| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 1, 1969 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Susan welcomes you back to Sesame Street. You're just in time to watch Gordon play a trick on Ernie. |
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Muppets | Gordon has four things lined up in a row--a harmonica, a whistle, a trumpet, and a banana. He tells Ernie that one of these doesn't belong, and Ernie chooses the banana because you can make music with the instruments, but you eat the banana... or so he thinks. Gordon tells Ernie to blow into the banana and Ernie appears to be playing a horn until Gordon reveals he was honking a horn behind his back the whole time. Amused by the trick, they decide to play the same joke on Cookie Monster, but Cookie has a different idea--you eat the harmonica, whistle, and trumpet, and make beautiful music with the banana! |
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Film | Two men, Big and Little, travel around playing the tuba and violin. Even though they’re different (Big has dark skin, and Little has light skin), together they make beautiful music. |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon has Marlo write the alphabet up to the letter D. |
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Cartoon | Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime." |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (role reversal between man and dog) |
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Cartoon | A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D. |
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Cast | Susan sings "If You're Happy and You Know It". (First: Episode 0008) |
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Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 1)" A boy loves jellybeans and comes across a girl who's sad because she lost hers. The boy shares his bag of jellybeans with the girl, but now he has none. Will he get his jellybeans back? Stay tuned... |
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SCENE 3 | Susan and Sarah play a game using pictures of animals. |
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Film | A boy with magic glasses listens to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, and a parrot. (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan shows Sarah an egg. Egg begins with E. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E -- Egg (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan talks about more words that start with the letter E. |
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Cartoon | "Imagination E" (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 2)" The boy who gave his jellybeans away finds the girl again. This time she's afraid of a monster, but the boy assures her that if the monster comes around, he'll be there to help out. Rewarding his kindness, she gives the boy back his jellybeans. All is well until the monster shows up and the girl reveals the reason the monster was bothering her was because he wanted the jellybeans. Now the boy has them, so she's no longer afraid. The monster eats the entire bag of jellybeans and gives the boy a kiss. Our hero is no longer afraid, but he still doesn't have jellybeans. Stay tuned.... |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird tells Gordon he's happy because a man carrying packages told him he has the longest neck he's ever seen. After Big Bird proudly leaves to take a "neck nap", Gordon tells Marlo that a giraffe actually has a larger and longer neck than Big Bird's. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Giraffes. (First: Episode 0010) |
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Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 3)" The boy is mad because he has an empty bag and no jellybeans, and the girl is mad because she found her jellybeans, but she doesn't have anything to put them in. They decide to share, and the girl puts her jellybeans in the boy's bag. A happy ending with jellybeans for all! |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon reads Goggles! by Ezra Jack Keats and introduces the next segment. |
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Celebrity | Burt Lancaster says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert wants to tell Ernie something, but Ernie wants to finish his milk first. His cup is very small, but it takes a long time to drink. Bert warns Ernie that he'd better finish by the time he counts to 10. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert finishes counting to 10 just as Ernie finishes his milk. Bert questions how such a tiny cup can hold such a large amount of milk, so Ernie fills the cup to show him. It turns out to take just as long to fill up as it does to drink, so Ernie takes the time to talk to Bert about various M words. |
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Cartoon | Marvelous Martha knows many words that start with the letter "M". (First: Episode 0013) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie's still filling the cup and naming various M words. Exasperated, Bert starts counting to 10 again. |
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Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated by their group, teaching a lesson in counting backwards. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie finishes filling the cup and Bert finally reminds him that they were going to go to the movies. But because Ernie took so long and the movie starts in 5 minutes, there's no way they'll make it in time... until Ernie finishes the cup in one quick swig. |
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SCENE 8 | A group of kids play jump rope. |
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Song | "Song of Eight" |
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SCENE 9 | Susan and Brynne put 9 candles on Sally's birthday cake. |
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Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" |
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SCENE 10 | Gordon and the kids watch Alphabet Bates write the letter D. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (repeat) |
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SCENE 11 | Susan shows us two round covers--the lid to a pot and the top to a jar of jelly--then gives us a riddle. What's in the street, it's a cover, and it's round? A manhole cover! |
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Film | The "unsung beauty of manhole covers" is explored. Some kids watch some beetles make their way through all the grooves. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 12 | Susan reminds Gordon he promised to hang a picture for her. He'll do it because he's a nice guy, but he won't do it like Buddy and Jim did. |
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Cast | Buddy and Jim hang up a picture. (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 13 | Gordon signs off. |
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SCENE 13 cont'd |
Oscar announces the sponsors and the book read on today's show. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan holds the Sesame Street sign and Cookie Monster holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. Oscar impatiently asks, "Now can I get back in my trash can?" over the funding screen. |
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