Episode 1217

Sesame Street
Air date	January 9, 1979
Season	Season 10 (1978-1979)
Sponsors G, J, 11

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• Oscar becomes a photographer and shows his pictures to Olivia.

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie plays a game of tag with Bert, who is reading his book. (EKA: Episode 1026)

• Film: Rattlesnake (EKA: Episode 0294)

• Cartoon: A fisherboy catches all the letters of the alphabet and makes alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004)

• Biff hangs Salvador Dada's paintings in an art gallery. (EKA: Episode 0707)

• Cartoon: A girl uses her paint-by-the-numbers set to find an elephant in her picture. (EKA: Episode 0803)

• Gordon and Olivia have an argument.

• Film: a girl shops for a pair of earrings. (EKA: Episode 0802)

• Sesame Street News Flash: Don Music tries to write "Mary Had a Little Lamb", but he can't come up with a word that rhymes with "snow". Kermit suggests that Don try another angle, which leads to Don writing the hit song "Mary Had a Bicycle". Don sings the song, with back-up vocals from the Monotones. (EKA: Episode 0698)

• Song: "Country"

• Cartoon: A girl talks about preparing to play with her new sled. (EKA: Episode 0573)

• Film: to a jazz rhythm soundtrack, the camera zooms in on flowers growing on a tree. (EKA: Episode 0842)

• Linda gets angry.

• Hubley animation: A girl tries to lure her cat out from under the chair so she can pick him up. (EKA: Episode 0721)

• Ernie and Bert: Ernie is planning to go to the library, when he hears on the radio that it might rain. So he gets out his umbrella, and puts on his raincoat, rain hat, and galoshes. Then, in case it floods, he takes a bag of groceries and a life preserver. Finally, he makes Bert go to the library with him, so he won't be stranded in the flood without him. (EKA: Episode 1148)

• An Anything Muppet girl shows the viewers that the number 11 is the same right side up and upside down. (Spanish soundtrack)

• Sesame Street Animal Films: African gazelles. (EKA: Episode 0829)

• Big Bird plans to take a nap.

• Hands play the piano.

• Film: Kids describe the inside of a fire station.

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