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Sesame Street
Air date April 29, 1970
Season Season 1 (1969-1970)
Sponsors R, V, 3

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Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1
Mr. Hooper welcomes the viewer, and says he's going to go through some boxes of musical instruments. He has a box of three harmonicas, a box of three toy trumpets, and a box that only has one toy flute. He mentioned that Gordon bought one of these flutes for a friend of his.
ErnieGordonBall

MonsterFlute
Muppets
Gordon plays a game of "What Will Happen?" with Ernie. After Ernie guesses correctly what will happen when Gordon drops a ball and turns on a radio, he asks what will happen when he picks up a bell and shakes it. Ernie says the bell will ring. Gordon states that a monster will come out and start blowing a flute. Ernie thinks that's silly, but is surprised when that exact thing happens. Gordon admits that he had worked it out beforehand with Cookie Monster, and gives him a cookie. After Gordon leaves, Ernie has an idea for a trick to play on Bert.
(First: Episode 0031)
1836n
Cartoon
A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive.
(First: Episode 0083)
ErnieBertBell

MouthFull
Muppets
Part 2: Ernie tries to play the same trick on Bert, but when he rings the bell, nothing else happens. Bert thinks Ernie's gone bananas, and he leaves. When Ernie wants to know what happened, Cookie Monster says that he couldn't play the flute, because his mouth was full of cookies.
(First: Episode 0031)
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SCENE 2
Gordon shows the kids a coatimundi.
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Film
Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby reindeer (Gordon and kid voice-over)
(First: Episode 0003)
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SCENE 3
Susan and the kids count to 10 with the help of numbers written on a piece of cardboard, but the 3 is missing. Susan introduces someone who knows what the number looks like...
ErnieBertLlama
Muppets
Ernie and Bert: Ernie draws a llama, but Bert says it doesn't look anything like a llama. He 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)
(First: Episode 0002)
ErnieBertTreeDrawing
Muppets
Ernie finishes his drawing. Bert asks, "You call that a three?" Ernie answers, "No, I call that a tree!"
(First: Episode 0002)
1836n
Cartoon
A bear counts bees and disturbs their beehive. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0083)
SCENE 4
Mr. Hooper and the kids hear an airplane and watch Alphabet Bates make an R.
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SCENE 4
cont'd
Mr. Hooper has the kids guess the word "radio".
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Cartoon
A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
(First: Episode 0011)
RCollection
Muppets
Ernie has a collection of R's 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 R's -- and Bert asks to have the box for his J collection.
(First: Episode 0014)
Toon.R.Robber
Cartoon
R is for Rooster, Robber, and Rake...
Artist: Fred Calvert
(First: Episode 0011)
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SCENE 5
Big Bird can't remember how to draw the letter R, when a lowercase r falls from the sky and helps him. He writes a lowercase r on an easel, but then the lowercase r disappears. Big Bird tries to tell Gordon and Mr. Hooper about it, but they think he just imagined it. Big Bird starts to look for the lowercase r.
SB-Rabbit
Cartoon
Speech Balloon: "R" – Rabbit
(First: Episode 0014)
0011.R.Radio
Cartoon
A man explains the letter R with a radio. When he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0011)
BigBirdsRSighting
SCENE 6
Part 2: The little r comes back with a capital R. Big Bird draws a capital R, and then the r's leave. Mr. Hooper and Gordon come back and think that Big Bird is still imagining things, but then the r's show up again, much to Gordon and Mr. Hooper's surprise.
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon
Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions.
(First: Episode 0010)
Glassesnoises
Film
A boy with magic glasses listens to the sounds of an ice cream truck, a dog, a horse galloping, and a parrot.
(First: Episode 0008)
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Cast
Susan sings "One of These Things" with 3 lowercase r's and 1 capital R.
BuddyJim-Board
Cast
Buddy and Jim try to figure out a way to get an ironing board from one room to another.
(First: Episode 0002)
CMPhone01
Muppets
Ernie is expecting an important phone call from Bert, but Cookie Monster needs to use it to call his mother. Ernie lets him use it, provided it's a short call. The monster starts to tell him mother about his day, which isn't very short...
(First: Episode 0064)
ManholeCover
Film
The “unsung beauty of manhole covers” is explored.
(First: Episode 0004)
ImaginationV
Cartoon
"Imagination V" -- A surreal segment involving the Venus de Milo statue, a violin, a vampire, and vigilantes.
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0050)
Littlegirlsalphabet
Cartoon
Gloria, a rambunctious little girl, sings the alphabet song while an adult gives her instructions. (repeat)
(First: Episode 0010)
CMPhone02
Muppets
Ernie impatiently waits for Cookie Monster to finish.
(First: Episode 0064)
MrHooperKidsCrow
SCENE 7
Mr. Hooper shows the kids a crow.
Raposo.Eating
Song
Joe Raposo sings "Eating" while animals eat.
(First: Episode 0106)
CMPhone03
Muppets
Ernie tries to give Cookie Monster a cookie if he hangs up, but he just eats the whole box of cookies and keeps on talking.
(First: Episode 0064)
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SCENE 8
Susan talks about rectangles.
Film
Rectangles in the city and the country.
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Muppets
Cookie Monster finally finishes with the phone, and he "thanks" Ernie by eating it. Then Bert calls.
(First: Episode 0064)
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SCENE 9
Gordon reads in the newspaper that it's time to "Go Goodbye," and Bob announces the sponsors.
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CLOSING SIGNS
Ernie and Bert hold up the Sesame Street sign (repeated from episodes 0005 and 0115) while Cookie Monster holds up the CTW sign at the end.

Known edits

Picture Segment Description

Film
A kid taking a shower explains how animals, people, and things get clean. (First: Episode 0001)
This segment is missing from the iTunes version.

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