1983

==Television & Movies==
*The World of the Dark Crystal on PBS, January 9
*Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on HBO, January 10
*Fraggle Rock Season 1 begins on CBC
*Rocky Mountain Holiday on ABC, May 12
*Big Bird in China on NBC, May 29
*Don't Eat the Pictures on PBS, November 16
*Sesame Street Season 15, November 21
*Sesame Street Episode 1839 (Mr. Hooper's death) on PBS, November 24
==International Television==
*The French co-production of Fraggle Rock begins airing in France on FR3, November
*Die Fraggles (Fraggle Rock) begins airing in Germany on ZDF, November 12
*Barrio Sésamo begins its second run in Spain
*Sesame begins airing in the Philippines
*Germany's Sesamstrasse celebrates 10th Anniversary
==Appearances==
* Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Russell Harty, February 15
* Jim Henson and Frank Oz on Good Morning Britain, February 16
* Big Bird and Oscar on The Richard Simmons Show, March 25
* Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, and Shivers the Penguin, at the Cleveland Orchestra, June 26
==International Appearances==
*Oscar the Grouch co-hosts the CBC broadcast of the Toronto Santa Claus Parade, November 13
==Storybooks==
*Big Bird and Little Bird's Big & Little Book (reissue version with new illustrations by A. Delaney)
*Bert and the Missing Mop Mix-up
*The Case of the Missing Mother
*The City Worm and the Country Worm
*Don't Cry, Big Bird
*Early Bird on Sesame Street
*Ernie's Little Lie
*Everyone Makes Mistakes
*Grover Goes to School
*I Can Dress Myself
*The Muppets on the Road
*People in My Family
*Pigs in Space
*Puppy Love
*The Radish Day Jubilee
*Red and the Pumpkins
*The Sesame Street Question and Answer Book About Animals
*The Sesame Street Treasury series begins
*The Sesame Street Word Book
*The Twiddlebugs' Dream House
*You Are the Star of a Muppet Adventure
==Non-fiction Books==
*The Making of the Dark Crystal
==Albums==
*The Best of Bert
*The Best of Big Bird
*The Best of Cookie Monster
*The Best of the Count
*The Best of Ernie
*The Best of Grover
*The Best of Oscar the Grouch
*Born to Add
*Fraggle Rock
*The Gang's All Here!
*My Record
*Rocky Mountain Holiday
*Surprise!
==Videos==
*The Dark Crystal (Thorn/EMI Video UK release)
*De Freggels 1 (from the Dutch coproduction of Fraggle Rock)
*De Freggels 2
*De Freggels 3
*De Freggels 4
*De Freggels 5
*De Freggels 6
*Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas (Muppet Home Video)
*Fraggle Songs
*The Frog Prince (Muppet Home Video)
*The Great Muppet Caper (20th Century Fox Video)
*Hey Cinderella! (Muppet Home Video)
*The Muppet Musicians of Bremen (Muppet Home Video)
==Merchandise==
*Miss Piggy's Calendar of Calendars
*Big Bird's sprinkler
*Big Bird Xylophone
*Muppet Magazine begins, January
*Kermit telephone (American Telecommunications)
*Alpha Beam with Ernie
*Big Bird's Egg Catch
*Cookie Monster Munch
*Doozer wind-up toys
*Fraggle Rock plush (Tomy)
*The Fraggle Trap Game
*Happy House Books coloring books
*Oscar's Trash Race
*Pigs in Space video game
*Tomy Muppet wind-up toys
*Muppet stationery set (Empire Pencil Corp.)
==Stage Shows==
*Sesame Street Live show Around the World debuts
==Muppet Character Debuts==
*Sesame Street: Captain Vegetable
*Fraggle Rock: Gobo Fraggle, Mokey Fraggle, Red Fraggle, Wembley Fraggle, Boober Fraggle, Uncle Traveling Matt, Sprocket, Marjory the Trash Heap, Philo and Gunge, Pa Gorg, Ma Gorg, Junior Gorg
*Sesamstrasse: Finchen
==People==
* Olamide Faison born
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