Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
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Actor: Sesame StreetBrand: WELLSPRING/GENIUS
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 440 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sesame Street
DVD Reviews of Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
DVD Review: For Adults?
Summary: 3 Stars
A disclaimer at the beginning of the DVD said this was for adults and did not necessarily suit the needs of pre-schoolers of today. I don't think it was a joke. DVD Review: More of a random sampling than a "collection"
Summary: 3 Stars
I suppose I should blame myself, I didn't do my homework on this and ended up a bit disappointed. I assumed this was going to be a HUGE collection of episodes from 1969 to 1974. However, all you get is *one* single episode from each of the first five seasons. They're great episodes, but what a chintzy offering. There were several segments that have been stuck in my head for almost 40 years now, and I was so looking forward to seeing them again... but they're not here. e.g. the Pointer Sisters counting to 12 to the animation of the surreal pinball machine, the haunting Vivaldi piece over the water droplets trickling down a flower, the little red rubber ball travelling through the Rube Goldberg style machine that counts "1, 2, 3" over and over ends up getting ground up into powder... Hopefully some of these are in vol. 2. On the other hand, I had completely forgotten about "I In the Sky" and counting to 20 to Indian sitar music and lysergic animation... seeing and hearing those again was a great surprise that really made my day. DVD Review: Complete contents of discs
Summary: 5 Stars
Complete Disc Features (collected from official website)
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***Disc 1***
Episode 1 (1st season premiere)
Scene 1: Gordon introduces his new neighbor Sally to Sesame Street, where she meets Susan, Bob, Mr. Hooper, and some kids in the courtyard.
When Gordon tries to introduce her to Big Bird, however, Sesame Street's tallest resident has trouble finding her, because she's so small. But when Gordon lifts Sally up so that she'll be easier to see, Big Bird mistakenly thinks that she is eight feet tall and gets scared, later claiming that he nearly laid an egg.
Gordon and Sally then hear singing coming from the basement apartment in 123 Sesame Street, which Gordon explains is where Ernie and Bert live. He also tells Sally that, if she can hear Ernie singing, it most likely means that he is taking a bath.
-Ernie and Bert: Ernie tells Bert that he calls his bathtub Rosie
-Cartoon: Poor Solomon Grundy
-Song: Ernie leads the cast in "Everybody Wash"
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon #1
-Film: "Three Song (Song of Three)"
-Scene 2: Sally drinks milk in Gordon and Susan's apartment.
-Film: How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey, Cow, I See You Now."
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon #1 (repeat)
-Scene 3: Gordon introduces Sally to Oscar the Grouch
-Film: Joe Raposo sings "A Little Bit (at the Beginning)" along to a film of "good things growing better.
-Cartoon: Clay animation: Sam the Snake--and other things that begin with S
-Scene 4: Gordon introduces Sally to Jennie, who uses her knitting to teach about over, around and through.
-Film: A group of kids play follow the leader and go over, around and through various obstacles, but one of them takes a while to catch on.
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon (last dot is late and travels through the others)
-Cartoon: Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes teaches about through.
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon (last dot shows up early)
-Muppets: Gordon puts some features on some Anything Muppets, forming them into a family.
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon (third dot wants to be red)
-Scene 5: Ernie and Ronald are at Hooper's Store; Susan needs two quarts of milk.
-Cartoon: "Two Song (Song of Two)"
-Scene 6: Susan and Ronald look at film clips with pairs of zoo animals.
-Cartoon: "Jazz #2"
-Scene 7: Ernie cries because he loves the number 2 so much.
-Cartoon: Letter E ("See me... eating a peach...")
-Scene 8: Bob hangs a picture.
-Cast: Buddy and Jim hang a picture.
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon (all the dots turn red)
-Scene 9: Bob shows how to fold a dollar bill into a letter W. Kermit then leaves to do his famous W lecture.
-Cartoon: "Wanda the Witch"
-Celebrity: Carol Burnett: "Wow, Wanda the Witch is weird."
-Cartoon: W is for Worm
-Muppets: Kermit's Lectures: Kermit tries to start his W lecture again, but the W comes to life and attacks him.
-Cartoon: Dot Cartoon (raspberry)
-Cast: Susan plays "One of These Things" with the number 2.
