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Recently, at Muppet Wiki, some users have visited the CTW Archives at The University of Maryland, and have posted quite a few interesting facts about Sesame Street. Some of the guides now list official first appearances of certain sketches (the Number Song Series, previously listed there as The Baker Films, lists all first appearances of each skit, the Jazz (song sereis) page, previously listed as The Jazzy Spies, lists most of the first episode appearances, and the Ernie and Bert Sketches: Apartment page lists the first appearances of most first season sketches).
One thing that was researched was some promotional material regarding the first week of shows. So infor on epsiodes 2 through 5 is there, based on this info. While many skits and street scenes are listed for each episode, I do not think they are complete. The number of sketches listed for each epsiode seems kind of short, even when taking into account the variosus treet scenes (and some are listed) and possibly skits that were repeated within the same episodes (it's too bad that info on the first episode taken from that guide wasn't reprinted to see how detailed it was compared to what's already been known about it).
However, there are some interesting things about the first week. For example, all epsiodes were sponsored by the same letters and numbers, thougb soem episodes were sponsored by less letters, and soem epsiodes were only sponsored by the number 2 (or just 3). I guess every week of shows had the same letters and numbers sponsoring throughout the week (even if some episodes were not sponsored by every letter and number). The fifth episode had a review of the letters W, S, and E, and the numbers 2 and 3. I wonder what this "review" was (a segment? a street scene? segments for each letter and number, possibly introduced by the cast?). I guess this would have been done for each week of season one.
Going by some sketch guides, it is now known what episodes originally featured each of the Number Songs (or Baker Films). It seems like each idnividual segment premiered in the first show of the week, and each week had two segments premiering in the same episode. Episode 1 had the segments for numbers 2 and 3, episode 6 had the 4 and 5 segments, episode 11 had the 6 and 7 segments, episode 16 had the 8 and 9 segments, episode 21 had the 10 segment, and the 1 segment was not shown untill episode 86.
The earliest know appearances of most of the Jazz cartoons are also lsited. Though not every first appearance is listed, it seems like each segment premiered the weeks those numbers first sponsored, but the individual segmnets did not premier in the same epsiodes. One segment premiered in the first show of the week, and then another number premiered in the secondn show of the week.
Som other intereting tidbits:
*Listen My Brother appeared in many season one epsiodes, starting with epsiode 2.
*James Earl Jones first appeared on the show in epsiode 2 (though his segments were first shown in the test pilots).
*Roosevelt Franklin was on the show in the first season.
*An error from this promotional material mentiosn that Jennie first appeared in episode 5, even though she was in the first epsiode, unless the Jennie from the first episode is a different Jennie (and, assuming that what's reprinted in this section from the archives is copied exactly for the wiki page, word-for-word, spelling-for-spelling, Jennie was speleld as J-E-N-N-Y, instead of J-E-N-N-I-E, like in the credits).
One thing that was researched was some promotional material regarding the first week of shows. So infor on epsiodes 2 through 5 is there, based on this info. While many skits and street scenes are listed for each episode, I do not think they are complete. The number of sketches listed for each epsiode seems kind of short, even when taking into account the variosus treet scenes (and some are listed) and possibly skits that were repeated within the same episodes (it's too bad that info on the first episode taken from that guide wasn't reprinted to see how detailed it was compared to what's already been known about it).
However, there are some interesting things about the first week. For example, all epsiodes were sponsored by the same letters and numbers, thougb soem episodes were sponsored by less letters, and soem epsiodes were only sponsored by the number 2 (or just 3). I guess every week of shows had the same letters and numbers sponsoring throughout the week (even if some episodes were not sponsored by every letter and number). The fifth episode had a review of the letters W, S, and E, and the numbers 2 and 3. I wonder what this "review" was (a segment? a street scene? segments for each letter and number, possibly introduced by the cast?). I guess this would have been done for each week of season one.
Going by some sketch guides, it is now known what episodes originally featured each of the Number Songs (or Baker Films). It seems like each idnividual segment premiered in the first show of the week, and each week had two segments premiering in the same episode. Episode 1 had the segments for numbers 2 and 3, episode 6 had the 4 and 5 segments, episode 11 had the 6 and 7 segments, episode 16 had the 8 and 9 segments, episode 21 had the 10 segment, and the 1 segment was not shown untill episode 86.
The earliest know appearances of most of the Jazz cartoons are also lsited. Though not every first appearance is listed, it seems like each segment premiered the weeks those numbers first sponsored, but the individual segmnets did not premier in the same epsiodes. One segment premiered in the first show of the week, and then another number premiered in the secondn show of the week.
Som other intereting tidbits:
*Listen My Brother appeared in many season one epsiodes, starting with epsiode 2.
*James Earl Jones first appeared on the show in epsiode 2 (though his segments were first shown in the test pilots).
*Roosevelt Franklin was on the show in the first season.
*An error from this promotional material mentiosn that Jennie first appeared in episode 5, even though she was in the first epsiode, unless the Jennie from the first episode is a different Jennie (and, assuming that what's reprinted in this section from the archives is copied exactly for the wiki page, word-for-word, spelling-for-spelling, Jennie was speleld as J-E-N-N-Y, instead of J-E-N-N-I-E, like in the credits).
