Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

[Erine81981]

Me too Kevin. I would love it to be just like the Electric Company DVD that came out a couple months ago. I would buy it know matter what.

 

[a_Mickey_Muppet]

I hope to see the Kermit/Rowlf discussion pitch about the title of the show.

If they do the same that they did for The Electric Company, there should be 4 - 6 full episodes per DVD with a special "documentary" short with tidbits of information about the show and actors between each episode. I liked the way that they also included the original endings of the show, too, so I hope to see all the old stuff from Sesame!

so awsome! thanks for that link with with cover art kev! it REALLY made my day! i love how it looks 70ish. This i am DEF picking up and FR S2. (to bad we have NO BIG bird smilie, lol)

 

[minor muppetz]

I noticed that that cover called it "Old School Vol. One" instead of "Nostalgia Set: First Five", like how Amazon has listed it. I'm not sure if that was an old cover that wasn't changed, or what.

Does it really say 1969-1974? I thought it said 1969-1979.

This would make a great layout for the set:

Disc 1:
Season 1 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Joan Ganz Coony, Loretta Long, and Bob McGraph)
Season 2 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 1
The Best of Season 2
Sesame Street Promotional Film

Disc 2:
Season 3 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Sonia Manzano, and Jerry Nelson)
Season 4 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 3
The Best of Season 4
Test Pilot #1

Disc 3:
Season 5 premier
The Best of Season 5
Sesame Street Unpaved

the "best of" season compilations would be an average of 12-22 minutes each.

 

[minor muppetz]

This would make a great layout for the set:

Disc 1:
Season 1 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Joan Ganz Coony, Loretta Long, and Bob McGraph)
Season 2 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 1
The Best of Season 2
Sesame Street Promotional Film

Disc 2:
Season 3 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Sonia Manzano, and Jerry Nelson)
Season 4 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 3
The Best of Season 4
Test Pilot #1

Disc 3:
Season 5 premier
The Best of Season 5
Sesame Street Unpaved

And here are what skits I'd include for the best of season compilations. I hope I am right about the years of certain sketches, but these are my best guess. I also hope that I don't accidently list anything that was cut from the Noggin broadcasts of the premier episodes (I am going by how Muppet Wiki lists the skit orders).

The Best of Season 1:
Ernie and Bert split jellybeans
I Love Trash (original version, assuming this was performed in the first season)
Let's Sing a Song of One
Jazzy Spies #4
ABC-DEF-GHI
Ernie and Cookie Monster share a pillow
Pick Your Pet
Near and Far
Sing
Kermit's Milk Lecture
The People in Your Neighborhood
Big Bird meets Little Bird
Let's Sing a Song of Nine
a Buddy and Jim skit
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
Kermit and Grover talk about the word "In"
Ernie eats Bert's cake
Oscar recites the alphabet
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Goin' for a Ride
Ernie stands on the ceiling and pours milk
Proffessor Hastings lecture on body parts
an Alice Braitswaithe Goodyshoes skit that was not included in The Sesame Street Book of Puzzles (if all three skits from that book were her only appearances, then include the one where she talks about wet and dry)
Jazzy Spies #8
Ernie and Bert's sandbox game
Kermit's rectangle lecture
monsters whisper C
One of These Things
first and last
Lulu's Back in Town

The Best of Season 2
Ernie and Cookie Monster talk about hope
What's My Part?: Foot
Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover count to 20
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a stop sign
Cookie Monster and the word Amour
a Ralph and Wally skit
X Marks the Spot
Ernie meets Simon Soundman
Roosevelt Franklin's Days of the Week
The King of 8
Mad
Admiral Big Bird
Ernie replaces Bert's cowboy hat with a pan
another Ralph and Wally skit
Harvey Kneeslapper: Do you know where I wanna B?
The Amazing Mumford's disapearing cookie act
Bert accuses Ernie of eating his cookies
Up and Down

The Best of Season 3:
Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
a Jasper and Julius skit
A quart of milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter
Kermit draws a triangle
Grover the Waiter: Hamburger
Funny Farm
The Banana Sketch part 1
Everybody Eats
The Banana Sketch Part 2
Roosevelt Franklin talks to his class about africa
Sesame Street News: The Tortose and the Hare
Penny Candy Man
a Larry and Phyllis skit
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Typewriter Guy: A-Airplane
Grover the Elevador Operador: five people in an elevador
Sesame Street News: Rupunzel
a Larry and Phyllis skit
The Golden An
The Alligator King
Ernie paints a picture of Bert

The Best of Season 4:
Grover the Waiter: no spoon
Sesame Street News: The Count counts Three Little Pigs
Ernie and Bert at the Movies: Ernie gets emotional
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Beat the Time: Grover
Caveman Sherlock Hemlock invents a toothbrush for Caveman Ernie
Herry Monster and John John count to 20
Grover tries to sell Kermit a pair of earmuffs
Proud
To Tell a Face
I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
Grover the Waiter: The Count
Ernie eats Berts ice cream

The Best of Season 5:
Headball
The Song of The Count
Super Grover: Haircut
Sesame Street News: Alice in Wonderland
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 1
Kermit, Shala, and Fanny demonstrate "next to"
Count it Higher
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 2
Four
Let's Make a Face
Kermit talks about feet
Believe in Yourself

 

[zns]

Right now, the only thing that I am worried about is why SW isn't giving us any detail about what is on the disc set, like what episodes, bonus features, etc. I just hope that we will find out soon enough. Does anyone know how or where we can get this info?

 

[minor muppetz]

Does anybody know if Don Music was around during any of the first five season (my guess would be the fifth season, if he was around during these years)? It would be great to see Don included.

 

[minor muppetz]

Another thing that I wonder is if this set will have a "preview other Sesame Street DVDs feature". And once this is released, I wonder if other Sesame Street DVDs will include a clip from this set in the "Preview" section.

 

[Barry Lee]

Well I think the cover looks great, but i'm still iffy about this... maybe they wanna keep this a surprise of the content.

 

[Phillip]

Amazon updated their page with new info on the Sesame Street Box Set...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000H6SY8C/muppetcentral/

 

[AndyWan Kenobi]

I'm glad they've finally released some more info, and I'm loving the cover art. Lots of good dvds coming out soon, but this one will be the top of my list. I actually really like the name "Old School" for the dvd set--it keeps it from feeling dated or too precious in the way that "Nostalgia" might. There's just enough edge there.