Sesame Street | |||||||
Air date | February 27, 1970 | ||||||
Season | Season 1 (1969-1970) | ||||||
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Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Gordon comes home and calls out for Susan, but sees she's not there. He looks around and sees some evidence on the kitchen counter that she was here: her keys, a half-eaten lunch, and a newspaper with a notification to register to vote. He goes over to the table and tells what has happened by the clues of a toy cow, some crayons, and some childrens' drawings of a cow. He also hints at a box nearby that Bob helped him set up. | |
Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (First: Episode 0016) | |
Muppets | Grover the Assistant: Kermit and Grover count nine blocks. | |
SCENE 2 | Gordon sets up the shadow box that Bob made for his science class. He puts some items in the box such as a cup, a telephone, and a toy locomotive and sees if we can guess what they are by the shadows they make. | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: T for train (First: Episode 0022) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty T": T is for Trash and Ticket (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | T is for Television (First: Episode 0024) | |
SCENE 3 | Gordon puts his shadow box items away and hears Susan ring the doorbell, saying she forgot her keys. | |
Celebrity | Pat Paulsen says the alphabet. (First: Episode 0067) | |
SCENE 4 | Bob, Kevin, and Kate observe a Blomberg toad, and talk about the difference between toads and frogs. | |
Cartoon / Muppets | Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes is standing next to a bathtub full of water. She is dry. A monster appears and throws the water at her, causing her to be wet, and then kisses her. "Bleah!" she says. Ernie & Bert — Ernie and Bert watch the Alice cartoon on TV, and Ernie laughs when he sees Alice being kissed by the monster. Bert says Ernie wouldn't think it was so funny if a monster kissed him. Beautiful Day Monster appears, and kisses Ernie, who says, "Bleah!" Bert laughs. (First: Episode 0005) | |
Cartoon | "Poverty H": A red man tries to think of words that begin with H, but a yellow man keeps spewing them out until Red draws a hole under Yellow, who yells "HELP!!" (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | H for hello (voice of Gary Owens) (First: Episode 0020) | |
Cartoon | Speech Balloon: H is for hole | |
Muppets | Broken Ukulele, Part 1: Ernie Ernie encounters a sobbing Beautiful Day Monster, who is crying because his ukulele is broken. Ernie shows him a few things one can do with a broken ukulele, but that doesn't stop the monster from crying. Ernie then offers to fix the ukulele. | |
Film | "Nine Song (Song of Nine)" (repeat) | |
Muppets | Broken Ukulele, Part 2: Ernie brings back the ukulele, all fixed. And what does the monster do? He eats it! | |
SCENE 5 | Bob plays two rounds of "Three of These Things" with abstract shapes. | |
Cartoon | R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert (First: Episode 0011) | |
Muppets | Ernie & Bert — Ernie has a collection of Rs in a box. He shows Bert, who says that Ernie will be the laughingstock of Sesame Street if anyone else finds out. Ernie sadly throws away his Rs, and Bert asks to have the box for his J collection. (First: Episode 0014) | |
SCENE 6 | Gordon and Kevin observe a raccoon — an "R" animal — in the Pet Shop window. Gordon wonders if it likes eggs. | |
Film | Counting 11 eggs and one cookie. (First: Episode 0002) | |
Muppets | Ernie counts out eleven cookies and one egg. Cookie Monster eats the cookies- and then the egg. (First: Episode 0054) | |
Muppets | Gordon meets Professor Hastings and Professor Goldfinch, who will be performing a number. A wild Anything Muppet arrives as their drummer and the trio performs "Spinning Wheel". (First: Episode 0012) | |
SCENE 7 | In the kitchen, Susan, Kate, and Ronald look at some pictures and figure out what's wrong with them. After the game, Gordon enters and gives her a rose that he just got from a flower salesman. He recalls that Tony was there as well, buying flowers for Lulu, who's back in town… | |
Muppets | Tony sings "Lulu's Back in Town". Lulu turns out to be the Beautiful Day Monster, with a wig. (First: Episode 0030) | |
SCENE 7 cont'd |
Susan puts the rose in a vase, saying that she thinks a rose is about the prettiest thing she knows. She urges us to look closely and see if we don't agree... | |
Film | A film shows parts of a flower. Music: Vivaldi's Concerto for lute, 2 violins, and continuo in D Major: II - Largo (First: Episode 0008) | |
Cast | Buddy and Jim get confused when a picture falls off of the wall. (First: Episode 0004) | |
SCENE 8 | Gordon signs off. The credits roll, followed by Susan announcing the sponsors. | |
CLOSING SIGNS | Bob and Mr. Hooper hold the Sesame Street sign, and Gordon and Susan hold the Children's Television Workshop sign. |
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