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Sesame Street
Big Bird's "One Way" journey
Air date April 3, 1978
Season Season 9 (1977-1978)
Production February 14, 1978
Sponsors T, X, 3

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StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
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SCENE 1 Big Bird wants to visit Luis at the Fix-It Shop and notices a new "One Way" sign applied to the lamppost. Since it's pointing to the direction he wants to go, he obeys the sign until he reaches the shop, which appears to be closed. Big Bird tries to go back to his nest, but finds another "One Way" sign just outside the shop, pointing in the opposite direction of his home. He decides to follow the sign anyway, hoping it will just let him circle the block until he gets home. His journey commences...
Jazzyspies3
Cartoon "Jazz #3"
(First: Episode 0002)
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SCENE 2 Big Bird's journey leads him down W 85th Street and Central Park West. He follows another "One Way" sign that points down W 85th Street.
TwoSeaCreatures
Cartoon I Thought a Thought ... about small things. A man thinks about small things, and lists them. A sea monster thinks it is small, especially when compared to its father!
Artist: Cliff Roberts
(First: Episode 0241)
Three is So Curvy
Cast / Muppets Olivia sings "Three is So Curvy" with Crumbs Unlimited.
(First: Episode 0980)
ChairSIT
Cartoon A chair displays the word SIT, and a beast sits on him.
(First: Episode 0399)
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SCENE 2
cont'd
Big Bird's journey leads him to the corner of 85th and Columbus Avenue, which he then heads down.
100021
Cartoon "Young MacDonald Went to Town"
(First: Episode 0787)
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SCENE 3 Olivia and the kids watch Slimey dance as Oscar sings “The Wiggle.”
Painter3
Film The Mad Painter #3
(First: Episode 0343)
5-Good-Men
Muppets Old West: Five good men are needed to form a posse and catch Bad Bart, the meanest man in the West. The sheriff counts five men in the saloon, and tries to organize them. But it turns out that there are only four good men -- one of them is Bad Bart!
(First: Episode 0554)
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SCENE 4 Big Bird's journey leads him across a Central Park bridge. He finds another "One Way" sign pointing him back across.
Toon-FrontBackSneakers
Cartoon A man demonstrates front and back using his sneakers.
(First: Episode 0826)
Film-Geese
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Geese and their goslings swim in the water.
(First: Episode 0388)
Horse.frontback
Cartoon The front and back of a costumed horse follow an ice cream truck.
(First: Episode 0782)
LindaOneWay
Cast Linda holds up a "One Way" sign for Damion Brown in front of Big Bird's nest construction doors. Damion reads the word, then learns to sign it.
(First: Episode 1066)
FredTheWonderhorse
Muppets Marshal Grover asks Fred the Wonder Horse why he's walking backwards -- he can only see where he's been, and not where he's going. He also wants to know what happened to Fred's head. Fred explains that Marshal Grover doesn't know the difference between front and back. "That is a terrible, mean, cruel thing to say to me, Fred!" Marshal Grover exclaims. "It is true, but..." Fred tells Grover that he's facing backward, and if he turns around, he'll see Fred's head. Grover turns around, and cries: "Oh, Fred! I've missed you! Oh, it's good to see you!" Fred says that if he stays turned around, he'll be able to see where he's going. Grover tries it, and he's proud to know the difference between front and back. Unfortunately, now his head is resting on the saddle, with his feet in the air.
(First: Episode 0629)
WhatABird03
SCENE 5 Big Bird's journey leads him past a reservoir near Central Park. He spots some joggers headed in the opposite direction, and finds another "One Way" sign pointing toward his previous path.
BirdFrontBack
Cartoon A bird displays the front and back of a turtle.
(First: Episode 0789)
1459.DangerFilm
Film While walking and reading the newspaper, a man barely avoids DANGER on three occasions, but then gets hit by a revolving door.
(First: Episode 0656)
LittleJerryDanger
Muppets Little Jerry and the Monotones sing "Danger."
(First: Episode 0704)
Xnightsky
Cartoon The letter X
(First: Episode 0482)
1707c
Celebrity Richard Pryor plays all the parts in a scenario of two kids meeting a new kid who wants to play.
