| Sesame Street | |||||
| DIAL-A-BIRD | |||||
| Air date | December 31, 1975 | ||||
| Season | Season 7 (1975-1976) | ||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Telephone Rock." (First: Episode 0733) |
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Film | D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs and hobbies that begin with D. (First: Episode 0367) |
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Muppets | Kermit's Lectures: Kermit counts four eggs. A chick hatches out of one egg, so he counts the three eggs -- then two, then one. Then he counts the four chickens. (First: Episode 0282) |
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Cartoon | D-dart (First: Episode 0292) |
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SCENE 1 | David fumes over the day he's had so far, fretting about waking up an hour late, having no hot water at home, and missing the bus. He opens up Hooper's Store only to find that he also forgot to take care of the dishes the night before. He decides to leave the "closed" sign on the door so nobody will bother him as he cleans, but he winds up knocking a glass over and breaks it. When Maria stops by to say hello, David has finally had enough and snaps at her. She leaves, and realizing that his temper has gotten the better of him he apologizes to Maria. She accepts it with a kiss, and David muses, "Well, maybe it won't be such a bad day after all." |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert, Greg, and Laura play a game of volleyball with a balloon. |
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Cartoon | A circle becomes a clock, balloon, sun, etc. (First: Episode 0358) |
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Film | Shopping for soup ingredients. (First: Episode 0515) |
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Cartoon | "Daddy Dear" (First: Episode 0367) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Snuffy and Joey say the alphabet. (First: Episode 0671) |
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Cartoon | Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D. (First: Episode 0406) |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird "cooperates" with Maria while explaining the process of going up and down the stairs, with Maria doing all the work as she carries her trash out of 123 Sesame Street. |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: D - Daisy (First: Episode 0795) |
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Muppets | As ominous music plays, The Count walks around his castle, checks out the mirror (he has no reflection), and greets his bats. The mailman (Jim Henson) arrives, with a bunch of letters for him. He wonders why there are so many. The Count says that he wrote them all himself, so he could count them...and then he does. (First: Episode 0420) |
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Cartoon | "Cracks" A girl lying in bed imagines seeing cracks in the wall turning into animals and a monster. vocals: Dorothy Moskowitz |
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Film | The Mad Painter #2 (First: Episode 0309) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Ernie, Bert and Shola talk about taking a nap. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Cartoon | Two men hammer a stake into a hole. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Cast | Bob and Mr. Hooper have a dispute over using a sole coat hanger for their coats. They eventually cooperate and put both their coats on the one hanger. (First: Episode 0282) |
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Cartoon | Two guys row their oars in different directions, until they decide to cooperate and row together. (First: Episode 0510) |
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Muppets | Grover demonstrates how a phone booth is used, but it becomes crowded when he receives a call asking for "Monderporg." (First: Episode 0654) |
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Cartoon | A jar is full of jellybeans. The jar becomes empty, while a hungry boy is full. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0322) |
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Cartoon | Three chickens eat grain, and become full, fuller and fullest. Artist: Cliff Roberts (First: Episode 0506) |
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SCENE 3 | Oscar the Grouch plays a game of "Here Are Some Things" using his tin can collection. He uses some ratty old boxes for a playboard and shows how the one soda can belongs with the other single cans in the spaces, rather than his pair of tomato cans. The Grouch answer, however, is that they all belong in his trash can, and he tosses everything away. |
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Cartoon | King Minus and the Disappearing Dragons (First: Episode 0345) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper looks inside a paper bag and laughs and asks his next victim, "Wanna see?" The man says yes, so Harvey puts a letter C on him. (First: Episode 0294) |
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Cartoon | C is for Cowboy (First: Episode 0703) |
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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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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Two Noses — Ernie has a solution to Bert's assertion that he only has one nose. (First: Episode 0061) |
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Cartoon | A boy tries to guess what a voice belongs to by asking it questions, and wins a ride on a giraffe. (First: Episode 0795) |
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Muppets | The Martians find a telephone. (alternate take) (First: Episode 0398) |
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Cartoon | A hand draws a telephone booth. (First: Episode 0791) |
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SCENE 4 | Luis has been having some trouble working on a TV set in the Fix-It Shop and is feeling grouchy. When Big Bird comes to visit whistling and singing, it cheers him up. Luis tells Big Bird that it's nice to have birds like him in the city to make pretty music, which gives Big Bird an idea. He asks if he can use Luis' phone; Luis says it's okay, but Big Bird immediately leaves. |
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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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Film | Geese and their goslings swim in the water. (First: Episode 0388) |
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SCENE 5 | Big Bird returns with one of the posters he and the kids made, advertising his new DIAL-A-BIRD service. Anybody who is interested can call the number listed (the one for the Fix-it Shop) and request some bird calls to help them feel better. Luis tries to tell him that's not what he meant when he said Big Bird could use his phone, but the phone rings with Big Bird's first few customers who all get a little song sung over the phone. Big Bird realizes his mistake when Luis explains how the DIAL-A-BIRD service will interrupt his own business. He leaves as Luis gets frustrated trying to set things straight when more DIAL-A-BIRD customers continue to call. |
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Cartoon | A drummer precedes C.T. Wordsworth who presents today's word: TELEPHONE. (First: Episode 0314) |
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Muppets | Bob tries to sneak a bag of cookies home, without getting noticed by Cookie Monster, he encounters Sherlock Hemlock who has not seen Bob before and tries to figure out who he is. He comes to the conclusion that he have to be Cookie Monster, due to the cookies in the bag. The Cookie Monster comes and eats the cookies from the back, so Sherlock sees that Bob can't be Cookie Monster. Bob then introduces himself, and Sherlock asks if he has another cookie he can have, as Bob finds another cookie Cookie Monster comes and takes it. (First: Episode 0223) |
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SCENE 6 | Big Bird has returned to the Fix-It Shop where he answers the 100th DIAL-A-BIRD call, asking beforehand if they want him or the Fix-it Shop. To Luis' detriment Big Bird gets all the calls, so Luis heads outside to work as Maria announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, and Big Bird holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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