Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

[FuzzyBlue71]

Hello everyone. I rarely get on these days, but I thought I would share some info I got from a representative over at Sesame Workshop....

I emailed them quite a while ago about purchasing old episodes (somewhere I read someone was able to order them per episode, so I wrote to them), and someone actually wrote back today! Here is what they said:

I'm sorry, but, no, we are unable to release any episode in whole or part at
this time. Did you want a Sesame Street episode or a Muppet Show episode?
Even though you found this on Muppet Forum, please keep in mind that Sesame
Street and The Muppets are completely different properties. Perhaps The Jim
Henson Company will sell segments, but we do not.

However, we will be releasing a "Nostalgia Box Set" in October '06, so
perhaps the desired segment will be included on that set (a question I
cannot answer at this time).
Also, Sony Wonder is our domestic licensee for audio and home video
products. I would encourage you to visit their website where you can peruse titles and purchase
products. There are various (25th, 30th, and 35th) anniversary editions
available, which feature classic clips, as well as some "best of" titles,
which feature specific characters.

I hope this info gets other Sesame fans excited as well. Whatever it contains, I am just glad it's coming out and that it leaves doors open for more classic Sesame to come!!!

Would love to hear everyone's reactions.....

[maniacal muppet]

OMG, I'm so excited! It sounds great. Did you get anymore info on it?

[TotallySpiesFan]

Are you making this up, FuzzyBlue71?

[FuzzyBlue71]

I would NEVER make this dreamy stuff up!!! I'm a huge Muppet fan, and was so excited when I got this email today - they only other people I knew to share with was with all of you. I wish I knew more details, but this woman didn't seem to have any (or maybe couldn't dish out) more. Just the fact it's coming out is just sooooo exciting, right!!!

[ISNorden]

*drools longingly* It's times like this that I wish I had ordered a DVD drive for this computer, although watching old Sesame Street for hours on end could kill my monitor.

[FuzzyBlue71]

The old skits I have... gee, I'm glad I have them, but boy is the quality horrible! To get anything on DVD is a start. I showed my 3 year old daughter my old stuff, but the picture and sound were lousy, she was wondering what was wrong with the TV.

[Fozzie Bear]

I sould love to see a video containing things like Casey McPhee and the time he drove the train into Guy Smiley's studio!

[mikebennidict]

Well actually CM just played himself on Beat The Time and he needed something quick to rhyme with rain. Last Minute he finds a train and then that's when it happened.

[jeffkjoe]

I sould love to see a video containing things like Casey McPhee and the time he drove the train into Guy Smiley's studio!


You can already get the sketch where Cookie drives the train into Guy Smiley's studio on PLAY ALONG GAMES AND SONGS on DVD.

[zns]

This is all so exciting. :excited: If the sales on this DVD set work, maybe SW will consider releasing full episodes. One can only dream.;)

[superboober]

One thing I would have to wonder about is how many songs that might go on something like this they in fact own and which ones they'd have to clear with outside sources. Certainly the last thing any of us want to see is sketches we love edited for this reason.

[SwedishChefCook]

This is all so exciting. :excited: If the sales on this DVD set work, maybe SW will consider releasing full episodes. One can only dream.;)

Wait. I thought these were gonna be full episodes. The term Nostalgia box set sounded to me like it was gonna be a set of old episodes. Now I'm confused. What does everyone else think it's gonna be?

[Mickey Moose]

Wait. I thought these were gonna be full episodes. The term Nostalgia box set sounded to me like it was gonna be a set of old episodes. Now I'm confused. What does everyone else think it's gonna be?

From the description, it sounded to me like this will be a "best of" compilation of various skits and songs. Which actually appeals to me more than full episode DVD's, although that would be cool as well.

I guess they saw the success of the Electric Company DVD's and finally realized there is a market for classic Sesame Street on DVD. I'm anxious to see what they have in store for the content.

[Ilikemuppets]

Cool, I wonder what's going to be on the box set?

[D'Snowth]

Ah, I love a good nostalgia now and then, but sometimes they get you into trouble.

[minor muppetz]

For the last two weeks, every time I have gone to this message board, my internet connection has suddenly disconnected for some reason (I don't know why... this hasn't happened to other sites I've visited), so I am just now reading this. This is good news, especially since Sesame Workshop has said that we would probably have to wait untill 2007 for such a nostalgia set (maybe the clearances were made earlier than expected).

I wonder what will be on there, and by "nostalgia", I wonder what time period will be represented. Obviously, 1969 will be the beginning, but I wonder when Sesame Workshop considers the end of the "nostalgia" period to be.

I wonder if there will be linking segments or special features. With the recent Electric Company DVDs released, it would be good to see one of the Sesame Street/ Electric Company crossover specials as a special feature. It would be cool if one of the failed test pilots were included, but it would be even better to see the sales piece with Kermit and Rowlf.

[Grover]

It think they should try to include 10 episodes from seasons 1-3. I know Jim Henson Company owns the rights to "Sesame Street : 20 and Still Counting". I think SS Workshop should try to own the rights. Since all the other anniversarys are released.

[minor muppetz]

It think they should try to include 10 episodes from seasons 1-3. I know Jim Henson Company owns the rights to "Sesame Street : 20 and Still Counting". I think SS Workshop should try to own the rights. Since all the other anniversarys are released.

The 25th anniversary special "Sesame Street's All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Streets Forever" has not been released on any official video format, either. And I'm not sure if "A Walking Tour of Sesame Street with James Earl Jones" counts as an anniversary special or a documentary (I've heard that it was produced around the time of Sesame Street's 10th anniversary). Same with Sesame Street Unpaved.

But even though Henson owns the 20th anniversary special, there have been many DVDs with features that were owned by other companies. For example, the recent Simpsons season sets have included commercials featuring The Simpsons, and I'm sure that those commercials are owned by the companies that owned the products that were being advertized. The first season set also includes the first short from The Tracy Ullman Show, which is not owned by Fox (I've read that it took so much trouble to even get that one short on DVD that Fox chose not to release the other shorts, though thankfully the shorts are not edited from The Simpson's 135th Episode Spectacular, though how Fox was able to get some of the shorts on the videos from 1998 and 1999 I do not know). The second season of Rocky and Bullwinkle also featured some cereal commercials, which are probably owned by the company that owns that cereal brand and not the company that currently owns Bullwinkle. So if that Sesame Workshop or Sony Wonder wanted to include that special on DVD as a bonus feature, I'm sure that Henson wouldn't be too against licensing the special for a commercial release.

[minor muppetz]

I wonder if the Nostalgia Box Set will be styled after The Electric Company set or if it will be slightly different.

If this set does have complete episodes, then maybe there could be three episodes per disc, with each disc representing a season (so we'd be getting episodes from the first four seasons), and some bonus material. If the discs just include inserts, I wonder if they will be all inserts or if they will have linking footage or documentary-style introductions.

Here is what I'd like to see as features if it is in fact a release of older one-hour episodes and a four-disc set:

Disc 1:
Sesame Street Test Pilot #1
Sesame Street Sales Piece

Disc 2:
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street

Disc 3:
Julie on Sesame Street
select unaired segments

Disc 4:
public service announcements featuring Cookie Monster
all-new interviews

[doctort13]

This is great news indeed! Just in time for my daughter's second birthday too!!! :)

[JoeyMuppet]

I sould love to see a video containing things like Casey McPhee and the time he drove the train into Guy Smiley's studio!

Fozzie,last time I checked both of those clips were on youtube.com.At least the Casey McPhee one is,recently I haven't noticed that Guy Smiley sketch being on there.But who knows it might be.

[MIKEB97]

Hey guys,

I e-mailed Sesame Workshop to inquire about releasing vintage episodes on DVD and I got a response from someone named Kelly Serrian.

Here's what she wrote:


Thank you for your inquiry. As a matter of fact, yes, we are releasing
"classic" episodes, although this is something that will not happen
until
October '06.

In the meantime, we have a boxed set of The Electric Company in
February
'06, which you can order through Amazon.com, and there are plans for a
vol.
2 of The Electric Company.

Also, Sony Wonder is our domestic licensee for audio and home video
products. I would encourage you to visit their website
(http://www.sonywonder.com) where you can peruse titles and purchase
products. There are various (25th, 30th, and 35th) anniversary
editions
available, which feature classic clips, as well as some "best of"
titles,
which feature specific characters.

I hope that this has been helpful. Please do not hesitate to contact
us
with any further questions, comments, or concerns.

[Ziffel]

Well then it looks pretty encouraging for classic SS to finally hit dvd. It'll really be exciting once we see an official news release, such as on tvshowsondvd.com. Hopefully the dvds will include a lot of things not shown on Noggin's Unpaved episodes, so as to really give us a treat to look forward to.
And what's good is that I'm sure vintage SS on dvd will sell a ton of copies, thereby making it very likely for them to release further sets.

[Grover]

I'd like to see more episodes from the first season,second season, and third season episodes in this selection.Maybe a couple of episodes from seasons 4-8. I heard on a diffrent thread right hear that Kermit once was in a storyline hopefully we'll see that. I would like to see : The Baker Films 1-10, Kermit's Lectures,Ernie and Bert, Guy Smiley (Known as Sonny friendly),Up and Down, Subway, Scary monsters, and Proffesor Hastings.

DISC -1:
Bonus Feature:
Sesame Street Pitch Pilot
SS Test Pilot.

DISC- 2:
Sesame Street : 20 and Still Counting

DISC-3:
Out to Lunch

DISC-4:
Julie on Sesame Street.

[Fuzzy and Blue]

this is great news! i'd love to have some classic footage on DVD :)

~Dana~

[minor muppetz]

If the set includes complete episodes, then it would be good to see some episodes not shown on Noggin or at The Museum of Television and Radio (are there any '70s episodes there that were never shown on Noggin?). I never had Noggin, so even if all of the classics included were on Noggin I'd be seeing a lot of things that I haven't seen, but I also want this set to be great for those of you that have every episode shown on Noggin.

