Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | April 9, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon greets the viewer while passing by Oscar's can with a kid. Oscar invites them to play a grouchy rhyming game with him. | |
Cartoon | A boy counts while erasing things and people. (First: Episode 0008) | |
Muppets | Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s. (First: Episode 0079) | |
Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) | |
SCENE 2 | Bob and the kids look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U. (First: Episode 0036) Bob introduces Lou Rawls. | |
Celebrity | Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids. (First: Episode 0043) | |
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) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!" (First: Episode 0017) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob and the kids look at a live animal. Bob points out its feet. | |
Song | Joe Raposo sings "Feet (Some Feet are Big)." | |
Cartoon | "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself. (First: Episode 0048) | |
Cartoon | Q - quarter (First: Episode 0046) | |
SCENE 4 | Gordon points out to the kids that a person's face can show how they feel. He tells them to show what they look like when they're happy, sad, surprised and angry. | |
Animation | In a clay-animated segment, a green narrator uses his red and yellow friends (and a monster) to demonstrate how faces can show feelings. (First: Episode 0090) | |
SCENE 4 cont'd |
Gordon asks the kids about their favorite game, their favorite color and their favorite animal. He knows what Ernie's favorite animal is… | |
Muppets | Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie", an anthem for his beloved rubber duck. (First: Episode 0078) | |
SCENE 5 | Gordon asks Bob if he got the word from Oscar. Bob didn't, so he goes over to Oscar's can, where Oscar gives him the word: "garbage". | |
Song | "Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away. Music by Peter Schickele (First: Episode 0077) | |
Cartoon | A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is. (First: Episode 0006) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets | Monsters look at a big A. (First: Episode 0083) | |
SCENE 6 | Bob reads the kids a story, telling them to ring a bell whenever they hear something wrong with it. | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim struggle with buttons. (First: Episode 0015) | |
Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) | |
Cartoon | A boy counts while erasing things and people. (repeat) | |
Muppets | Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing! (First: Episode 0005) | |
Cartoon | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far. (First: Episode 0079) | |
Muppets | Grover demonstrates the difference between "near" and "far" by running away from the camera and back, eventually fainting from exhaustion. (First: Episode 0057) | |
Film | Kids demonstrate perspective using large and small rocks as they position themselves near and far. (First: Episode 0045) | |
SCENE 7 | Bob does two verses of the "Classification Song" with shapes and letter Us. | |
Animation | Clay animation film by Jim Henson: A unicorn talks about U words. (First: Episode 0037) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon and some kids observe a live Tibetan dog. Gordon introduces Kermit. | |
Muppets | Kermit's Lectures - Kermit watches some live bears do exercises. (First: Episode 0044) | |
SCENE 8 cont'd |
Gordon signs off. |
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