Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | April 1, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon wanders around Sesame Street and watches everybody playing games. Troy and Kate are jumping rope, while Bob, Jay, and Lance are pitching baseball cards and Susan, Brynne, and Reggie play hopscotch. Gordon claims to be a hopscotch champion, but messes up at the #6 square. | |
Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
Bob tries hopscotch himself, but also messes up at the #6 square. | |
Film | "Six Song (Song of Six)" (First: Episode 0011) | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
Big Bird joins everybody in playing games, wanting to try hopscotch himself. Even though his feet are bigger than the squares, he gives it a try and hops away, crashing into some nearby trash (getting his neck stuck in a lampshade in the process). He then tries jumprope, but realizes he doesn't know how to count. Susan points him to Roosevelt Franklin. | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin and his mother sing "Roosevelt Franklin Counts". (First: Episode 0068) | |
SCENE 1 cont'd |
The grown-ups suggest Big Bird try playing "pin the feature on the face," putting paper features on a drawing on the wall. Big Bird is tasked with putting the nose on to complete the face, but while blindfolded he narrowly misses bumping into the mailbox and the fire hydrant. He finally puts the nose on something... the head of Mr. Hooper. | |
Film | "Head To Toe Puzzle": Two kids put together a life size jigsaw puzzle of a human body. (First: Episode 0024) | |
Cartoon | L is for Lunchbox (First: Episode 0031) | |
Cartoon | L is for Ladder (First: Episode 0036) | |
SCENE 2 | Big Bird says that L is for loser, which is how he feels. Mr. Hooper recommends to the others that Big Bird play his "over and under" game, which confuses everyone else. | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes uses a brick wall to demonstrate around, under (by digging under it), and over (by jumping over it, and landing in the gaping mouth of a monster). (First: Episode 0076) | |
SCENE 2 cont'd |
Mr. Hooper gives two poles with a string tied to them to Bob and Susan to hold as a net, and Big Bird and Gordon compete to see who can make a big balloon stay over the net. Big Bird wins, and Mr. Hooper treats him to ice cream. | |
Muppets | Three Anything Muppets sing "Everyone Likes Ice Cream". (First: Episode 0026) | |
Cartoon | Y is for Yo-Yo (First: Episode 0036) | |
Muppets | Professor Hastings talks about the letter Y. As usual, he drifts off and Kermit has to remind him what he's teaching. When the frog's response is "Y", Hastings answers, "Because I forgot." (First: Episode 0096) | |
Cartoon | The life of a Yellow Yahoo (First: Episode 0043) | |
Muppets | Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets. (First: Episode 0003) | |
SCENE 3 | Gordon, Josh, and Lance observe a hedgehog, before Gordon cues a message from the number six. | |
Cartoon | Jazz #6 (repeat) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has seven jellybeans, and Bert has six. To make it even, Ernie eats the extra jellybean. That's fair, isn't it? (First: Episode 0014) | |
Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) | |
SCENE 4 | Jay, Reggie, Kate, and Josh make block towers on the steps of 123 Sesame Street. Gordon comes out to look at them, and shows everyone some triangular and square blocks. | |
Film | Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 5 | Gordon, Bob, and Susan put a large letter Q together out of styrofoam pieces. | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048) | |
Muppets | Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk. (First: Episode 0047) | |
SCENE 6 | Using a magnetic board, Susan makes up a story for the kids about the Alphabet Family, and the day three members of it (today's letter sponsors) went missing. | |
Muppets | Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs. | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie shows drawings to Bert, and Bert has to guess what happened. Ernie has a drawing of an empty bird cage with an open door (the bird flew away), and a man lying on the ground with a banana peel next to him (he slipped on it). Then Ernie shows Bert an empty page. The answer to that one is that there was a cow eating grass, but the grass is all eaten now and the cow went home. (First: Episode 0030) | |
SCENE 7 | Bob, Jay, and Reggie watch a wallaby in the Pet Shop window, which Bob comments would've enjoyed the hopscotch game earlier. They talk about what wallabys eat; it probably wouldn't like tomatoes. | |
Film | Tomatoes grow in a field. (First: Episode 0084) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon signs off from today's games, and Bob announces the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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