| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Telly plans for a walk | |||||||
| Air date | December 30, 1980 | ||||||
| Season | Season 12 (1980-1981) | ||||||
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SCENE 1 | Maria wants to go for a walk and invites Telly Monster to join her. As dramatic soap opera-type organ music plays, Telly notices the clouds overhead and thinks rain might occur. He darts off to prepare for it. |
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Cartoon | "Pinball Number Count" #6 Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0983) |
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Muppets | "Body Rhythms" by Little Jerry and the Monotones. (First: Episode 1399) |
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Cartoon | Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales. Artist: Bud Luckey (First: Episode 0324) |
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Film | Most animals have two eyes, ears, etc. ... but some snakes have two heads. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0287) |
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SCENE 2 | Telly returns wearing a rain poncho and carrying an umbrella. Maria is certain the clouds won't bring rain. Telly agrees...they could bring snow! |
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Film | A wheel rolls away from a junkyard. A boy captures it to complete his wagon. (Spanish version) (First: Episode 0513) |
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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 | "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in. (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Harvey Kneeslapper: X Marks the Spot! (First: Episode 0456) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter gets a check-up with help from an x-ray. (First: Episode 0787) |
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SCENE 3 | Maria gets impatient as Telly comes back, now with a muffler (and some snow gear for Maria as well). He also brings a first-aid kit in case one of them slips and scrapes their knee. Maria asserts today is a nice, sunny day, prompting Telly to run off again. |
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Film | A baker decorates a birthday cake to a jazz percussion beat. (First: Episode 1172) |
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Cartoon | The man is only afraid of one thing: FEAR. (First: Episode 0816) |
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Muppets | Ernie & Bert — At the movies, Ernie reacts to a sad, funny, scary movie, to Bert's embarrassment and the annoyance of the other viewers. (First: Episode 0627) |
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Cartoon | The front and back of a costumed horse follow an ice cream truck. (First: Episode 0782) |
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SCENE 4 | Telly comes in, now with a sun visor and a basket full of various items (such as sunblock and lemonade). Maria points out that Telly will have a hard time walking while wearing all the ridiculous clothing and carrying all those items. Telly has an answer for this problem too and runs off once more. |
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Cartoon | A bird displays the front and back of a turtle. (First: Episode 0789) |
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Film | Things that begin with G (First: Episode 0357) |
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Muppets | On the ranch, Forgetful Jones is able to remember the entire alphabet. He does, however, forget one thing: that he was able to remember it. |
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Cartoon | A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job. (First: Episode 0131) |
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SCENE 5 | Telly's solution is to hop into a backpack, which Maria carries on her back (along with the many other items Telly brought). The two finally take off, and Telly believes it to be a nice day after all. |
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Animation | A man plays a memory game using cards. (First: Episode 1232) |
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Muppets | Sesame Street News Flash: Little Bo Peep (part 1) (First: Episode 1047) |
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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: Little Bo Peep (part 2) (First: Episode 1084) |
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Cartoon | A magician tries to make six circles disappear. (First: Episode 0783) |
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Film | Addition and subtraction using three trapeze artists (version "A") (First: Episode 1036) |
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Cartoon | X in EXIT: Animals sing as they exit a building. (First: Episode 1184) |
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SCENE 6 | Dr. Nobel Price shows Susan his latest creation - the carry-keeper, which is actually a lunchbox. Susan explains that they've already been around for years as evident by the ones a couple of kids are carrying to school. Dr. Price agrees to stay and have some lunch, right after he throws a tantrum. |
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Cartoon | Two groups of mountain goats try to pass each other on a mountain road. (First: Episode 0780) |
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Cast | On stage, Gordon, Luis and Linda say "DANGER" in their own ways. David doesn't listen and take the brunt of some pratfalls that send him off the stage. (First: Episode 1205) |
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Cartoon | An owl flies, carrying a sign that says "PELIGRO." (First: Episode 0787) |
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Film | Baby turtles swim around. Music: Joe Raposo (First: Episode 0294) |
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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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Cartoon | What Do You Do With a Pet? (First: Episode 0465) |
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SCENE 7 | A Spanish-speaking girl (Tania Aponte) asks Big Bird if he knows how to get to Sesame Street. Big Bird can't understand the girl and brings her inside the Fix-It Shop so Maria and Luis can translate. Instead, Mr. Hooper is inside minding the store while Luis runs an errand. Mr. Hooper doesn't speak much Spanish, but fortunately Poco Loco does. Big Bird rewards the parrot by hanging the shop's "Se Habla Español" sign on his beak. |
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Film | A boy narrates a film of how his family trains wild ponies on the farm. (First: Episode 0815) |
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Animation | Counting six red balls (First: Episode 0278) |
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Muppets | In the kitchen, Ernie bakes some cookies of different shapes, which he lets Cookie Monster eat after he finishes displaying each one to the viewer. (First: Episode 1158) |
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Cartoon | Brand X (First: Episode 0299) |
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Muppets | Anything Muppets perform an opera about front and back (to the tune of "The Blue Danube"). (First: Episode 1391) |
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Celebrity | Victor Borge: "Pardon my back...pardon my front, but that's the way I'm built." (First: Episode 1219) |
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Cartoon | Six pigs Artist: Owe Gustafson |
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SCENE 8 | Big Bird recites today's sponsors in English, and Poco Loco repeats them in Spanish. |
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CLOSING SIGNS | Linda holds the Sesame Street sign, while Luis holds the CTW sign. |
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