The Count began as a parody of the Dracula character immortalized in film by Bela Lugosi. He first appeared during the fourth season of "Sesame Street." According to the Sesame Street Guide ...

In 1972, early into his tenure at Sesame Street ... for characters. After conceiving The Amazing Mumford with a couple of colleagues, he received another jolt of inspiration: What if Count ...

LOS ANGELES – Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer behind a delightful menagerie of characters including Count von Count on "Sesame Street" and Gobo Fraggle on "Fraggle Rock," has died. He was 78.

Sesame Street first aired back in 1969 and is now in its 55th season, nearly 56 years later. Over the decades, the show has ...

this adorable turquoise Muppet is definitely the musician on Sesame Street (if we don’t count Elmo playing on his crayon piano). She’s also the main bilingual character on the show ...

The Count, Gabrielle, Oscar the Grouch, and a whole host of Honkers, Martians, and other Sesame Street favorites are bringing the biggest, brightest, furriest musical in town back to Off-Broadway!

"Sesame Street" is finding a new home, as it changes hands from HBO to Netflix. And of course PBS is getting a cut.

Jerry Nelson, voice of the Count from "Sesame Street," has died at 78 ... D.C., both operated the puppet and gave voice to the character formally known as Count von Count. He was also the human ...

Jerry Nelson, the puppeteer who taught innumerable children to count over the years as the voice of one of Sesame Street’s most popular characters, died Thursday in his Cape Cod home.