-Cartoon: W is for Worm (repeat)
-Scene 10: Gordon asks Sally about her day; Ernie cries when he thinks about 2. Susan gives him a 2. Then, Gordon mentions the letter E. Ernie cries again because Susan doesn't have an E. Gordon tells the viewers to come back again soon. Mr. Hooper announces the sponsors.
*Season 1 Classic Cuts
"Bein' Green" (EKA: Episode 0087)
"Rubber Duckie"
Counting with James Earl Jones
"ABC-DEF-GHI"
"I Love Trash"
Alphabet with Jackie Robinson
Batman Crosses the Street (EKA: Episode 0090)
Swinging Gibbon (underscore by Joe Raposo)
Big Bird Meets Little Bird (EKA: Episode 0028)
Alphabet with Lou Rawls
"I've Got Two"
Alphabet Soup (First: Episode 0004) Sound effects added
Season 1 Credit Crawl
Sesame Street Pitch Reel (Version 2)
Easter Eggs: original drawings and behind-the-scenes photos
***Disc 2***
Episode 131 (2nd season premiere)
Scene 1: Gordon finds Ernie and Bert arguing over which of them is taller. Big Bird outsizes them both.
Celebrity: Arte Johnson talks about short and tall
Cartoon: An N-terview with an N
Film: "Doll House" (1, 2, 2 little dolls . . .)
Scene 2: After Mr. Hooper spills a glass of milk, Big Bird sings "Everyone Makes Mistakes", followed by a parade of kids, Gordon, Susan and Bob. Oscar makes two brief cameos. When Big Bird climbs into his nest, he accidentally steps on a letter J, which the cast passes around.
Song: Joe Raposo sings "J Jump"
Scene 3: Continuing from Scene 2, the cast throws the J from person to person. Cookie Monster finally eats the J.
Celebrity: Bill Cosby plays twins who recite the alphabet together.
Film: A film of kids riding their bikes to the zoo. The kids look at zoo animals.
Cartoon: Q -- that funny looking thing
Celebrity: Arte Johnson talks about Q and U.
Cartoon: A dog learns about U.
Celebrity: Larry and Phyllis (Alan Arkin and his wife Barbara Dana) try to sing, but Larry can only make a honking sound while Phyllis can only make a beeping sound.
Muppets: Ernie and Bert: Ernie declares that he's "the world's greatest counter of numbers". To prove it, he counts from 1-10-- but every time Bert interrupts him, Ernie starts over again. This slowly drives Bert crazy.
Scene 4: Susan and Bob play "One of These Things" with Grover
Muppets: Cookie Monster and Herry sing "Circles"
Cartoon: Today's Secret Drawing: the letter M
Song "Fireman, He's Ready to Go"
Celebrity: Arte Johnson pops in for one more word
Cartoon: A polar bear learns what "EXIT" means
Muppets: Ernie and Bert: Bert complains that he can't sleep, because Ernie left the faucet dripping. Ernie drowns out the sound of the water dripping with louder noises.
Cartoon: A gorilla who knows G words applies for a job
Celebrity: Carol Burnett demonstrates "what you can do with your nose"
Muppets: Guy Smiley hosts the game show "What's My Part?". The contestant is Mr. Nose. The panelists -- Bennett Snerf, Arlene Frantic and Cookie Monster -- don't know what a nose is, because none of them have noses.
Scene 5: Oscar the Grouch's grandmother, Granny Grouch, comes to visit. Granny Grouch likes to kiss Oscar on the cheek, because he hates it so much.
Celebrity: The stars of Bonanza -- Michael Landon, Lorne Greene and Dan Blocker -- count up to 20
Muppets: Grover, lost in a scary forest, sings "I Whistle a Happy Tune" to keep his spirits up. He bumps into a monster -- but it's Cookie Monster, who happily joins in the song. Then they run into a little boy, and they run away, panicked
Cartoon: K is for kiss
Muppets: Ernie opens his lunchbox and finds that half of his chicken salad sandwich is missing.Sherlock Hemlock, the world's greatest detective, investigates this fiendish crime. It turns out that Sherlock himself ate half of Ernie's sandwich.
Scene 6: Big Bird almost gets hit by a car; Gordon tells him he should not cross the street until the traffic light turns green.
Film: Traffic Light
Scene 7: Mr. Hooper and Bob wave goodbye.
