Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | March 24, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon sits on the stoop of 123 Sesame Street with Chris and welcomes the viewer. He teases an upcoming story by the Anything People before heading to the playground, where Buddy and Jim are right now. | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim try to use a seesaw. (First: Episode 0010) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0036) | |
SCENE 2 | Bob talks with Chris and Josh about the letter U and the two sounds it makes. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) | |
Animation | Clay animation film by Jim Henson: A unicorn talks about U words. (First: Episode 0037) | |
Muppets | An Anything Muppet presents the letter U. Another Muppet repeatedly insists, "That's not a 'me,' that's a U!" (First: Episode 0048) | |
Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 1)" A boy loves jellybeans and comes across a girl who's sad because she lost hers. The boy shares his bag of jellybeans with the girl, but now he has none. Will he get his jellybeans back? Stay tuned... (First: Episode 0016) | |
SCENE 3 | Susan shows Sally, Toni, and Kevin a picture with lots of items that begin with the letter L that they help identify. | |
Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) | |
Cartoon | L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) | |
Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 2)" The boy who gave his jellybeans away finds the girl again. This time she's afraid of a monster, but the boy assures her that if the monster comes around, he'll be there to help out. Rewarding his kindness, she gives the boy back his jellybeans. All is well until the monster shows up and the girl reveals the reason the monster was bothering her was because he wanted the jellybeans. Now the boy has them, so she's no longer afraid. The monster eats the entire bag of jellybeans and gives the boy a kiss. Our hero is no longer afraid, but he still doesn't have jellybeans. Stay tuned.... (First: Episode 0016) | |
SCENE 4 | Bob plays two rounds of "One of These Things," first with different-sized bottles, and then with different-sized alarm clocks. Speaking of clocks, it's time for... | |
Muppets | "The Story of the Boy and the Girl and the Jellybeans (Part 3)" The boy is mad because he has an empty bag and no jellybeans, and the girl is mad because she found her jellybeans, but she doesn't have anything to put them in. They decide to share, and the girl puts her jellybeans in the boy's bag. A happy ending with jellybeans for all! (First: Episode 0016) | |
Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0036) | |
SCENE 5 | Susan introduces Lou Rawls. | |
Celebrity | Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids. (First: Episode 0043) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert overhears Ernie drawing a picture of a dog with five legs. Bert thinks the fifth leg is a tail, because the other four legs have paws. Bert asks about the fifth leg, "Where's its paw?" Ernie replies, "It's gone shopping with its maw." (First: Episode 0010) | |
Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0005) | |
Cartoon | A bear counts bees (First: Episode 0083) | |
SCENE 6 | In the kitchen, Susan shows Big Bird a coffee cup that she just got for Gordon. Big Bird really admires it, and wishes he could be a cup maker. Susan shows him some corn she'll be cooking, and Big Bird now wishes he could be a corn maker until Susan tells him that corn grows in the ground instead of being made. | |
Film | Corn grows in a field. (First: Episode 0082) | |
Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "All Together Now." (First: Episode 0015) | |
Film | Kids demonstrate perspective using large and small rocks as they position themselves near and far. (First: Episode 0045) | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0079) | |
SCENE 7 | Bob, Josh, and Sally sing a song about "Opposites." | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (repeat) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie's friend holds a huge card of a dog in front of his head. Ernie asks Bert how many feet the dog has, and Bert says four. Next, Ernie's friend holds up a card of a table. Ernie asks Bert how many legs the table has. Again, Bert says four. Ernie's friend then holds up a card that shows a four-eyed monster. Ernie asks Bert, "How many eyes can you count on this face?" Bert again says four, but adds that "nothing in the world has four eyes and looks like that." Ernie's friend lowers the card, revealing himself to be the Beautiful Day Monster- with two extra eyes. (First: Episode 0009) | |
Cartoon | A bear counts bees (repeat) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon introduces some real bees. | |
Film | A bumble bee Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0082) | |
SCENE 9 | Gordon hands a bell to Josh, Sally, and Chris, and tells them to ring them every time they hear something wrong with the story of Wrong-Way Walter Williams. After the story, they ring in the following message. | |
Film | Five Song (Song of Five) (repeat) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert are watching TV, but Bert gets bored and decides to play a record. Ernie tells him to turn down the volume, but Bert won't, so Ernie drowns out Bert's music by playing the radio. Bert then retaliates by turning on the blender. With all four things running at once, they blow a fuse, causing a total blackout in their apartment. Bert goes outside to fix the fuse box, while Ernie turns off all the things that were running. When the lights come back on, they decide to play cards instead of fight. (First: Episode 0003) | |
SCENE 10 | Gordon: "What's the opposite of 'hello?' It's 'goodbye,' right?" Gordon wraps up the show, and Bob announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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