SST Season 1 Outline: Big Bird's Kite Problem

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Enjoy this season 1 outline.

Scene 1
Gordon welcomes the viewers to Sesame Street, and recites the alphabet with the kids.

Inserts

• Ernie writes a story
• Buddy and Jim: shoes and bots in boxes
• Nine Song (Song of Nine)
• Kermit and Grover count nine blocks
• W-water

Scene 2
Big Bird has just gotten a new kite, but he has trouble getting it up into the air. He can't figure out what the problem is, but Susan informs him that the kite is stuck under the mailbox. Susan gets the kite out from under there and leaves, but Big Bird stil has trouble getting it up.

Inserts

• Alice braitwaite Goodyshoes: wet and dry
• Bert tells Ernie that he wouldn't think it would be funny if a monster kissed him
• Henson S Claymation
• A Little Bit at the Beginning
• Kermit and Professor Hastings desmonstrate parts of the body part 1
• Henson S Claymation (repeat)
• Kermit and Professor Hastings demonstrate parts of the body part 2

Scene 3
Big Bird can't udnerstand why he can't get his kite to fly up in the air. Gordon explaisn that it isn't windy enough for the kite to fly.

Inserts

• Windy
• Jazz #8
• Ernie and Bert: the sandbox game
• Eight Song (Song of Eight)
• Jazz #8 (repeat)
• Ernie and the 8 Salesman

Scene 4
It is finally windy enough for Big Bird's kite to fly. Big Bird and Mr. Hooper take the time to say that "kite" begins with the letter K.

Inserts

• Speech Balloon: K-key
• K Cheer Version 1
• Speech Balloon: K-key (repeat)
• Octopuses Garden
• Eight Song (Song of Eight) (repeat)

Scene 5
Bob, Susan, and the kids have ice cream, and talk about their favorite kinds of ice cream. Oscar disgusts them by talking about his favorite: sour-kraut, gravy, mushroomed chocholate.

Inserts

• Everyone Likes Ice Cream
• Rubber Duckie
• Alice Craitwaite Goodyshoes: wet and dry (repeat)

Scene 6
It starts to rain, so Big Bird has to stop flying his kite. Mr. Hooper, in voice-over, announces that "Sesame Street has been brought to you today by the letters W, S, and K, and by the nubmers 8 and 9". Still images include the hippies holding the Sesame Street sign and Susna holding the Children's Television Workshop sign.