*Season 2 Classic Cuts
"The King of Eight" (EKA: Episode 0270)
"Over, Under, Around, and Through"
S - Superman
Astronaut Drawing
Listen, My Brother: Counting Song (1-20)
"I Love Being a Pig"
Season 2 Credit Crawl
Episode 276 (3rd season premiere)
-Scene 1: Mr. Hooper and Tom serve sodas to Ernie and Bert. Ernie doesn't know how to drink with a straw, so the others encourage him. Ernie gets so good at drinking with a straw that he drinks Bert's soda, too.
-Scene 1 (cont'd): Gordon plays basketball with the kids -- but first, he has to count them, to see how many are playing
-Scene 1 (cont'd): Rafael shows the kids how to count in Spanish, by counting a deck of cards. Susanwalks by, and says she'll be back to talk with Rafael later
-Scene 1 (cont'd): David asks Oscar if he can borrow some string. Oscar gives him the string, then tells him to get lost
-Scene 1 (cont'd): Molly delivers a letter to Bob and tells him that it's an invitation to a party. Bob thinks that Molly's been reading his mail, but Molly explains that she wrote the letter
-Scene 1 (cont'd): Big Bird has a letter M, and Maria tells him that that's the first letter in her name
-Cartoon: A man invites an M to dinner. The M is very appreciative, and makes "Mmmmmm" sounds. It eats all of the food at the table, and winds up eating the screen
-Muppets: Herbert Birdsfoot wants to demonstrate the letter M. Grover enters, making "Mmmmm" noises, so Herbert uses Grover to help him tell a story using M words. When the story is over, Herbert discovers that Grover's mouth is stuck together after eating peanut butter.
-Scene 2: Molly has the letter M and explains it's the first letter in Molly, Mailbox and Melvin.
-Cartoon: Melvin the Moving Man has magnificent muscles
-Scene 3: Luis and Cookie Monster talk about the letter M
-Cartoon: Two lines intersect at the middle of the screen and have an argument; they cooperate by making a cross
-Cartoon: M is for Moo
-Muppets: Ernie and Bert: Ernie thinks that he isn't special. Bert tells Ernie to feel his nose -- "That's an Ernie nose!" -- and then feel his hair, and wiggle his fingers. Bert says that nobody else is just like Ernie. Encouraged, Ernie tells the audience to do the same
-Scene 4: Susan and Rafael count to 2 in English and Spanish
-Film: "Doll House" (1, 2, 2 little dolls . . .)
-Scene 5: David, Gordon and Mr. Hooper are surprised to see Oscar walking around in his trash can
-Cartoon: A man demonstrates "up" and "down"
-Muppets: Waiter Grover: Grover brings Mr. Johnson a bowl of alphabet soup. Mr. Johnson complains that some of the letters are missing, and makes Grover run back and forth to the kitchen to bring the missing letters. When all the letters are there, Johnson complains that the soup is cold, and makes Grover take it back. This is the first Waiter Grover sketch.
-Cartoon: A guru counts to 20. (English version followed by Spanish version)
-Cast: Mr. Hooper, Bob and Brian help Susan set the table. Now that's what I call cooperation.
-Song: A song about the four seasons
-Scene 6: Big Bird is trying to water some flowers, and wishes that he had a sprinkling can. Then he finds a large, brown shaggy creature behind him, and introduces himself as a Mr. Snuffleupagus. The Snuffleupagus says that he's feeling sad, so Big Bird offers to cheer him up by helping to water the flowers. The Snuffleupagus waters the flowers by spraying water out of his snuffle. Big Bird is impressed: "Gosh, that's fantastic! Boy, you're really wonderful, Mr. Snuffleupagus!"
-Scene 6 (cont'd): Big Bird runs to tell his friends about his amazing new friend. Gordon, Susan, David and Rafael are skeptical that the creature Big Bird describes really exists. They follow, but Big Bird is disappointed to find that the Snuffleupagus has left. He says that maybe the Snuffleupagus went home to see his mommy. The adults tell Big Bird that maybe the creature was just in his imagination. They walk away, laughing. Frustrated, Big Bird appeals to the audience: "You saw him! You believe me, dontcha? Huh?"
-Film: Gibbons make screeching noises
-Muppets: Western: Four Anything Muppet cowboys put up a Wanted poster for "the Great Cookie Thief", who's been stealing cookies from all the bakeries in these here parts. Cookie Monster is standing in front of the poster, and the others suspect that he's the Great Cookie Thief -- he has the same googly eyes, the same blue fur, and the same Western hat. They confront Cookie Monster, but he denies the charge: "Not have same mustache!" He shouts, "Look over there!" -- and while they're distracted, he draws a mustache on the poster. They apologize -- but when Cookie Monster takes off his hat, cookies fall out. The Great Cookie Thief makes his escape.
