| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | March 18, 1970 | ||||||
| Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Gordon is touching up the mural in the yard and says he's not going to tell anyone anything about today's episode. He's approached by a pair of identical sisters whose names he has to guess, and after guessing that they're triplets or quadruplets, finally figures out that they're twins. That prompts him to remember that today's episode is brought to you by the number... (the girls shout) "two!" |
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Cartoon | "Jazz #2" (First: Episode 0001) |
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Film | "Two Song (Song of Two)" (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 2 | Gordon talks about pairs with the twins, Digna and Deann. In voiceover, all three of them identify the animal pairs in the following film... |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A series of zoo animals are shown in pairs. (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 2 cont'd |
The group discusses what they saw when Bob arrives. He learns the secret behind telling which of the twins is Digna and which is Deann, then cues up the next film... |
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Cartoon | Children describe how to draw an elephant. (First: Episode 0052) |
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SCENE 3 | Susan finds Big Bird babysitting for his sister — that is, sitting on her egg ("that's Eggbert, he hasn't hatched yet"). Susan is confused at first, but remembers that since his family are birds, he has to literally sit on the baby. Susan asks to hold the egg and points out that if it were turned a certain way, it would be round. |
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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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Cast / Muppets | Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, Gordon asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert. (First: Episode 0031) |
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Cartoon | Ten little Greeblies (bug-like creatures) keep getting separated from their group, teaching a lesson in counting backward. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when Ernie rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies. (First: Episode 0031) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads "The Story of Ira and Inez." (First: Episode 0034) |
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Cartoon | A Gary Owens-voiced man attempts to discuss the letter I, but is jeered by an offscreen voice. The man uses him as an example of the word "impolite". (First: Episode 0032) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan asks Suzie and one of the twins what they got for their last birthday, then reads a book: Birthday Presents by Eugene Fern. Just as she finishes reading, and singing a portion at the end, she hears Ernie singing in the bathtub... |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tells Bert that he calls his bathtub Rosie, because after his bath, he leaves a ring around Rosie. Bert then tells Ernie to get out of the tub, because other people are waiting to use it: Solomon Grundy, for instance. (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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Cartoon | "Jazz #3" (First: Episode 0002) |
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Film | "Three Song (Song of Three)." (First: Episode 0001) |
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SCENE 5 | Bob walks around the yard with a baby kangaroo; Gordon tells Mary, Hope, and Kevin that he won it for doing such a great job at walking up and down the street. Gordon thinks it might be a lieutenant, while one of the kids discovers that it's legs are different lengths so that it can move itself forward. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — When it's Ernie's turn to get a newspaper from Hooper's Store, Ernie decides to plan everything he may need. He gets his scarf and hat and earmuffs in case it snows, his umbrella if it starts to rain, sunglasses and suntan cream if it's a sunny day, and a flashlight if it gets dark. |
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SCENE 6 | Gordon notices that Kevin has grown about two inches since he saw him last; Kevin says it's from all the sleeping he's been doing. Gordon explains that every living thing grows, "I'm growing, Big Bird's even getting bigger, people, animals, fruit, vegetables, everything alive grows." |
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Film | Apples grow on a tree. |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 2) |
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Cartoon | A self-proclaimed "handsome" fly (voiced by Casey Kasem) is indignant about appearing in a segment about the letter F with a "fat and ugly" frog. The frog solves the problem by eating the fly. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 3) |
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Cast | Buddy and Jim struggle with replacing a light bulb. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Film | "Big, Bigger, Biggest" A junior car dealer displays cars of different sizes to people of different sizes. (First: Episode 0003) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie is going on a hunt for big rocks. When he tries to pick a really big one, the rock turns out to be the dome of a large monster. (First: Episode 0034) |
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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 0032) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: C for cat (impostor) (First: Episode 0029) |
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Celebrity | Jackie Robinson says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0054) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert hears the phone ringing inside a basket, and asks Ernie to answer it. Ernie goes through the basket, and finds a banana. He pretends it's a phone, and gives it to Bert to talk on. Ernie answers the real phone, and tells the caller that Bert can't come to the phone because he's talking on the banana. (First: Episode 0004) |
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SCENE 7 | Gordon says goodbye, while Bob announces the sponsors and today's book. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, whereas a group of Muppet hippies (including a bearded hippie) hold up the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
Notes[]
- The opening scene begins with a different arrangement of the "Sesame Street Theme" than usual, with a faster tempo and the melody emphasized on the flute.
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