Sandbox:Unidentified Sesame Street Episodes

Images for what we're fairly certain are Street scenes, but we don't know the episode number yet.

screenshots/photos

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Seen in some newspaper articles for season 5

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Susan and kids making snowman next to Oscar's can - possibly from Episode 0461

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Miles learning to use the telephone

montages

Clips in montages from Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting to be used for future guides:

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Big Bird peers through a camera (approx. season 11-13)

Big Bird & ONE WAY sign (Episode 1146)

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Bob shaking hands with Uncle Wally in front of Oscar's can

snow

Possibly from the 1974 or 1976 snow arcs:

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Episodes sourced somewhere, but there are no known images out there, in addition to the episode numbers being currently unknown.

• Caroll Spinney's oft-repeated anecdote of an episode where Big Bird wants to go to day care with the kids, but is dejected when he can't go. Spinney says that this led to the decision of portraying Big Bird as a child. In his book The Wisdom of Big Bird (pages 35-36), Spinney cites it as having been in the show's first year, but also says the script was by Jeff Moss, whom he cited as the head writer at the time. The latter claim is incorrect, as Moss would not become head writer until season 2 (Jon Stone was head writer in season 1). There are no matches for said scene in our now complete episode guides for the first three seasons (the last two of which meet the criteria for Spinney's claim regarding Moss). However, there is an episode from season 1 where Big Bird dreams of being able to attend kindergarten someday, indicating that Big Bird was already designated as a child-like character from the beginning. Spinney's recollection could very well be a result of bad memory.

• A song by Count von Count about how he is unable to say the "w" sound. -- Alan Menken on Seth Speaks on SiriusXM, May 4, 2018.

• An episode written by Annie Evans featuring Snuffy, Telly, and Slimey together in the same scenes -- a 2012 Sesame Family Robinson blog post by Marty Robinson, noting the episode as occurring "several years back". [2]

• Gordon paints a picture of the street and asks Big Bird to guard the painting while it dries. Big Bird becomes so concerned about protecting it that he puts a "wet paint" sign right on the painting, ruining it beyond repair.

• Big Bird calls Mr. Hooper, Mr. Cunningham

• Telly talks about emotions, including love and anger. At one point, he sees Maria and David kissing and says "that's love". According to Sesame Street: A Celebration - 40 Years of Life on the Street, the script was written by Sonia Manzano.

See also

• Sandbox:Unidentified Sesame Street Segments
• Thread: Canned Snuffy and other unknown Street scenes
• Danny's gallery
• Chris's gallery
• User:MasterYoshi/Sesame Street episode descriptions