Anything on Volume 3?

[DTWolf]

I've actually thought about that, too. But one thing they could do is, you know how Old School 1 had that pitch film as a bonus, and Old School 2 had the first test pilot? Well, for Old School 3, they could include both 1836 and 1839 for Season 15.

I hadn't even thought about that! What a good idea. (Or is there another pilot out there somewhere?) I feel less anxious now. Even if they decide to bulldoze ahead with the premeire-obsessed policy, we still might get the crucial Mr. Hooper episode.

Another episode I've been thinking about--far in the future, if they even continue these sets into the mid-eighties seasons--is the wedding of Maria and Luis. Not a premeire, as I recall, but still a true Sesame event that needs to be released on DVD.

 

[minor muppetz]

There were five test pilots for Sesame Street.

Another thing that could be done, would be for volume 3 to just include the scene where Big Bird and the adults discuss Mr. Hooper's death as a season 15 classic cut. I'd rather have the whole epsidoe, but from what I've read, not much else of that episode focused on Mr. Hooper's death.

It would also be great if Sesame Workshop could work out a way to release all or most of the episodes focusing on Maria and Luis' marriage. Not just their wedding, but the epsidoe where they fall in love, and anything between that had to do with it (I'd be surprised if their wasn't an episode where their engagement was announced).

If volume 3 is the next five premieres, then there'd be two epsidoes not sponsored by the number 2. If it's the hawiai epsidoes, then there'd be more (but I think 2 was still a sponsor in one of those episodes).

 

[ssetta]

There were five test pilots for Sesame Street.

Another thing that could be done, would be for volume 3 to just include the scene where Big Bird and the adults discuss Mr. Hooper's death as a season 15 classic cut. I'd rather have the whole epsidoe, but from what I've read, not much else of that episode focused on Mr. Hooper's death.

It would also be great if Sesame Workshop could work out a way to release all or most of the episodes focusing on Maria and Luis' marriage. Not just their wedding, but the epsidoe where they fall in love, and anything between that had to do with it (I'd be surprised if their wasn't an episode where their engagement was announced).

If volume 3 is the next five premieres, then there'd be two epsidoes not sponsored by the number 2. If it's the hawiai epsidoes, then there'd be more (but I think 2 was still a sponsor in one of those episodes).

I thought the same thing. Another thing I've realized is that a lot more important stuff happened on the show during the 80s, I think more than the 70s. So, it'd be good that they don't devote all of them to just season premieres.

 

[zns]

I don't think that we really have to worry about Sesame Workshop realeasing only the season premieres for the box sets. They respect some of those highlights very much, so the fact that they wouldn't realease them at all is dishonest.

 

[Drtooth]

Once again, this brings down the conceptual disadvantage of these box sets. You have about 4000 hours of footage (I never did the number crunching for how many hours of original footage there would be) to get into DVD's. I have mixed feelings about them using season premires, myself. And I always figured Old School should be a label all its own. A sub-label of Sesame projects called "Old School" would be great. We would still get the box sets, but we'd also get other DVD's. Like best of clip compilations that have about 2 hours of clips on them, combined into one or 2 subjects. And a sound track deal that would rerelease the older albums similar in fashion to the Fraggle Rock collection. As well as toys and apparel.

Anyway, I'd love to see the full Hopper episode, since it begins with the rare Gilbert and Sullivan duo. As well as the Star Wars episode. I would also love to see a set/edited together disk about the Maria and Luis Wedding and the Hawaii episodes.

 

[stephenjlizard]

I personally don't think it'd be a bad idea to try and release old episodes using their Sesame Street Video Player (it is so cute!). Give fans a chance to watch a rotating playlist of entire "Old School" episodes that are a) old and b) great, but weren't necessarily great enough to make the cut for an Old School DVD set. Since there are thousands of hours of footage, they'd practically always have something to show!

 

[minor muppetz]

I personally don't think it'd be a bad idea to try and release old episodes using their Sesame Street Video Player (it is so cute!). Give fans a chance to watch a rotating playlist of entire "Old School" episodes that are a) old and b) great, but weren't necessarily great enough to make the cut for an Old School DVD set. Since there are thousands of hours of footage, they'd practically always have something to show!

That does sound like a good idea. I wonder if Sesame Workshop would go for it. I've read elsewhere that it's a pain to upload a 30 minute program online (and each episode is twice as long), and I wonder if Sesame Workshop has to negotiate residuals for free online clips.

Still, even though I can watch many clips for free online, I still want DVD releases of various segments. Some are available on the site and I've watched many times, and some aren't available online (yet).

 

[minor muppetz]

I have been wondering if there would be bonus clips if an Old School set were to not focus on certain years, but instead if the sets included random episodes or multi-part epsiodes. Instead of having bonus segments grouped by year, it would be great if bonus segments were grouped by characters, themes, or learning concepts (though grouping by year is great, since it helps us know what seasosn certain sketches were from, though some are/ might be mistakes).

