Bedtime Stories & Songs

First edition cover

Release Date	1986
Produced by	Random House Home Video
Catalogue no.	88309
Format	VHS

Bedtime Stories & Songs is a Sesame Street direct-to-video program, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label in 1986. The video was rereleased on under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996 and on DVD in 2005.

The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.

Segments

• "Dance Myself to Sleep" (EKA: Episode 1707)
• The Count counts sheep (partial)
• Grover pretends that he is on the moon (VHS only)
• "The Moon Shines" -- animation with vocals by Jerry Nelson (EKA: Episode 2980) (DVD only)
• "If Moon Was Cookie" (EKA: Episode 2986)
• The King's Problem with Maria (EKA: Episode 0725) (VHS only)
• An African story about the sun and the moon narrated by Maria and "Anansi the Spider" (Ossie Davis) (EKA: Episode 3741) (DVD only)
• "The Snufflelullaby"
• "Everybody Sleeps" (EKA: Episode 0406)
• "Imagination" (EKA: Episode 0713)

Other releases

BetaRandom House Home Video
88308
ISBN 039488308X

VHSRandom House Home Video
88309
Reissue cover

VHSSony Wonder
LVD 51228

DVDSony Wonder
LVD 51228

DVD title card

DVDGenius Entertainment

United Kingdom (VHS)1991
2 Entertain Video

Cast

Caroll Spinney as Big Bird

Martin P. Robinson as Mr. Snuffleupagus, Telly Monster and Buster the Horse

Jim Henson as Ernie and The King

Frank Oz as Bert, Grover, Cookie Monster, The Tallest Person in the Kingdom, The Smallest Person in the Kingdom

Jerry Nelson as Count von Count, The Smartest Person in the Kingdom and The Fastest Person in the Kingdom

Sonia Manzano as Maria

Roscoe Orman as Gordon

Loretta Long as Susan