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Sesame Street Season 5 aired from November 19, 1973 to May 17, 1974.

Contents 1 Season Overview 2 Characters 3 Episodes 4 Notes 5 Season 5 Cast 6 Season 5 Credits 7 Sources

Season OverviewEdit

The curriculum for Season 5 is focusing on affect behavior, which includes lessons on emotions and feelings. Children will be able to recognize feelings and emotions including pride, love, fear, anger, surprise, happiness, and sadness taught through the human hosts, the Muppets, and animated films.^[1]

CharactersEdit

This season introduces new Muppet characters including a group called the Twiddlebug Family^[1] and two construction workers, Biff and Sully.^[2]

EpisodesEdit

Episodes 0536 - 0665 (130 episodes)

• Episode 0536 -- 5th season premiere
• Episode 0560 -- Big Bird tells the shortest and longest stories ever told.
• Episode 0573 -- Gordon and the kids make rope letters; Oscar fakes having a cold; David loses his class ring.
• Episode 0587
• Episode 0656

NotesEdit

• This is the last season to feature Hal Miller as Gordon.

Season 5 CastEdit

Cast:

Northern Calloway, Loretta Long, Will Lee, Bob McGrath, Emilio Delgado, Sonia Manzano, Hal Miller, Joe Ponazecki, Paul B. Price

Muppet Performers:

Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jim Henson, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Fran Brill

Guest Stars

Johnny Cash, The Harlem Globetrotters, Lena Horne, Meadowlark Lemon ^[2]

Season 5 CreditsEdit

• Executive Producer: Jon Stone
• Producer: Robert Cunniff
• Director: Jon Stone
• Head Writer: Jeffrey Moss
• Writers: Norman Stiles, Emily Perl Kingsley, Ray Sipherd, Jeffrey Moss, Daniel Wilcox, Joseph A. Bailey, Jerry Juhl, Jon Stone
• Supervising Film Producer: Edith Zornow
• Associate Producer: Joan Lufrano
• Production Assistant: Judy Freudberg
• Music Director: Joe Raposo
• Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
• Set Decorator: Nat Mongioi
• Art Director: Alan J. Compton
• Associate Director: Emily Squires
• Production Stage Manager: Chet O'Brien
• Senior Scenic Artist: Victor Di Napoli
• Sound Effects: Dick Maitland, Barbara Wood
• Cameras: Frank Biondo
• Curriculum Coordinator: Robert J. Emerick
• Vice President for Research: Dr. Edward L. Palmer
• Assistant Director of Research: Patricia Hayes
• Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald S. Lesser, Ph.D.
• Vice President for Production: David D. Connell

SourcesEdit

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Virgin Islands Daily News: Sesame Street Back In Its Fifth Season
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The Deseret News: 1...2...3...4...5 for Sesame St.

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