Sesame Street | |||||||||
Air date | January 23, 1970 | ||||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | On the steps, Gordon plays a guessing game with Roma and Patty, where they both cover their eyes and guess what sounds they hear. They hear the sounds of traffic, a plane, an ice cream truck, and clumsy Big Bird crashing into something. | |
Film | "Noises" A boy named Mark has a pair of magic glasses that helps him listen to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, a bicycle, and a parrot. (First: Episode 0008) | |
Muppets | Ernie has a pair of magic glasses, which help the wearer see things that are invisible. He decides he'll try them after he's finished eating his plate of cookies. Cookie Monster sneaks up behind Ernie and takes a cookie while he isn't looking -- and when Ernie looks around for it, Cookie Monster sneaks another one. Finally, Ernie puts on his glasses, and catches sight of Cookie Monster. Now he's convinced the glasses are really magic -- they let him see an invisible monster! | |
Cartoon | "Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes. Artist: Jeff Hale (First: Episode 0050) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: V for Violin A musician plays a violin, which instantly breaks. (First: Episode 0052) | |
Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 2 | Susan prepares a sandwich in the kitchen, pointing out to Roma that one kid is made of many different parts, just like a sandwich can be made of many different foods. | |
Song | "What Kids Are Made Of" - a song about body parts. (First: Episode 0003) | |
SCENE 3 | Bob and Robin look at a porcupine in the Pet Shop window; Bob observes that there are all kinds of different-looking animals, even funny-looking ones… | |
Song | Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face." (First: Episode 0006) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie tells Bert about his so-called "boring" day at the zoo. (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | A song about a rolling O Animation by John and Faith Hubley (First: Episode 0011) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (First: Episode 0014) | |
SCENE 4 | Big Bird recites a short poem about the letter O. | |
Film | "Round": A live-action film set to a lively soundtrack shows circles in every-day life, including Coca-Cola bottle caps, moving wheels, yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons. (First: Episode 0002) | |
SCENE 5 | Susan reads a book: What Do I Do? by Norma Simon. She then asks what Burt Lancaster does. | |
Celebrity | Burt Lancaster shows what he does when he's happy and when he's angry. When he's home, he watches Sesame Street. (First: Episode 0005) | |
Muppets | The Anything Muppets sing "All Together Now". (First: Episode 0015) | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (First: Episode 0021) | |
SCENE 6 | Big Bird doesn't seem to have ten of anything, so Susan shows Big Bird how Robin and Patty have ten fingers and toes. Big Bird recites a poem about the number 10. | |
Film | "Ten Song (Song of Ten)" (repeat) | |
SCENE 7 | Bob compares his size to that of Sally, explaining that letters can be big and small as well. They identify a capital E and a lowercase E. | |
Cartoon | E Imagination Artists: The Hubleys (First: Episode 0001) | |
Cartoon | E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg. (First: Episode 0002) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: E for egg A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo." (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Gordon has four things lined up in a row--a harmonica, a whistle, a trumpet, and a banana. He tells Ernie that one of these doesn't belong, and Ernie chooses the banana because you can make music with the instruments, but you eat the banana... or so he thinks. Gordon tells Ernie to blow into the banana and Ernie appears to be playing a horn until Gordon reveals he was honking a horn behind his back the whole time. Amused by the trick, they decide to play the same joke on Cookie Monster, but Cookie has a different idea--you eat the harmonica, whistle, and trumpet, and make beautiful music with the banana! (First: Episode 0016) | |
Cartoon | While fishing one day, a boy catches the letters of the alphabet. Frustrated at not having caught any fish to eat, he decides to use his catch for alphabet soup. (repeat) | |
Film | "Boy at Beach" A boy walks on the beach, and sees a sandpiper, a crab, a hermit crab, and other animals. (First: Episode 0008) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon, Sally, and Jay look at and feed lettuce to some guinea pigs. Gordon wonders what Buddy and Jim are doing. | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim get confused when a picture falls off of the wall. (First: Episode 0004) | |
Cartoon | E Imagination (repeat) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: O for Open (repeat) | |
Cartoon | "Imagination V" (repeat) | |
SCENE 9 | Gordon and the kids continue to feed the guinea pigs as they sign off and the credits roll. Gordon announces the sponsors and today's book. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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