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Sesame Street
Air date April 19, 1979
Season Season 10 (1978-1979)
Production March 15, 1979
Sponsors Q, Y, 6

SSTitle-1289


StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
SSseason10
COLD OPEN 10th Season Intro Still
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SCENE 1 Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus pretend to play "Goldilocks and the Three Bears," with Big Bird as the bear family and Snuffy as Goldilocks (wearing his Shirley Temple wig). As Big Bird goes out to simulate the bears walking in the woods, Snuffy-locks tries out all three different-sized chairs, which all break under his weight. Big Bird returns and sees the game worked a little too well - all the chairs were too small for him. Looking at the wreckage, he asks, "You wanna play pick-up sticks?"
Sg-grocerybag
Muppets Super Grover: Judy Finstermacher has broken her bag of groceries, and Super Grover tries to find a way for her to get the groceries to her home.
Word.AGUA.70s
Cartoon The word AGUA fills up with water.
(First: Episode 0523)
Film-Baboon&Baby
Film A young baboon sits on the back of their parent as they cross the plain.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0299)
Toon-WrongPlaceTree
Animation Leaves and a tree trunk find the right place they belong.
(First: Episode 0793)
MariaDavidLuisQ
Cast In speed-induced footage, Maria, Luis and David put together a letter Q.
(First: Episode 0467)
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0048)
2477d
Film How sweaters are made from sheep's wool.
(First: Episode 1009)
Maria-Imagines
Insert Maria asks the viewer to imagine her as a baseball player, a princess and a baker.
(First: Episode 0558)
Marshalgrover-awayfrom
Muppets Marshal Grover tries mounting Fred the Wonder Horse using a "run and jump" technique. But every time he gets close, Fred moves away from him, causing onlookers in the saloon to laugh at them. Fred finally explains that he doesn't appreciate the act, as it hurts his back. Grover promises never to run and jump onto his back again, and asks him to roll over so he may do so on his belly.
(First: Episode 0825)
Aguafilm
Film A little girl gets herself a glass of AGUA.
(First: Episode 0929)
0871o
Cartoon Q-quiet! (tree chopping)
(First: Episode 0675)
David-Rectangle
Film David (in voice-over) finds rectangles.
(First: Episode 0481)
Typewriter.Y
Cartoon The Typewriter: Y for Yo-Yo
(First: Episode 0769)
Doorknob
Film David asks the viewer to find a rectangle and two circles in the picture of a doorbell.
(First: Episode 0434)
Filmfair q
Cartoon A duck sings about all the reasons why q should be remembered.
(First: Episode 0789)
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SCENE 2 Oscar's latest trick is a special gift for Gordon's birthday. He hands him the package and tells him it's something useful that everybody has that keeps their body looking neat; Gordon unwraps the box and finds a comb inside. Oscar snickers that Gordon won't be able to use it, until Gordon shows how it can work with his mustache instead.
2head.Feet
Muppets The Two-Headed Monster sounds out "feet," and then the camera pans back to reveal a pair of live feet on some grass.
Toon.Yak
Cartoon Y for Yak
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 1184)
PIYN-OilCleaner
Muppets / Cast Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with the oilman and street cleaner.
(First: Episode 0817)
Animalsbathing
Film Animals and children bathe in water.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0615)
TwoSeaCreatures
Cartoon I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father!
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0241)
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SCENE 3 Snuffy and the kids join Big Bird in some exercises. They start with running in place, but when they move on to toe-touches Snuffy is unable to reach his back feet. The others help and touch his back toes for him. "I feel healthier already!" Snuffy says.
Pinball 06
Cartoon "Pinball Number Count" #6
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0983)
Flying Fingers
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie says that he has "flying fingers," and tries to find ten different things that his fingers can do.
(First: Episode 0617)
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Cartoon A magician tries to make six circles disappear.
(First: Episode 0783)
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SCENE 4 For their next exercise, Big Bird tells Snuffy they'll be jogging. Not only will it be healthy, but it will also give Snuffy a chance to finally meet the locals. However, Snuffy winds up jogging in the opposite direction of Big Bird and away from his friends. When Gordon and Olivia point out that Snuffy is nowhere to be seen, Big Bird assumes that he must've run up ahead of him and tries to catch up.
Closer-Tomato
Song Joe Raposo sings "Look a Little Closer." (tomato)
(First: Episode 0147)
EBSix
Muppets Bert says his favorite number is Six.
Ringmaster.6monkeys
Cartoon The Ringmaster displays six marvelous monkeys who do stunts.
2477o
Film Trees are very nice places, for animals and for people.
(First: Episode 0455)
Toon-LittleAndy
Cartoon Little Andy doesn't understand why everyone's noses turn pink when he greets them. He comes to realize that he didn't take a bath.
StJudysComet
Celebrity Paul Simon performs "St. Judy's Comet."
(First: Episode 1055)
1041starfish
Film One of These Things (3 starfish and 1 crab)
(First: Episode 0516)
6Octopus
Cartoon Kids count dinosaurs, octopuses, and paper dolls.
(First: Episode 0926)
2423-Scuba
Film A scuba diver swims away from.
(First: Episode 0537)
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SCENE 5 Olivia finds a box of old playthings (skates, hula hoops, paddleballs, etc.) from when she and Gordon were young. They have fun sharing their old toys with Big Bird and the other kids in the yard as Snuffy announces the sponsors.
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CLOSING SIGNS Bob holds the Sesame Street sign, while Olivia holds the CTW sign.


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