Scene 7: Susan and Kermit play "One of These Things". Kermit says that the frog doesn't belong, "because the three birds are kind of oogy and feathered-looking, but the frog -- the frog here -- is lovely and handsome, and a beautiful thing to behold."
-Song: Joe Raposo asks the musical question, "Which Comes First, the Chicken or the Egg?"
-Muppets: Bob sings "The People in Your Neighborhood" with teachers and a newsdealer
-Muppets: Ernie and Bert: Ernie can't sleep, so Bert tells him to count sheep. Ernie tries to count sheep, but it's dull -- so he starts counting fire engines. The noise from the imaginary fire engine wakes Bert up. Bert says that Ernie's waking up the whole neighborhood, and tells him to count something quieter. Ernie counts balloons -- but the balloon gets bigger and bigger, finally bursting with a huge explosion that wakes Bert up again.
-Scene 8: Tom and three kids observe different-sized brushes
-Song: Joe Raposo sings "Whale Brushing Teeth", with a film of a trainer brushing a whale's teeth
-Transition: smashing glass
-Muppets: Kermit's Lectures: Grover helps Kermit demonstrate "long" and "short" by picking up a short ladder. Then Kermit says he'll help Grover bring in a long ladder, but Grover says he'll get it alone. He carries the long ladder past Kermit, who's amazed that Grover can get it all by himself. When the other end of the ladder passes by, Grover is holding that end too.
-Scene 9: Big Bird is thrilled when Mr. Snuffleupagus comes back: "You know, the others didn't think that you were really here. But I believe that you're here!" They wave good-bye as Gordon announces the sponsors.
*Season 3 Classic Cuts
"C is for Cookie" (EKA: Episode 0677)
"Ladybugs' Picnic"
Martians Telephone
Mumford's Magic Trick (Mumford turns Grover into a rabbit)
"Alligator King"
"J Friends"
A Special Day with Bert and Ernie
"I Am Somebody" with Jesse Jackson
"Would You Like to Buy an O?"
Harvey Kneeslapper with Mirror (EKA: Episode 0343)
Breathing Song with Animals
"We All Live in a Capital I (I in the Sky)"
"P - My Favorite Letter"
"Martian Beauty"
The Mad Painter #3 (EKA: Episode 0343)
Season 3 Credit Crawl
***Disc 3***
*Episode 406 (4th season premiere)
-Scene 1: A kid narrates: "Hey, I know that street! That's Sesame Street! You know what they really like on Sesame Street? They really like the alphabet." The characters hold up letters that introduce their names: A is for Athelstan, B is forBob, and as Cookie Monster reminds the viewers, C is for Cookies! Then there's David,Ernie, Farley, Gordon, Hooper, Ingrid, Jay, Kermit, Luis, Maria, Nancy, Oscar, Prairie,Queen, Roosevelt, Susan, Trey, Ursula, Vanessa, Willy, and Xavier. Grover says, "Y is for You, and you visit Sesame Street every day!" Big Bird admits, "And Z... well, Z is for... You know, I don't think there's anybody on Sesame Street whose name begins with Z! Oh, well. Can't have everything!" This problem that Big Bird describes is finally solved in 1993, with the introduction of a character whose name begins with Z.
-Cartoon: Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D
-Muppets: Ernie sings "Dee, Dee, Dee" as Cookie Monster hastily demonstrates each D word
-Song: "Daddy Dear"
-Scene 2: Mr. Hooper has a plate with cookies, and another plate that's empty. He gives Cookie Monster a bag of cookies, and asks him to make the two plates look the same. Cookie Monster eats the bag of cookies, and then eats all the cookies on the plate. Now the two plates look the same!
-Film: Examples of people and animals going down
-Film: D is a very useful letter -- there are animals, jobs, and hobbies that begin with D
-Muppets: Simon Soundman sings about finding a (MEOW!) stuck in a tree.
-Scene 3: Gordon and Susan are two people. Maria and David are two people. Luis is alone, so he splits into a mirror image and becomes two people
-Cartoon: Julius and Jasper: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!"
