| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Maria and Big Bird play a rhyming game (repeat of 0420) | |||||||
| Air date | March 28, 1975 | ||||||
| Season | Season 6 (1974-1975) | ||||||
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Mirror, Mirror — Kermit is declared the fairest of them all. (First: Episode 0685) |
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SCENE 1 | Maria plays a rhyming game with Big Bird and the kids where she gives them a word and tells them to come back with an object that rhymes with it. Big Bird isn't too sure he'd be good at it, so Maria starts with the word "knock," and the other kids bring back a sock, a rock, a clock, and a block. Next she assigns them the word "hair"; all the kids return with a chair. Big Bird has made his way over to the garage where he finds a stair. The stair is nailed down, so he leaves to retrieve his tools. |
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Cartoon | "The Story of A": A witch tells bored kids a story about the letter A involving an ant's apple getting stolen by an archer. (First: Episode 0130) |
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SCENE 2 | Just as Big Bird is about to saw away a stair from the garage steps, Maria stops him and says he can't ruin the stairs for a game; he'll have to find something else that rhymes with "hair". Maria gives him a hint: it has four legs. After some thought, Big Bird resolves to go find a bear. |
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Muppets | Two children, who can only read some words, resolve their fight over a large book by helping each other and reading alternate words. (First: Episode 0297) |
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SCENE 3 | Big Bird has set out a series of honey jars leading up to his nest in order to catch a bear. He sits with his butterfly net and waits for his prey as Maria comes by and commends him on find the object that rhymes with hair and has four legs: a chair. |
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Film | A Stool For Me (First: Episode 0513) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: Do Ya Have an A on Ya? (First: Episode 0293) |
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Cartoon | Jazz #5 (First: Episode 0007) |
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Film | Kids climb in and out of a tire. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0450) |
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Cartoon | A man walks in an IN. (First: Episode 0511) |
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Muppets | Ernie has a bag of cookies, and locks them in a safe to protect them from Cookie Monster. When the monster discovers that the cookies are locked up tight, he eats the safe. (First: Episode 0581) |
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Film | Five bugs are counted, until one bug engulfs the other four. Artist: Etienne Delessert (First: Episode 0628) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan shows that her foot is in her boot. She lifts her boot up by the top, revealing that it doesn't have a sole, so now it's out. |
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Cartoon | Big Daniel Boone looks for a bear. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0627) |
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Film | Counting the circus clowns (First: Episode 0501) |
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Cartoon | What if a turtle and rabbit switched appearances? (First: Episode 0451) |
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Muppets | Grover sings "What Do I Do When I'm Alone?" (First: Episode 0269) |
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Cartoon | A man tries to figure out where a squeaky sound is coming from; it turns out to be a giant's squeaky shoes. "Surprise!" |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Flies on Animals" over footage of animals bugged by pests. (First: Episode 0449) |
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Cast | Luis is dressed for snow, but is stuck at the beach. David dresses for the beach, but finds himself in the snow. They happily switch places. (First: Episode 0497) |
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Cartoon | A man talks about going to the city, without noticing he's walking right through it. |
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SCENE 5 | Susan and the kids play "Three of These Things" while sorting a saw, a shoe, a pair of pliers, and a hammer. |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Bert urges Ernie to go to sleep, but Ernie won't go to sleep until the person living upstairs drops his other shoe. When the shoe finally drops, Ernie wakes Bert up to tell him about it. (First: Episode 0176) |
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Cartoon | A for Ape (who crashes into a tree and forms a SHAPE) (First: Episode 0602) |
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Film | Old Time Movies: Anne Meara narrates a silent movie of a girl who is stuck IN the quicksand. (First: Episode 0511) |
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Cartoon | A story about an ape and a bird, using the letter A. (First: Episode 0158) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Snuffy and Joey say the alphabet. (First: Episode 0671) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: A for airplane |
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Cartoon | I've got a mind: squares make a box. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0191) |
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Muppets | Super Grover: Young Willy Nilly is scared to get his hair cut. Super Grover tells Willy that haircuts are scary, but he must be brave. However, Max the barber shows them both that haircuts do not hurt, and soon they are no longer afraid of hair cuts. (First: Episode 0717) |
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Cartoon | At the beach, the Bee Bee and the Barker family greet each other while saying their names that begin with the letter B. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 0627) |
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SCENE 6 | Luis exits the Fix-it Shop and notices a sign in the window that says "AGUA". Puzzled, he says the word and is drenched from above with water. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: B for Bug (First: Episode 0137) |
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Film | Elephants in the zoo. (First: Episode 0283) |
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SCENE 6 cont'd | Luis exits again with an umbrella and reads the "AGUA" sign. Nothing happens, so he reads it again. He lowers the umbrella, says it one more time, and gets drenched in water again. |
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Muppets | The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. However, when the phone rings, the Count wants to count the rings, and won't let Ernie pick up the phone until it's too late. "I told you it wouldn't be easy," the Count explains. (First: Episode 0539) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings about animals in groups of five on a farm. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0323) |
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SCENE 6 cont'd | Luis beckons Maria over and indicates that she should read the sign. Maria reads "AGUA"... and nothing happens. Luis says the word, and is drenched in a third downpour. |
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Cartoon | What if we celebrated Valentine's Day with chickens instead of hearts? (First: Episode 0488) |
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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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Film | Kids watch as construction workers paint a number 5 on the street using a stencil. (First: Episode 0497) |
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Cartoon | A man sees a giant OUT, yells the word, and everyone runs out of it. (First: Episode 0550) |
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SCENE 7 | In his nest area, Big Bird sings "The Sound of the Letter A" to the kids. |
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Animation | Sand A/a (First: Episode 0628) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, and Shola observe a letter A. Ernie calls out, "A, Bert!" (First: Episode 0551) |
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Song | "Look Around, Look Around", a song about seasons. (First: Episode 0556) |
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Cartoon | An orchestra conductor asks "May I have an A, please?" at which point a giant letter A falls from the sky. |
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Cartoon | Cat / fat / hat / sat / rat / bat / scat / splat / flat / pat Voice: Daws Butler |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (repeat) |
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SCENE 8 | The kids play volleyball in the yard as Luis announces the sponsors. The credits roll, with the sound of the kids continuing their game heard over it. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Susan hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign. |
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