Monsterpiece Theater Question

[D'Snowth]

I just recently heard that all of the original Monsterpiece Theater bits were re-shot because they originally featured Alistair Cookie smoking a pipe; I never saw him smoke a pipe before, so is this true?

 

[Krazedmuppet]

I think it was a bubble pipe.... Ill have to look into that.... To be continued

 

[Krazedmuppet]

Pipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUij_urdJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86l-eVCwAVc

no pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGA-j-i8_yI

 

[D'Snowth]

Pipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUij_urdJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86l-eVCwAVc

no pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGA-j-i8_yI

First link didn't work... but how OLD is that second piece (thirty-nine stairs)? His room looks A LOT different than it does now!

 

[wiley207]

A good way to tell if the skit is going to have Alistar Cookie's pipe is to see if it has the Union Jack opening at the beginning, seen on 1982-1991 sketches. That "39 Stairs" skit must be from the mid-to-late 80s.

Anyways, did they cut the pipe from the video release of the 1988 "Sesame Street Special (aka Put Down the Duckie)?" I know they changed the opening title (since the video release was in 1994, I'm sure it had that really long opening with the shots of books and the pictures of various SS monsters).

BTW, here's a PERFECT quality print of "Upstairs, Downstairs!" I know that Monsterpiece Theater started in 1982, but this skit goes back to 1978! Maybe it was a test pilot for the series?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZWVntytH8&mode=related&search=

 

[D'Snowth]

BTW, here's a PERFECT quality print of "Upstairs, Downstairs!" I know that Monsterpiece Theater started in 1982, but this skit goes back to 1978! Maybe it was a test pilot for the series?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBZWVntytH8&mode=related&search=

It must be the Monsterpiece "pilot": it has an announcer saying "good evening, it's time once again from another episode of 'Monsterpiece Theater'", Alistair Cookie's room is COMPLETELY different, and the "film" has introductory and closing music.

By the way, did anyone else besides me think Cookie looked dead when they faded in on him at first?

BTW, I never saw "Twelve Angry Men" before, and it was hilarious! "Hey, hey, chill out!"

 

[minor muppetz]

Anyways, did they cut the pipe from the video release of the 1988 "Sesame Street Special (aka Put Down the Duckie)?" I know they changed the opening title (since the video release was in 1994, I'm sure it had that really long opening with the shots of books and the pictures of various SS monsters).

I am guesing that it wasn't cut. I know that this sketch was shown uncut in a season 30 episode.

 

[minor muppetz]

I just watched Upstairs, Downstairs.... and I still don't know what sketch featured the introduction seen in a clip montage in Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (which was a different room than usual). So I guess that introduction was from Me Claudius (for those who want to confirm, in the clip he says "Me Allistar Cookie here. Me delighted to welcome you to Monsterpiece Theater. Home of classy drama"), I didn't watch all of the clips linked here, but I noticed that somebody said that the room was different in The 39 Stairs. I know that the room in that sketch was the same as usual, unless the opening and closing scenes were remade before I was born.