Episode 0101

Sesame Street
Air date	March 30, 1970
Season	Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production March 2, 1970 Sponsors I, K, N, 6, 7

Picture	Segment	Description
	SCENE 1	Susan says hello to some kids and welcomes the viewer. She displays the china platter she's polishing, which her grandmother had passed to her mother, who passed it down to her when she married Gordon. She comments that Gordon doesn't like it much, so it's usually stored away. She accidentally drops it, and sadly counts the six broken pieces.
	Cartoon	Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011)
	Film	"Six Song (Song of Six)." (First: Episode 0011)
	SCENE 1 cont'd	Gordon comes home, and Susan feels upset about her accident with the platter. Gordon doesn't give it much thought, which further irritates Susan. They argue for a little bit, then Gordon decides to go for a walk. Susan says her mother always said to count to 10 before she lost her temper, but today she should have counted to 20.
	Celebrity	Pat Paulsen counts to 20.
	SCENE 2	Gordon passes by Oscar's trash can. Oscar is delighted to learn about Gordon's fight with Susan, but tells him to keep it down because he's trying to take a nap. Susan empties some garbage into a nearby can, which includes the broken platter. Gordon tries to apologize, but Susan laments that the plate is already thrown out. Oscar, still wanting to get some sleep, relocates himself to the neighboring can and decides to help solve this quarrel by giving Gordon the pieces of the broken platter so he can glue it back together. Gordon remarks that with Oscar, "Sometimes a spoonful of medicine helps the sugar go down."
	Muppets	The Anything Muppets sing "A Spoonful of Sugar". (First: Episode 0005)
	SCENE 3	Back in the kitchen, Gordon encounters Susan, who's baking a cake for him out of remorse. Gordon acknowledges her feelings, and then shows her the repaired plate. Susan thinks she'll finish making the cake before Buddy and Jim can finish making a sandwich.
	Cast	Buddy and Jim make a sandwich. (First: Episode 0008)
	SCENE 4	Gordon says that when two people live together, they have to share things and cooperate. Have you ever had to share a pillow?
	Muppets	Cookie Monster and Ernie: During Ernie's naptime, Cookie Monster tries to steal and eat Ernie's pillow by distracting him with a bell. (First: Episode 0035)
	SCENE 5	Bob, Lynn, Mary, and Chris look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter N (First: Episode 0040).
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040)
	Cartoon	Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never."
	SCENE 6	Mr. Hooper displays a capital and lowercase letter N, leading to a segment about big and little.
	Film	Two men, Big and Little, travel around playing the tuba and violin. Even though they’re different (Big has dark skin, and Little has light skin), together they make beautiful music. (First: Episode 0016)
	SCENE 7	Bob, Lynn, and Mary observe and feed a one-week-old lamb. Bob points out that baby animals learn to walk, and introduces a film about a baby reindeer.
	Film	Sesame Street Animal Films: A baby reindeer takes its first steps. (with commentary from Bob and kids) (First: Episode 0003)
	Cartoon	K is for kitten. (First: Episode 0040)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: K - Key (First: Episode 0040)
	Muppets	Cheers: The Anything Muppets cheer for the letter K. (version #2)
	Celebrity	Actor James Earl Jones recites the alphabet. (First: Episode 0002)
	SCENE 8	Bob sits with one foot up on a bentwood chair. He "strums" the chair, and we hear a guitar being being played. Bob reveals what he has been hiding in his other hand: a guitar. He introduces a film about noises, saying that sometimes having a pair of magic glasses can help identify sounds.
	Film	"Noises" A boy named Julio uses "magic glasses" to see invisible things that make noises, including a train, a cat, a fire engine, a saw, and a man whistling. Can you make those noises? (First: Episode 0004)
	SCENE 8 cont'd	Bob plucks and counts the six strings on the guitar.
	Cartoon	Jazz #6 (repeat)
	Film	"Six Song (Song of Six)." (repeat)
	SCENE 9	Big Bird offers to help Mr. Hooper with making a sign advertising ink. Mr. Hooper reminds him that I is the first letter in "ink".
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: I - ice cream. (First: Episode 0033)
	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)
	SCENE 9 cont'd	Mr. Hooper reminds Big Bird of the next letter in "ink": the letter N.
	Cartoon	Eugene wants his talking crow Willis to name some N words, and Willis replies with "no," "nothing," "nobody" and "never." (repeat)
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: N - Nail (repeat)
	SCENE 9 cont'd	Mr. Hooper reminds Big Bird of the next letter in "ink": the letter K.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: K - Key (repeat)
	SCENE 9 cont'd	The sign is finished, but Big Bird accidentally spills ink on it. Now people will know that Mr. Hooper has ink for sale!
	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)
	SCENE 10	Big Bird displays a friendly number 7 sitting on his wing. He sneezes, and it disappears.
	Film	"Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011)
	Muppets	A Muppet father and son switch roles in the forest. The father climbs trees and asks questions, while the son explains things. (First: Episode 0089)
	SCENE 11	Bob, Gordon, and the kids observe a goose in the yard; Gordon asks Bob to sing a little of "Go Tell Aunt Rhody." Gordon signs off and Big Bird announces the sponsors, though another sneeze from him makes the number 7 disappear again.
	CLOSING SIGNS	Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.

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