| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Air date | January 11, 1974 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 5 (1973-1974) | ||||||||
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SCENE 1 | Today, The Count is teaching everyone how to be a Count, starting with the proper way to say, “Greetings.” He counts each greeting, including his own, as Luis, Susan, David, Bob, Big Bird, and the kids pass by wearing dark capes and talking like him. He counts them all and himself again when they practice his trademark laugh, and finally has everybody count all 8 Counts present. |
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Muppets | Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart! (First: Episode 0554) |
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Cartoon | B is for bear, bicycle, bump, branch and bee. (First: Episode 0008) |
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Film | Joe Raposo sings "Look at This" over footage of something ... can you guess what it is? (First: Episode 0514) |
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Animation | Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish) (First: Episode 0451) |
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Film | The Mad Painter #8 (First: Episode 0326) |
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Cartoon | "Candy Man" Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0359) |
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Muppets | Ernie finds an apple on a brick wall, and wants to know who it belongs to. Sherlock Hemlock helps solve the mystery, and realizes that Ernie has a brown paper bag with a hole at the bottom, and that Ernie had an apple in the bag, therefore the apple belongs to Ernie. (First: Episode 0137) |
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Cartoon | Tiger likes going to school. (First: Episode 0549) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Big Bird tells Shola that he's been having some trouble figuring out big and little. Shola says that she's little and Big Bird is big. Big Bird says, "Oh! That must be why they call me Big Bird." Shola answers, "Yeah! You're Big Bird. I'm Shola." (First: Episode 0306) |
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Cartoon | A boy talks about his pet letter Y, named Yetta. (First: Episode 0443) |
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SCENE 2 | Nurse Susan argues with Oscar about getting his booster shot. He rants to Luis about it, describing how she tricked him last year into sticking out his arm and distracting him, as she quietly gives him the shot. Once they leave, Oscar notices a Band-Aid on his arm, and observes, "I think I've been diddled... again!" |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (First: Episode 0016) |
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Film | A lowercase b floats by some boats. (First: Episode 0471) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets sing "How Do You Get From Here to There?" (First: Episode 0374) |
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Cartoon | Things say that other things are small, but then something comes along that's bigger, or smaller, or whatever. (First: Episode 0320) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Lena Horne and the Anything Muppets sing an upbeat version of "The Alphabet Song." |
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Cartoon | I've Got a Mind: Fish Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0195) |
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Muppets | Lefty wants to sell Ernie a snowman, but it starts to melt, growing smaller and smaller. (First: Episode 0368) |
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Cartoon | An elephant and a bear try to cross a bridge to deliver their packages, but they're in each other's way. Voices: Hal Smith (First: Episode 0538) |
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Cast | Maria, Gordon, and Luis assemble a fractured uppercase B. (First: Episode 0498) |
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Film | Kids paint pictures of things that start with B. (First: Episode 0008) |
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SCENE 3 | Bob talks about how the lowercase B and lowercase D can be confusing. |
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Muppets | The Count sings "The Song of the Count." (First: Episode 0469) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: B for Bug (First: Episode 0137) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A mandrill carries her young. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0039) |
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Cartoon | Drawing a kite that turns into a fish (w/ child voiceover). (First: Episode 0222) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird hears the sound of a plane engine, and thinks it’s a submarine; he looks down for Submarine Sally. The kids alert him to look up, and sees someone skywriting the letter Y. Big Bird wonders how Sally got her submarine into the sky. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has gone shopping -- buying bread for himself, and peanut butter for Bert. They realize that it's dull to eat what they have separately, and they decide to cooperate, so they can each have a peanut butter sandwich. (First: Episode 0279) |
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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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Animation | A scoop of ice cream makes its way to the top of a cone. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: A film of camels eating. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0388) |
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Cartoon | "Candy Man" (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | At the Fix-it Shop, Big Bird asks Luis to help him hook up his mail-order bananaphone, though Luis finds the contraption ridiculous. Luis attaches the dial to the base and a banana to the phone cord as the diagram instructs. To Luis' shock, the bananaphone works, and Big Bird asks for some privacy as he talks with Tondalea on the phone. |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Ernie: Ernie and Cookie Monster discuss hope. Ernie has something in a brown paper bag, and asks Cookie Monster what he hopes it is. Cookie Monster hopes that it is a cookie. It turns out that Ernie has ten cookies in the bag. (First: Episode 0233) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #8 (repeat) |
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Film | Kids play in the snow. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0292) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover and John-John count to 20. (First: Episode 0476) |
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Animation | A roof finds its way to the top of a house. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Film | A turtle walks slowly. Music: "Funeral March of a Marionette" by Charles Gounod (First: Episode 0281) |
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Muppets | A boy watches a circle around him get bigger and smaller. (First: Episode 0285) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis plays a Spanish “One of These Things” game at Big Bird's nest with three miniature Mexican sombreros and one Muppet-sized felt hat. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: B for Butterfly (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola demonstrate "big," "small," "smaller, and "smallest" with four balls. (First: Episode 0544) |
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Cartoon | Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early (First: Episode 0001) |
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Muppets | Two Anything Muppets sing "Me" in both English and Spanish. (First: Episode 0372) |
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SCENE 7 | Luis passes by kids playing in the yard; one of them tosses him the ball, and he manages to shoot a basket from the sidewalk. Big Bird announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Susan and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and David hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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