Where are all these classic Sesame Street episodes coming from?

[LittleJerry92]

Ah, fair enough then.

I personally don’t care much for screencaptures moreso finding out where skits came and went. But it is always a treasure to see screencaptures.

 

[muppet maniac]

Seasons 2 and 3.

Same here.

 

[YellowYahooey]

Regarding the recap for the episode where Mumford makes the Street disappear, I remember seeing this episode on the Canadian broadcasts in 1979 or maybe January 1980. What really was strange was that I remember seeing a "J for Jack-in-the-box" segment towards the final Street scene, and discovered the sponsors were D, S, and 6. I had thought it was an illusion, but Muppet Wiki had just recently disproved my claim.

I had initially thought that when episodes are repeated, the same sponsors woyld be recycled too, but with different segments. Maybe it was a different story until the tenth season. Why on earth would they change the sponsors for a repeat of an episode that originally had J, Z and 4 as sponsors? This was really out of place.

 

[YellowYahooey]

We've got a whole bunch of classic episodes from seasons 6-9 now fully guided!
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0733 (the Count tries not to count for the whole day)
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0734 (Big Bird's Number 4 Show)
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0744 (the Count follows an ant around Sesame Street)
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0832 (Luis hires Maria to work at the Fix-It Shop)
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_0886 (Mumford makes Sesame Street disappear)
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_1061 (Maria helps Oscar write poems)

Just want to ask, are any of those episodes available online, or were the screenshots of the street scenes from episodes accessible at a library?

 

[MuppetHistory]

Just want to ask, are any of those episodes available online, or were the screenshots of the street scenes from episodes accessible at a library?

I don't know for sure, but I do know that you can now add Episode 0669 to that list! This is one that I'd really like to see, tbh.

 

[scarecroe]

the episode where Mumford makes the Street disappear, I remember seeing this episode on the Canadian broadcasts in 1979 or maybe January 1980. What really was strange was that I remember seeing a "J for Jack-in-the-box" segment towards the final Street scene

You're thinking of this episode.

Episode 1112

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[YellowYahooey]

You're thinking of this episode.

Episode 1112

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Yeah, that's the one. But I am quite baffled about the different sponsors for a repeat. I do recall seeing the sponsors shown as D, S and 6 at the end of the final street scene on a Canadian broadcast late in 1979 or January 1980, despite that the letters and number were actually different. I wonder why they used different letters in episode 1112 as opposed Episode 886? Maybe D and S were used as separate sponsors (not paired on one episode) recently at the time Episode 1112 was aired, and recycling the sponsors D, S and 6 would be overkill, perhaps?

I just checked the Muppet Wiki episode guide for Season 9. It turns out the letters D and S were used separately on four new episodes not that long after Episode 1112. The following week, there were episodes with K and S, followed by J and S; and not long afterwards, episodes with D and N, followed by D and U respectively. It sounds like the producers knew there was potential overkill of D and S ahead, and they probably knew what they were doing.

 

[scarecroe]

I can't help you out there. For as long as I live, I'll never understand why people get so into the sponsors.

 

[LittleJerry92]

I think it’s just a case of him overthinking things as I’ve noticed with a lot of his posts....

 

[Oscarfan]

Yeah, that's the one. But I am quite baffled about the different sponsors for a repeat. I do recall seeing the sponsors shown as D, S and 6 at the end of the final street scene on a Canadian broadcast late in 1979 or January 1980, despite that the letters and number were actually different. I wonder why they used different letters in episode 1112 as opposed Episode 886? Maybe D and S were used as separate sponsors (not paired on one episode) recently at the time Episode 1112 was aired, and recycling the sponsors D, S and 6 would be overkill, perhaps?

I just checked the Muppet Wiki episode guide for Season 9. It turns out the letters D and S were used separately on four new episodes not that long after Episode 1112. The following week, there were episodes with K and S, followed by J and S; and not long afterwards, episodes with D and N, followed by D and U respectively. It sounds like the producers knew there was potential overkill of D and S ahead, and they probably knew what they were doing.

I mean, technically speaking, it makes the episode feel more "new" beyond recycling the street scenes.