Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

[Andrew T]

One thing I'm now wondering is if the vintage CPB tags and NET/PBS IDs would be left intact on a reissued complete episode.

The former I would bet on: They were usually preserved on Noggin as well. The latter is less likely, but still possible, since they are on the broadcast masters and made their way to The Best of the Electric Company. It may be up to the prerogative of the releasing label (i.e., Sony Wonder or Shout! Factory) involved.

 

[doctort13]

Here's some more news from a VERY reliable source:
http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=5961

 

[Grover]

I know the news isn't OFFICAL yet, but hopefully SSW wll annonunce some more information closer to the release date. Any way I hope Sesame Street Old School Set will include most of these clips.

1. Ernie eats Bert's Choclate Cake
2. If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Baked a Cake
3. Kermit's "What Happens Next Machine"
4. Kermit's B Sound Lecture.
5. Grover Explains Near and Far (1969)
6. Octopus Garden.
7. Pick Your Pet.
8. Professor Hastings and Kermit demonstrate Parts of The Body.
9. Ernie Takes a Bath With Percautions.
10. Bert asks Ernie if he could borrow his Umbrella.
11. Ernie and Cookie Monster: Cookie Matching.
12. What's My Part: Foot?
13. Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover: Over and Under.
14. Lefty Sells Ernie a Stop Sign.
15. Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet.
16. Ernie can't Find Bert at the Beach.
17. Cookie Monster Buys Somthing That Rhymes with Pie.
18. Kermit and Grover : Long and Short.
19. Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light.
20. Newsflash: Rapunzle.
21. Newsflash:Cinderella (At The Ball)
22. Robin Hood Ernie Audditons for Merry Men.

 

[ILuVERNIE]

those are some of the bestest.!.!.!.

 

[minor muppetz]

I'm starting to feel convinced that this set will have complete hour-long episodes. I could be wrong. I think three episodes on four discs each, with some bonus features would be fair.

This would be a good line-up:

Disc 1:
The First Episode
the episode where Big Bird complains about not going to day care (mentioned in Caroll Spinney's book)
any first-season epsiode sponsored by the number nine (and featuring Baker #9)
Bonus:
The Promotional Film

Disc 2:
Second Season Premier
a random second season episode (not shown on Noggin)
Third Season Premier
Bonus:
Test Pilot #1

Disc 3:
Season Four Premier
Season Five Premier
the episode where Big Bird becomes convinced that Snuffy is not real
Bonus:
interview with Jerry Nelson
1970s public service announcements with Cookie Monster
unaired segments

Disc 4:
the episode where Cookie Monster eats Hooper's Store
an episode about Sam the Robot
Big Bird's Four Show
Bonus:
Sesame Street At Night?
Sesame Street Trivia Game

 

[minor muppetz]

And if it was just skits, this would be a good amount of content:

Disc 1:
*Big Bird Skits:
Admiral Big Bird
Big Bird Meets Little Bird
ABC-DEF-GHI (original version)
Big Bird and a girl demonstrate "Big" and "Little"
*Ernie and Bert Skits:
Ernie has Bert guess the number of parts on various drawings
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Ernie paints a picture of Bert
Ernie eats cookies in Bert's bed
Ernie pours milk on the ceiling
One and One Make Two
*Cookie Monster Skits:
Up and Down
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Cookie Monster and the word Amour
The Monsters Three Wishes
Kermit's Milk Lecture
*Animated Favorites:
Alice Braitwaite Goodyshoes talks about Through
W is for Worm
Billy Jo Jive
Jazzy Spies #7
Pinball Number Count #10

Disc 2:
*Oscar Skits:
I Love Trash (original version)
Oscar and Grovers alphabet
*Kermit Skits:
Kermit's W Lecture (part 1)
Grover wants to sell Kermit earmuffs
Sesame Street News: Pinnocchio
Kermit's W Lecture (part 2)
Bein' Green (with Leena Horne)
Sesame Street News: The Tortose and The Hare
*Musical Mayhem:
Mad
Count it Higher
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Everybody Eats
Sing
*More Ernie and Bert Skits:
Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
The Banana Sketch (part 1)
Bert imagines himself skating
Ernie demonstrates "before" and "after"
The Banana Sketch (part 2)
Bert thinks Ernie ate his cookies

Disc 3:
*All-Star Cast:
What's the Name of That Song?
Let's Make a Face
*Grover Skits:
I Whistle a Happy Tune
Near and Far
Kermit and Grover demonstrate "heavy" and "light"
Grover the Waiter: Alphabet Soup
Super Grover: Bag of Groceries
Marshall Grover
Proud of Me
*Monster Madness:
I want a Monster to Be My friend
Herry and John John count to 20
Fur
Monsters whisper C
First and Last (original version)
Lulu's Back in Town

