Reality TV has come a long way over the years. While the genre gained traction during a previous writers' strike, it has been around for decades. Here are several of the very first reality television ...

Before the premieres of The Muppet Show in 1976 and Sesame Street in 1969 — and even before he was a frequent guest on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1960s — Jim Henson created a puppet show called ...