| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Linda shows how she uses her senses while being deaf | |||||||
| Air date | April 18, 1972 | ||||||
| Season | Season 3 (1971-1972) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Tom welcomes the viewer, and uses a book about trains to demonstrate beginning and end. To a grand fanfare, he also says that right now is the beginning of Sesame Street. |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A man eats a hot dog. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about three trios of animals who live on a fat lady's lap. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0299) |
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Muppets | Goldilocks attempts to show the bears how many are in their family. (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | A flea circus performs feats beginning with the letter F. (First: Episode 0309) |
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SCENE 2 | F quickies: |
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Cartoon | F for Football Artist: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0135) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has a drum, and invites the kids to give him a rhythm to play. He also invites Luis and Linda, but Luis reminds him that Linda is deaf. She can see how the stick hits the drum, though, and she can also clap and feel vibrations, meaning she can still play with Big Bird. |
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Film | Number Three Ball Film: A red ball follows a rollercoaster-like track through checkpoints (each, a set of three) that are counted in voiceover. At the end, the ball is ground up into a powder. (First: Episode 0254) |
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Cartoon | Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover). (First: Episode 0222) |
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Cartoon | Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover in Spanish). (First: Episode 0277) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis has been thinking about Linda, who is deaf, so he asks the viewer to imagine what it would be like if you couldn't hear anything. The kids are shown doing various activities such as popping balloons, hammering nails, and slamming a door, but without any sound. |
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Muppets | A group of Muppets (including Herry Monster) split into two separate teams for a game based on whether they have letters or numbers printed on their shirts. However, one of the small ones points out that they've split into one team of big players and one team of small players. They eventually agree to play Tiddly-Winks. (First: Episode 0298) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #3 (First: Episode 0343) |
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SCENE 5 | Tom shows Linda the door chime bell at Hooper's Store and wonders, how would he be able to mind the store if he was deaf? Linda shows him that he can feel the vibrations when someone stomps on the floor, and that customers can write down their orders. |
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Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (First: Episode 0335) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A turtle swims in a tank. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0283) |
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Muppets | Sherlock Hemlock helps Ernie discover how his window got broken. Ernie finds that the only evidence is a baseball, and together with Sherlock Hemlock try to find out how who broke Ernie's window. It turns out that Sherlock Hemlock, who is the number five player of the Sesame Street Sluggers, hit a home-run which caused the baseball to go through the window. (First: Episode 0238) |
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Cartoon | "Four Seasons" (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 6 | Susan introduces an animal that has a lot of fun in winter. |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: "It's an Otter!" Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0284) |
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Muppets | Ernie has four apples, and wants to draw the number 4, showing that he has four apples. However, Cookie Monster wants to eat an apple, so Ernie crosses out the 4 and draws a 3. Then Cookie Monster decides not to eat the apple, causing Ernie to have to cross out the 4 again and draw another 3, over and over again. (First: Episode 0140) |
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Cartoon | A flower picks up a man and says he smells beautiful. (First: Episode 0284) |
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SCENE 7 | Luis encounters an Anything Muppet girl named Emily (Fran Brill), who looks sad. She wants to get a birthday card for her Spanish-speaking friend Esteban, but couldn't find any Spanish cards at Hooper's Store. Luis cooperates by having Emily draw a picture on the card, and he writes down Emily's message in Spanish. |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to pull a rabbit out of his hat, but instead finds the numbers 1-20, which the rabbit repeats at the end. (First: Episode 0337) |
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Muppets | The Anything Muppets cheer about the letter F. (version 1) (shown in Spanish, then English) (First: Episode 0092) |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A barber gives a boy a hair cut. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert have difficulty scratching their backs, so both help each other scratch their back. While Ernie's itch takes a little too long to scratch, he introduces a film called "Everybody Scratch." After the film, Ernie notices that Bert has stopped scratching his back; Beautiful Day Monster is. (First: Episode 0012) |
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Cartoon | Cloud blows things FFFFFFFF |
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Cartoon | A story of a man who hates frogs (voiced by Daws Butler), until his swamp becomes infested with flies. |
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SCENE 8 | Linda signs a poem she wrote about the seasons, as David reads it. |
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Cartoon | F for Football (repeat) |
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Muppets / Cast | Bob reads a story with F words featuring Frieda who ventures to her friend Flora's farm with flowers and fruit, but gets lost in a forest. Kermit keeps trying to insert himself into the story (since Frog is a great F word), mishearing Bob when he says "fog" and "log". When Frieda meets a farmer named Fred, who turns out to be a prince, she kisses Prince Fred, and he turns into Kermit. (First: Episode 0095) |
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Cartoon | Country 3 (repeat) |
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SCENE 9 | Susan sings "Three of These Things" with pictures of a mitten, a sweater, a sock, and a teddy bear. She removes the teddy bear to play "Here Are Some Things" with the options being a woolen hat and a hamburger. |
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Cartoon | K is for kiss. Animation: John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0131) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Seahorse (First: Episode 0183) |
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Cartoon | Frances Fairy displays several F words. (repeat) |
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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) |
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Cartoon | The Pink Panther - K For Karate (First: Episode 0241) |
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Film | Film (stop-motion) - 'Beginning/End' - A woman makes a sandwich. |
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SCENE 10 | Tom explains to Linda how he used the train book to demonstrate beginning and end, and Linda shows him how to sign that it's now the "end of the day" and time to say "goodbye." Susan announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Tom holds the Sesame Street sign, while Susan holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- Tom's book about trains is actually a dust jacket-less copy of The Monkey and the Crocodile by Paul Galdone, previously read in Episode 0157. A few new pages are added for Tom's discussion, but a couple of real pages are briefly seen as Tom thumbs through the book to get to the end.
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