-Cartoon: "Two Song (Song of Two)"
-Cartoon: A man counts two ears, two eyes, and two arms. He picks up each leg to count two legs, and then falls down
-Scene 4: Bob plays a game with Ernie, Bert and some kids, asking for examples of things that everybody does. Everybody walks, talks, breathes, eats breakfast and yawns. Ernie suggests that everybody loves to play in the tubby with their rubber duckie. Bert disagrees. He doesn't have a rubber duckie, and he doesn't want one. Bert says that everybody loves watching his favorite TV show, The Wonderful World of Pigeons. Ernie says, "You know what, Bert? I hate that show! It's a terrible show! That's a dull show, Bert!" Bert counters, "That's the most exciting show on TV! They have all the pigeons of the world on that show! Gray ones... speckled ones..." Bob gives another example by pretending to sleep, while Trey plays with Ernie's nose and Kathleen plays with Bert's. Bob "wakes up", and explains that everybody sleeps.
-Song: Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps."
-Muppets: A pair of Teeth come to an employment agency, looking for a job. He's offered jobs in the smelling line and in listening, but he's unqualified for those. Teeth demonstrates his talent in biting and chewing by chomping up the desk.
-Scene 5: Susan and Grover play "One of These Things." Grover thinks that the answer has something to do with fur, but Susan says that the car doesn't belong because it's not an animal.
-Cartoon: A peacock counts 20 feathers on his tail
-Film: Kids count ten buses as they drive by
-Muppets:Ernie and Bert: Ernie asks Bert to keep an eye on his pyramid of blocks. The Countwalks by, and counts the blocks, moving them out of the pyramid shape. Then he counts them again, putting them back into the pyramid. Bert yells at the Count for moving Ernie's blocks, so the Count counts the blocks again, taking the pyramid apart. In the Count's first appearance, he's slightly more sinister than he would later become. He enters the scene with his cape in front of his face, in an exagerrated Bela Lugosi pose. The Count can momentarily hypnotize people, waving his fingers to temporarily stun Ernie and Bert. When the Count finishes counting, lightning flashes in the background.
-Film: A film of butterflies
-Scene 6: Mr. Snuffleupagus can't find Big Bird, so he asks the kids to play "London Bridge" with him. Snuffy sings the song, and the kids crawl under him
-Cartoon: The alphabet appears in a little box
-Muppets: Two Anything Muppets sing "Me and Yo" in both English and Spanish
-Scene 7: Oscar shows Gordon his new hat. Gordon puts the hat on Oscar, who wants his head to be covered more and more so he can't see Gordon
-Film: A girl gets on, in, and under a blanket in a park. Creepy proto-Roland synthesizers and electronic percussion are heard during the first 13 seconds, which change into light Western classical music
-Cartoon: A picture of a girl playing a guitar is drawn as off-screen kids (speaking English and Spanish) try to guess what the drawing will be
-Muppets: Grover demonstrates heavy and light. First, he picks up a heavy barbell. Then he tries to pick up a light feather, but he can't move it. It turns out that the feather is attached to the top of Big Bird's head
-Film: "Song of Two" (repeat)
-Scene 8: Gordon and Susan meet the Super Automatic Machine, also known as Sam the Robot. Sam boasts that he can do anything: "Machines are better than people!" Gordon asks what he's doing on Sesame Street, but Sam insists that he's on Mulberry Street -- that's where his programming told him to go, and machines never make mistakes. He leaves to meet a cement mixer friend for lunch
-Cartoon: "Danny knows the alphabet, and is he proud! If you can follow him, then sing out loud!"
-Muppets: Guy Smiley hosts Here is Your Life, surprising Oak Tree with the story of his life. The guests include Granny Fanny Nesselrode, who planted the tree as an acorn, Cloud andSun, who gave the tree rain and sunshine, and Marty Table and Sarah Chair, who were made from the tree's friends
-Cartoon: Workmen construct a D building, filled with everything that begins with D. (repeat)
-Muppets: Oscar the Grouch introduces the warthog -- what a beautiful-sounding word
-Film: A warthog runs around
-Muppets: The letter R joins U and N to make the word RUN. Anything Muppets run into the scene and take the letters
-Cartoon: A man explains that the letter E begins both Enter and Exit. Another man named Roy runs through the doors
-Muppets: Waiter Grover: Grover serves Mr. Johnson a bowl of chicken soup. Johnson says that he can't eat the soup, and Grover can't guess why. "That settles it," Johnson sighs. "From now on, I'm bringing my lunch to work in a paper sack." He finally explains to Grover that he can't eat the soup because he doesn't have a spoon
-Cartoon: What if a frog and a fly switched bodies? What do you think would happen?