Maybe each disc could represent a season and have three episodes from that particular season, concentrating on the first four seasons, with the season premiers being the only episodes shown on Noggin. Or maybe the street scenes can be shown wihtout segments and more street stories would be available to us. Or maybe it will just have segments as part of the main program.

I wonder if this set will include anything from after 1979. I don't know what years Sesame Workshop is considering "nostalgic years".

[FuzzyBlue71]

I just got a chance to log on and see if anyone else responded... I'm so glad to see there are others that are so excited!! I only hope their idea of nostalgia arent the old skits they already run on Sesame Street and Play With Me Sesame. I'd like to be surprised with some wonderful memories.

[minor muppetz]

I just got a chance to log on and see if anyone else responded... I'm so glad to see there are others that are so excited!! I only hope their idea of nostalgia arent the old skits they already run on Sesame Street and Play With Me Sesame. I'd like to be surprised with some wonderful memories.

I feel the same way. Bring on skits that haven't been shown on Noggin, that haven't ever been available on any home video format, and haven't been shown on Sesame Street in the last ten years (or more). Bring on Roosevelt Franklin, Guy Smiley, Biff, Sully, and Proffessor Hastings.

[GelflingWaldo]

http://muppetnewsflash.blogspot.com/2006/05/classic-sesame-street-dvd-box-set-in.html

[BillKal]

They even give mention to a "Classic SS Box set" on the tvshowsondvd website.

[BEAR]

I do hope this actually comes through. I would be the happiest Streeter in the world!

[a_Mickey_Muppet]

I do hope this actually comes through. I would be the happiest Streeter in the world!


Meeee too! :zany:

[chpoof]

I have my fingers, eyes, and toes crossed (maybe even a couple other body parts!) that the complete, unedited first episode from 1969 is on there. Everything else would just be icing on the cake for me. :)

[Grover]

I would like to see the seasons seperated into different volumes . This would be an effective way instead of squeezing most of 1969-1990. They could also repeat the DVD set with different episodes not seen in the previous set. I purchased "Top Cat The Complete Series" what they did is they put extra episodes on the other side of the disc.Maybe SS Workshop could do that. Does anybody know Sesame Workshop's correct email adress ?

VOLUME #1: Seasons # 1 - #10 (1969-1979)
VOLUME #2: Seasons # 11- #15 (1979-1984)
VOLUME #3: Seasons # 16-#18 (1984-1987)
VOLUME #4: Seasons #19 -#22 (1987-1991)

[ssetta]

I really don't think they can do full seasons. Because, you have to remember, there used to be 130 episodes per season, except for Season 2, which has 145 for some unknown reason. I mean, if they were to put 130 episodes in one set, it would probably take up like 65 DVDs. But, yes, maybe they would just put on like some of the classic episodes from each season, similar to what Noggin did with the "Sesame Street Unpaved" series.

[Grover]

Maybe I didn't explain my message clearly enough. We could have 10 episodes from Season 1 5 Episodes on 1 side of the disc rest on the other side.

[Barry Lee]

You also have to realize the disc space, I am thinking this will be a skit dvd but hopefully some good gems and maybe have a character per disc ala "The Looney Tunes Gold Collection."

So let's say....

Disc 1: Bert & Ernie
Disc 2: Cookie Monster & Grover
Disc 3: The Cartoons and Live Action Shorts
Disc 4: The Gang

That might be a good line up, a little bit of everything.

[Erine81981]

What I think Grover is trying to say is. Why not volume sets. Other then having season sets. Volume sets. So for the first volume set.

Vol. 1 Episodes 1-10 (with Extras)
Vol. 2 Episodes 11 - 15 (with Extras)
Vol. 3 Episodes 16 - 18 (with Extras)
Vol. 4 Episodes 19 - 22 (with Extras)

Get it now! Other then trying to do the whole season set why not volume sets. That would work. Now to see if there this best of Sesame Street DVD will do good and maybe we might get a vol. set. We're all dreaming and if we keep this up maybe it might come true.

[Barry Lee]

Well that will be a hassle with the celebrities and trying to get the rights of some of the celeb characters used as well as how much dvd's will be their. I mean a whole 37 seasons on dvd? That will take years to restore and remaster.

[superboober]

If the celebrities in question are already dead, it shouldn't be as much of a problem.

[Sunrise]

It will be if they have families and estates. That actually makes it MORE difficult, tracking down everyone who should be getting a cut of the royalties.

Still, this is FABULOUS news. And in October! Just in time for the birth of my first child. :excited: A new Sesame Street fan...

[minor muppetz]

Barry Lee's idea for theme discs sound sgood. Let me list what I would like to see if hislist for themes does get made:


Disc 1: Bert & Ernie
Ernie calls his bathtub "rosie"
Everybody Wash
The Banana Sketch
Cookie Monster tells Ernie that he is on a diet
Feeling Good/ Feeling Bad
Lefty tries to sell Ernie a snowman
Rubber Duckie (original version as seen in the test pilot)
The Blackout
The Rhyming Game
Pigeons on Parade (unless this was just included on records)
Bert dreams that he is an ice skater
Ernie doesn't think he is special
Caveman Days: Bert invents the window
Ernie can't find Bert at the beach
Here Fishy Fishy Fishy
Ernie replaces Bert's ice cream with a smushed banana with gravy
Ernie puts a button knob on Bert's stomache

Disc 2: Cookie Monster & Grover
I Whistle a Happy Tune
C is For Cookie
Proud of Me
Grover and The Rowboats
Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
Grover the waiter: The Count
Grover attempts to sell Kermit a pair of earmuffs
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Kermit's Rectangle Lecture
Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
Sesame Street News: The Princess and The Cookie
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot talk about the letter M
Super Grover: Broken Grocery Bag
Grover the Waiter: Alphabet Soup
The Cookie Bunny
Beat the Time: Grover
Near and Far
Cookie Monster and The Count count and eat cookies
The differences between Ernie and Cookie Monster
Kermit and Grover demonstrate near and far

Disc 3: The Cartoons and Live Action Shorts
Let's Sing a Song of One
Two Toucan Two-Steps
Jazzy Spies #3
The Number Painter #4
Pinball Number Count #5
Queen of Six
The Alligator King
Penny Candy Man
The Typewriter Guy: A
B: Banana and Broccolli
It's Alright to Cry
Buddy and Jim make a peanut butter sandwhich
Alice Bratwait Goodyshoes talks about through
That's About the Size of It
Teeny Little Superguy: Pet Spoon
Madrical Alphabet
any Ralph and Wally sketch
The Nobel Ostrich
Keep On Truckin'

Disc 4: The Gang

I've Got Two (if this was actually performed on the show)
Wheels on my Feet
I Love Trash
The People in Your Neighborhood
Ernie keeps Bert waiting outside the apartment
Rosevelt Franklin's Alphabet
Beat the Time: The Count
Sesame Street News: Cinderella at the Ball
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Ernie and the apple
The Cursed Prince
Herry and John John count to 20
My Pollywog Ways
Nobody (if this exists as a segment on the show)
Headball
We Coulda
Grover the Waiter: Hamburger
Some of us are here
Subway
The Golden An

[muppet maniac]

I think this is really great news.

But one thing Im wondering about: how many episodes per season did they make each year?

Mostly, I would like to see more clips of the orange Oscar. :grouchy:

[Narpin]

This is GREAT news! I'd love to see complete uncut episodes organized by year. Maybe choose the best two episodes from each season and cover the first ten years (making a total of 20 episodes. )

Or maybe Sesame Street: The best of the 70s featuring the 25 best episodes from 69-79. If it sells they could follow it up with The Best of the 80s featuring 20 episodes from 1980 - 1989.

[Aldi]

I'm hoping that the box set will include:

-all the classic filmed bits, including all of the "Jazzy spies" counting clips, letter E (the Queen watching the Easter Egg), letter O (goat eating potatoes and soap), "A loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter", the "falling baker" counting clips, the Joe Raposo song clips ("Take a bweath", "there's a bird on me"), etc...

- all of Ernie & Bert's classic sketches (the ones voiced by Jim)

- bits featuring every single character from the show (Mr. Hooper, Sam the Robot, etc)

Any other ideas/ wish lists?

[BWSmith]

Speaking as someone who owns about 20 of the Noggin episodes, I think that the choice of format is going to be very, very important.

I watch Sesame Street for only two reasons - (a) to get my nostalgia fix and (b) to entertain and educate my preschool children.

Within that context, each format has its pros and cons:

a) Complete Episodes
pros: uncensored & unedited, preserves segment context
cons: too many episodes, too many "repeat" segments

b) Themed Compilations
pros: efficient space use, viewer can purchase what they want
cons: removes episode context, obsure sketches can be omitted

comments:
Having gotten my "nostalgia" fix when the Unpaved episodes came out, I now find myself hitting the FF button a lot when I show them to my kids.

Whether it's because of the boring live-action skits in the first few seasons or protracted filler like "driving around in Hawaii in a pickup truck" or "Buffy washing a baby for 7 minutes straight", there is much material in Sesame Street that isn't worth watching more than once or twice.

The flip side is the gems hidden inside these complete episodes that are consistently cut out by SW when they do their home video releases. Complete episodes seem to be the only way to guarantee access to censored characters like Roosevelt Franklin or erased actors like David or contemporary "yellow submarine" animation styles or 1970's archaic technology, clothing styles, and language.

