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Sesame Street
Air date December 10, 1969
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production November 13, 1969
Sponsors A, H, T, 10

SSShowID-0023

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0023 01
SCENE 1 Gordon shows Susan and Myron some picture sequences of he and Susan having lunch, and has Myron guess which order the pictures go in.
Bob-Starshine
Muppets / Cast Bob sings "Good Morning Starshine" with a group of hippie Anything Muppets.
(First: Episode 0003)
E&B&BDMonsterHoop
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie demonstrates the word "through" with the help of Beautiful Day Monster and Bert, who holds a hoop.
Followtheleader
Film A group of kids play follow the leader and go over, around and through various obstacles, but one of them takes a while to catch on.
(First: Episode 0001)
Tisfortrash
Cartoon T is for Trash and Ticket
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0020)
0023B
SCENE 2 Gordon and Norma observe a live pilgrim goose - and it usually makes a honking sound.
0002.sounds1

0002.sounds2
Film A film of things that make sounds, including birds, farm animals, vehicles and footsteps. Is silence a sound?
(First: Episode 0002)
Adorablecookiemonster
Muppets An Anything Muppet man named Jack sings "A, You're Adorable" to his girlfriend, Adrienne, using alphabet blocks to enumerate the ways that he loves her. Cookie Monster shows up and eats the blocks.
Alligatortoon
Cartoon A man displays the capital and lowercase A, and explains what an alligator is.
(First: Episode 0006)
Aisforape
Cartoon Speech Balloon: A for Ape
(First: Episode 0006)
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon A little girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in voice-over. (ending cut)
(First: Episode 0010)
0023C
SCENE 3 At Hooper's Store, Big Bird finishes a soda and Mr. Hooper asks him for ten cents. Big Bird doesn't have ten pennies, but he does have a dime. Mr. Hooper shows him how to count ten pennies, and then his ten fingers.
Number10
Film "Ten Song (Song of Ten)"
(First: Episode 0021)
Jamesearljonescounts
Celebrity James Earl Jones counts to 10.
(First: Episode 0005)
0023D
SCENE 4 Susan has the kids guess where cut-out facial features belong on a picture of a clown's blank head. She then asks them, "Do you know how funny you'd look if you lost your nose?"...
Nosesnatcher1

Nosesnatcher2
Muppets Bert says that he and Ernie are looking at the "Mysterious Nose-Snatcher." Ernie, disagreeing, walks closer and closer to the camera to see. His face begins to black out the screen...but when he moves back into view, his nose is missing!
(First: Episode 0005)
Tisfortrash
Cartoon T is for Trash and Ticket (repeat)
PIYNPostmanandFireman
Muppets Bob and the Anything Muppets sing "The People in Your Neighborhood": Fireman and Postman.
0023E

0023F
SCENE 5 Gordon reads a book to Marlon and Ronald: The Circus Baby by Maud and Miska Petersham, about a mother elephant who tries to teach her calf how to eat like the other circus folk. When the story is finished he points out the shape of the book: a rectangle.
Rectangles1

Rectangles2
Film "Rectangles"
Rectangles in the city and country are shown to a percussion soundtrack.
(First: Episode 0005)
0023G
SCENE 6 Mr. Hooper is able to reach a toy airplane on a high shelf by standing on a box, which is also a rectangle. He has an easier time than Buddy and Jim.
BuddyJim.lightbulb
Cast Buddy and Jim struggle with replacing a light bulb.
(First: Episode 0007)
0023H
SCENE 7 Gordon, Norma, and Ariana hold and feed some poodles, all who's names begin with the letter "T" (Tina, Trivet, Trinket, and Tar).
400007
Cartoon A poem filled with T words, including a teacher, toys, Texas, and "turtles with brains."
Voice: Bob Arbogast
Hladycartoon
Cartoon H is for horseshoe.
(First: Episode 0020)
Aisforape
Cartoon Speech Balloon: A for Ape (repeat)
Number10
Film "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (repeat)
0023I

0023J

0023 The Circus Baby
SCENE 8 Gordon: "Where else can you find four poodles and a goose but Sesame Street?" Gordon signs off and Susan announces the sponsors and today's book.
ClosingSign-BobHooper0023

ClosingSign-Hippies0023
CLOSING SIGNS Bob and Mr. Hooper hold up the Sesame Street sign, while a group of hippies holds up the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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