-Scene 9: It's time for Mr. Snuffleupagus to go home. He asks the kids to walk him back to his cave as Cookie Monster announces the sponsors
*Season 4 Classic Cuts
Sesame Street News Flash: Rapunzel (EKA: Episode 0692)
A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk and a Stick of Butter
Lost Paper Clips with Bert and John-John
Witches Cooperate
"The Song of the Count"
Bert's Bust
First and Last with Beetle Bailey (EKA: Episode 0666)
Season 4 Credit Crawl
*Episode 536 (5th season premiere)
-Scene 1 Luis tells Krystal he's going on a coffee break and asks her to answer the phone in Spanish, Luis greets Sam the Machine and Mr. Macintosh, Luis offers to tie Doris's balloon to her wrist. It floats up to David, relaxing on the ledge, Big Bird and Bob lead the kids outside from Hooper's Store to play basketball, David and Maria each buy a hot dog from Willy, Susan picks up a dirty blue shirt and throws it into Oscar's trash can, Susan welcomes Gordon home from work, and Gordon welcomes the viewer to "just another quiet day on Sesame Street"..., ... which proves to be anything but quiet.
-Muppets: Song "Fat Cat"
-Cartoon: Song "Daddy Dear"
-Muppet & Kid Moment: Kermit & Joey sing The Alphabet Song. Joey keeps saying, "Cookie Monster"
-Film: D Lecture
-Cartoon: The Square
-Muppets: Muppet & Kid Moment: Kermit the reporter asks a girl on the street what sounds each animal makes
-Scene 2: At the Fix-It Shop, Luis shows Krystal and Trey some metal tools he found in an old tool box. He picks up a hinge, and Krystal says it looks like a bird's beak. This gives Luis some inspiration to make something out of the tools. He tells the kids to go outside and play, and when they come back, they'll be surprised...
-Cartoon: Jazz #2
-Cartoon: "Why are you holding one leg up in the air, Jasper?" "Because if I hold two legs up in the air, I fall down!"
-Scene 3: Luis shows the kids the surprise structure made of his metal tools: a bird! He then suggests they show it to Big Bird.
-Muppets: Ernie and Bert go to the movies. Ernie makes some loud noises while he eats his popcorn and drinks his soda. Bert loses his temper and shouts at Ernie to be quiet, at which point the usher enters and throws Bert out.
-Film: Joe Raposo sings "There's a Bird On Me"
-Cartoon: Numbers from 1 to 20 line up, but 17 is missing
-Film: Song "One of These Things" (3 starfish and 1 crab)
-Celebrity: Lena Horne sings "How Do You Do" to Grover
-Film: A Stool For Me
-Scene 4: Big Bird announces that Grover will demonstrate the number 2 by doing two chin-ups. He does it, but then Big Bird asks him to do two more sets, to make sure the audience gets it. When Big Bird thinks they've got it, he announces that Grover will now demonstrate the number 18! Grover faints
-Film: Song "Who You Lookin' At, Tiger?"
-Muppets: Guy Smiley hosts "Beat the Time". In order to win a cookie, Cookie Monster has to bring in three things that rhyme with the word "rain" before the hand goes around the clock. They turn out to be an old man's "cane", a "chain" (to which Frazzle is attached), and finally a "train" which destroys the set.
-Cast: Luis looks for the exit in a brick room
-Scene 5: Big Bird and his grown-up friends play "follow the leader"; Snuffy secretly joins in the game without anyone noticing him
-Muppets: Alien Alphabet
-Celebrity: 2 Harlem Globetrotters briefly demonstrate their basketball stunts
-Cast: David, alone on a desert island, finds a bottle with a genie (Maria) inside it, and wishes for a boat. But Maria keeps mishearing the request and instead gives him a coat and a (live) goat. Finally she gives him a boat ... but it's not the kind of boat he was hoping for.
-Muppets: Clap, Clap, Clap
-Film: Jack Rabbit
-Muppets: Bert sings "Doin' the Pigeon"
-Film: Some kids watch a silent film featuring a lady in a burning house. They instruct her to "go to the EXIT!"
