No, not when I was of an age to watch it. I never had kids so I'm not familiar with all the shows that came later. Hopefully no one will mention a show with a purple dinosaur.

Uh, CNN, if we are talking shows about children.

Yes. Howdy-Doody; Captain Kangaroo; Mr. Rogers; Soupy Sales; Fireball XL5; Clutch Cargo; Lassie. Can the question possibly be more nebulous?

Has there ever been an Express question than today's punt?

Has there ever been an Express question better than today's punt?

The best childrens show was called The Big Blue Marble. While the show was geared towards kids, it didn't feel childish the way Sesame Street did to me.

Today's Sesame Street is a pale imitation of the original, but it's still head and shoulders above anything else out there in terms of edu-tainment. The ONLY programming that ever approached Sesame Street wasn't even full programming at all -- School House Rock. Everything else out there is so artificially sweet it can't possibly be good for children, and certainly not the parents.

Yes! Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. My three children grew up watching Sesame Street and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood. Mr. Roger's Neighborhood taught them more about life, having fun and caring for others. It dealt more with real life.

Yes, Hardball, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show at a minimum. All kids should watch these show as well as documentaries by Michael Moore and Al Gore so that we can indoctrinate them sooner rather than later like I tried to do before those bigot Republicans stopped me from trying to get school kids to write a paper on how they can help me with my radical agenda. At least there were a few teachers that got their students to sing songs of praise to me. Oh, how I love to hear them sing my name in praise like churchgoers do about Jesus on Sundays in church.

Not a chance. Sesame Street is the gold standard of children's television programming. Thank you, PBS!

Yes, it was called the original Mickey Mouse Club (and I realize I'm dating myself....)

I loved to watch Captain Kangaroo. Tom Terrific and Manfred the Wonder Dog were my favorites. Ironically, Sesame Street on PBS is more commercially successful than CK ever was on CBS.

Depends how you define "kids' TV show". From various stages of my youth, I'd include the following in the list of shows that epitomized awesomeness: "Picture Pages", "Reading Rainbow", "Electric Company", "Fat Albert", "The Smurfs", "DuckTales", "G.I. Joe", "Thundercats", "Saved By The Bell", and "You Can't Do That On Television".

Can we count the Dear Leader's "Back To School" indoctrination address?

My toddlers absolutely love "True Blood".

Definitely not! An excellent children's program that I recall from my own childhood in the early 1950s was Ding Dong School. During that same era, there was Howdy Doody, and also Kukla, Fran and Ollie. A very educational children's program that I watched, likewise from the '50s, was Mr. Wizard. Sesame Street may well have been an excellent children's program in its own time, but I would not agree that it was the best children's program ever.

No, but only because the administration has not yet unveiled "Yes We Can: Barack Obama's Hope and Change Hour" - a daily program all children will soon be required to watch at school extolling the virtues of wealth-spreading, international acquiescence, government control of all aspects of one's life, and the mindless chanting of vapid campaign slogans.

What a lame duck...

How long til someone tries to steer the conversation toward gay marriage via a discussion of "The Teletubbies"?

The show is an abomination, as it refuses to grant Bert and Ernie their civil rights!

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You sure can. I would be honored.
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Good idea. I will see about adding it to all the stations that I am in bed with, which would be all but FOX.

I can think of four. They're called "Quality Time With Your Parents", "A Book", "Playing Outside", and "Just About Anything Other Than Spending An Hour Staring At The TV".

Sesame Street is obviously great, but the best ever was Mr. Rogers.

Sadly, "Sesame Street" would never make it onto the air if it were being developed today. Not even PBS would green-light a show aimed at toddlers that features a character (Cookie Monster) who glorifies excessive consumption of junk food, another (Oscar) who discourages proper hygiene, two adult males who share a bedroom, and a vampire.

Geez, even with an innocuous question like this, people still get political.

Are these replies in response to the poll question about a children show or is this the I watch too much Fox News bias hour?