After tests showed that their young viewers were confused by the episode and did not understand important concepts about divorce, the producers decided to not air it, despite the investment they had made. Every word of the divorce episode was reviewed by the Children's Television Workshop's (CTW) advisory board, content experts, and developmental psychologists. The episode was written by staff writer Norman Stiles, who also wrote the 1983 episode in which Mr. Snuffleupagus ("Snuffy") and his family's experience of divorce. The producers chose to present the Muppet Mr. The show's producers had expressed a desire to produce the episode as early as 1989, and they were convinced that it was a topic they should address after the US Census Bureau reported that 40% of American children had experienced divorce. Extensive research was done before these episodes were written and produced, to ascertain their focus, and after they aired, to analyze the effect they had on viewers, and that was the case for "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce".
Sesame Street has had a history of presenting difficult topics as part of its affective curriculum goals, including death, marriage, childbirth, and disaster. Produced in 1992, it never aired because tests showed several unintended negative effects. "Snuffy's Parents Get a Divorce" is an episode of the children's television program Sesame Street. They are joined in their search by Claudia Brown, a junior-level agent from the Home Office sent to investigate the monster sighting. Cutter initially dismisses it as a hoax, but decides to investigate upon learning that the sighting took place in the Forest of Dean, where his wife disappeared.Īt the Forest of Dean, Cutter, Stephen, and Connor find evidence of a large and powerful predator. At Central Metropolitan University, graduate student Connor Temple approaches his tutor in evolutionary zoology, Professor Nick Cutter, and Cutter’s assistant, Stephen Hart, with a newspaper photograph of a Therapsid-like creature. With no witnesses to her disappearance, she is presumed dead.Įight years pass. Unable to find shelter in a nearby closed supermarket, Helen flees back into the forest.
A Gorgonopsid emerges from the Forest of Dean pursuing Dr. The pilot became a success and was picked up before the series was aired. The episode was aired on 10 February 2007 as a pilot for the series. Episode 1 is the first episode of the ITV drama Primeval.
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