| Sesame Street | |||||
| The Amazing Mumford makes things go up and down | |||||
| Air date | May 5, 1977 | ||||
| Season | Season 8 (1976-1977) | ||||
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SCENE 1 | Luis, Maria, Jay and Oscar the Grouch watch as the Amazing Mumford demonstrates the art of Siamese levitation, aka making things go up and down without touching them. He magically makes a book and basketball fly up and down through the air. Everyone is impressed but Oscar, who asks Mumford to try the trick on something bigger. Mumford complies by sending Oscar's trash can skyward, then brings it crashing back to Earth. |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets: Witches Cooperate — Three witches attempt their own individual spells. (First: Episode 0407) |
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Cartoon | A baby bird falls from a tree. A boy puts him back, and in return, the mother bird saves the boy from embarrassment. (First: Episode 0550) |
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Film | A girl and her mother go on a journey to find out where potatoes come from. (First: Episode 0984) |
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Cartoon | La palabra cerrado (First: Episode 0481) |
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Cast | Luis tries to open a door marked with a "CERRADO" sign. He gets a running start, when Maria changes the sign to read "ABIERTO." She opens the door and Luis runs right through it, crashing. (First: Episode 0596) |
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Cartoon | A girl counts her 5 cats using ribbon to keep track. (First: Episode 1001) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert Is Locked Out — Bert speculates on why Ernie has asked him to stay out of the apartment. (First: Episode 0461) |
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Animation | New Ball in Town: Three striped balls encounter a polka-dotted ball. (First: Episode 0777) |
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Cast | Buffy plays her mouthbow and sings "Ground Hog" to the kids. (First: Episode 0844) |
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Cartoon | A tiny ant pushes the huge N into its place in the alphabet. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Film | A rhino and her baby (First: Episode 0408) |
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Song | "1-2-3-4-5!" (First: Episode 0144) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Penguins Five." (First: Episode 0245) |
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Cartoon | Five stripes make a circle. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Muppets | Kermit Lecture: Taxi — The word TAXI behaves the way a taxi vehicle would. (First: Episode 0312) |
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Cartoon | A boy needs a letter U to complete the word UP. (First: Episode 0416) |
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Film | Examples of people and animals going down. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0406) |
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Cartoon | A man demonstrates "up" and "down". (First: Episode 0276) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Statue of Bert — Ernie makes a clay bust of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose. (First: Episode 0463) |
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Cartoon | A man (voiced by Jack Dodson) describes places that begin with U and what you can do with the letter U. (First: Episode 0416) |
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Film | Footage of wolves. (First: Episode 0982) |
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Cartoon | A U train spells the words "unite," "U-turn," "underground," "up," and "universe." (First: Episode 0624) |
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Celebrity | Luis tells the story of "The Sad Princess". In a faraway land, a beautiful princess (played by guest star Judy Collins) has a number of hard-working, happy subjects. Luis reads in the book that the princess is very happy, but the princess interrupts him. "Don't believe everything you read!" she cries, throwing the book away. "The fact is, I'm sick of being clean. I'm sick of being lovely... and I'm one sad princess." Her subjects insist that she must be happy, because she's a beautiful princess. She sings a sad song, explaining that she's very bored just sitting around and watching them work. She offers to join her subjects in their work. They object that she might tear her dress, or get dirty, but she says that she'd love to get dirty. The subjects are thrilled to have "a beautiful, working princess". Luis shrugs and says that they lived happily ever after, although the subjects point out that that's a generalization -- they have good days and bad days. The princess asks Luis to move so that she can fix his chair. (First: Episode 0812) |
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Song | "Five Onstage Dancers" (First: Episode 0539) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Ernie Works for The Count — The Count hires Ernie to answer his phone so that he won't be bothered with calls while he is counting. (First: Episode 0539) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella (First: Episode 0038) |
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SCENE 2 | Maria and the kids (including John Williams III and Joey Calvan) see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U (First: Episode 0036). |
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Cartoon | Boy and the UP balloons (First: Episode 0364) |
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Muppets | Cookie Monster and Herry Monster sing "Up and Down". (First: Episode 0154) |
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Cartoon | A kid tries to push his toy house through the front door without the door closing. Artist: Paul Fierlinger (First: Episode 0914) |
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Cast | Big Bird and David try each other's beds but come to the conclusion that for David the bed is the best, for Big Bird his nest is best. (First: Episode 0606) |
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Cartoon | Capital letter U for up (First: Episode 0401) |
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Film | Traffic light. (First: Episode 0131) |
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Cartoon | Once there were two men. Each had his own idea. One man told his thought to the other man, then the other man told his idea to the first man. Now both men knew twice as much. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Film | Sesame Street Animal Films: Kids comment over footage of an eagle's view of different kinds of roads. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0377) |
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SCENE 3 | Luis plays a Spanish “Here Are Some Things” game with Michelle and David using different sized 5s. |
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Cartoon | Clouds that look like things. (First: Episode 0211) |
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Film | The Fabulous Four Flying Flatirons, a group of trapeze artists, demonstrate up and down. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: N - Nail (First: Episode 0040) |
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Transition | A circle appears on screen, expanding like a balloon until it pops. (First: Episode 0105) |
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SCENE 4 | Maria and the kids play as Luis announces the sponsors. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Kermit and a girl hold the Sesame Street sign, while Maria holds the CTW sign. |
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