Further, in both their home video releases and especially Play With Me Sesame, SW tends to edit & alter classic segments in ways that sometimes improves them (like the Frazzle segment in Elmo Says Boo), but more often makes them less appealing (like adding a babbling, dancing Grover in the background). I hope that they won't get the editing bug on these DVDs, but it won't surprise me at all to see more recent muppets and voices digitally added.

It's also apparent from watching something loud and fast like "Alphabet Jungle" or hodgepodge like "Sing, Hoot, and Howl" or strictly themed like the "Best of Ernie and Bert" that a big part of the charm of SS lies in the contextual mix of the episode itself. I can't put my finger on it, but somehow Ernie and Bert, for example, are a lot funnier when mixed in between non-Muppet content than when they are strung together in one large segment. (The worst offender in this regard was "Cookie Monster's Best Bites" where the format itself exposed just how one-dimensional his character was.)

Another problem with chopping up episodes into individual themed pieces is the problem of their short length. When I show my kids the Schoolhouse Rock DVD, I can't go to the bathroom and back before the segment is over and I need to pick something else from the menu. Many SS segments will be less than a minute long, so I can imagine the DVD menu being very large...

All in all, the best of both worlds will be to mix complete episodes with strings of themed material on each disk. I just hope that the "complete episodes" that they pick don't all turn out to be the ones most of us have already traded from Noggin (but you take what you can get...)

[Andrew T]

I'm overwhelmingly in favor of releasing complete shows: The various skits and segments, street scenes, and the opening and closing sequences of the shows all contribute to provide a unified, vital experience that would be great to preserve for posterity and provide a record of how the structure of the show evolved over time. To a degree some individual segments have already been released on video in various forms, and we probably don't need much more of that.

As for episode selection: I feel that it's probable that a "best of" set would follow the precident of the Electric Company set and compile the most well-known and pivotal episodes from the show's run (i.e., the first episode; Mr. Hooper's death; the revelation of Snuffleupagus), that of course did appear on Noggin earlier.

I've never seen any of the episodes in question before, though, so I don't mind, and even so there are several minutes of content in the master videotapes that was edited out for Noggin.

Hopefully, a Sesame Street boxed set would be uncut, right down to the PBS (or in the case of the first season, NET) logos at the end. :smirk:

[Grover]

I would rather see complete uncut episodes. If you think about it the segments would be repeated over and over. They should release classic episodes then release a $10.00 discs featuring various segments.Here is what I would do.


VOLUME #1 -THE BEST OF KERMIT AND GROVER
1. Kermit’s “W” Lecture.
2. I Whistle a Happy Tune.
3. Being Green.
4. Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover: Over and Under.
5. Newsflash: Cinderella at the Ball.
6. Beat the Time: Grover.
7. Kermit and Grover: Long and Short.
8. Grover Spreads Herry’s Alphabet Secret.
9. Kermit Hosts a Twiddlebug Party.
10. Grover’s Boat Trip.
11. Kermit and Grover: Here and there.
12. Grover the Waiter: Simon Soundman.
13. Newsflash: Hickory Dickory Dock
14. Near and Far.
15. Newsflash: Rapunzle.
16. Grover and Kermit: Heavy and Light.
17. Kermit demonstrates between.
18. Super Grover: Bus Stop.
19. Kermit and Grover Build a Snowman.
20. Grover the Elevator Operator: In and Out.


VOLUME #2 - THE BEST OF ERNIE AND BERT


Everybody Wash
Rubber Duckie
Two Of Everything
Ernie’s Barber Shop
If I Knew You Were Coming I Would’ve Baked a Cake.
Ernie’s Sandbox Game
Ernie has a Banana in his ear.
Ernie & Bert share pizza and grape juice
Ernie borrows Herbert Birdsfoot’s vacuum.
Lefty and Ernie: Stop Sign
At the beach - Ernie can't find Bert; Sherlock Hemlock helps
Ernie doesn’t feel Special.
Ernie Makes Bert wear a pot on his head.
Ernie throws a Surprise Party for Bert.
E&B at the movies: Ernie gets emotional
Block Pyramid
Robin Hood (Ernie) Auditions For Merry Men
Ernie’s sculpture of Bert
Ernie Calls Oscar during a blackout
Ernie's Rhyming Game.

[nickcoffee12]

the letter o song with the goat and the e with the easter egg
is on your tube

[GelflingWaldo]

But one thing Im wondering about: how many episodes per season did they make each year?

Season 01: 130 episodes
Season 02: 144 episodes
Season 03: 129 episodes
Season 04: 129 episodes
Season 05: 129 episodes
Season 06: 129 episodes
Season 07: 129 episodes
Season 08: 129 episodes
Season 09: 129 episodes
Season 10: 129 episodes
Season 11: 129 episodes
Season 12: 129 episodes
Season 13: 129 episodes
Season 14: 129 episodes
Season 15: 129 episodes
Season 16: 129 episodes
Season 17: 129 episodes
Season 18: 128 episodes
Season 19: 129 episodes
Season 20: 129 episodes
Season 21: 129 episodes
Season 22: 129 episodes
Season 23: 129 episodes
Season 24: 129 episodes
Season 25: 129 episodes
Season 26: 129 episodes
Season 27: 129 episodes
Season 28: 129 episodes
Season 29: 129 episodes
Season 30: 064 episodes
Season 31: 064 episodes
Season 32: 064 episodes
Season 33: 049 episodes
Season 34: 025 episodes
Season 35: 025 episodes
Season 36: 025 episodes
Season 37: 025 episodes
Total: 4,134 episodes

It would take over 172 days of non-stop viewing to see them all.

[minor muppetz]

Season 01: 130 episodes
Season 02: 144 episodes
Season 03: 129 episodes
Season 04: 129 episodes
Season 05: 129 episodes
Season 06: 129 episodes
Season 07: 129 episodes
Season 08: 129 episodes
Season 09: 129 episodes
Season 10: 129 episodes
Season 11: 129 episodes
Season 12: 129 episodes
Season 13: 129 episodes
Season 14: 129 episodes
Season 15: 129 episodes
Season 16: 129 episodes
Season 17: 129 episodes
Season 18: 128 episodes
Season 19: 129 episodes
Season 20: 129 episodes
Season 21: 129 episodes
Season 22: 129 episodes
Season 23: 129 episodes
Season 24: 129 episodes
Season 25: 129 episodes
Season 26: 129 episodes
Season 27: 129 episodes
Season 28: 129 episodes
Season 29: 129 episodes
Season 30: 064 episodes
Season 31: 064 episodes
Season 32: 064 episodes
Season 33: 049 episodes
Season 34: 025 episodes
Season 35: 025 episodes
Season 36: 025 episodes
Season 37: 025 episodes
Total: 4,134 episodes

It would take over 172 days of non-stop viewing to see them all.

I just realised something. At the Muppet Wiki, it has been pointed out in the season pages for Sesame Streetthaat there were many episodes repeated in later seasons, but with the on-screen number changed (and I think some of these repeats had some segments replaced). It seemed common for the 24-27th seasons to do this. So technically, there are a lot less episodes than we think due to some renumbering.

[AndyWan Kenobi]

I only just found this thread, but I would buy a Sesame nostaligia set (more than one, actually), no matter what the format. Maybe there could be some kind of compromise, like skit compilations for the most part, with certain "landmark" episodes thrown in as bonus features in their entirety. Like the pilot, the introduction of major characters, weddings, births, deaths, special guest appearances by droids from a galaxy far, far away. Stuff like that...

:)

[Drtooth]

It's absolutely amazing that so many things I've been waiting for to be released on DVD have comne out (or are coming out) this year.

Muppet show season one
Dinosaurs
Ducktales
ALF and ALFTALES the animated series
Fat Albert
Inspector Gadget
Fraggle Rock
... Shell, even Darkwing Duck and The Tick are supposed to be released.

(only things I still am waiting for, 1980's Kinnikuman in a subtitled R1 format, Rocko's Modern Life, Captain N, and a season by season Box set version of the new TMNT)

But Classic SS? The holy grail pipe dream of Muppet Fandom? And not just 1 or 2 extras on a DVD? I'm speachless.

I would like to see episodes uncut as well, but I doubt that would be able to happen. I feel that a Best of certian years collection would work... maybe 6 episodes (double sided disks?) per decade? Plus a collection of other most requested skits.

Or maybe a few epsiodes, and best of skits or something from an allotted decade by decade set.

There's so many possibilities. Maybe even release a single disk of Best of SS animators, with works by Sally Cruikshank, Mo Willems, John R. Dilworth, etc.

There's just so many possibilities for this set. Let's just all try to consider the different ways it can be presented, so we don't wind up disappointed.

[The Count]

Um GelflingWaldo... Where did you get those seasonal episode totals?
Cause... by what you posted 129 times 26, 64 times 3, 25 times 4, added with 130, 144 and 128 only add up in my calculator to 4097... When there've been 4108 episodes.
And those last four seasons... Me thinks that's wrong cause SS has been airing a total of 26 episodes per season so each letter gets featured as an episode's sponsor.
Just pointing this out, hope it helps.

[Andrew T]

GelflingWaldo was close: The actual totals are 130 episodes for seasons 1 and 3-29, 145 for 2, 65 for 30-32, 50 for 33, and 26 from 34-present. That's 4108 episodes altogether.

For fun, here are some calculations I made for my own amusement: If a typical pre-1998 season of Sesame Street was compiled in its entirety for a DVD release, the resulting set would probably be 44 discs long and cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $350.00. A complete set of all episodes would involve 1,391 DVDs and a price tag of about $11,000. ;)

[Grover]

What would work in my opinion is a set of 5 discs representing each season or certain episodes on a disc. The fifth disc could have bonus features and etc.

Here are my ideas for Bonus Features:

Sesame Street Pitch Pilot
Sesame Street Test Pilot.
Sesame Street : 20 Years and Still Counting
A Tribute to Jim Henson

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Classic "Sesame" on DVD?!? FINALLY!!

