| Sesame Street | |||||||||
| Big Bird tries to leave a trail of bread crumbs so he won't get lost | |||||||||
| Air date | November 8, 1974 | ||||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Celebrity | Stevie Wonder sings "123 Sesame Street." (First: Episode 0514) |
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Cartoon | Before and after: Several kids are sad, but become happy when a fruit vendor appears. (First: Episode 0631) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie wants to have some cookies. Bert asks Ernie if he knows what "before" means, and Ernie demonstrates by saying that before he can have a cookie, he has to open the lid to a cookie jar, and after he closes the lid, he eats the cookie. He demonstrates a few times, until he loses his appetite for dinner. (First: Episode 0007) |
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Cartoon | Antes y despues: Several kids are sad, but become happy when a fruit vendor appears. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0631) |
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Song | "Here Come the Beans" (First: Episode 0537) |
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Film | Three kids want to paint, but each of them has only one item, so they all cooperate. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0318) |
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Cartoon | Two kids argue over whose chair it is, until the dog suggests they share the chair. (First: Episode 0369) |
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Film | Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388) |
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Cartoon | G is for Glue Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0279) |
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Film | Counting six oryx Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0410) |
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Insert | Bert sits outside on the street, pretending to fly a helicopter. Maria sits down with him, and the segment becomes animated as they fly through the air before returning to the Street. (First: Episode 0656) |
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Muppets | Part 1: Guy Smiley hosts "The Mr. and Mrs. Game", a quiz show for newlywed monsters. (First: Episode 0072) |
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Animation | Sand R/r (First: Episode 0635) |
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Muppets | Part 2: Mr. and Mrs. Monster win the game, and Guy offers the choice of three prizes: a new house, a trip to Hawaii, or a cookie. Mr. Monster ravenously devours the cookie. (First: Episode 0072) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (First: Episode 0223) |
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Cartoon | "I'm six years old today!" (First: Episode 0357) |
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Celebrity | Carol Burnett demonstrates "what you can do with your nose." (First: Episode 0131) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie thinks that he isn't special. Bert tells Ernie to feel his nose -- "That's an Ernie nose!" -- and then feel his hair, and wiggle his fingers. Bert says that nobody else is just like Ernie. Encouraged, Ernie tells the audience to do the same. (First: Episode 0276) |
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Film | Women put dolls together and package them at a doll factory. (First: Episode 0538) |
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Muppets | Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Count it Higher." (First: Episode 0553) |
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Cartoon | G For Giggle (voice of Allen Swift) (First: Episode 0357) |
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Film | David asks the viewer to find some triangles in a fence. (First: Episode 0434) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet brings his broken BUS (the word) to a garage for a mechanic to fix up. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Cartoon | The word BUS (First: Episode 0277) |
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Cartoon | Do you know what it's like to be scared? (First: Episode 0547) |
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Muppets | Lefty wants to sell Ernie a scale. He uses two pounds of bananas and two pounds of apples to demonstrate how the scale works. Ernie is impressed. He already has a scale at home, but he'd like to buy the apples and bananas. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (First: Episode 0369) |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird tells the viewer that sometimes he worries about getting lost and finding his way back home. So, he's hatched a foolproof plan to help him get back to his nest: he leaves a trail of stale breadcrumbs from his nest to Hooper's Store. However, Fenwick Bird thinks it's a picnic lunch and eats up the trail. |
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Film | Paper-cut triangles fade into live-action shots of triangle-shaped things. (First: Episode 0538) |
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Cartoon | What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird now leaves a trail of rocks behind him, which nobody could eat. Oscar the Grouch, however, snatches them up to stuff into his mattress. |
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Film | A voiceover lists many R words. (First: Episode 0661) |
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Cartoon | Which footprint doesn't belong? (First: Episode 0491) |
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Cartoon | Men in boxes sound out the word RUN. (repeat) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird's next idea is to leave a trail of newspapers. ("Why, I have enough newspapers in my little red wagon to go all the way to Secaucus and back!") Luis and Linda chide him for littering all over the block and give him a broom to sweep up with. Big Bird gets to work, when the wind blows the newspapers all over the street. ("Oh, help.") |
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Cartoon | Jazz #6 (First: Episode 0011) |
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Cartoon | A woman fixes her car by putting a letter r under the hood, and it goes "Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!" (First: Episode 0410) |
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Film | A dolphin walks backwards on the water. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0278) |
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Cartoon | A wizard turns into R things. (First: Episode 0369) |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird's next plan is to tie some string to his nest, then hold the ball of string so that a trail will form wherever he goes. |
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Film | David points out the circular shape of a tire. (First: Episode 0507) |
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Animation | The Queen of Six explores her garden. (repeat) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird tells the viewer how successful his "string theory" was, describing how he'll be able to get back home. He follows his string backwards to the nest, but the string is wound up all over the street. ("Gee, maybe I shouldn't've played follow-the-leader so much, and that game of tag kind of...") |
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Cartoon | A man weighs five pounds of bubble gum. He chews it all, blows a huge bubble, and flies away. (First: Episode 0617) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird's attempt to follow the string back to its origin has resulted in him being "tied up" in the process ("I feel like Spider-Man," he says). Luis announces the sponsors, and the credits roll. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, while Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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