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| − | A ''Sesame Street'' special that aired on PBS to celebrate the show's 1,000th episode. Information on it is sparse, and we don't have a page for it, so I'm assembling this page until there's enough info. |
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| + | '''''Sesame Street at Night?''''' is a half-hour [[PBS]] special that aired in March of 1977 to celebrate ''[[Sesame Street]]'''s [[Episode 1000|1,000th episode]].<ref name="redbook">[http://www.henson.com/jimsredbook/2012/04/03/431974/ Jim Henson's Red Book entry]</ref> [[Gene Shalit]] hosted the special, which also featured a [[Gene Shalit Muppet|Muppet lookalike]] of the critic. Featured segments included [[Grover]] and [[Lena Horne]] singing "[[How Do You Do?]]"<ref>[http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED142238.pdf Children's Television Workshop. Quarterly Reports for January-March 1977 and April-June 1977. Pg. 257]</ref> |
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| + | {{quote|Shalit is to host an adult 'look' at Sesame Street in a Festival '77 special for PBS. The 30-minute special, ''Sesame Street at Night?'' takes its theme from a critic's remark when TV's most popular children's series began eight years ago – 'It's too good for kids.' <ref name="redbook" />}} |
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| − | *[http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED142238.pdf Children's Television Workshop. Quarterly Reports for January-March 1977 and April-June 1977. Pg. 257]: Featured a duet between Leena Horne and Grover |
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Revision as of 11:49, 7 June 2013
Press photo.
Sesame Street at Night? is a half-hour PBS special that aired in March of 1977 to celebrate Sesame Street's 1,000th episode.[1] Gene Shalit hosted the special, which also featured a Muppet lookalike of the critic. Featured segments included Grover and Lena Horne singing "How Do You Do?"[2]
According to press materials,