I would actually prefer "clip compilations" as opposed to full episodes---because I want as much material as I can get my hands on! :D More songs, more skits, Muppets galore! (and besides, there are just soooooooooooooo many episodes...)

I sure hope they do put some classic obscure ones on DVD like "The D Song (Daddy Dear oh Daddy Dear)", one of my all-time favorites. And great Count material too!

[minor muppetz]

I sure hope they do put some classic obscure ones on DVD like "The D Song (Daddy Dear oh Daddy Dear)", one of my all-time favorites. And great Count material too!

That skit is already available as a bonus segment on the All-Star Alphabet DVD.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Oo, thanks for the heads-up, minor...I'll remember that as a "just in case".

I also REALLY hope they include my favorite live-action-filmed song ever, "We All Sing With the Same Voice"! :D

[zns]

These are the clips that I'd like to see:

- Big Bird Meets Little Bird
- On My Pond
- Frogs In The Glen
- Monsterpiece Theater: Gone With The Wind
- Monsterpiece Theater: The Sound of Music
- ABC-DEF-GHI (70's version)
- You Say Hola (Maria and Luis)
- All of the Baker skits
- All of the Jazzy Spies skits
- Air ( Bip Bipodota)
- I Want A Monster To Be My Friend (original version)
- Listen To The Bells
- Meet Me at the Bustop
- Ernie and Herry at the Carnival
- Captain Vegetable
- Bad Bart Comes to Town
- What's My Part? : Foot
- Any skits with Prof. Hastings and Kermit
- The Amazing Mumford and his Amazing Pineapple Subtraction Trick
- Ernie Dusts the Shelf
- The Queen of Six
- Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet

[minor muppetz]

Oo, thanks for the heads-up, minor...I'll remember that as a "just in case".

I also REALLY hope they include my favorite live-action-filmed song ever, "We All Sing With the Same Voice"! :D

For another "just in case", that song is included on two different DVDs: Sing Along and We All Sing Together. Of course, on Sing Along it is obviously edited (the cast sings it in the linking footage before transitioning into the song), but that DVD is worht watching anyway, as it features Biff and Sully in a big role, and all of the skits are from the 1970s (including Rubber Duckie, Sing, Sing Aftter Me, and Doin' the Pigeon). I haven't seen the other DVD, but somehow I have a feeling that it's mediocre. I haven't seen many reviews or comments for it, and I know what songs are included, but am not familiar with most of them. I have a feeling that most of the skits are boring film segments.

[Ringlet]

This is gonna be so cool. And my birthday is in October so there's a bonus for me. :)

I would like to see a compilation of the *best* skits but since my *best* may be different, my vote goes to uncut episodes.

Besides, I may have missed or forgotten some since I was a kid and I would want the joy of rediscovering them.

[Zet]

Well this announcement is good news however you look at it:).

As far as complete episodes vs. "compilations" - for me I'd have to go with the compilations.
Complete is usually the norm when I want to collect a favorite series, no question. I understand that "uncut episodes" are a must whenever the option is there, and original opening/closings are a must.
But S.S. is a special case. The reason for the S.S. exception is a good one: there's too much stuff I want, from about 10 years of shows.

If the goal here is admittedly nostalgia, the thing about complete episodes is they devote so much time to the street scenes. To me, the street scenes are like a day at school for kids vs. a field trip. Both educational, but the field trips are more likely to be memorable overall due to their nature. Everyone involved with the street scenes was filling a broad canvas for every single episode, so it's completely unrealistic to expect memorable moments on a daily basis. Oh and did I mention the fact that the street scenes weren't repeated, vs. other segments being repeated *on purpose*? Way greater chance for being remembered (nostalgia).
Like BWSmith said: 7 minutes of Buffy washing a baby? How many people are nostalgic for that particular scene, vs. 7 different Bert and Ernie clips (or 7 different live/animated films, Muppets etc...) filling that time, that people are much more likely to remember? So that's what I'm trying to say about time...the complete episodes seem to benefit mainly the people that want most of the time devoted to street scenes. Yes, I do enjoy seeing my beloved 70's street actors, Big Bird, Oscar, Snuffy etc... but I'd rather pick some of their finer moments.

Since I have no idea how many discs we'll see, space is a factor and I'd rather take my chances on compilations. Using animation as an example, that's maybe two hours of material (give or take), with each film being a minute or less. Taking into account material that I don't personally consider "classic" or "vintage" (or simply don't care for), I'll probably get lots of famous goodies (even though I've seen them on Noggin), and possibly some I want that were never shown on Noggin.

Another thing is that if compilations are released and they are really successful as "samplers", then S.S. can always be released as complete episodes to meet the demand for as many years as it takes, that would suit me fine;)

Since others are offering suggestions for the set, this is one possible scenario:

Disc 1: Muppets (non-street)
Disc 2: Animation
Disc 3: Films and Songs (non-street)
Disc 4: Street Scenes (at least one for all regular actors & muppets that appeared...also maybe special guests i.e. Stevie)
Disc 5: Selected Episodes (complete...i.e. Mr. Hooper dies, Stevie, etc...)

* re: disc 3 - this disc could combine classic live films and series (i.e. Appalachian mailman, Vivaldi flower, Frank Oz wire track, Baker series, Painter series, etc...) with classic songs (mostly set to films anyway, i.e. Raposo, nature films).

One disc of complete episodes would be nice, but not at the expense of the compilations IMO. Also representing alternate opening/closings on these might be something to consider.
Supplementary material of course could take up a LOT of space quickly, if that was considered (and commentary from some of the artists involved would be fantastic....wait, can we do 6 discs? No 7...just 7...).:D

Of course all this could be fleshed out much more, very easily, but without knowing how many discs in set it's a reasonable guess.
Ok I'll shut up now!
-Zet

[doctort13]

I'll buy this DVD no matter what they include. I hope that the very first episode is included, uncut of course. :grouchy:

[chpoof]

I'll buy this DVD no matter what they include. I hope that the very first episode is included, uncut of course. :grouchy:

Me too!!!:D

[Barry Lee]

Okay here's my idea...

Disc 1- Bert & Ernie (1969-1973) 25 skits from those years.
Bonus Episode: Episode #1
Bonus Feature: Introduction by Joan Ganz Cooney
Disc 2- Animation & Live Action Songs and Skits
Bonus Feature: Sesame Street Pitch Tape
Disc 3- Cookie Monster, Grover and The Monsters: This includes 25 skits from 1969-1979.
Bonus Feature: Grover (performed by Eric Jacobson) interviews Frank Oz
Bonus Episode: Mr. Hooper's Death
Disc 4- This disc will include guest appearances and muppet skits featuring Roosevelt Franklin, The Monsters, Songs and more.
Bonus Feature: Cast Interviews (Their favorite moments and memories)

So the set could have up to 100 skits all together. I don't think Sesame specials should be bonus features

[Lone Wolf]

This is great news indeed.

My only regret is that I think we can probably assume we won't see any skits with Kermit included in this compilation, due to the legal rights involved when releasing something on DVD. Yes, I know that Noggin aired classic eps with Kermit in them. But the rights for broadcast are different from those regarding DVD releases.

But I certainly won't mind if I'm proven wrong. :)

[Lone Wolf]

As for myself, I'd like to see a combination of uncut episodes and compilations -- plus a good amount of bonus footage like "behind the scenes" or interviews with cast, creators and other prominent players in the show. I think certain episodes should be shown uncut, like the debut episode from 1969 as well as others that represent certain milestones in the show's history like the death of Mr. Hooper, both introductions of the Snuffleupagus, 1971 and 1985 etc.

One things for certain though, even with one set they can't possibly satisfy all the fans completely. BUT...if this one sells successfully, then it's not beyond the realm of possibility that SW might produce more than one of these compilations. But that depends on how well it does on the market. For that reason, I'd encourage everyone to go out and buy their own permanent copy, rather than just renting it at your local video store. Millions of people buying it will send an unmistakeable message to SW loud and clear.

But for some reason I feel like I'm preaching to the choir here! ;)

[Grover]

I think they should have two discs featuring complete uncut episodes. I would have the remaining discs feauring skits without linking footage with The SS Muppets. That way we could have two discs featuring new material and no repeated skits. They should have a "Tribute to Jim Henson" without him and Joan Canz Cooney SS would never have happened.

They could have Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Jane Henson,Brian Henson, Kevin Clash, Martian Robinson, Steve Whitmire and tons of others mentioing how it was working with him also Jim's infulence in puppeteering and they could use certain clips of Guy Smiley, Kermit, Ernie, Bip Bippadotta.

[doctort13]

I would like to see as much behind-the-scenes footage as possible. Perhaps I am a little too interested in "Sesame", and "peaking behind the curtain" would prove to be boring to the average viewer.

We shall see...

[BooberFanMe]

Hello, everyone. This is my first post. I am very psyched about the new Sesame Street DVD. :) It will be great to see Mr. Hooper and David again. I sincerely hope that my favorite Sesame Street muppet will be represented. I miss Roosevelt Franklin! I loved his skit as a very young child - Sesame Street and I are the same age, and have grown up together. A couple of years ago, I bid on ebay for a Roosevelt Franklin puppet, but was outbid while I was at work. :sympathy: As an English teacher, I don't want October to show up too soon. But, if I can only buy then, then I'll have to be patient. Take care, everyone.

[doctort13]

"peaking behind the curtain"


I meant "peeking"

Sorry:)

[trevrook]

A while back they were playing "Sesame Street" unpaved on Noggin. I wonder if the DVD will consist of the handful of episodes they played there or will they offer more? I heard the Electric Co. is coming out with a Volume 2 set. I hope this trend carries over to the old Sesame Streets.

