| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Nighttime on the street | |||||||
| Air date | March 14, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 4 (1972-1973) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert sing "Imagination". |
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Cartoon | The O in STOP bounces around, and the other letters tell it to stop. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0149) |
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Cartoon | Hypnotic "Q" rainbow (First: Episode 0440) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph: Wally gives Ralph a mirror as a present. Wally looks at it, and says it is a picture of himself. But when Ralph looks at it, he sees a picture of himself. When they look at it together, they see a picture of both of them. This sketch was a re-shoot of a Buddy and Jim sketch. (First: Episode 0342) |
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Song | "Starfish" (First: Episode 0280) |
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SCENE 1 | Luis says S. |
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Cartoon | A girl inflates a balloon in the shape of an S. (First: Episode 0414) |
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Cartoon | S - Snake: A snake charmer irritates the snake. (First: Episode 0063) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Rapunzel — Prince Charming attempts to rescue Rapunzel from the tower. (First: Episode 0409) |
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Transition | Bridge #12 - Glass smashes (First: Episode 0276) |
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SCENE 2 | Luis sings "Here Are Some Things" with Seth and Joey using patterned triangles, a plain circle, and a plain triangle. |
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Transition | Bridge #13 - Leaf Drop Bridge (First: Episode 0309) |
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Cartoon | Q for Quiet Artist: John Korty (First: Episode 0441) |
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Muppets | Kermit and Grover draw a Q on the screen. |
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Cartoon | A STOP sign commands a train to stop. |
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Cartoon | "Alphabet Imagination": A female voice quickly recites the alphabet followed by a male voice narrating each letter in a series of psychedelic vignettes. (First: Episode 0345) |
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Muppets | "The Question Song" (First: Episode 0378) |
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Film | A mailman on horseback delivers mail in the Appalachian mountains of Kentucky. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster explains the purpose of the Bus Stop sign, however the bus zooms pasts him. Resulting in Cookie Monster ripping the part of the sign mentioning STOP. (First: Episode 0192) |
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Cartoon | A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0408) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 1: WET. (First: Episode 0473) |
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Transition | Bridge #3 - 4 Corner Bridge A (First: Episode 0282) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 2: SET. (First: Episode 0473) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Herbert Birdsfoot and the "ET" family, part 3: MET. (First: Episode 0473) |
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Film | Ostriches walk and run. (piano music) (First: Episode 0339) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob and Luis sit with the kids in the yard for a night time rendition of "Sing/Canta" for vocals and guitar. |
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Cartoon | Hypnotic "Q" rainbow (repeat) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie asks Bert to play a game where they take turns counting and then saying "Q". Ernie goes first with "1 Q", and Bert follows with "2 Q". The game continues, until Bert gets to "10 Q". "You're welcome, Bert!" Ernie says. (First: Episode 0440) |
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Cartoon | A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one. (First: Episode 0240) |
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Cast | Bob assembles a number 12. (First: Episode 0173) |
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Cartoon | A mother bird brings her babies a huge number 12. |
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Animation | Henson Films: Number Twelve Rocks (First: Episode 0195) |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to count to twenty while playing with a paddleball, but gets interrupted by a bird. (First: Episode 0152) |
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Cast | In speed-induced footage, Maria, Luis and David put together a letter Q. (First: Episode 0467) |
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Cartoon | Q for Quiet Artist: John Korty (repeat) |
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Muppets | "The Emperor's New Gong" — The Emperor is dissatisfied with the sound his gong makes. He calls the imperial gong delivery man, who presents different gongs for his approval. They're either too loud or too soft, however, until the imperial gong delivery man uses his own head as a gong. (First: Episode 0410) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Weaver Bird." (First: Episode 0372) |
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Cartoon | A voice asks a face if it's aware of the letter S, and it is revealed that the face belongs to a snake. Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "How Do You Get From Here to There?" (First: Episode 0374) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #1 (repeat) |
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Cartoon | "I Can Remember": A little girl remembers what to buy at the store (A loaf of bread, a container of milk, and a stick of butter) by visualizing her mother giving the instructions. Artist: Jim Simon (First: Episode 0408) |
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Film | George the Farmer demonstrates noisy and quiet. (First: Episode 0241) |
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Muppets | Waiter Grover: Simon Soundman wants a chicken sandwich, which he orders as a "cluck-cluck" sandwich. Grover has trouble figuring out what his customer wants. Simon Soundman says that his brother always eats at that restaurant, implying that Mr. Johnson might be his brother. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Monster in the dark (finding a light switch) |
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SCENE 4 | The camera pans across Sesame Street at night as Ernie and Bert then announce the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Ernie and Bert hold the Sesame Street sign, while Cookie Monster holds the CTW sign. |
Notes[]
- A lower-pitched version of the regular closing theme plays at the end of this episode, unlike future closing scenes that take place at night (which would use a special "lullaby" celesta theme).
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