The Wicked Witch Gets Sesame Street Banned
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This is a look back at the infamous Sesame Street episode that featured Margaret Hamilton reprising her role as the Wicked Witch of the West. This notorious episode has taken on its own kind of urban legend and only grainy clips and still frame photos existed. The response was so bad that the children's television workshop banned the episode and it was never aired again. For 46 years this episode has been locked away in six days before I'm recording this, but now they have leaked all over the internet. It completely changes the direction of this show but now makes it more compelling than ever.
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