[minor muppetz]

I don't think Sesame specials should be bonus features


I feel like I both agree and disagree.

There were quite a few Sesame Street specials produced in the 1970s, but out of those specials, only Christmas Eve on Sesame Street has been officially released on video and DVD (and as far as I know, it's the only one that's been rebroadcast). I am not sure if there is any reason for the others not being released. I have read that a lot of fans don't like A Special Sesame Street Christmas (though I've heard that it was actually nominated for an emmy), and I'm not sure if any of the specials would be considered dated or not. A Special Sesame Street Christmas and Julie on Sesame Street both featured a lot of copyrighted songs, so I am not sure if there are any copyright problems with those. Of course, it seems like a lot of recent Sesame Street DVDs used celebrities as a selling point, and both of those specials feature celebrities.

There was a special called Out to Lunch, which was a crossover between Sesame Street and The Electric Company. That special would make a good feature for either the nostalgia box set or The Best of The Electric Company Vol. 2.

Out of the Sesame Street specials from the 1970s, I feel like Julie on Sesame Street would have the best chances of being released on it's own DVD. But I could be wrong.

[The Whatevers]

Is this the greatest news EVER or what?

[superboober]

What I would really like are interviews with anyone connected with the show's early years who's still alive to give descriptions on how certain characters and sketches evolved they way they did (e.g., while there seems to be several strong theories on how Don Music was retired, I'd be interested in knowing how he came about in the first place). If they still have the original unaired pilots, the ones with a real street that cut away to the muppets that test audiences fell asleep watching, I'd love to see them. Perhaps we could get some commentary on how Kermit came to be on the show in the first place and his subsequent brief disappearance and reappearance (since I'm told Sesame Workshop has the rights to show vintage Kermit footage, this shouldn't be too much of a problem with copyrights). They could also run faturettes on those deceased key personnel; I'd enjoy seeing retrospectives on Joe Raposo and Jon Stone, among others. And if they have any behind the scenes footage of tapes in those days that are still holding together, that would be a plus as well. There's probably more I'll think of down the line. :p

[minor muppetz]

If any existing specials get included as features, I think that the following specials would be best to include as a feature:

Julie on Sesame Street
Out to Lunch
The Grover Monster/ Jean Marsh Cartoon Special
Sesame Street at Night?
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sing: The Songs of Joe Raposo
Sesame Street Unpaved

[CommanderD]

**** yes! I've been waiting for an announcement like this! :D

[JoeyMuppet]

I also REALLY hope they include my favorite live-action-filmed song ever,
"We All Sing With the Same Voice"! :D

That film is one of my older sister's favorites too.

[superboober]

My mother would always go nuts and sing along with that song, which would drive me crazy.

[MJTaylor]

All I can say is it's about bloody time! It better come out in Aus. too.
Whatever they put on this set is fine by me so long as they include the first ever episode in its entirely.
I remember Fozzie Bear saying elsewhere that people from Sesame Workshop (and other production companies) read these forums so I guess our suggestions will be taken into consideration by the powers that be at SW.

[minor muppetz]

All I can say is it's about bloody time! It better come out in Aus. too.
Whatever they put on this set is fine by me so long as they include the first ever episode in its entirely.
I remember Fozzie Bear saying elsewhere that people from Sesame Workshop (and other production companies) read these forums so I guess our suggestions will be taken into consideration by the powers that be at SW.

Whether or not the people in charge read these forums does not mean that we will get exactly what we want. After all, the people at palisades read this forum diuring the time that the Muppet action figures were in production, and while several suggestions were taken, there were also a lot of things (both figure-wise and accessory-wise) that fans asked for that were not made.

[Barry Lee]

If any existing specials get included as features, I think that the following specials would be best to include as a feature:

Julie on Sesame Street
Out to Lunch
The Grover Monster/ Jean Marsh Cartoon Special
Sesame Street at Night?
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
A Walking Tour of Sesame Street
Sing: The Songs of Joe Raposo
Sesame Street Unpaved

Almost all the songs from Julie On Sesame are copyrighted. So that would be hard but the Out To Lunch would be great along with A Walking Tour of Sesame Street for at least the first box set.

[Drtooth]

I'd say I'd rather see more muppet and Animated segments than any boring filmed sketches about picking green beans, or flowers in the rain with classical music. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.:sleep:

[minor muppetz]

I have thought of a somewhat clever way to arrange the set. Let me know what you think of this arrangemnt:

Disc 1: Complete Shows (2-4 complete, uncut hour-long episodes, maybe they can be the first four season premiers. Of course, that could allow the disc to be called "The start of the seasons")
Disc 2: The Best of the Street Stories (8-12 episodes edited to only include the street segments, and possibly some inserts that are vital/ connected to the episodes in some way)
Disc 3: The Best of the Inserts (2-4 hours of non-stop inserts)
Disc 4: Bonus Features (the title speaks for itself)

[DTWolf]

ONE: Initially my response was that I want complete episodes only, but reading this thread has swayed me to the idea of having some complete episodes PLUS individual segments by theme--since there's so much we all want to see, and no way in the imaginable future we'll be getting complete seasons. I hate taking skits out of context, but--lots of them were repeated in new contexts anyway, and if they're not pulled out of episodes they may never make it to DVD.

TWO: Somewhere in this thread, like page 3 or so, there were comments about getting permission to release celebrity appearances on disk. Am I just being naive to think that celebrities would've waived all rights to down-the-road royalties/permissions when they agreed to be on the show? The way I hear it, celebrities were practically begging to get on Sesame Street. It's not like CTW went out and pleaded with them, "We'll give you this and this if you'll just be on the show!" And it was an educational program on a publically-owned network, a not-for-profit venture. Surely these appearances were something akin to charity in most cases?

Music rights are one thing, but walking on stage and talking to a Muppet is something else entirely.

[rollingchild]

I would like to have the Sesame Street Skit, the Count Counts 4 Kids On A Yellow Tumbling Mat (as seen on Sesame Street Episode 1093) on Classic Sesame coming to DVD October 2006 because I like gymnastics via rolling on the tumbling mat. I currently have a copy of the Count Counts 4 Kids On A Yellow Tumbling Mat on VHS taped from Noggin for personal use from Sesame Street Episode 1093 Hawaii Day. In addition, I would like to have The Count Counts Dancing Kids on that, DVD too.

David Ho
rollingchild

[JEANYLASER]

i can't wait.

[zns]

None of us can. ;)

[MJTaylor]

Whether or not the people in charge read these forums does not mean that we will get exactly what we want. After all, the people at palisades read this forum diuring the time that the Muppet action figures were in production, and while several suggestions were taken, there were also a lot of things (both figure-wise and accessory-wise) that fans asked for that were not made.
That may be so Minor Muppetz, but my point was that at least if the folks at SW read this forums they would know what we want and consider our ideas. As I have said before, I really hope that episode 1 appears in its uncut glory, but I must say, the other people who have posted on this thread certainly have some good ideas.

[FuzzyBlue71]

Is it October yet?

[minor muppetz]

Is it October yet?

No, not yet. ;)

[Erine81981]

Yea if it was October. We would see goblins, witches, ghost, devils and all sorts of spooky stuff. Don't worry. I'll be dressed as a scary monster and then you will know that it's October. Can't wait! Come on October! We need you! (a little kidding)

[The Count]

Ah yes... October, my favorite time of year.
Personally, I'm hoping for complete uncut episodes... But I understand arguments for the other options as well.

[Oliver]

WOW!!!WOW!!!WOW!!!


I haven't posted in months but this is the best news I've heard in a long while!!!


In addition to all the sketches listed, I reeeally hope we get to see the Don Music / News Reporter Kermit sketch where Don is composing the theme to Sesame Street on the piano but can't get the words right and Kermit attempts to help him out. They try a variation of things like "how to get to... the public library, the zoo, etc" and finally settle on Yellowstone Park. Than just as Kermit leaves, he turns back and says "by the way, could yould you please tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?" and Don looks directly at the camera as the 'wah wah' music cues in, and he smashes his head down several times on the piano keys.

I also hope we get to see the Sinister Sam sketch where he comes in to the saloon wanting to know who bought the last pack of crayons, and also the cowboy Grover sketch with Buster the horse where Grover keeps trying to jump on his back and Buster keeps moving away and Grover ends up falling on his face.

Also, Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Steps (hillarious Hitchcock parody!).


And lots of Grover The Waiter and Blue Man sketches, but particularly the one where Grover has to do a Mexican salsa dance each time he brings the Blue Man's food and he ends up spilling and trampling all over it.

Also lots of Singing Telegram Grover.


The Prarie Dawn school play with all the monsters and Gladys The Cow, etc. I think it was about the four seasons. And in winter, snow falls all over the stage, etc.


I reeeally hope we see Teeny Little Super Guy!!!

Also a couple of Lefty The Salesman skits.


And Guy Smiley's "Beat That Time" gameshow with the count, where he has 30 seconds or something to bring something from the sky into the studio. And the count just keeps on counting down until he reaches zero and thunder and lightning come down. He wins the prize and for his wish, he asks for another 30 seconds.


The one with Cookie Monster also, where he needs to find words that rhyme. I don't remember the whole sketch but there was a really funny part where Cookie Monster yells cowabunga and starts eating parts of the set I think.


I also hope we see lots of Ernie & Bert skits, especially the one where they go to the beach and Ernie forgets all his beach items except for one thing. Bert lectures him on being prepared and goes through everything he's brought trying to figure out the one thing Erbie remembered. Than a thunder cloud appears and lighting cracks and Ernie looks at Bert and pulls out an umbrella and Bert sits there staring at Ernie looking annoyed as he gets soaked.


