Learning About Letters

First edition cover

Release Date	1986
Produced by	Random House Home Video
Catalogue no.	88319
Format	VHS
ISBN	0394883195
ASIN	B001QKJE4Q

Learning About Letters is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video special in the "My Sesame Street Home Video" line.

As the video opens, it's Alphabet Day on Sesame Street. Big Bird tells Mr. Snuffleupagus that on Alphabet Day, people go searching for objects that begin with each letter of the alphabet and read words, and after all that, Luis will read them a story. Mr. Snuffleupagus goes searching for something that begins with the letter A, while Telly Monster gets the gang organized for Alphabet Day.

Sketches

• "The Alphabet Song" sung by Lena Horne, Fat Blue, Farley and the Anything Muppets (EKA: Episode 0739)
• "C is for Cookie" with Cookie Monster and the monsters (EKA: Episode 0677)
• Cartoon: Frances Fairy (EKA: Episode 0930)
• Cartoon: Speech Balloon: G-Gorilla (EKA: Episode 0085)
• Cartoon: Consonant Sound Limerick: Horse (EKA: Episode 2040)
• Cartoon: Speech Balloon: K-key (EKA: Episode 0040)
• "La, La, La" with Bert and Ernie (EKA: Episode 0321)
• Film: City Alphabet (EKA: Episode 0266)
• Kermit the Frog draws the letter M on-screen (EKA: Episode 0813)
• "M-M-M Monster Meal" with Cookie Monster and Herry Monster (EKA: Episode 2560)
• Cartoon: O-Orange (EKA: Episode 2483)
• Cartoon: The R Wizard (EKA: Episode 1015)
• Cartoon:The Villain in the Panama Hat (EKA: Episode 1710)
• Cartoon: "Madrigal Alphabet" (EKA: Episode 1093)
• The King Banishes the Letter P (EKA: Episode 0764) (cut together with new footage of Luis narrating)

Other releases

Beta1986
Random House Home Video
88318
ISBN 0394883187

VHSRandom House Home Video
88319
Reissue cover

VHSSony Wonder
LV 51274
ISBN 1564063321
ASIN 630227608X

DVDSony Wonder
LVD 51274
ISBN 0738927651
ASIN B0001OGUQI

DVD2008
Genius Entertainment

DVD2009
Genius Entertainment

United Kingdom (VHS)1991
2 Entertain Video

United Kingdom (VHS)1994
Video Collection International

United Kingdom (VHS)1998
Walt Disney Home Video

Hong Kong (VCD)2006
Intercontinental Video
cat. no 1004482115

Australia (DVD)2006
ABC Video for Kids

Asia (VCD)cat. no 151006

DVD Chapters

• The ABC's
• C is for Cookie
• Frances Fairy
• The Letter "L"
• Letters Everywhere
• The Letter "M"
• ABC Song
• Storytime: "The King Banishes the Letter P"

Cast

Muppets (New Footage)

Big Bird, Telly Monster, Buster the Horse, Oscar the Grouch, Irvine, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Letter U, a Cow, a dentist, a little boy, Henrietta Honker, and The Elephants.

Muppets (Segments)

Cookie Monster, Herry Monster, Ernie, Bert, Kermit the Frog, Grover, King Peter the Persnickety, Princess Penelope, King Peter's Porcupine, Mr. Johnson, Oscar the Grouch, Farley, Monsters, and The Anything Muppets.

Performers

• Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
• Martin Robinson as Telly Monster, Mr. Snuffleupagus, and Buster the Horse.
• Kevin Clash as U, Cow, and Little Boy.
• Pam Arciero as Dentist.
• Bryant Young as Mr. Snuffleupagus (back half).
• Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog, Ernie, Mr. Johnson, and King Peter the Persnickety.
• Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Bert, Grover, Princess Penelope, and The Royal Cook.
• Jerry Nelson as Herry Monster and Farley.
• Richard Hunt as various Anything Muppets.

Notes

• In 2008, this video was packaged with 123 Count with Me as a Sesame Street Double Feature.