| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Air date | December 26, 1973 | ||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon has two kids make large and small Ws out of dowel rods. |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Kermit asks Debo if he knows what a W is. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water (First: Episode 0062) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has six jellybeans, and Bert has seven. Bert thanks Ernie for giving him the extra jellybean. Ernie says that isn't fair - they should have an equal amount. To make it even, Ernie eats the extra jellybean. That's fair, isn't it? (First: Episode 0014) |
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Film | A girl named Jennifer visits family friend Mrs. Wilson in the country, and together they pick food from her garden. (First: Episode 0021) |
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SCENE 2 | Oscar shows Luis and Susan his new can-opening device: a large chain-reaction setup involving a megaphone, a tuba, a balloon, and his pets Slimey and Frank the fly. The contraption works, but Oscar tells them to scram. |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (First: Episode 0136) |
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Muppets | The Count counts seven flowers, and then explains that he loves to count flowers because then he gets to count sneezes. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Film | "Seven Song (Song of Seven)" (First: Episode 0011) |
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Film | Stop-motion: in a park, a garbage man puts litter in a trash can. (Part 1) (First: Episode 0491) |
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Cast | Wally and Ralph huse a nail in an attempt to hang a picture to a wall. This sketch was a re-shoot of a Buddy and Jim sketch. (First: Episode 0392) |
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Film | Stop-motion: in a park, a man reads a newspaper, then shamelessly drops it on the ground. A little girl finds this disgusting, and puts the newspaper in the trash bin. (Part 2) (First: Episode 0491) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis sings “Show Me How You Feel” with the kids. |
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Cartoon | A girl shows how good she is at drawing buildings. (First: Episode 0454) |
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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. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | W for Willamina (First: Episode 0512) |
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Cast / Muppets | "The People in Your Neighborhood": Cleaner and Shoemaker (First: Episode 0436) |
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Film | A percussionist on the beach talks about how rhythm is everywhere, such as in breaking waves, walking and horse galloping. (edited) (First: Episode 0032) |
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Cast | Postman David goes to collect some mail from a mailbox, but finds there's more and more each time he opens it. (First: Episode 0533) |
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Cartoon | I've got some (hair), I've got more, but I've got the most. (First: Episode 0524) |
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Cast | The mailbox is emptied, but how will David get all the mail to the post office? He lets the mail back into the hammerspace-like mailbox, then takes that with him. (First: Episode 0533) |
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Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie purchases a straw hat for Bert, and asks Cookie Monster which box the hat will go in. (First: Episode 0438) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird offers to deliver a radio for Luis, but he goes back and forth between Luis and Susan, gathering one piece of information at a time from Luis: who the radio belongs to, where the recipient lives, etc. Luis reveals that the radio needs to be fixed first. |
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Film | Lizard! Music: Joe Raposo (same as "birds") (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fat. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for dice, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If you dig a dinosaur, drop your duck for a dime." (First: Episode 0016) |
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Muppets | Guy Smiley sings "Gone with the Wind" to a young woman. During the song, a very strong wind blows – making the leaves fly off the tree, causing the woman's house to collapse, and finally ripping Guy's clothes off. (First: Episode 0034) |
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Film | A warthog runs around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | A bully says the alphabet to a mild-mannered gardener, who hits him in the face with a pie at the end. (First: Episode 0279) |
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Film | Some clowns, more clowns |
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Animation | Russian nesting dolls 10-1 |
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SCENE 5 | Susan plays a “Here Are Some Things” game with squares. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: W for water (repeat) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #7 (repeat) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts five monkeys, and when he is done, he gets monkey business. (First: Episode 0283) |
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Cartoon | A baby cries whenever he gets a beso. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Cartoon | "Wanda the Witch" Animation by Tee Collins (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | The letters in the word BESO kiss each other. (First: Episode 0433) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — It's a sunny day at the beach, and Bert remembered to bring everything. Ernie, however, only brought an umbrella in case it rains... which it does. (First: Episode 0284) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: D -- Dog (role reversal between man and dog) (First: Episode 0016) |
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SCENE 6 | The sponsors are announced. |
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