And my favorite Ernie & Bert sketch where Bert comes into the room to find a single cookie sitting on the table. He asks Ernie what it's doing there and Ernie responds by saying that cookies remind him of circles. After further inquiry Ernie reveals that circles remind him of squares. Bert delves deeper into the confusing mystery of the lone cookie on the table only to find out that squares remind Ernie of checkers which reminds him of games. Bert reluctantly asks him to continue and we find out that games remind Ernie of football, why... because they always play music at football games. Ernie than proceeds to place a football helmet on his head. Bert begins to grow frustrated and demands to know what football and music have to do with the cookie on the table. Ernie responds, that music reminds him of bells and bells remind him of his alarm clock. He than places his alarm cloack on the table... Why? Because when the alarm rings, it reminds Ernie that it's time to eat his cookie. He than thanks Bert as he stuffs it into his mouth and cue... wabba wabba wabba... pan to exhausted Bert mugshot closeup, and than collapse... end segment.


Also the skecth where Bert tells Ernie not to eat cookies in his bed so Ernie takes his plate of cookies and climbs into Bert's bed. The skit where Ernie can't get to sleep so he starts counting sheep and they run wild in the room and keep Bert up all night. The sketch where Bert is trying to read and Ernie keeps tagging him and saying he's "it", and the one where Bert's brother Bart comes to visit. I one the sandbox... I eight the sandbox. ;)


Also the E&B sketch where Ernie paints Bert's portrait with big messy hair, glasses and a big beard. Bert starts yelling at Ernie when he sees the finnished painting and says Ernie ruined his whole day. Ernie tells Bert not to worry and that he'll fix it so that the painting will look just like him. Bert says okay and steps behind the canvas. Than we hears ome shuffling and yelling and Bert comes out with a big messy wig, glasses and a huge beard.


Aaand the similar sketch where Ernie is sculpting a statue of Bert but forgets the nose. When he realizes what he forgot and finds out he's out of clay, he tells Bert to come closer and proceeds to pull off his nose and stick it on the statue.


The one where Ernie eats Bert's last piece of chocolate cake and tries to deny it and says a monster came in and ate the cake and framed him. Bert gets aggravated and walks away and than in comes a big blue monster and sits down next to him and takes his fork and napkin.


The skecth where Bert buys his aunt Matilda and hat with a veil and flowers on top and Ernie thinks it's for him and tries to guess what's inside. Bert keeps trying to tell Ernie and than Ernie decides to just go ahead and open it up. He looks at the hat and says he's really surprised. Bert tells him that his aunt Matilda will be too and Ernie asks Bert if he also bought her one of these hats.

And the one where Bert is reading a book called "Boring Stories" and Ernie keeps bothering him with a disguise kit that he got by going out into the hall and knocking ont he door and pretending to be someone else. Bert gets aggravated by Ernie's ridiculous disguises like Little Red Riding Hood with a beard and calls him a fool. Than the someone knocks ont he door again and it's the big bad wolf. Bert tells him that's his ugliest disguise yet and starts making fun of him. Meanwhile Ernie walks into the room behind Bert and they realize it's the real wolf, who than proceeds to chase Bert all around the apartment trying to eat him.

Also the skit where Ernie and Bert go fishing and Ernie tells Bert he can catch fish without a pole by calling them. He starts screaming "Heeeere fishy fishy fishy!!!!" and fish start jumping into the boat. Bert tries but can't seem to get it to work. Finally he gets so frustrated he starts to scream and a huge green fish plops out of the water and sticks his nose in Bert's face and says "You called?"

And finally, the skit where Bert dreams of ice skating at night.


I also hope we get all the classic songs... The Beetles 'Letter B', The Rubber Ducky song and Put Down The Ducky, The Telephone Rock, etc.

Also the sketch where Cookie Monster wishes he could eat the moon and everything becomes dark.

And all the great Sesame News Flashes with Kermit The Frog; especially Peter Piper's Pickled Peppers, Little Miss Muffet, Rumplestiltskin, The Big Cow Jump, The Three Little Pigs and The Tortoise Vs. The Hare skits!


And of course, all the classic cartoons segments!

[Oliver]

PS - I wonder if there'll be any Special Features?


It would be great if they included all the classic SS Specials as bonuses on this and any future volumes so that we could have one definitive package.

All the Big Bird travel specials as well as Dont Eat The Pictures and The Christmas special. Also the 20th Anniversary hosted by Bill Cosby and even the pilot episode!

[JoeyMuppet]

I also remember & like that Sinister Sam sketch.

[The Count]

Couple of things Oliver, just to help you out.
The Beat The Time sketch where my namesake appeared featured a clock counting down 20 seconds.
Marshall Grover's horse is Fred the Wonder Horse, Buster is Forgetful Jones's horse.

Hope this helps settle any confusion.

[minor muppetz]

Also, Monsterpiece Theater: The 39 Steps (hillarious Hitchcock parody!).


And lots of Grover The Waiter and Blue Man sketches, but particularly the one where Grover has to do a Mexican salsa dance each time he brings the Blue Man's food and he ends up spilling and trampling all over it.



Both of those are already available on the video and DVD release Put Down the Duckie (which originally aired on television as The Sesame Street Special). Of course, I haven't seen any copies of this on video or DVD at any of my local stores in a long time.


I also hope we get all the classic songs... The Beetles 'Letter B', The Rubber Ducky song and Put Down The Ducky, The Telephone Rock, etc.

Also the sketch where Cookie Monster wishes he could eat the moon and everything becomes dark.



All of those have been released on video and DVD. Some videos and DVDs are harder to find in stores, at least in my area, but where you live may vary. Letter B is available on Count it Higher: Great Music Videos from Sesame Street, Rubber Duckie is available on Sing-Along and Elmo in Grouchland Sing-and-Play, Put Down the Duckie is included on both Sing Yourself Silly and Put Down the Duckie, Telephone Rock is available on Rock & Roll, and the Cookie Monster sketch you are refferring to, If Moon Was Cookie, is included on the DVDs Sleepytime Songs and Stories and Cookie Monster's Best Bites.

[gtejeda]

Sesame Street Unpaved (series)


episode 1316 maria goes to Puerto Rico I was on it.

[minor muppetz]

I have recently though of an idea. I am not sure if it would work or how good the idea is, but after this set get's released and we all know what's on it and how it is presented (as in whether there are full episodes or just classic clips, or both, or even if there are special features) we should make a list of what we'd most like to see on volume two (if there is one). The forty most-wanted skits could be counted and a list could be sent to Sesame Workshop and/ or Sony Wonder (with a link to this board to show that the votes really did come from more than just one person). If the sets include actual episodes, then we could send a list of the top 10 (or however many are included on the first set) episodes we'd most like to see included. If there are features we could lsit features we'd like and then list the top number of features (depending on the number of features included on the first set) most people asked for. I am not sure if it would be too late to do this for the first set (October is just four months away, and a lot of legal work was probably done before the set was announced).

[The Count]

Really? Hey gtejeda... I'd be interested in knowing which character you portrayed. You can contact me via the forum's mailer.
Hope to hear from you soon.

[JoeyMuppet]

Really? Hey gtejeda... I'd be interested in knowing which character you portrayed. You can contact me via the forum's mailer.
Hope to hear from you soon.

He was one of the first graders who got to be on the show.The link where he explained what happened is... http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?p=417574#417573 .It's the next to last post.

[The Count]

Thanks Joey. Trying to see if he can help with the names of the actors who portrayed María's family.

[Oliver]

please please please include this super funky badass performance of stevie wonder tearing up the street!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSC29xl6hno

[ILuVERNIE]

It was all weird looking when I watched it!

[Grover]

When they release the Nostalgia set they should devote the first two discs to complete unaltered episodes. The third disc just featuring skits with the muppets. The last disc should be for bonus features.

When they release the Nostalgia set, like Warner Brothers they release "The Golden Age of Looney Tunes" after that they sell this "Spotlight Collection" featuring cartoons from the last two discs. What Sesame Workshop could do is release two discs featuring discs with The Muppets. That way fans can certain skits. This is a much efficent way instead of releasing episodes featuring that paticular skit no segments get repeated. Here is what I am thinking of. I'll post more ideas later:

THE BEST OF THE DUOS

Ernie eats Bert's Cookies.
Ernie puts The Radio Knob on Bert.
Cookie Monster and Ernie: Match Cookies.
Ernie Borrow's Herbert Birdsfoot Vacum Cleaner.
Grover and Herbert Birdsfoot: Over and Under.
Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light.
Caveman Days: Grover Invents The Wheel
Kermit and Grover: Long and Short.
The Count and Cookie Monster Count and Eat Cookies.
Ernie and Cookie Monster : Which is Which?
Grover The Waiter: Simon Soundman.
Kermit Demonstrate Begining, Middle, and End with a Cook book.
Ernie and Lefty: Stop Sign.
Kermit and Grover: Build a Snowman.
Ernie and Bert Meet the Count.

[Grover]

I am thinking there should be Audio Commentary on the following episodes.

First Season Premeire : Frank Oz,Carrol Spinney,Bob McGarth,Loretta Long,and Jane Henson.

Second Season Preimere: Jerry Nelson, Carol Spinney, and Bob McGrath.

Third Season Preimere: Sonia Manzano, Bob Mc Grath, Loretta Long, Emilio Delgado , Frank Oz, Carrol Spinney and Jerry Nelson.

Sixth Season Premiere: Roscoe Orman,, Bob Mc Grath, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Caroll Spinney, and Jerry Nelson.

[Erine81981]

I am thinking there should be Audio Commentary on the following episodes.

First Season Premeire : Frank Oz,Carrol Spinney,Bob McGarth,Loretta Long,and Jane Henson.

Second Season Preimere: Jerry Nelson, Carol Spinney, and Bob McGrath.

