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Sesame Street
Big Bird's hide-and-seek; Mr. Hooper's rocket launchers
Air date December 3, 1969
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production November 4, 1969
Sponsors D, E, M, 8, 9

SSShowID-0018

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0018-sc1
SCENE 1 Gordon teaches Big Bird how to play hide-and-seek, but tells him he can't hide behind trees or the kids because he's too wide and tall. Gordon suggests Big Bird be "it" since he can't grasp the concept of hiding, so he begins counting while everyone else hides. As he counts while hiding his eyes under his wing, Big Bird starts to fall asleep. When Gordon peeks from his hiding spot to find what's going on, Big Bird springs to life and shouts "1-2-3 on you, Gordon!"
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine)
(First: Episode 0016)
Rocketfallsover
Cartoon Rocket countdown: The rocket falls over.
0018-sc2
SCENE 2 Mr. Hooper comments on the previous cartoon, saying he has a better method of launching a rocket. He brings out a set of blueprints and explains a complex Rube Goldberg machine series of events he has devised that includes a cat on a fence, a golfer, and a hen, and ends with a waiter being tickled by a feather. Gordon doesn't think it's a sure-fire way to launch a rocket; what if the waiter isn't ticklish?
Rocketblowsup
Cartoon Rocket countdown: The rocket blows up in a shower of soot.
0018-sc3
SCENE 3 Mr. Hooper is still not impressed with the rocket countdown cartoons, and displays his revised method that ends with a cow being tied to a rocket which — as in "Hey Diddle Diddle" — travels over the moon... with the rocket in tow.
Rocketcountdowntakeoff
Cartoon Rocket countdown: The announcer blasts off.
No9
Film Nine Song (Song of Nine)
(First: Episode 0016)
0018-sc4a

0018-sc4b
SCENE 4 After discussing siblings, Susan reads a book to Maurice and Chet in her kitchen: Tom in the Middle by Berthe Amoss. They then identify some of the big and little letters in the book's title, including an E.
Eaticecream
Cartoon E Imagination
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0001)
0018-sc5
SCENE 5 Gordon teaches the kids in the yard how to play Simon Says, then tells the viewer, "Simon Says, watch Martha."
1092-06
Cartoon M is for Marvelous Martha
(First: Episode 0013)
Ernie writes Mort a letter M
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie has promised to write a letter to his cousin Mort. Bert helps him with the spelling, but Ernie only gets as far as writing a large letter M on the envelope. Bert says he can't continue spelling the name, because Ernie's written M has taken up the whole space. Ernie says it fulfills his promise to Mort: he's written him a letter; the letter M.
M-Mail
Cartoon Speech Balloon: M for Mail
(First: Episode 0013)
0018-sc6
SCENE 6 Gordon watches Bob and Ronald play with and talk about two St. Bernards. Bob explains how dogs like them have been known to help people buried in the snow, and compares their size to that of Gordon.
0018-sc6b
SCENE 6 cont'd After Bob takes the dogs to get something to eat, Gordon and Ronald talk about how they are same and different.
Rectangles
Muppets Kermit talks about "same" by showing two identical rectangles. Cookie Monster eats one of them, making them different.
2059y
Film Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be.
(First: Episode 0004)
0018-sc7
SCENE 7 Gordon, Chet, and Jackie build a pretend city using building blocks for the houses, apartments, stores, and a train station.
Alphabet Bates D
SCENE 7 cont'd Alphabet Bates skywrites the letter D (First: Episode 0016), and Gordon introduces "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."
LucySky
Muppets Anything Muppets dressed as hippies sing a special rendition of the Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds." (ending edited)
(First: Episode 0003)
0018-sc8
SCENE 8 Bob talks about the attributes of a crested owl, then asks it if it's seen Buddy and Jim.
BuddyJim-Board
Cast Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to carry an ironing board (horizontally) from one room to another.
(First: Episode 0002)
No8b
Song Song of Eight
(First: Episode 0016)
0018-sc9
SCENE 9 While waiting for Susan to finish cooking dinner, Gordon tells a story about a family of silverware: a mother (dinner fork), a father (dinner knife), their daughter (salad fork), son (butter knife), and their third misfit child: a spoon. The spoon child shows how special he is when the father dinner knife needs some sugar to go in his coffee cup, and nobody else is able to scoop it up.
1037g
Film Lions (instrumental, with occasional lion growls)
Music: Joe Raposo
0018-sc10

0018 Tom in the Middle
SCENE 10 Susan serves her husband a meal, and they say goodbye to the viewer. Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors and the book of the day.
0018-sign1

0018-sign2
CLOSING SIGNS Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, while Mr. Hooper holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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