Bedtime Stories & Songs
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| Release Date: | 1986 |
| Produced by: | Random House Home Video |
| Catalogue no. | 88309 |
| Format: | VHS |
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| ASIN |
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 released on DVD under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories 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 3729) (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) (DVD only)
- "The Snufflelullaby"
- "Everybody Sleeps" (EKA: Episode 0406)
- "Imagination" (EKA: Episode 0713)
Other releases
 BetaRandom House Home Video |
 VHSRandom House Home Video |
VHSSony Wonder |
 DVDSony Wonder |
 DVD title card |
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
