| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | February 19, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon sees Big Bird reading a book of magic spells. They don't believe the spells would really work, but they try one just for fun; it ends up conjuring a giant letter R in the middle of the sidewalk! Big Bird and Gordon try to remove the R from the premises (using lots of R words as they do) but it won't budge, and there doesn't seem to be a spell to get rid of it. Big Bird thinks they can use it to tell stories, like … |
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Cartoon | R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) |
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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 | Speech Balloon: R - rabbit (First: Episode 0014) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon and Big Bird are still puzzling over the R. Susan enters and they explain to her what happened, and that there is no spell in the book for removing the letter. Susan looks through the book and discovers that there is a spell for changing giant letters into something else. Susan casts a spell which makes the R disappear, but then it pours rain! |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Susan casts a rhyming spell which makes the rain disappear, replacing it with a plane. She and Gordon look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter R (First: Episode 0014). |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
Since the rain is gone, Susan walks over to the yard to read Maybe a Monster by Martha Alexander. She then wonders out loud what Ernie and Bert are up to. |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Toast — Ernie and Bert make toast, demonstrating fat and thin. (First: Episode 0024) |
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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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Muppets | An Anything Muppet sings "Minute Waltz." (First: Episode 0019) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon has given the magic book back to Big Bird, and explains what it means to hand something to someone. |
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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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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | A boy counts while erasing things and people. (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 4 | Gordon plays a "touching game" with Renee and Troy where he asks the girls to blindly feel what he's holding behind a cutout box with a curtain so they can identify the item. |
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Muppets | Tony sings "Windy" to his girlfriend, Beautiful Day Monster. |
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Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | The “unsung beauty of manhole covers” is explored. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 5 | Susan plays a rhyming game with Oscar the Grouch about family roles. Oscar's guesses don't quite match up with what Susan has in mind, so he attempts to make a nonsensical rhyming couplet of his own. |
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Muppets | Big Bob hosts "Can You Guess?", the first-ever Sesame Street game show. Billy Monster must guess which of three (non-monster) panelists is the mother. Billy can't get the right answer because his own mother possesses monster traits. (First: Episode 0026) |
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Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)" (repeat) |
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Film | How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow." (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ice Cubes — Ernie wants to show Bert his ice cube collection. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: R - rabbit (repeat) |
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Cartoon | R for Radio (repeat) |
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Celebrity | Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song." (First: Episode 0005) |
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Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon asks the viewer to come back as he joins the kids for a game of basketball. Big Bird announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, and a bunch of Muppet hippies hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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