Learning About Letters



A 1986 video released by the My Sesame Street Home Video label.

Plot
It's Alphabet Day on Sesame Street. Big Bird tells Mr. Snuffleupagus that on alphabet day, people go searching for objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet and read words, and after all that, Luis will read them a story. Mr. Snuffleupagus goes searching for something that begins with the letter A, while Telly Monster gets the gang organized for Alphabet Day.

Sketches

 * "The Alphabet Song" sung by Lena Horne, Fat Blue and the Anything Muppets
 * "C is for Cookie" with Cookie Monster and the monsters
 * Cartoon: Frances Fairy
 * Cartoon: G-Gorilla impersonates a man
 * Cartoon: Harry the Horse
 * Cartoon: K-key
 * "La, La, La" with Bert and Ernie
 * Film: letters in various Street Signs
 * Kermit the Frog draws the letter M on-screen
 * "M-M-M Monster Meal" with Cookie Monster and Herry Monster
 * Cartoon: O-Orange
 * Cartoon: The R Wizard
 * Cartoon:The Villain in the Panama Hat
 * Cartoon: "Madrigal Alphabet"
 * The King Banishes the Letter P

DVD Chapters

 * The ABC's
 * C is for Cookie
 * Frances Fairy
 * The Letter "L"
 * Letters Everywhere
 * The Letter "M"
 * ABC Song
 * Storytime: "The King Banishes the Letter P"

Muppets (New Footage)

 * Big Bird, Telly Monster, Buster the Horse, Oscar the Grouch, Irvine, Aloysius Snuffleupagus, Letter U, a Cow, a dentist, a little boy, a Honker, and The Elephants.

Muppets (Segments)

 * Cookie Monster, Herry Monster, Ernie, Bert, Kermit the Frog, Grover, King Peter the Persnickety, Princess Penelope, Mr. Johnson, Oscar the Grouch, Monsters, and The Anything Muppets.

Performers

 * Carol Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
 * Martin Robinson as Telly Monster, Aloysius Snuffleupagus, and Buster the Horse.
 * Kevin Clash as U, Cow, and Little Boy.
 * Pam Arciero as Dentist.
 * Bryant Young as Aloysius Snuffleupagus (back half).
 * Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Ernie, Mr. Johnson, and King Peter the Persnickety.
 * Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Bert, Grover, Princess Penelope, and The Royal Cook.
 * Jerry Nelson as Herry Monster.
 * Richard Hunt as various Anything Muppets.