(First: Episode 0779)
Drawingchicken
Animation Drawing a chicken (child V/O in English and Spanish)
(First: Episode 0451)
Ernie's Bert Sculpture
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie makes a clay bust of Bert, but runs out of clay for the nose, so he pulls Bert's nose off and puts it on the statue.
(First: Episode 0463)
X-ends
Cartoon "Poverty X": A peanut-shaped figure lists the words that the letter "X" can be found in.
(First: Episode 0006)
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SCENE 6 Mr. Hooper notices an X on the ground in front of Oscar's trash can. When he inquires about it, Oscar says that X marks the spot...the spot to tell him to "get lost," that is.
2125m
Song Joe Raposo sings "I'm an Aardvark."
(First: Episode 0425)
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SCENE 7 Big Bird's journey leads him downtown to a "One Way" sign with a stop sign as well, so he stops for a moment.
0266.man-mouse
Cartoon A housewife screams because there is a mouse in her house. Her husband's solution is to continually bring in animals to chase it out, with each animal making an even bigger mess than the previous one.
(First: Episode 0240)
News-3PigsOriginal
Muppets Sesame Street News Flash: The Pig's Straw HouseKermit interviews the pig who built the straw house.
(First: Episode 0551)
Tisfortelevision
Cartoon T is for Television
(First: Episode 0024)
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SCENE 8 Oscar gives Slimey a giant plate of cold mashed potatoes, explaining to the kids that even little worms have to eat so they can grow up big and grouchy.
1257-Animals
Film Sesame Street Animal Films: Baby animals are fed milk.
(First: Episode 0238)
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SCENE 8
cont'd
Slimey finishes eating the mashed potatoes, now with a big, full belly. However, that was only the appetizer and Oscar now serves him the main course: creamed spinach with maraschino cherries.
Tisfortelevision
Cartoon T is for Television (Spanish)
(First: Episode 0324)
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SCENE 9 Big Bird's journey leads him through a traffic circle downtown.
E&BApplianceWar
Muppets Ernie & BertErnie and Bert are watching TV, but Bert gets bored and decides to play a record. Ernie tells him to turn down the volume, but Bert won't, so Ernie drowns out Bert's music by playing the radio. Bert then retaliates by turning on the blender. With all four things running at once, they blow a fuse, causing a total blackout in their apartment. Bert goes outside to fix the fuse box, while Ernie turns off all the things that were running. When the lights come back on, they decide to play cards instead of fight.
(First: Episode 0003)
400022
Insert The Alphabet Dancers form the letter T.
(First: Episode 0454)
Tisfortrash
Cartoon "Poverty T
(First: Episode 0020)
Skating-Film
Film Kids compete in a speed skating competition (version three).
(First: Episode 0460)
400030
Film The letter T is a very useful letter.
(First: Episode 0402)
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SCENE 9
cont'd
Big Bird's journey leads him through another corner with conflicting "One Way" signs.
Turtle.Hale
Cartoon T for Turtle
Artist: Jeff Hale
Headball-BabyBreeze
Muppets Baby Breeze participates in Headball at Roosevelt Franklin Stadium. His question: what would you do if your ball rolled into the street?
(First: Episode 0877)
Shot.raisinarmy
Animation A grape blows reveille and inspects the "troops" -- 12 raisins on a slice of white bread.
(First: Episode 0618)
400025
Cartoon La t minuscula
(First: Episode 0376)
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SCENE 10 In the evening, the street sign man (Richard Hunt) reverses the One Way sign in front of Big Bird’s nest (having put it up wrong earlier). When Big Bird finally reaches home, he sees the same sign pointing the opposite direction, and thinks he can’t go home ever again. Olivia reassures him that the One Way signs don’t apply to sidewalk foot traffic, and takes him to Hooper's Store for some birdseed. Big Bird tells her of his travels as Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
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CLOSING SIGNS Susan holds the Sesame Street sign, while Ernie and Bert hold the CTW sign.

Notes[]

A clip of Scene 5 appears in the "What a Bird!" montage in Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting.


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