Third Season Preimere: Sonia Manzano, Bob Mc Grath, Loretta Long, Emilio Delgado , Frank Oz, Carrol Spinney and Jerry Nelson.

Sixth Season Premiere: Roscoe Orman,, Bob Mc Grath, Sonia Manzano, Emilio Delgado, Caroll Spinney, and Jerry Nelson.
Now that would be cool. I would love to see some AC on these DVDs. I would surely buy them.

[Muppetsrock]

Hi gang!
this is great i haveen't seen a classic episode of Sesame Street since i was 3 yrs old now i am almost 40 this would be great for my 6 yr old nice she likes Elmo but wait 'til she sees these episodes without the furry red guy shes going to be really surprised. :)

[minor muppetz]

I have been thinking, although Sesame Workshop confirmed in a few e-mails that this set is comming out, has Sesame Workshop made any official announcements outside of e-mails? I do believe this info, I just wish there would be an official press release.

[doctort13]

Deep Discount DVD is listing October 24th.

Look here:
http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=SON000102

[Dantecat]

WOW!!!! This is great so far.:excited:

[ILuVERNIE]

deep discount? hmm...

[superboober]

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.

[idlelyla]

I have been thinking, although Sesame Workshop confirmed in a few e-mails that this set is comming out, has Sesame Workshop made any official announcements outside of e-mails? I do believe this info, I just wish there would be an official press release.

I have to agree with you here. I've tried to find other information outside of the emails reported on this forum and I've come up with *nothing*. Seems to me that they would be doing a lot more advertising since such a dvd set would probably be extremely popular - not just with collector's but with parents (or step-parents, like me! =D) - who want their children to enjoy Sesame Street the way it used to be, with the Elmo Factor turned down several notches.

Not that I doubt that there will someday be a DVD release of Sesame Street, I just can't fathom that everything would be going smoothly as far as getting rights and whatnot sorted out for the projected release date in October without them advertising the set more...

I hope I'm wrong. =/

[Ernie101]

Ok, so i'm a little late here. When seeing the term nostalgic used, I also thought that these would be full episodes. How much nostalgia can you get from just skits? I do understand that due to some legalities that their backs may be against the wall in terms of releasing full episodes.. however, i hope that this will not always be the case.

Also, the commentary idea is a must. That would indefinatly make up for not having full episodes. but something is always better than nothing.

[minor muppetz]

That info from Deep Discount is a bit more reassuring, though it doens't say what it's source is. The fact that it is called Sesame Street Old School Vol. 1 sounds appropiate considering that the next season will focus on starting school. Now I feel convinced that the set will include full episodes. I could be wrong, but now I feel that it will just be full episodes (and not just a selection of skits).

[Ernie101]

I would still probally buy it even if it were skits, but come on! Our polls say 47 % want full uncut episodes.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

That's only 47% of people at MC who have happened to have seen this thread, though. Personally I don't want just uncut episodes because that takes up way too much disc space when you could have sooooooooooooooo many more skits and songs and classic SS moments on there.

[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.


Ernie eats Bert's Choclate Cake
If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Baked a Cake
Kermit's "What Happens Next Machine"
Kermit's B Sound Lecture.
Grover Explains Near and Far (1969)
Octopus Garden.
Pick Your Pet.
Professor Hastings and Kermit demonstrate Parts of The Body.
Ernie Takes a Bath With Percautions.
Bert asks Ernie if he could borrow his Umbrella.
Ernie and Cookie Monster: Cookie Matching.
What's My Part: Foot?
Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover: Over and Under.
Lefty Sells Ernie a Stop Sign.
Roosevelt Franklin's Alphabet.
Ernie can't Find Bert at the Beach.
Cookie Monster Buys Somthing That Rhymes with Pie.
Kermit and Grover : Long and Short.
Kermit and Grover: Heavy and Light.
Newsflash: Rapunzle.
Newsflash:Cinderella (At The Ball)
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).

[minor muppetz]

I am going to make some top ten lists for types of skits that I want on the set:

top ten Ernie and Bert skits:
Ernie eats Bert's cake
Ernie and Bert share jellybeans
Bert imagines himself ice skating
Ernie paints a picture of Bert
Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Ernie imagines himself with Bert's personality
The Blackout
Ernie eats Bert's ice cream
The Banana Sketch (both parts)

Top ten Grover skits:
Grover the waiter: Alphabet Soup
Grover the waiter: Hamburger
Grover the waiter: Simon Soundman
Grover the waiter: The Count
Proud of Me
Grover gives Kermit ears
cavemen Grover and Biff invent the wheel
Beat the Time: Grover
Kermit and Grover demonstrate near and far
Near and Far

top ten Cookie Monster skits:
Cookie Monster gives Ernie magical sunglasses
Cookie Monster and Kermit demonstrate happy, sad, and angry
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
What's My Part?: Nose
Circles
Mmmonster meal
Up and Down
Cookie Disco
Me Lost Me Cookie At the Disco

top ten number skits:
let's sing a song of one
let's sing a song of three
let's sing a song of nine
Five People in my Family
Five Monsters in my Family
Jazzy Spies #7
The Number Painter #3
Pinball Number Count #2
Penny Candy Man
It's a Lovely Eleven Morning

top ten letter skits:
The Typewriter Guy: A
A, You're Adorable
Mystery Guest
Harvey Kneeslapper: Wanna C?
Very Very Special Letter
Just Because
Monsters whisper C
Monsters look at A
Harvey Kneslapper: X marks the spot
Lefty attempts to sell a U

I'll post more later.

[Barbarella]

I certainly hope that if it's a "Best of" thing, they don't fill it with Elmo and a lot of the new Sesame Muppets. I'm a fan of the older, classic stuff- pre Elmo. And before everyone could see Snuffy. I would love to see some of those older animated segments as well as characters who disappeared like Sam the Machine, and the Amazing Mumford. Oh and the Twiddlebugs! Now I'm getting all nostalgic- really should get back to work.

[pherzmom]

We cant wait!I hope they will use entire earliest episodes, and then keep 'em coming. My older son has watched some 80's video recorded tapes of Sesame Street, but the little guy loses interest. Steel drum making segment I remember from my own childhood is one I'm glad to have, even in poor quality :(

[BillKal]

Well it looks like it may be a complilation set.


The title is called "Sesame Street Nostalgia box set - The First Five Years" and it contains only 3 DVDs.

Hopefully they fill these DVDS to the brink with classic clips!!

[minor muppetz]

Well it looks like it may be a complilation set.


The title is called "Sesame Street Nostalgia box set - The First Five Years" and it contains only 3 DVDs.

Hopefully they fill these DVDS to the brink with classic clips!!

How did you find out about the title and number of discs?

Just because it is the first five years and three discs does not mean that it will only be inserts. I have read that a single disc can hold up to four hours, so this set could have up to 12 complete episodes.

[minor muppetz]

I am now a little releived to know that the set covers the first five years, mainly so I know what years it focuses on. I would have liked for it to have included a few skits from the early 1980s, but I'm happy with it having material from the first five years. I wonder why the title changed from "Old School Vol. 1" to "Nostalgia Box Set -- The First Five Years". I hope there won't be any more title changes. It is also interesting that the title no longer says "Vol. 1". I hope that Sesame Workshop is considering making more volumes of the early years.

If there are more volumes, I wonder if there will be a title like "More of the First Five Years", or "The First Ten Years", or if there will be a different title altogether.

[Taco Monster]

Is there any confirmation that the title is "Nostalgia Box Set - The First Five Years"? The title on Amazon is listed as "Nostalgia Set First Fiv", and since the running time is 300 minutes, I'm wondering if it's actually the first five episodes. I would be a bit disappointed if that were the case, but I'd still buy it.

[Erine81981]

Is there any confirmation that the title is "Nostalgia Box Set - The First Five Years"? The title on Amazon is listed as "Nostalgia Set First Fiv", and since the running time is 300 minutes, I'm wondering if it's actually the first five episodes. I would be a bit disappointed if that were the case, but I'd still buy it.
Now that would be pretty cool to see the first five since we've seen the first episode and some of the others but the first five would be pretty neat to see. I would also still buy it.

[BillKal]

I found the title on Amazon as well. Not sure if I'm going to pre-order this baby yet. I'd like to find out a little more about it first.

[minor muppetz]

I wouldn't mind if it was just the first five episodes, though I would like to see a nice variety of episodes from the first few seasons. I would like to see some first season episodes, though there are a lot of characters who weren't around during the first season (like The Count, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Herry Monster, Little Jerry and the Monotones, Biff, Sully, Simon Soundman, Herbert Birdsfoot, Roosevelt Franklin, and others).

Of course, if it's just listed online as "Nostalgia Set-first five", and the title listed isn't complete, then maybe it is "The first five season premiers". That would be cool.

[ssetta]

I have actually heard various things about this box set. I actually saw a listing for it on Amazon, but the title of it was "Sesame Street Nostalgia: First Fiv" and then the rest was cut off. And then it said that it was 300 minutes long. So, at first, I thought it was going to be the complete first 5 episodes. But then it made more sense that it would be highlights from the first 5 seasons. But then I asked Vicki Levy about this (she's a music production assistant for Sesame Street), and she was told that it was going to be the complete first 5 episodes. So, can you tell me where you got this?

[D'Snowth]

1. Does anyone know what exactly it will have (actual episodes, or bits and pieces of episodes, or various skits and sketches)?
2. Will there be any special features?
3. Will this turn out be part of a series of volume sets?

[Barry Lee]

1. No
2. No
3. I think they are testing to see if it works first.

[mikebennidict]

If you go to the SS Merchandise section there's a thread about this.

[D'Snowth]

If you go to the SS Merchandise section there's a thread about this.
Sorry, that's one of the boards I never visit.

