mindy Fila
Producer: Karyn Leibovich
Post Producer: Todd E. James
Line Producer: Aimee Blackton
Directors: Marilyn Agrelo, Ken Diego, Shannon Flynn, Benjamin Lehmann, Linda Mendoza, Alan Muraoka, Liliana Olszewski, Scott Preston, Matt Vogel, Nadine Zylstra
Head Writer: Ken Scarborough
Writers: Molly Boylan, Warrick Brownlow-Pike, Jennifer Capra, Jessica Carleton, Geri Cole, Joe Fallon, Christine Ferraro, Liz Hara, Ron Holsey, Keion Jackson, Elizabeth Keyishian, Raye Lankford, Benjamin Lehmann, Andrew Moriarty, Max Nicoll, Carol-Lynn Parente, Luis Santeiro, Belinda Ward
Film Producer: Kimberly Wright
Senior V.P. of Curriculum and Content: Rosemarie T. Truglio, Ph.D.
Sesame Street Curriculum and Content Team: Jessica DiSalvo, Susan Scheiner, M.A., Autumn P. Zitani Stefano, M.A.
Associate Producers: Andrew Moriarty, Bryce-Loren Walker
Production Coordinators: Christina Elefante, Kelly Ferrara, Maxwell Nicoll
Production (Jim Henson): Melissa Creighton, Gabriella Degennaro, Joseph Roddy
Puppets, Costumes, Props: The Jim Henson Company NY Creature Shop - David Bizzaro, Brian Carson, Ben Durocher, Victoria Ellis, Tyler Hall, Michelle Hickey, Ann Marie Holdgruen, Rollie Krewson, Sarah Lafferty, Lara MacLean, Laura Manns, Casey Miller, Anney Ozar, Constance Peterson, Lily Rosen, Kate Rusek, Sierra Schoening, Polly Smith, Kelly Snook, Whitney Thayne, David Valentine, Jason Weber, Stacey Weingarten
Music Director: Bill Sherman
Music Director - (Arrangements and Orchestrations): Joe Fiedler
Music Director - (Vocals): Paul Rudolph
Music Copyist: Joe Fiedler
Music Coordinator: Tyler Hartman
Composers: Eli Bolin, Nicholas Dayton, Dominic Fallacaro, Joe Fiedler, Tim Kubart, Jennifer Nettles, Kathryn Raio, JP Rende, Paul Rudolph, Bill Sherman, Shaina Taub, Craig Thomas
Sesame Street Band: Randy Cohen, Michael Croiter, John Deley, Doug Derryberry, Joe Fiedler, Rob Jost, Gary Meyer, Kenny Rampton
Production Designer: David Gallo
Post Production Graphics provided by Ed Mundy
Prop Coordinator: Keith Olsen
Lighting Designer: Dan Kelley
Costume Designer: Brian C. Hemesath
Celebrity Talent Booker: Bella Harkins
Child Talent: Carolyn Volpe, Ph.D
Supervising Editors: Todd E. James, Memo Salazar
Associate Directors: Frank Campagna, Emily Cohen, Ken Diego, Todd E. James, Mike Walker, Ashmou Younge
Key Control Room Production Assistant: Christina Elefante
Control Room Production Assistants: Kelly Ferrara, Andrew Moriarty, Noelle Scindian, Elena Sporillo
Stagehands: Steve Dannenberg, Russell Hooton, Karen Sunderlin
Elmo's Wonderful World / Abby's Amazing Adventures - Animation & Compositing:
- Producer: Jack Spillum
- Co-Director / Creative Director: Ian Chernichaw
- Co-Director / Associate Producer: Justin Simonich
- Lead Designers: Dagan Moriarty, Michael Scanlon
- Lead Animator: Joe Andriola
- Compositor/Visual Effects: Kat Llewellyn
- Smartie: Deborah Grausman
- Basket: Ulyana
Sound Effects Editor: Dick Maitland, C.A.S.
Supervising Sound Editors: Fritz Lang, Chris Prinzivalli, Marshall Woodall
Sound Editor: Chris Sassano
Re-Recording Mixers: Michael Barrett, Dick Maitland, C.A.S.
Music Editors: Tyler Hartman, Paul Rudolph
Supervising Music Editor: Michael Croiter
Technical Directors: Beverly Alkow, Mary Crowley, Richard Drummond, Tom Guadarrama, Manse Sharpe
Camera: Ryan Balton, Frank Biondo, Mark Britt, Jerry Cancel, Rich Freedman, Manny Guiterez, Shaun Harkins, Ray Hoover, Anthony Lenzo, John Michaeljohn, Patrick Minietta, Dante Pagano, Tom Quigley, Mark Renaudin, Paul Wilkins, Judy Willinger
Senior Video: James Meek
Recordist: Ernie Albritton, Josh Broome
Utility (video): Barbara Bianco, Keith Guadarrama, Michael McCormack
Utility (audio): Gordon Price
Script Supervisor: Jennifer Capra
Sesame Street Research Team: Jennifer Kolter Clarke, Ph.D., David I. Cohen, Becca K. Seibert, Courtney B. Wong
Special Thanks to Definition 6, Hyperactive, Magnetic Dreams, Studio G Brooklyn
Taped at Kaufman Astoria Studios in New York

Gallery

Sources

↑ Ryan Dillon on Instagram
↑ Listed among guests in the Season 49 Press Kit accessed on October 28, 2018; names have since been removed

Footnote

↑ Caroll Spinney receives on-screen credit for performing his roles, though Matt Vogel and Eric Jacobson perform Big Bird and Oscar in new material with the exception of Episode 4920.

External links

Season 49 Press Kit

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[1] Ryan Dillon on Instagram

[2] Listed among guests in the Season 49 Press Kit accessed on October 28, 2018; names have since been removed

[3] Caroll Spinney receives on-screen credit for performing his roles, though Matt Vogel and Eric Jacobson perform Big Bird and Oscar in new material with the exception of Episode 4920.

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