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Sesame Street
Air date February 3, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production January 12, 1970
Sponsors E, S, W, 2, 3

SSShowID-0062

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0062a
SCENE 1 While Gordon and Bob get ready for today's activities, Susan welcomes the viewer and displays the capital and lowercase E.
Eaticecream
Cartoon E Imagination
Artists: The Hubleys
(First: Episode 0001)
1446d
Cartoon Speech Balloon: E for egg
A cow hatches a chick, which says "Moo."
(First: Episode 0002)
2059f
Cartoon E for elephant, eagle, everything, and egg.
(First: Episode 0002)
0062b
SCENE 2 Susan introduces Gordon and Bob and the letter E.
GordonBob.E
Cast Gordon and Bob assemble an E.
(First: Episode 0005)
Dot Bridge 01 straight
Cartoon Dot Bridge #1: Dots appear uniformly
(First: Episode 0001)
The Bath Story
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie tells Bert that he calls his bathtub Rosie, because after his bath, he leaves a ring around Rosie. Bert then tells Ernie to get out of the tub, because other people are waiting to use it: Solomon Grundy, for instance.
(First: Episode 0001)
Solomongrundy
Cartoon Poor Solomon Grundy washes a different part of the left side of his body every day, but at the end of the week, "he's still half dirty!"
(First: Episode 0001)
Everybodywash
Song Ernie leads the cast in "Everybody Wash."
(First: Episode 0001)
Dot Bridge 01 straight
Cartoon Dot Bridge #1 (repeat)
0062c

0062d
SCENE 3 Susan reads a book to Mauricio and Vanessa: What is Your Favorite Thing to Touch? by Myra Tomback Gibson. She then asks them who their favorite witch is.
Wandawitch1
Cartoon "Wanda the Witch"
Animation by Tee Collins
(First: Episode 0001)
Dot Bridge 02 late
Cartoon Dot Bridge #2: Last dot is late and travels through the others
(First: Episode 0001)
0062e

0062f
SCENE 4 Bob watches as Steven and Ronald build things out of different-shaped blocks. He explains how rectangles, squares, and triangles can make many different things.
2059y
Film Hands build things out of triangles and squares while off-screen voices try to figure out what the constructions will be. (with revised music)
(First: Episode 0004)
0007.diamond
Transition Diamond transition
(First: Episode 0007)
No3
Film "Three Song (Song of Three)."
(First: Episode 0001)
ErnieBertLlama

Llama!
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie draws a llama, but Bert says it doesn't look anything like a llama. Ernie asks a filmed llama for advice, but the llama doesn't like it either. So Ernie decides to draw a 3 instead, but he can't remember what it looks like.
(First: Episode 0002)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)
ErnieSquiggle
Muppets Ernie draws what looks like a squiggle, so Bert recommends that he watch the 3 film again.
(First: Episode 0002)
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3" (repeat)
ErnieBertTreeDrawing
Muppets Ernie finishes his drawing. Bert asks, "You call that a three?" Ernie answers, "No, I call that a tree!"
(First: Episode 0002)
Dot Bridge 03 early
Cartoon Dot Bridge #3: Last dot shows up early
(First: Episode 0001)
0062g
SCENE 5 Susan sings "Here Are Some Things" with pictures of an apple and things you sit on. She introduces someone counting "the hard way..."
0010.Burtpushups
Celebrity Burt Lancaster counts while doing pushups.
(First: Episode 0010)
0062h
SCENE 6 Gordon comments on Burt's strength, and leads into the next film.
Apesatplay
Film Apes play at the zoo.
(First: Episode 0045)
Dot Bridge 04 third red
Cartoon Dot Bridge #4: Third dot wants to be red
(First: Episode 0001)
Sam the Snake
Animation Clay animation: Sam the Snake-and other things that begin with S
(First: Episode 0001)
0062i
SCENE 7 Gordon demonstrates "over," "through," and "around" with a small paper-covered hoop.
E&B&BDMonsterHoop
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie demonstrates the word "through" with the help of Beautiful Day Monster and Bert, who holds a hoop.
(First: Episode 0023)
Toon-fishingABCs
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)
Dot Bridge 05 all red
Cartoon Dot Bridge #5: All the dots turn red
(First: Episode 0001)
0062j

0062k
SCENE 8 Bob encounters Big Bird, who is happy because he just learned a song from a chicken — "Chickery Chick."
BDM Lecture
Muppets Kermit's Lectures: Kermit talks about hair. According to Kermit, "Hair is a part of you. It is not a part of me, because I am a frog." He points out that some people have hair on their heads, while others have it on their faces. But if you have hair all over your body -- like Beautiful Day Monster, who emerges brushing himself and singing "A pretty girl is like a melody ..." -- then you're a monster!
(First: Episode 0028)
SB--WWater
Cartoon Speech Balloon: W for water
0062l
SCENE 9 Susan segues from the previous segment to the next.
0007.water
Film Water is shown in many forms, including oceans, fountains, and snow.
(First: Episode 0007)
Jazzyspies2
Cartoon "Jazz #2"
(First: Episode 0001)
0062m
SCENE 10 Gordon prepares Vanessa, Mauricio, and Steve for some pictures of something up close.
HeresaLittleSomething--Tire
Film Close-ups are shown of a tire.
Music: Peter Schickele
(First: Episode 0013)
0062n
SCENE 10
cont'd
The kids thought it was a snake or a manhole cover before recognizing it as an automobile tire. Gordon wonders out loud what Bob and the Anything Muppets are going to do today.
SSYellowSubmarine-intro
Muppets Bob makes up three Anything Muppets as if they were employed in a transportation mode: a railroad engineer, an airplane pilot, and a bus driver. They all agree that the best job would be on board a submarine... (beginning shortened)
(First: Episode 0017)
SSYellowSubmarine
Muppets The Anything Muppets sing "Yellow Submarine".
(First: Episode 0017)
Dot Bridge 06 raspberry
Cartoon Dot Bridge #6: Dot blows raspberry
(First: Episode 0001)
1446d
Cartoon Speech Balloon: E for egg (repeat)
0062o

0062p
SCENE 11 On the count of three, all the kids wildly say, "Goodbye!" before they leave with Gordon. Bob announces the sponsors and today's book.
ErnieBert0009

CookieMonsterCTW009
CLOSING SIGNS Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, and Cookie Monster holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.


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