Disc 4:
*Just Ernie:
Rubber Duckie
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
Sherlock Hemlock invents paper
*Just Bert:
Doin' the Pigeon
*Roosevelt Franklin:
Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet
Roosevelt Franklin's days of the week
Roosevelt Franklin talks about poision
Headball
*Numbers
Let's Sing a Song of One
Four
Funny Farm
Penny Candy Man
The Number Painter: 3
The Count counts apples
*Letters:
A, You're Adorable
The Typewriter Guy: B
Harvey Kneeslapper: Wanna C?
Daddy Dear
What's My Letter?
*Everybody!:
Subway
Buddy and Jim hang a picture
Mystery Guest
Sesame Street News: The Count counts Three Little Pigs
Monster Family

 

[Barry Lee]

And if it was just skits, this would be a good amount of content:

Disc 1:
*Big Bird Skits:
Admiral Big Bird
Big Bird Meets Little Bird
ABC-DEF-GHI (original version)
Big Bird and a girl demonstrate "Big" and "Little"
*Ernie and Bert Skits:
Ernie has Bert guess the number of parts on various drawings
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Ernie paints a picture of Bert
Ernie eats cookies in Bert's bed
Ernie pours milk on the ceiling
One and One Make Two
*Cookie Monster Skits:
Up and Down
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Cookie Monster and the word Amour
The Monsters Three Wishes
Kermit's Milk Lecture
*Animated Favorites:
Alice Braitwaite Goodyshoes talks about Through
W is for Worm
Billy Jo Jive
Jazzy Spies #7
Pinball Number Count #10

Disc 2:
*Oscar Skits:
I Love Trash (original version)
Oscar and Grovers alphabet
*Kermit Skits:
Kermit's W Lecture (part 1)
Grover wants to sell Kermit earmuffs
Sesame Street News: Pinnocchio
Kermit's W Lecture (part 2)
Bein' Green (with Leena Horne)
Sesame Street News: The Tortose and The Hare
*Musical Mayhem:
Mad
Count it Higher
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Everybody Eats
Sing
*More Ernie and Bert Skits:
Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
The Banana Sketch (part 1)
Bert imagines himself skating
Ernie demonstrates "before" and "after"
The Banana Sketch (part 2)
Bert thinks Ernie ate his cookies

Disc 3:
*All-Star Cast:
What's the Name of That Song?
Let's Make a Face
*Grover Skits:
I Whistle a Happy Tune
Near and Far
Kermit and Grover demonstrate "heavy" and "light"
Grover the Waiter: Alphabet Soup
Super Grover: Bag of Groceries
Marshall Grover
Proud of Me
*Monster Madness:
I want a Monster to Be My friend
Herry and John John count to 20
Fur
Monsters whisper C
First and Last (original version)
Lulu's Back in Town

Disc 4:
*Just Ernie:
Rubber Duckie
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
Sherlock Hemlock invents paper
*Just Bert:
Doin' the Pigeon
*Roosevelt Franklin:
Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet
Roosevelt Franklin's days of the week
Roosevelt Franklin talks about poision
Headball
*Numbers
Let's Sing a Song of One
Four
Funny Farm
Penny Candy Man
The Number Painter: 3
The Count counts apples
*Letters:
A, You're Adorable
The Typewriter Guy: B
Harvey Kneeslapper: Wanna C?
Daddy Dear
What's My Letter?
*Everybody!:
Subway
Buddy and Jim hang a picture
Mystery Guest
Sesame Street News: The Count counts Three Little Pigs
Monster Family

I like your idea.

 

[minor muppetz]

I just realised that I forgot to put in sections for Guy Smiley and Count skits. I put in two sections for Ernie and Bert sketches, plus a section for Ernie skits without Bert and a section for Bert skits without Ernie (and I only included on skit at that, as I could only think of one early Bert skit without Ernie).

Anyway, if my idea could include some sections devoted to The Count and Guy Smiley, this is what I'd do:

The Count:
The Count counts Ernie and Bert's block pyrimid
Grover the waiter: The Count orders Hot Dogs
The Count counts cookies while Cookie Monster eats them
The Song of the Count
Count Up to Nine
Beat the Time: The Count
The Count counts Flowers

Guy Smiley:
What's My Part?: Foot
Beat the Time: Grover
Here is Your Life: Oak Tree
The Addition Game
The Remembering Game
The Triangle is Right

It would be cool if there were also sectiosn for other secondary characters, like Herry Monster, Little Bird, Little Jerry and the Monotones, Biff and Sully, Don Music, Herbert Birdsfoot, Sherlock Hemlock, and Harvey Kneeslapper.

 

[Ernie101]

In regards to Janice and Mokeys Man comments:

True, that is but 47 percent of the thread participants but would you rather have them all over time..as the DVD's were being released? or just a dvd cram session with a bunch of random skits?

 

[minor muppetz]

I was thinking... maybe if this set is successful, there could be box sets for later years of the show, too. Maybe a "Totally '80s" set, or an "around the corner" set (for episodes from 1993-1998).