| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | January 23, 1970 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | On the steps, Gordon plays a guessing game with Roma and Patty, where they both cover their eyes and guess what sounds they hear. They hear the sounds of traffic, a plane, an ice cream truck, and clumsy Big Bird crashing into something. |
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Film | "Noises" A boy named Mark has a pair of magic glasses that helps him listen to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, a bicycle, and a parrot. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Magic Glasses — While Ernie wears a pair of magic glasses, Cookie Monster steals his cookies. |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
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Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan prepares a sandwich in the kitchen, pointing out to Roma that one kid is made of many different parts, just like a sandwich can be made of many different foods. |
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Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (First: Episode 0003) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob and Robin look at a porcupine in the Pet Shop window; Bob observes that there are all kinds of different-looking animals, even funny-looking ones… |
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Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Trip to the Zoo — Bert asks Ernie about his day, but Ernie doesn't think anything interesting happened. (First: Episode 0020) |
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Cartoon | "O Imagination" Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird recites a short poem about the letter O. |
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Film | "Round": A live-action film set to a lively soundtrack shows circles in every-day life, including Coca-Cola bottle caps, moving wheels, yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons. (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan reads a book: What Do I Do? by Norma Simon. She then asks what Burt Lancaster does. |
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Celebrity | Burt Lancaster shows what he does when he's happy and when he's angry. When he's home, he watches Sesame Street. (First: Episode 0005) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "All Together Now". (First: Episode 0015) |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (First: Episode 0021) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird doesn't seem to have ten of anything, so Susan shows Big Bird how Robin and Patty have ten fingers and toes. Big Bird recites a poem about the number 10. |
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Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (repeat) |
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SCENE 7 | Bob compares his size to that of Sally, explaining that letters can be big and small as well. They identify a capital E and a lowercase E. |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Musical Banana — Gordon plays a musical trick on Ernie and Cookie Monster with a banana. (First: Episode 0016) |
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Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (repeat) |
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Film | "Boy at Beach" A boy walks on the beach, and sees a sandpiper, a crab, a hermit crab, and other animals. (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 8 | Gordon, Sally, and Jay look at and feed lettuce to some guinea pigs. Gordon wonders what Buddy and Jim are doing. |
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Cast | Buddy and Jim get confused when a picture falls off of the wall. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Cartoon | E Imagination (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (repeat) |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Gordon and the kids continue to feed the guinea pigs as they sign off and the credits roll. 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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