{"id":37684,"date":"2023-10-24T23:08:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=37684"},"modified":"2023-10-24T23:08:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T03:08:07","slug":"watch-the-sesame-street-episode-banned-for-being-too-scary-featuring-the-wizard-of-ozs-wicked-witch-of-the-west-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/10\/24\/watch-the-sesame-street-episode-banned-for-being-too-scary-featuring-the-wizard-of-ozs-wicked-witch-of-the-west-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the\u00a0Sesame Street\u00a0Episode Banned for Being Too Scary, Featuring\u00a0The Wizard of Oz\u2019s Wicked Witch of the West (1976)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In 1939, Margaret Hamilton made cinema history as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz<\/em>. In 1976, she made television history by reprising the role on a Sesame Street<\/em> episode that was pulled from the show\u2019s rotation immediately after it aired.  It seems to have drawn Sesame Workshop, then known as the Children\u2019s Television Workshop, a fair few complaints from the parents of disturbed children. As a result, writes Mental Floss\u2019 Michele Debczak<\/a>, \u201cthe episode was banned for being \u2018too scary\u2019 for kids, and for decades it was difficult to find,\u201d seen only on low-quality video tapes and in the troubled minds of certain Generation Xers.<\/p>\n\n\n \n

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