| Sesame Street | |
| Plot | Luis plays "Simple Simon" with Big Bird and the kids. |
| Air date | January 3, 1972 |
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) |
| Sponsors | H, V, 4 |
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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 | SCENE 1 | Tom introduces today's number 4 and challenges Big Bird and the kids to find something with four legs on Sesame Street. Big Bird needs a reminder of how many 4 is first. |
 | Film | A kid recites a poem about adding penguins. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0255) |
| | SCENE 2 | Big Bird bumps into Mr. Snuffleupagus during his search. Snuffy aids his pal in looking for a four-legged being and sits down to rest. Big Bird realizes Snuffy has four legs and runs off to tell Tom. |
 | Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. (First: Episode 0300) |
| | SCENE 3 | The kids show Tom the things they've found, such as pets, a chair and table. Big Bird brings them to the stoop to show them Snuffy, but he's nowhere to be seen. |
 | Animation | Scanimate Films #4 (First: Episode 0132) |
 | Muppets | Snow White accidentally visits the cottage of the six dwarves. (First: Episode 0279) |
 | Cartoon | A mad scientist puts together a capital H. (First: Episode 0284) |
 | Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. Producer: Ken Snyder; Music: Billy Taylor (First: Episode 0276) |
| | SCENE 4 | Susan hears a lot of commotion from Oscar's trash can. Oscar has received a new toy fire truck and is taking it apart, which is how Grouches like their toys. |
 | Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) |
| | SCENE 5 | Oscar shows Susan and the kids the pieces. They put it back together using the diagram, forcing Oscar to start his work all over again. |
 | Muppets | Alien Alphabet (First: Episode 0277) |
 | Celebrity | Bill Cosby tries to count 4 kids. (First: Episode 0176) |
| | Film | Magician: Word Family "ET" (1:05) |
 | Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down". (First: Episode 0154) |
 | Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part one) (First: Episode 0003) |
| | SCENE 6 | Luis plays "Simple Simon" in Spanish with Big Bird and the kids. |
| | Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (part two) (First: Episode 0003) |
 | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert play tricks on each other in order to sit in the TV chair, until they realize they both fit in it. Herry Monster comes over to trick Ernie and Bert into leaving their chair so that he can sit in it. Ernie and Bert decide that if the chair can hold two, it can hold three as well, so they cram their way into the chair with Herry. When Ernie and Herry realize that they're watching something only Bert would enjoy, they leave Bert alone. (First: Episode 0207) |
| | SCENE 7 | On the floor of Hooper's Store is the letter V made of sand. Tom uses a vacuum cleaner to make it vanish. |
 | Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V Artist: John Hubley |
 | Muppets | Charlie is lost and finds a policeman. It's his Uncle Louie, but he doesn't recognize him in uniform. Without the uniform on, Charlie asks Uncle Louie to find him a policeman. (First: Episode 0135) |
 | Cartoon | Small v ... for voom, voice, violin, etc. Artist: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0167) |
 | Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock encounters the letter V. (First: Episode 0267) |
 | Film | George the Farmer demonstrates up/down with two ladders. (First: Episode 0239) |
| | Cartoon | A guru counts to twenty. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0276) |
| | Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie thinks something is wrong with the book he's borrowed from the library. Bert points out that it's upside-down and illustrates the concept using their portrait on the wall. Instead of turning the book right side up, Ernie suspends himself upside-down from above, reading the book this way. |
| | SCENE 8 | Susan sings the "Classification Song" using drawings of circles and a rectangle. |
| | Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin (repeat) |
| | SCENE 9 | Luis sings the song now in Spanish while using baseball equipment. |
 | Muppets | Four Anything Muppet kids cooperate to grow a flower together. One has a flower seed, one has a flowerpot, one has some dirt, and one has a shovel. The rain and sunshine finish the job. |
| | Cartoon | Vitamins give vim, vigor and vitality to a droopy V (repeat) |
| | Cartoon | Dot Bridge #11 (0:54) (EKA: Episode 0296) |
| | Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. (repeat) |
| | Cartoon | Dot Bridge #12 (0:30) (EKA: Episode 0296) |
| | SCENE 10 | Goodbye |
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