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Sesame Street
The Count celebrates a batty birthday
Air date April 6, 1978
Season Season 9 (1977-1978)
Production February 17, 1978
Sponsors D, L, 6

1149

StreetScenes
Picture Segment Description
1149a

1149b
SCENE 1 Slimey doesn't look his best today, so Oscar has contacted a vet to make a house call. Dr. Purrenbark arrives on the scene and is a bit taken aback; he's never treated a worm before. He proceeds with the examination and finds Slimey has a cold. After recommending a cure, he starts to leave when Oscar asks him to now examine his pet dragon Charles, who seems to have caught Slimey's cold. Dr. Purrenbark faints.
Typewriter.L
Cartoon The Typewriter: L for lion
(First: Episode 0762)
Film-Toymaker
Film A toymaker makes an airplane out of wood.
(First: Episode 0762)
Surpriseinmyhand
Cartoon A boy says he has a big surprise in his hand.
(First: Episode 0557)
RaposoFight
Film Animals fight.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0567)
Sgrover.exit
Muppets Super Grover
When a boy has trouble finding the gate in a fence, Super Grover attempts to bend the pickets. But eventually, the boy finds an EXIT sign.
(First: Episode 0746)
Toon-Nelly10
Cartoon "Nelly 1-10 / 10-1": Kids count numbers in a parade, which are interrupted by other participants.
Artist: Harvey Kurtzman
(First: Episode 0629)
2293c
Film Fireworks Alphabet
(First: Episode 1104)
L-Quickies
Cast The cast shows different L words - Maria turns on a lamp, Luis finds an L in his lunchbox, and Bob lassoes a letter L.
(First: Episode 0972)
ErnieBert--Bert'sPresent
Muppets Ernie & BertBert has a present for his Aunt Matilda, but Ernie thinks that the present is for him, so he makes several guesses about what it is first, then unwraps it.
(First: Episode 0165)
SoundID-Blackboard
Film Kids draw various things on a blackboard. The drawings animate themselves and make their respective sounds.
(First: Episode 0822)
1186g
Cartoon Consonant Sound Limerick: D—Dog
Artist: Jeff Hale
HarlemGlobetrotters-BodyParts
Celebrity The Harlem Globetrotters demonstrate body parts during their basketball stunts.
(First: Episode 0627)
GoodMorningDoctor
Film A trip to the doctor's office.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0471)
1149c

Alphabet Bates L
SCENE 2 Maria and the kids see Alphabet Bates write an L in the sky (First: Episode 0031).
L-Lion.Hale
Cartoon L for Lion (poem)
Artist: Jeff Hale
AlphabetDancers-L
Insert The Alphabet Dancers form a letter L.
(First: Episode 0449)
2125q
Film A figure skater illustrates forward and backward.
(First: Episode 0439)
MusicalBridge3
Insert Musical Bridge #3 - an organist, drummer (Steve Little), and guitarists play a funk tune.
(First: Episode 0651)
0573t
Cartoon Donnie Budd counts six snails, six ships, and six whales.
Artist: Bud Luckey
(First: Episode 0324)
No6b
Film "Six Song (Song of Six)."
(First: Episode 0011)
Mumm-Blob
Celebrity The Mummenschanz perform a routine as a blob-like creature.
(First: Episode 1115)
Pinball 06
Cartoon "Pinball Number Count" #6
Artist: Jeff Hale
(First: Episode 0983)
0597.6dots
Animation 6 dots - 1 = 5 dots
(First: Episode 0302)
GreenHandSpinTop
Film Jerry Nelson narrates a story about a green Muppet hand that learns to spin a top.
(First: Episode 0362)
1149d
SCENE 3 Simon Soundman makes sounds of things one can do with their hands (such as playing a trumpet or sawing) and the kids guess what the sounds are and act them out. He ends the game with the sounds of applause.
TheresaHoleintheBucket
Muppets "There's a Hole in the Bucket"
(First: Episode 0834)
1297-lion
Cartoon L for Lion
(First: Episode 0798)
2675-Truck
Film A bulldozer moves dirt up a construction site.
(First: Episode 0799)
LordLester01

LordLester02
Muppets Maria reads the "Legend of Lord Lester." Lord Lester and his wife, Lady Lulu, love the letter L so much, they send their loyal lackey Louie to fetch things that start with L. He returns with a multitude of items, becoming so exhausted, he quits and decides to live in a lighthouse.
LakeLillian
Cartoon A man jumps into a poster of Lake Lillian.
(First: Episode 0347)
David-Rectangle
Film David (in voice-over) finds rectangles.
(First: Episode 0481)
2125r
Film EXIT
(First: Episode 0935)
Roundthings
Film Finding round things in a supermarket (David voiceover)
(First: Episode 0434)
Pitchreel-D
Cartoon A small man and his assistant Dudley attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.
(First: Episode 0016)
1149e

1149f
SCENE 4 Maria and David see the Count is throwing a birthday party for his bat, Beauregard, who is one-year old today. David thinks the party might not be as fun for the Count, as there's not much for him to count (one bat, balloon, cake, candle, and Batman comic book as a gift). The Count then calls for the kids to toss the confetti and he begins to count the hundreds of little pieces.
DionYou!
Muppets Harvey Kneeslapper approaches a man and says, "Knock, knock!" The man asks, "Who's there?". Harvey says, "Dion." The man asks, "Dion who?" Then Harvey slaps a letter D on the man's chest and says, "D on you!"
(First: Episode 0292)
Toon-BodyParts
Animation Children's voiceovers (in English and Spanish) dictate how to draw a male's body.
(First: Episode 0528)
1755.RPryor
Celebrity Richard Pryor demonstrates emotions.
Raccoon
Film Comparing a boy's skin to animals' fur, feathers, skin, and other coverings.
Music: Joe Raposo
(First: Episode 0108)
Rhymiesatsea
Muppets "The Rhymies at Sea" - Larry, Mary, and Barry sail on a ship, which sinks.
Foursports
Song Luis sings "Three of These Kids" -- three kids are playing basketball, and one is playing baseball.
(First: Episode 0418)
Film-MomRhino
Film A rhino and her baby
(First: Episode 0408)
1149g
SCENE 5 Now nighttime, the Count has counted over 840,000 pieces of confetti. David announce the sponsors, with the Count chiming in for the number and Maria for the CTW slogan.
Maria1291

Gordon1291
CLOSING SIGNS Maria holds the Sesame Street sign, while Gordon holds the CTW sign.


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