-Film: Song, "Three Of These Kids" (3 baseball players, 1 football)
-Muppets: Ernie and Bert: Ernie tells Bert to stand still in front of the camera so that he can "trace" Bert's face on the screen
-Cartoon: Train #2
-Scene 7: A closing shot of the kids playing as Big Bird and Grover announce the sponsors (C, Uand 2).
*Season 5 Classic Cuts
At the Movies with Ernie and Bert: The Lady with the Tall Hat
"Nasty Dan" (with Johnny Cash)
Prairie Dawn's Pageant about a flower (EKA: Episode 0666)
Twiddlebugs: Going to the Zoo (EKA: Episode 0693)
Jazz Alphabet (EKA: Episode 0666)
Hamburger Bun Factory
Madrigal Alphabet (EKA: Episode 1093)
The Monster's Three Wishes (EKA: Episode 0764)
Super Grover: Telephone Booth (EKA: Episode 0710)
Season 5 Credit Crawl
DVD Review: It's the old school
Summary: 5 Stars
My kids enjoyed this item as will as the second volume. It's great and fun to watch for the whole familyDVD Review: Not worth it.
Summary: 1 Stars
I thought I had read the description on this thoroughly enough but apparently not. I didn't realize that there were only FIVE episodes in the whole thing. It seemed like this would be really amazing for my one and a half year old. Yes, she did enjoy the first episode but after I realized that it only had a couple more I decided I'm going to return it. I would never pay over $5 PER episode of anything!! Of course, yes, there is extra material on it but not like my 1 year old is really going to care about that! I suppose if you just like to collect things like this and don't just want a good compilation of sesame street than this would be fine.
Description of Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974)
Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr. Hooper, and Bob? Do you remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? Sesame Street Old School is a time capsule of the early days of the ground-breaking series you grew up on. Take a trip back in time with Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus. Sing along with classics like "C is for Cookie," "I Love Trash," and "Rubber Duckie." For the first time on DVD, the music, memories, and mayhem from Sesame Street's first five seasons can be enjoyed again and again!When the Children's Theater Workshop's Sesame Street first aired on television in 1969, it was a revolutionary new show aimed specifically at preschool children--an audience previously untargeted by television programming. Exhaustively-researched and tested on real audiences of preschoolers, this "experiment in kid programming" aimed to teach preschoolers the alphabet, numbers, body parts, rhyming, and basic reasoning skills while thoroughly entertaining them. Through the use of humor, the amazing puppetry of Frank Oz and Jim Henson, animation, the incredibly catchy music of Joe Raposo and Jeffrey Moss, and a fast-action pace borrowed from the television commercial format, Sesame Street was, and still is, more successful at educating and entertaining children than anyone initially imagined. What's more, the lessons learned by generations of preschoolers went far beyond simple school-readiness skills to include values like acceptance, cooperation, and inclusiveness because the urban Sesame Street was a place populated by people and monsters young viewers could identify with, where anything could happen, and where every ethnicity, generation, and species co-existed and interacted harmoniously.
Sesame Street: Old School Volume 1 1969-1974 offers a sampling of the first five seasons of Sesame Street and includes the first episode of each season in its entirety as well as a large selection of classic segments from each season highlighting some of the most memorable sketches ("Bein' Green," "Rubber Duckie," "Whistle a Happy Tune," and Super-Grover in "Telephone Booth"), favorite human characters like Bob and Mr. Hooper, and guest appearances by celebrities like Bill Cosby, Lena Horne, Jackie Robinson, Carol Burnett, and Jesse Jackson. Adult viewers will be transported back in time as they witness Bert's frustration with his ever-noisy roommate Ernie, chuckle at the antics of Grover and his demanding customer in Grover's Restaurant, and wonder if Snuffleupagus will ever show himself to someone besides Big Bird. Other well-remembered moments include pinball number count, the baker who inevitably tumbles down the stairway with a handful of cream pies, the ever-munching Cookie Monster, "Here is Your Life" segments, Bert "Doin' the Pigeon," and the inevitably grumpy Oscar the Grouch. Post-Elmo preschoolers and their parents will laugh, learn, grow, and connect with one another as they share this classic compilation of Sesame Street moments. Bonus features include the original sales pitch reel (introduced by Joan Ganz Cooney and hosted by Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog) and a thick booklet rich with history, trivia, and a pullout activity section for children. (Ages 2 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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