Sesame Street syndication packages

Episodes open with an exclusive title sequence created specifically for Unpaved, which depicts the characters on a busy New York street and was shot on-location in the borough of Queens.

[2] A documentary with the same name, created to celebrate Sesame Street's thirtieth year on television, premiered on TV Land on December 8, 1999 to promote the Noggin channel's "retro" shows.

[3] Unlike all other installments, it was created in a clip show format; scenes from a variety of hallmark episodes were featured instead of content from a single episode, and original footage starring five of the program's original cast members – Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Bob McGrath, Martin P. Robinson, and Caroll Spinney – was added as a framing device.

[9] The Workshop initially considered repackaging Sesame segments into themed collections, rather than airing modified cuts of individual episodes.

Herb Scannell (who was the president of Nickelodeon and TV Land at the time) suggested centering a package around Elmo, a breakout character whose popularity had peaked in the late 1990s.