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Sesame Street
Air date April 9, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Production March 12, 1970
Sponsors A, Q, U, 8, 9

0109-number

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
0109-sc1
SCENE 1 Gordon and Vanessa are having a "heavy discussion" about actors when Oscar invites them to play a grouchy rhyming game involving things in and around his trash can. Oscar claims the game is very difficult, but Gordon and Vanessa guess the answers easily until the very last one; "elephant" neither rhymes with Oscar's clue, nor does he actually own one.
Erasercartoon
Cartoon A boy counts while erasing things and people.
(First: Episode 0008)
Ernie8Salesman
Muppets Lefty the Salesman wants to sell an 8 to Ernie, who ran out of money buying some 9s. Ernie then offers to sell Lefty his 9s.
(First: Episode 0079)
Shalom6-12
Cartoon Jazz #8
(First: Episode 0016)
0109-sc2a

Alphabet Bates U
SCENE 2 Bob, Chris, and Jill look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter U (First: Episode 0036). Bob introduces Lou Rawls.
Lourawls1969
Celebrity Lou Rawls sings the alphabet song to a group of kids.
(First: Episode 0043)
Awardu
Cartoon "Poverty U" -- A figure gives a salute to the letter U, and presents the letter with a bouquet of flowers.
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0036)
SpeechBalloon.Umbrella
Cartoon Speech Balloon: U for Umbrella
(First: Episode 0038)
Kermitlecturerectangle
Muppets Kermit's Lectures: Kermit gives a lecture about rectangles. Cookie Monster smashes the shape, but says it'll still work out: "It's a wreck -- and it's a tangle!"
(First: Episode 0017)
0109-sc3
SCENE 3 Bob, Chris, and Frannie look at a skunk named George, and talk about what it likes to eat. Bob points out its feet.
FeetSong-S1
Song Joe Raposo sings "Feet (Some Feet are Big)."
In this first airing, a portion of the first verse is omitted. It would be used for its future airings during season 2.
Qwords
Cartoon "Poverty Q": A figure demonstrates Q words, despite the unruly stem of his letter Q that keeps detaching itself.
(First: Episode 0048)
2269k
Cartoon Q - quarter
(First: Episode 0046)
0109-sc4
SCENE 4 Gordon points out to Frannie, Vanessa, Chris, and Jill that a person's face can show how they feel. He each tells them to show what they look like when they're angry, surprised, happy, or afraid, and the others have to guess the emotion.
Clay-faces
Animation In a clay-animated segment, a green narrator uses his red and yellow friends (and a monster) to demonstrate how faces can show feelings.
(First: Episode 0090)
0109-sc4b
SCENE 4
cont'd
Gordon asks the kids about their favorite game, their favorite color, and their favorite animal. He knows what Ernie's favorite animal is…
RubberDuckie.1stSeason
Muppets Ernie sings "Rubber Duckie", an anthem for his beloved rubber duck.
(First: Episode 0078)
0109-sc5
SCENE 5 Gordon asks Bob if he got the word from Oscar. Bob didn't, so he goes over to Oscar's can, where Oscar gives him the word: "garbage".
Wheredoesgarbagego
Song "Where the Garbage Goes," a song film which explains what happens to garbage after it gets thrown away.
Music by Peter Schickele
(First: Episode 0077)
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)
Monsterslookata
Muppets Monsters look at a big A.
(First: Episode 0083)
0109-sc6
SCENE 6 Bob reads the kids a story about a boy named Joey, telling them to ring a bell whenever they hear something wrong with it. Joey didn't do a lot of things right, and neither do Buddy and Jim...
BuddyJim.buttons
Cast Buddy and Jim struggle with buttons.
(First: Episode 0015)
No9
Film "Nine Song (Song of Nine)"
(First: Episode 0016)
Erasercartoon
Cartoon A boy counts while erasing things and people. (repeat)
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)
BabyAlice-NearFar
Cartoon Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes demonstrates near and far.
(First: Episode 0079)
SSGroverOriginalNearandFar
Muppets Grover demonstrates the difference between "near" and "far" by running away from the camera and back, eventually fainting from exhaustion.
(First: Episode 0057)
Film Rocks
Film Kids demonstrate perspective using large and small rocks as they position themselves near and far.
(First: Episode 0045)
0109-sc7
SCENE 7 Bob does a verse of "One of These Shapes" with three Us (facing in different directions) and a V.
Unicornclaymation
Animation Clay animation film by Jim Henson: A unicorn talks about U words.
(First: Episode 0037)
0109-sc8a
SCENE 8 Gordon, Jill, and Vanessa observe a live Shi Tzu from Tibet. Gordon introduces Kermit and his friends, the bears.
Kermit'sBearExc
Muppets Kermit's Lectures - Kermit watches some live bears do exercises.
(First: Episode 0044)
0109-sc8b
SCENE 8
cont'd
Gordon and the kids say goodbye to the Shi Tzu. Gordon signs off and announces the sponsors.
Erneebert69sesamesign

Kermit115
CLOSING SIGNS Bert and Ernie hold the Sesame Street sign, while Kermit holds the Children's Television Workshop sign.

Notes[]

  • Though he claims not to have an elephant in his can in this episode, Oscar's home would eventually find itself filled with several of them as pets, most notably Fluffy.


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