| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | February 16, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird wants to help Mr. Hooper in his store. Mr. Hooper is planning to paint a sign advertising orange juice, and Big Bird says he can do the job… but he's a little forgetful about the alphabet. Mr. Hooper points him to Lou Rawls. |
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Celebrity | Lou Rawls sings an alphabet song to a group of kids. (First: Episode 0043) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd |
Gordon helps Big Bird figure out that the first letter in the word "orange" is the letter O. He can't recall what an O looks like, so Gordon asks him what shape an orange has, and Big Bird knows that oranges are round like a circle — also the shape of an O. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) |
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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 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: What Happened Here — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. (First: Episode 0030) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird has finished painting the word "orange" on the sign, but he doesn't know how to spell "juice." Susan helps him by listing some J words, and shows him how to write one. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: J - Jam (First: Episode 0012) |
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Cartoon | "The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug." Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0009) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about the letter J with a jack-in-the-box, whose lid ends up crushing him. |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has finished the sign, and Mr. Hooper is proud of him for learning how to make letters. |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn." (First: Episode 0002) |
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SCENE 4 | Bob and Chris look at an anteater, which is able to climb trees for fun. |
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Film | Apes play at the zoo. (First: Episode 0045) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things," first with pictures of things that make light, and one with winter clothing. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Monster Steals Cookies — Ernie gets blamed for Beautiful Day Monster stealing Bert's cookies. (First: Episode 0041) |
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Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Muppets | A group of Anything Muppets enter, with one saying, "Some of us are here, but not all." They leave, and say that now none of them are there. They re-enter with a few more, saying that some of them are there but not all, and leave again, saying that none of them are there. Many Muppets appear, including Bert, Grover, Scudge, Billy, Oscar and Cookie Monster, who all say, "Now we are all here!" (First: Episode 0061) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon shows Chris and Lance the way a balance scale works by showing that the scale is tipped one way with no weights on one side. With some weights added, the scale begins to slightly balance itself out, and with all the weights, the scale tips the other way. He says that it's pretty easy to make the ends of this scale go up and down like a seesaw -- that is, unless you're Buddy and Jim. |
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Cast | Buddy and Jim try to use a seesaw. (First: Episode 0010) |
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SCENE 7 | Bob observes that there are families everywhere, besides on Sesame Street. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Lion family. (First: Episode 0018) |
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SCENE 8 | Susan points out that families are good at sharing, leading to the following segment. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Sharing Jellybeans — Ernie divides jellybeans among himself and Bert. (First: Episode 0014) |
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SCENE 9 | Gordon and Susan encounter Oscar, who just got some new trash from the Grouches' Yearly Bargain Basement Discount Sale. He shows off some of his new possessions: a soup bowl with holes, a telephone with no receiver, and a non-working TV set — which is actually a radio that Oscar insists on watching. |
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Cartoon | A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: R - rabbit (First: Episode 0014) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "Up, Up and Away." (First: Episode 0049) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Chore Week — Ernie and Bert arrange how they'll take turns washing the dishes. (First: Episode 0015) |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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SCENE 10 | Bob says it's important to count, and that James Earl Jones can do it well. |
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Celebrity | James Earl Jones counts to 10. (First: Episode 0005) |
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SCENE 11 | Bob, Brynne, and Lance play a guessing game with Big Bird: what animal does Bob have inside the box? After Big Bird makes several wrong guesses, he learns that they're actually two Angora guinea pigs. Brynne helps Bob count one of the guinea pig's six toes. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (repeat) |
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SCENE 12 | Gordon signs off before joining Big Bird, the kids, and the guinea pigs. Bob announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and a bunch of Muppet hippies hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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