| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Maria watches Susan on the job | |||||||
| Air date | December 8, 1976 | ||||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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Muppets | Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Danger." (First: Episode 0704) |
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Cartoon | A baby sees a "danger" sign, which points to several dangerous images. |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird asks Luis and Maria if he can borrow their ladder for a bird game. They put the ladder on the ground and join the kids as they walk along the rungs pretending to be different birds. |
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Film | A film of two kids and a goat riding a turtle at a petting zoo is narrated in English and Spanish. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0486) |
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Cartoon | A top-hatted man tries to show a girl how many uses a box has, but she prefers kicking it. (First: Episode 0763) |
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Cartoon | A boy imagines that if the clouds were cows, it would rain milk. (First: Episode 0650) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the beach, Ernie notices that Bert is missing; all he sees is Bert's hat. Sherlock Hemlock helps find Bert, and in the process, discovers that Ernie accidentally buried Bert under the sand. (First: Episode 0278) |
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Insert | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T. (First: Episode 0454) |
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Cartoon | A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains". Voice: Bob Arbogast (First: Episode 0024) |
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Film | Kids narrate a visit to an automobile factory, and watch a taxi being made. (First: Episode 0186) |
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SCENE 2 | Luis and Laurie play a “One of These Things” game with three teddy bears and an apple. |
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Muppets | Old West sketches: A couple of cowboy Muppets meet the Alphabet Kid, who claims that he can write the alphabet faster than any man alive. To prove it, he quickly draws his crayon and speedily writes out the whole alphabet. (First: Episode 0307) |
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Film | A look at the life of Colleen, who lives in Arizona. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0504) |
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Cartoon | T es para telefono (First: Episode 0362) |
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Film | Where the buffalo roam ... (First: Episode 0510) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates "up" and "down." (First: Episode 0276) |
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Cast | Maria and David find two sets of sacks, which have incorrect numerical labels. (First: Episode 0505) |
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Cartoon | Four people cooperate building a table. (First: Episode 0537) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert sing "Imagination". (First: Episode 0493) |
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Animation | Sand T/t (First: Episode 0636) |
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Film | The letter T is a very useful letter. (First: Episode 0402) |
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Celebrity | José Feliciano allows a kid to strum his guitar as he and the rest of the kids clap and make up a simple song about Sesame Street. He then leads them in a brief version of "4 Fingers Sez" as the kids hold up the right amount of fingers mentioned during the song. (First: Episode 0763) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Dressed Up." (First: Episode 0302) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — The Count asks Ingrid to teach him how to count to 20 in Spanish. (First: Episode 0477) |
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Cartoon | Two dots play hide-and-seek amongst different shaped blocks. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: The Six Dollar Man — Professor Nucleus Von Fission builds the Six Dollar Man. |
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Cartoon | Various demonstrations of DOWN and UP (First: Episode 0847) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Herry asks John-John if he knows the difference between up and down. (First: Episode 0565) |
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SCENE 3 | At the Fix-it Shop, Luis tells Maria how he got started in the fixing business: while living with his cousins and siblings, he found that out of all 15 kids he was the only one who knew how to repair things. Susan comes into the shop to pick up her toaster, and Maria reveals that she’s still figuring out what to do as it's time for her to pick a major for her college classes. She walks home with Susan, who tells Maria how she decided to become a nurse, mentioning what she likes about the job. She has a Spanish-speaking patient to visit, so she invites Maria to help translate and watch her on the job. |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts four lions. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0300) |
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Film | A gymnast illustrates up and down. (First: Episode 0526) |
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Muppets | Kermit has Grover help him demonstrate up and down by having Grover climb UP a sky-high flight of stairs -- while Kermit takes the elevator to the top. Exhausted, Grover faints and rolls DOWN the staircase. (First: Episode 0693) |
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Film | Examples of people and animals going down. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | Superman demonstrates the letter S and some of the words it stands for. (First: Episode 0136) |
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Song | "Cooperation" - Kids cooperate to move a wooden structure. |
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Cartoon | Typewriter: S for Spring (First: Episode 0792) |
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Muppets | The letter S joins U and N to make the word SUN. Some Anything Muppets appear in beach gear to bask in the sun. (First: Episode 0453) |
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SCENE 4 | Susan makes a house call to Mrs. Ramirez, attending to her son Ricardo. Maria helps Susan by translating Spanish to English (and vice versa) as Susan observes Ricardo's wound, informing Mrs. Ramirez how to treat it after removing the bandage. |
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Film | T is for toes. (First: Episode 0506) |
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Animation | Sand T/t (First: Episode 0636) |
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SCENE 5 | As they arrive home, Susan thanks Maria for the help and tells her that whatever she decides to do, she's sure Maria will be good at it. Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, and Luis holds the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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