| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | January 15, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon and Susan greet the viewer while waiting for some kids to show up to play a board game. Susan points out one of the shapes on the board: a rectangle. |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!" (First: Episode 0017) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Gayle and Steve join Gordon and Susan to play "One of These Things," first with shapes (and two correct answers), then with animal images. Susan points out that the kids were clapping along with the song, which is one kind of rhythm... |
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Film | A percussionist on the beach talks about how rhythm is everywhere, such as in breaking waves, walking and horse galloping. (First: Episode 0032) |
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SCENE 2 | Jay and Gillian have joined the group (minus Gayle), and Gordon tells everybody to stand in a row from biggest to smallest. Big Bird joins as well, but doesn't quite get where he's supposed to stand until Gordon informs him that they're sorting everyone by size, and Big Bird goes at the head of the line because he's the biggest. |
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Film | A boy arranges white blocks by size while his dog watches. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sandbox Game — Ernie gets Bert to engage in a word play game with him. (First: Episode 0019) |
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Song | “Song of Eight” (First: Episode 0016) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts while erasing things and people. (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon, Steve, and Gillian look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U (First: Episode 0036). |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0036) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon and Susan introduce Buddy and Jim by thinking of something that goes up and down on a playground. |
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Cast | Buddy and Jim try to use a seesaw. (First: Episode 0010) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
Gordon and Susan introduce the next segment by thinking of something that goes up and down in a building. |
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Cartoon | "Count Up Elevator" -- An elevator operator stops at ten floors to pick up passengers, including a witch, a fireman, and a kangaroo. The tenth passenger, a mouse, causes the elevator to overload and explode. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
Gordon and Susan introduce the next segment by thinking of something that can fly up in the sky. |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Up, Up and Away." |
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SCENE 4 cont'd |
Gordon asks the viewers where to find bees, trees, ants, and other natural things and rhymes with "goods." |
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Film | "In the Woods": Two kids go out into the woods. (First: Episode 0026) |
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Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) |
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Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts while erasing things and people. (repeat) |
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Cartoon | "Count Up Elevator" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie in the Bathtub Part 1 — Ernie asks Bert to toss a bar of soap into his bathtub, Rosie. (First: Episode 0001) |
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Animation | Clay animation insert by Jim Henson -- Quincy talks about Q. (First: Episode 0043) |
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Song | Ernie and Bert: Ernie in the Bathtub Part 2 — Drying off from his bath, Ernie leads the viewer in a rendition of "Everybody Wash" with brief camera cuts to the cast. (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 5 | Gordon reads Gayle a book: Katie Goes to Camp by Eleanor Schick. |
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Cartoon | "Poverty U" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Composing the Alphabet — Ernie and Bert have different ideas of how the alphabet should be sung. (First: Episode 0017) |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song." (First: Episode 0005) |
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Celebrity | Burt Lancaster says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 6 | Susan shows Gillian and Steve some pictures and asks them which order they go in. The set of pictures involves people using their hands to wave hello and goodbye. |
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Film | There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise. (First: Episode 0007) |
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SCENE 7 | Susan and the kids wave goodbye, and Gordon announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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