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Sesame Street
Air date April 1, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production March 6, 1970
Sponsors L, Q, Y, 6, 7

SSShowID-0103


StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0103a
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.
Jazzyspies6
Cartoon Jazz #6
(First: Episode 0011)
0103b
SCENE 1
cont'd
Bob tries hopscotch himself, but also messes up at the #6 square.
No6b
Film "Six Song (Song of Six)"
(First: Episode 0011)
0103c

0103d
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.
RooseveltCounting
Muppets Roosevelt Franklin and his mother sing "Roosevelt Franklin Counts".
(First: Episode 0068)
0103e

0103f
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.
PuzzleFilmTitle

HeadToToePuzzle
Film "Head To Toe Puzzle": Two kids put together a life size jigsaw puzzle of a human body.
(First: Episode 0024)
Lisforlunchbox
Cartoon L is for Lunchbox
(First: Episode 0031)
Lisforladder
Cartoon L is for Ladder
(First: Episode 0036)
0103g
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.
BabyAlice-BrickWall
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)
0103h
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.
Everyoneicecream
Muppets Three Anything Muppets sing "Everyone Likes Ice Cream".
(First: Episode 0026)
Cartoonyoyo
Cartoon Y is for Yo-Yo
(First: Episode 0036)
ProfHastingsY
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)
Yellowyahoo
Cartoon The life of a Yellow Yahoo
(First: Episode 0043)
Bob-Starshine
Muppets Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets.
(First: Episode 0003)
0103i
SCENE 3 Gordon, Josh, and Lance observe a hedgehog, before Gordon cues a message from the number six.
Jazzyspies6
Cartoon Jazz #6 (repeat)
Erniebertjellybeans
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie 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)
Np7
Film "Seven Song (Song of Seven)"
(First: Episode 0011)
0103j
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.
2059y
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)
0103k
SCENE 5 Gordon, Bob, and Susan put a large letter Q together out of styrofoam pieces.
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
(First: Episode 0048)
ErnieCookie-Quart
Muppets Ernie demonstrates the letter Q with a quart of milk; Cookie Monster drinks the milk.
(First: Episode 0047)
0103l
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.
RFAlphabet
Muppets Roosevelt Franklin says his ABCs.
Clip
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie 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)
0103m
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.
1454-Tomato
Film Tomatoes grow in a field.
(First: Episode 0084)
0103n
SCENE 8 Gordon signs off from today's games, and Bob announces the sponsors.
0101-sign1

0021 - CTW sign
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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