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Sesame Street
Oscar keeps missing the day's activities
Air date March 12, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors C, H, T, 8, 9

SSShowID-0089

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Gordon is about to introduce the letter T, which he can't find at first. Lance and Guy point out to him it's sticking out of his back pocket.
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Cartoon A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains".
Voice: Bob Arbogast
(First: Episode 0024)
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Cartoon Speech Balloon: T for train
(First: Episode 0022)
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SCENE 2 Mr. Hooper sees Bob with a suitcase. When he asks Bob if he's going somewhere, Bob says that we're (he and the viewer) all going for a ride.
Goinforaride
Muppets Anything Muppets sing "Goin' for a Ride", while traveling in a car, train, and boat.
(First: Episode 0037)
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SCENE 3 Oscar is ready to go for a ride, but Susan tells him the ride is over. She says they can watch TV instead.
Tisfortelevision
Cartoon A Casey Kasem-voiced man explains the letter T with a TV that plays a concert. When the man begins to sing with it, the conductor on the TV set "turns him off" by tweaking his nose.
(First: Episode 0024)
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Cartoon A poem filled with T words (repeat)
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SCENE 4 Gordon displays squares, circles, and triangles to Lance and Gayle, and shows how several of the shapes can look like certain objects when put together. He uses the squares to form a big rectangle, and mentions that rectangles are seen everywhere.
Rectangles1

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Film "Rectangles"
Rectangles in the city and country are shown to a percussion soundtrack.
(First: Episode 0005)
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SCENE 5 Bob introduces Kermit with two more rectangles.
Rectangles
Muppets Kermit talks about "same" by showing two identical rectangles. Cookie Monster eats one of them, making them different.
(First: Episode 0018)
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SCENE 6 Susan reads a book to Lance and Lisa, Chicken Little Count-to-ten by Margaret Friskey and Katherine Evans.
Pat Paulsen 10
Celebrity Pat Paulsen counts to 10. "Whoopee!"
(First: Episode 0069)
ErnieBertCheese
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie doesn't want to eat Swiss cheese, because it has holes in it, but Bert tells Ernie that holes make Swiss cheese taste better than the regular kind. Ernie says that he'll eat the cheese and that Bert can eat the holes.
(First: Episode 0010)
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Cartoon A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion.
(First: Episode 0033)
Cat toon2
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor)
(First: Episode 0029)
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Muppets Monsters, including an early Grover, Cookie Monster and Beautiful Day Monster, pass on the message, "See." The wide shot reveals that the monsters were whispering about the Letter C.
(Caroll Spinney performs Cookie Monster here.)
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SCENE 7 Gordon displays both of his hands, and introduces a hand that needs cheering up.
Whathandscando
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 cont'd Gordon points out that "hands" begins with H.
Hisforhorn
Cartoon "Poverty H" -- an orange figure tries to talk about the letter H, but a yellow figure keeps listing H words.
(First: Episode 0020)
Hladycartoon
Cartoon A woman explains the letter H and its use in "horseshoe", when a horse comes to reclaim his shoe and starts tickling the woman.
(First: Episode 0020)
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SCENE 7 cont'd Gordon counts how many fingers he's holding up: eight.
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Cartoon Jazz #8
(First: Episode 0016)
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Song "Song of Eight"
(First: Episode 0016)
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SCENE 7 cont'd Gordon adds another finger, making nine.
No9
Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
(First: Episode 0016)
Kermitwhathappensnext
Muppets Kermit demonstrates his "What Happens Next" machine, which is designed to turn on his radio. None of the parts of the machine work properly.
Jejalphabet
Celebrity Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet.
(First: Episode 0002)
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Alphabet Bates C
SCENE 8 Bob, Guy, and Gayle look up and see Alphabet Bates write the letter C (First: Episode 0029).
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Cartoon A man (voice of Bob Arbogast) talks about his favorite letter, C, which is for cat. He opens a door to reveal a lion. (repeat)
Cat toon2
Cartoon Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (repeat)
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SCENE 9 Oscar comes out of his can, wearing a pilot's helmet, ready to see the skywriter. Susan tells him he's too late, again.
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SCENE 9 cont'd Meanwhile at Hooper's Store, Big Bird helps Mr. Hooper sort five things into boxes. They keep ending up with one thing extra that doesn't have traits with the other four objects, and Big Bird thinks that the spare object will be lonely in the other box by itself. After separating the metal objects from a wooden spoon, Big Bird plucks a toy dog off the shelf to give the abandoned spoon some company.
Sleepykoala
Song Caroll Spinney sings "Rockabye Baby" to a sleepy koala.
(First: Episode 0048)
AMs-FatherSon
Muppets A Muppet father and son switch roles in the forest. The father climbs trees and asks questions, while the son explains things.
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SCENE 10 Oscar pops up again, dressed up for a walk in the woods, but again, he's too late. Susan says he'll have to hurry next time, and that "hurry" begins with H.
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Cartoon A man (voiced by Gary Owens) explains how H starts the word "Hello", which is then demonstrated by people calling him and asking for someone named Harold.
(First: Episode 0020)
Hladycartoon
Cartoon H for "horseshoe" (repeat)
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SCENE 11 Big Bird reads a poem he wrote about the numbers 8 and 9.
No8b
Song "Song of Eight" (repeat)
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Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (repeat)
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SCENE 12 Oscar wants to read his poem about the numbers 8 and 9, even though Big Bird already did it. His poem is naturally a more pessimistic version of Big Bird's, and he continues reading it as Susan signs off, announcing 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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