| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | February 3, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | While Gordon and Bob get ready for today's activities, Susan welcomes the viewer and displays the capital and lowercase E. |
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Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) |
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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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Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 2 | Susan introduces Gordon and Bob and the letter E. |
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Cast | Gordon and Bob assemble an E. (First: Episode 0005) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001) |
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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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Cartoon | Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!" (First: Episode 0001) |
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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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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1 (repeat) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan reads a book to Mauricio and Vanessa: What is Your Favorite Thing to Touch? by Myra Tomback Gibson. She then asks them who their favorite witch is. |
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Cartoon | "Wanda the Witch" Animation by Tee Collins (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob watches as Steven and Ronald build things out of different-shaped blocks. He explains how rectangles, squares, and triangles can make many different things. |
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Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (with revised music) (First: Episode 0004) |
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Transition | Diamond transition (First: Episode 0007) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries to Draw a 3 Part 1 — Bert doesn't like Ernie's drawing of a llama, so he draws a 3 instead. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries to Draw a 3 Part 2 — Ernie's attempt at a 3 prompts Bert to call his attention back to the film. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Tries to Draw a 3 Part 3 — Ernie says making a 3 is easy as pie, now. (First: Episode 0002) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan sings "Here Are Some Things" with pictures of an apple and things you sit on. She introduces someone counting "the hard way..." |
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Celebrity | Burt Lancaster counts while doing pushups. (First: Episode 0010) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon comments on Burt's strength, and leads into the next film. |
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Film | Apes play at the zoo. (First: Episode 0045) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red (First: Episode 0001) |
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Animation | Clay animation: Sam the Snake-and other things that begin with S (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon demonstrates "over," "through," and "around" with a small paper-covered hoop. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Through the Hoop — Ernie demonstrates the word "through" with the help of Snookie and Bert, who holds a hoop. (First: Episode 0023) |
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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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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 8 | Bob encounters Big Bird, who is happy because he just learned a song from a chicken — "Chickery Chick." |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hair. According to Kermit, "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." He points out that some people have hair on their heads, while others have it on their faces. But if you have hair all over your body -- like Beautiful Day Monster, who emerges brushing himself and singing "A pretty girl is like a melody ..." -- then you're a monster! (First: Episode 0028) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water |
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SCENE 9 | Susan segues from the previous segment to the next. |
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Film | Water is shown in many forms, including oceans, fountains, and snow. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 10 | Gordon prepares Vanessa, Mauricio, and Steve for some pictures of something up close. |
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Film | Close-ups are shown of a tire. Music: Peter Schickele (First: Episode 0013) |
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SCENE 10 cont'd |
The kids thought it was a snake or a manhole cover before recognizing it as an automobile tire. Gordon wonders out loud what Bob and the Anything Muppets are going to do today. |
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Muppets | Bob makes up three Anything Muppets as if they were employed in a transportation mode: a railroad engineer, an airplane pilot, and a bus driver. They all agree that the best job would be on board a submarine... (beginning shortened) (First: Episode 0017) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Yellow Submarine". (First: Episode 0017) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg (repeat) |
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SCENE 11 | On the count of three, all the kids wildly say, "Goodbye!" before they leave with Gordon. Bob announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, and Cookie Monster holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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