| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird's missing book | |||||||
| Air date | December 27, 1978 | ||||||
| Season | Season 10 (1978-1979) | ||||||
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COLD OPEN | 10th Season Intro Still |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Was Bert Captured By Martians? — When Ernie doesn't find Bert in his bed, he assumes that he's been taken away by The Martians. |
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Cartoon | Two men hammer a stake into a hole. (First: Episode 0785) |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of cows being fed hay during winter. Music: Robert Dennis (First: Episode 0787) |
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Cartoon | Sign Sounds: Hand (First: Episode 1179) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "Touch, Hold, Feel." (First: Episode 0504) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Five Little Pigs — Kermit encouters the wrong group of pigs. (First: Episode 0737) |
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Video | Scanimate kids intro (First: Episode 0798) |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon calls out different body parts which the kids then use to bounce a balloon. |
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Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) |
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Film | Two birds Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0295) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: V for Vacuum (First: Episode 0774) |
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Film | Kids with special needs do gymnastics at the Mamaroneck Co-Op Camp. (First: Episode 0953) |
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Cast | The Alphabet Dancers form the letter V. (First: Episode 0455) |
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Animation | Sand V/v (First: Episode 0637) |
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Muppets | Game Show: The Remembering Game — Guy Smiley hosts Cookie Monster and Bill Smith who have to match two pictures. (First: Episode 0310) |
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SCENE 2 | Buffy shows Big Bird some photos of baby Cody's first visit to Sesame Street. Big Bird can't believe the baby in the pictures is Cody, having gotten so used to the grown child he is today. |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0277) |
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Film | Bus trip around town (guitar soundtrack) (First: Episode 0926) |
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Animation | A kid's father tells him what can be built out of the wheels and things he found. (First: Episode 0268) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bart Visits — Ernie notes the differences between Bert and his brother Bart. (First: Episode 0594) |
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Cartoon | A man wants a hat, but the hat shop owner's hats are all the same - except for a ten-gallon hat, which complements the customer's horseback riding nicely. (First: Episode 0781) |
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Film | Marching band cymbal crash #2 (First: Episode 0527) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd sings a two-step for pairs of animals. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0342) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet girl sings "I Want a Monster to Be My Friend." (First: Episode 0810) |
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SCENE 3 | Gordon passes Oscar's trash can, which is totally covered in signs reading "NO." Oscar himself is even wearing the word. He considers it his favorite word, as it serves as the perfect response to any dumb questions he receives from his neighbors. Gordon shows Oscar the old, broken radio he was going to offer him, but knowing the answer is "no," he throws it away somewhere else. |
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Film | A gorilla chases a woman, who registers her protest by shouting "No." She triumphantly drags the gorilla off. (First: Episode 0546) |
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Cartoon | "Have you seen my NO?" (First: Episode 0773) |
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Muppets | Grover the Assistant: Herbert Birdsfoot arranges three blocks for Grover to count. No matter how the blocks are arranged, they still add up to three. Herbert asks Grover to count some oranges as well. Grover confesses that he's good at counting blocks -- but he doesn't know how to count oranges! (First: Episode 0192) |
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Cartoon | Consonant Sound: V, violin (First: Episode 1157) |
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Celebrity | Michael Christensen and Paul Binder demonstrate high, higher, and highest with their juggling clubs. (First: Episode 1008) |
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Film | Kid identify pairs of animal species in a zoo. (First: Episode 0364) |
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Cartoon | A boy gets lost, and encounters a man with a yo-yo, who tells him to remember everything he passed. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0408) |
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Muppets / Cast | Jeffery tells Olivia a monster is chasing him, which she interprets as fear. Olivia tells him a story about a brave little girl who found out how nice monsters are, even when everyone else was afraid of them. As it turns out, Jeffery is playing hide-and-seek with a monster. |
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SCENE 4 | Big Bird bumps into Gordon while looking for his missing storybook. Gordon suggests he walk through his entire day in order to remember where it might be. Big Bird started his day in his nest and starts doing several yawns. |
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Cartoon | M is for Moo Music: Larry Rosen and Charles Myers (First: Episode 0276) |
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Muppets | Ernie and Bert: Bert's Purple Hand — Bert can't go to the beach with Ernie because his hand has purple paint on it. (First: Episode 0386) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Gordon wearily waits as Big Bird, having already done several other recreations of his day, munches down on the birdseed breakfast he had earlier. |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: M for Mail (First: Episode 0013) |
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Muppets | An Anything Muppet discusses the concept of "same" using her reflection in the mirror. The reflection begins speaking on its own. The girl faints and the reflection decides to do the same. (First: Episode 0376) |
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SCENE 4 cont'd | Now at night, Gordon loses his patience as Big Bird recreates their interaction when this whole situation started, and both realize that nothing Big Bird has done today involved him having the book. Buffy and Cody come by and return said storybook, reminding him that he gave it to them yesterday. Big Bird doesn't quite remember this and begins retracing his steps of the day before for Buffy. Gordon leaves and announces the sponsors in voiceover. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Grover holds the Sesame Street sign, while the Count holds the CTW sign. |
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