For example, maybe there could be a set with bonus segments grouped by characters. Such a grouping could be done like this:
Ernie and Bert Classic Cuts

• Ernie's ice colection
• Ernie prepares for his bath
• Banana in the Ear
• fish in the cowboy hat
• Role Reversal
• Bert's ice cream
• who ate Bert's cookies?
• Ernie and the box salesman
• Ernie and Bert at the beach: Bert is missing
• One and One Make Two
• Imagination

Cookie Monster Classic Cuts

• Kermit's B Lecture
• Ernie presents the letter Q
• Cookie Monster and the Fairy Godmother
• The Remembering Game
• Cookie Monster wants something that rhymes with buy
• Herbert Birdsfoot's cookie test
• The Ballad of Casey McPhee
• The Cookie Bunny

Big Bird Classic Cuts

• Chickety Chick
• ABC-DEF-GHI (1972 version)
• Admiral Bird
• The Sound of the Letter A

Oscar Classic Cuts

• I Live Trash (1970 version)
• Oscar helps Ernie find his lost Rubber Duckie
• The Trading Game

Grover Classic Cuts

• Grover and John-John count backwards
• Near and Far
• Proud of Me
• Kermit and the Nose Warmer Salesman
• Grover's Shadow
• Super Grover: Haircut
• Grover's Resturaunt: Simon Soundman
• In and Out of the Elevador
• Long and Short Lecture
• Marshall Grover: front and back
• Still We Like Each Other

Roosevelt Franklin Classic Cuts

• Days of the Week
• Same Sound Brown
• Pride
• Spelling Poision
• Roosevelt Franklin Counts
• Exercise

Guy Smiley Classic Cuts

• What's My Part?: Foot
• Here is Your Life: Sneaker
• The Weather Show
• The Anything-in-the-Whole-Wide World Prize Game

Herry Monster Classic Cuts

• Up and Down
• Herry and John-John count to 20
• The Life of a Butterfly
• The Addition Game
• Herry and Edith Ann: Pride
• I Can't Help It

The Count Classic Cuts

• The Count Sleeps Over: Counting Sheep
• The Count Sleeps Over: The Next Morning
• Counting and Eating Cookies
• The Count counts flowers
• Beat the Time
• Grover's Resturaunt: counting hot dogs
• Count up to Nine
• Sesame Street News: Three Little Pigs

Kermit Classic Cuts

• Kermit's between lecture
• Bear Exercises
• Professor Hasting's lecture on parts of the body
• Kermit, Shola, and Fanny: Next To
• Bein' Green with Lena Horne
• Sesame Street News: Alice in Wonderland
• Whistle, Whistle, Little Bird
• Kermit and the Earmuffs Salesman
• Heavy and Light
• Weather Calendar
• This Frog

Monsters

• Here and There
• Empty and Ful Room
• Herry's Alphabet Secret
• I Want a Monster to be my Friend
• Frazzle's Emotions
• Prairie Dawn invites Three Monsters to Dinner
• Kermit: Empty and Full
• The Boy Who Cried Monster
• Ernie and the broken ukelelee
• Monsters: A
• What Do I Do When I'm Alone?

Assorted Characters

• Some None All
• The King Banishes the Letter P
• Don Music: Yellowstone Park
• Mad
• The Invention of Paper
• The Golden An
• Yellow Submarine

 

[Drtooth]

That does sound like a good idea. I wonder if Sesame Workshop would go for it. I've read elsewhere that it's a pain to upload a 30 minute program online (and each episode is twice as long), and I wonder if Sesame Workshop has to negotiate residuals for free online clips.

It can be done, but episodes would be broken down into parts (sort of like other online video players). Right now, I think they should just focus on clips until they get past the Beta version. But that's a different thread and a different topic.

 

[minor muppetz]

themed groupings

This would make for a good selection of bonus clips themed around a certain topic.

Counting

• Count it Higher
• One Song (Song of One)
• Pinball Number Count #9
• Jazz #10
• Kermit counts Twiddlebugs
• Kermit draws a 2
• Mad Painter #2
• Sesame Street News: The Count counts Three Little Pigs and Seven Dwarfs
• Snnow White counts dwarfs
• Candy Man
• Ernie and the 8 Salesman
• Harvey Kneeslapper: A Sticky Four
• Kermit and Joey count to 20

The Alphabet

• Kermit and Bob: The Alphabet
• Ernie's alphabet story
• Q claymation
• Professor Hastings: U Lecture
• X Marks the Spot
• Alphabet Chat: R
• Don Music's Alphabet Song
• What's My Letter?
• Ernie and Lefty: P and R
• Two G Sounds
• This is My J
• Poverty X
• B-bug
• Herbert Birdsfoot: M and W Lecture

Opposites

• Near and Far with Alice Braitwaite Goodyshoes
• Kermit and Grover: Up and Down
• Ernie's radio
• Grover: forward and backwards
• Kermit and Brian: close and apart
• The Opposite Song

Feelings

• Mad!
• Proud of Me
• Big Kids Cry
• Sad
• Ernie think Bert was kidnapped
• Sesame Street News: what makes people angry

Sesame Street Newsflash

• Cinderella at the ball
• Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Jack and Jill
• Pinocchio
• The Princess and the Cookie
• Hickory Dickory Dock

Body Parts

• Kermit and feet
• Christopher Clumsy: feet
• What's My Part?: Foot
• Big Round Nose
• Let's Make a Face
• Jasper and Julius: lost elbows
• Kermit's hair lecture
• cartoon man climbs a boy

Animation

• Jasper and Julius: apple
• Alice Braitwaite Goodyshoes: over, under, and around
• Jazz #9
• U claymation
• Poverty H
• Christopher Clumsy: two holes
• N-nail
• Nancy the Nanny Goat
• 1-20 destroyed
• Typewriter: O-owl