Episode 12? (lost episode)

[prickle747]

Did this episode not make the cut to HBO Max? All I can find is this "recreation" of clips put together with a b & w effect. If so I'm hopeful someone will upload it to YT

 

[datman24]

Hate to break it to you, but episode 12 is one of the many lost episodes of Sesame Street.

Lost episodes of Sesame Street

Sesame Street has produced over 4,500 original episodes of television over the course of fifty years. Most TV shows consider it a huge landmark if they're able to pass one hundred episodes, an achievement that Sesame Street has reached forty-five times over. Given the vast volume of content...

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[minor muppetz]

A ton of episodes did not make the cut to HBO Max, not just the truly lost episodes.

 

[YellowYahooey]

It could have been a personal recording or something. That could explain the black and white TV effect.

 

[hooperfan]

Hate to break it to you, but episode 12 is one of the many lost episodes of Sesame Street.

Lost episodes of Sesame Street

Sesame Street has produced over 4,500 original episodes of television over the course of fifty years. Most TV shows consider it a huge landmark if they're able to pass one hundred episodes, an achievement that Sesame Street has reached forty-five times over. Given the vast volume of content...

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Really not that many. Missing a little over 50 episodes out of thousands is really not anything to be upset over. Especially knowing that a lot of classic series from the golden age of television have episodes completely lost and/or destroyed.

 

[LittleJerry92]

Yeah, episode 12 isn’t even that special sounding to me other than it being the introduction for “Spinning Wheel.”

 

[LittleJerry92]

It could have been a personal recording or something. That could explain the black and white TV effect.

No, that’s just an effect the user put on there in an editing software (whatever they used). VCR’s literally didn’t exist in 1969…..

 

[prickle747]

So this episode is considered lost among others, but is it still possible Sesame Workshop themselves have it? Or possibly in a TV station vault?

 

[LittleJerry92]

My only guess is the street scenes themselves probably still exist separately. The episode master itself (including segments) no longer exists.