[minor muppetz]

I have actually heard various things about this box set. I actually saw a listing for it on Amazon, but the title of it was "Sesame Street Nostalgia: First Fiv" and then the rest was cut off. And then it said that it was 300 minutes long. So, at first, I thought it was going to be the complete first 5 episodes. But then it made more sense that it would be highlights from the first 5 seasons. But then I asked Vicki Levy about this (she's a music production assistant for Sesame Street), and she was told that it was going to be the complete first 5 episodes. So, can you tell me where you got this?

That is awesome! We'll finally know what was on episodes 2-5. Sweet! Though it is a shame that we won't be seeing Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, or Mr. Snuffleupagus when he was imaginary.

[minor muppetz]

There haven't been any confirmed announcements regarding whetehr there will be special features. However, in one of the posts about this set, somebody mentioned hearing from somebody who works on the show who confirmed that the set will have the first five episodes.

[minor muppetz]

By the way, if esame Workshop decides to make more Nostalgia box sets, I wonder if SW will continue by having volume two be episodes 6-10, then have volume 3 be episodes 11-15, and so on, or if more volumes would be themed differently, such as including multi-part episodes in a set (perhaps the Hawia episodes, though those were six episodes and not five).

[Erine81981]

I would love to see more of these to come. I hope to see all the seasons as in volumes to come. I can't wait to watch the second through fifth episode of Sesame Street back in the first season. :grouchy: :p :(

[ssetta]

That is awesome! We'll finally know what was on episodes 2-5. Sweet! Though it is a shame that we won't be seeing Roosevelt Franklin, Herbert Birdsfoot, or Mr. Snuffleupagus when he was imaginary.
Okay, but see, we're not 100% sure, so please don't quote me on this. I mean, maybe it WILL be the First Five years. See, I would like to know where that was thought of. But then again, if it IS the first five episodes, there is one thing that we would get to see that many of us have never seen before. That is...the VERY FIRST CREDITS!! The Friday credits, that is. I would really love to see how the credits were done in Season 1.

[zhelder]

I'd like to see a 6 disc set, even though it's unlikely. Discs 1-5 should contain a sampling of complete uncut episodes from the first 5 seasons, perhaps 4 episodes per disc. (I'd like to see 6 episodes per disc, but that may compress the vidoe quality too much.) One disc could contain the season premiere for each season, two epiosdes from the middle of the season, and the season finale. Disc 6 should be a bonus disc, with odds and ends, preferably obscure stuff. Here's what I'd like to see on the bonus disc:

Two Complete Test Pilot Episodes (Maybe #1 and #5)

A bunch of the animated intros from the first 5 seasons

Complete Baker Series, including the ultra rare #1

Complete Jazzy Spies Series

Complete Mad Painter Series

For lack of a better term, the 1971 number animations: Fiddler #2-6, Alligator King #7, Candy Man #8, Martian Beauty #9, Ten Tiny Turtles #10, Lovely Eleven Morning #11, and Ladybug's Picnic #12. Toss #11 Cheer in here too.

Complete series of the first season animated letter segments

As many Roosevelt Franklin sketches as they could possibly fit

A selection of classic Muppet New Flash segments

A selection of classic Guy Smiley game show segments

A selection of classic Bert & Ernie sketches

Some obscure class films, sketches, and animations: I'd like to see Milk Crisis, Appalachian Mailman, the girl who builds a stool, the sketch for the number 5 featuing the numbers and geometric shapes on the orange background (they haven't shown this one in at least 25 years!) and the 1-20 counting live action counting sketch with the gorilla.

And of course, commentary for everything would be lovely, but it doesn't seem likely.

[minor muppetz]

If this is actually the first five episodes, then since the first season episodes were sponsored by three letters and two number,s htne, assuming that no letters or numbers were repeated in the first week, the set would have skits for 15 different letters and 10 different numbers. I hope that the first week didn't repeat any number, because if numbers weren't repeated, nine would be a sponsor, and we might be able to have the Baker film for nine and finally see Rowlf's appearance on Sesame Street.

It would be interesting to see the first season closing credits, and it would be interesting to see if there were any recurring characters in the first season that nobody here knows about. I wonder if Grover, Lefty, Proffessor Hastings, Guy Smile, Betty Lou or the Sesame Street version of Beautiful Day Monster debuted sometime during the first week.

[Fozzie Bear]

Important episodes should be shown in its entirety (first show, death of Mr. Hooper, Maria and Luis' wedding, when the adults met Snuffy), but show the best of the best in skit forms (Casey McPhee is the first REAL music video--so, CTW beat Mtv by YEARS)!

[minor muppetz]

One idea that would be good would be to have one episode from each of the first five seasons, and then a newly-created hour compilation of skits from the first five years.

[Barry Lee]

Maybe have the premiere episode for the first five years. So the 1st season premiere, the 2nd season premiere and so on.

[minor muppetz]

One idea that would be good would be to have one episode from each of the first five seasons, and then a newly-created hour compilation of skits from the first five years.

I would like to talk more about this idea. For this, there could be one episode from eahc of the first five seasons, maybe they can be randomly chosen, maybe they can have some significance (I just hope that the first episode is included). Then, there could be an hour-long compilation of just skits, with no linking footage, with a number of skits from each season. When deciding on these clips, it could be determined which season has the most presence on the set (probably the first season, as all skits from that season couldn't debut in a previous season) and which one has the least (obviously the fifth season, as there wouldn't be any more episodes form other seasons to include, so only the fifth season episode would have fifth season sketches), and then determine the percent of presence that each season in the set has, and then when compiling clips for the compilation, make the skits in reverse presence, so most of the skits would be from the fifth season, and the least of them would be from the first season, and so on for the other seasons.

[ssetta]

Important episodes should be shown in its entirety (first show, death of Mr. Hooper, Maria and Luis' wedding, when the adults met Snuffy), but show the best of the best in skit forms (Casey McPhee is the first REAL music video--so, CTW beat Mtv by YEARS)!
What about all those Little Jerry songs? And remember Count it Higher?

[a_Mickey_Muppet]

so ANY cover art or disc art out yet?! :confused: :smirk: I'm sOOOooo gonna buy this set along with Fraggle Rock S2. if any post the link i wana see it so bad! :p

[minor muppetz]

Sesame Workshop (or Sony Wonder) should get organized and put out a press release about the set. Or perhaps release some cover art or reveal whether there will be any special features. Oh, and make a confirmation about whether the set is the first five years or first five episodes (somebody says that Amazon cut-off the title..... have any of us thought about writing to Amazon and asking which this is going to be?).

[minor muppetz]

If this set features the first five season premiers, then it would mean that Herbert Birdsfoot, Sam the Robot, and Rodeo Rosie will have made their DVD debuts, and Roosevelt Franklin and Sherlock Hemlock would have their speaking-parts-on-DVD debut.

Of course, if it is first five season premiers, it could still be titled The First Five Years, since the first five premiers were in the first five years. If this set is for the first five years, then I hope that Sesame Workshop puts out one episode from each season. Two or three episodes from season one would be great, but then that would mean that one or more of the other seasons (out of the first five) would be left out.

[minor muppetz]

Three or four nights ago, I had a dream that a preview for this set was shown, on TV or a DVD. The preview featured clips that obviously weren't from the first season. Some of the clips included a shot of Big Bird and some kids on the street, an Oscar the Grouch clip (he was green here), a clip from the skit where Kermit gets Grover to dress up as a fire fighter in the park, and a strange clip of Kermit and Telly Monster in the backstage set of The Muppet Show.

Too bad it was just a dream.

[DTWolf]

I am extremely skeptical about that October 24 release date.

It takes a good bit of time for DVDs to be manufactured, packaged, shipped, and distributed. At this point it's too late for the company to still be making decisions about what will or won't be on the discs and figuring out cover art. Those decisions would surely have been settled by now to meet an October street date (sorry, no pun intended).

And if those things have been finalized, then why aren't they revealing this information? Is the marketing/relations/whatever person asleep at the wheel?

I don't doubt that there will be a DVD set. I don't doubt that I will buy it and love it. I do doubt that it will show up in October and wouldn't be surprised if it were delayed until December or January. (Then again, maybe the Muppet Show box-set mess just makes me too pessimistic.)

[minor muppetz]

I am extremely skeptical about that October 24 release date.

It takes a good bit of time for DVDs to be manufactured, packaged, shipped, and distributed. At this point it's too late for the company to still be making decisions about what will or won't be on the discs and figuring out cover art. Those decisions would surely have been settled by now to meet an October street date (sorry, no pun intended).

And if those things have been finalized, then why aren't they revealing this information? Is the marketing/relations/whatever person asleep at the wheel?

I don't doubt that there will be a DVD set. I don't doubt that I will buy it and love it. I do doubt that it will show up in October and wouldn't be surprised if it were delayed until December or January. (Then again, maybe the Muppet Show box-set mess just makes me too pessimistic.)

I have a feeling that it has been decided on. Back in November, somebody had gotten an e-mail from Sesame Workshop stating that a set was being considered, but due to legal clearances it would take awhile to be released, with 2007 being the earliest to expect it, then it was announced to be released in 2006. If there are a lot of legalties involved, then it would be odd for Sesame Workshop to still be indecisive about what to include. This has been put up for pre-order on Amazon, and I doubt that an online store would make something available for pre-order if that site didn't have any official confirmation from the company releasing the set (surely an online store wouldn't start taking pre-orders just because fans have been informed about the set).

[DTWolf]

I doubt that an online store would make something available for pre-order if that site didn't have any official confirmation from the company releasing the set (surely an online store wouldn't start taking pre-orders just because fans have been informed about the set).
Well, yes, they put up preorders based on what the publishers tell them; and generally don't change the release dates until the publishers tell them to.

I'm sure Amazon did have official confirmation from the DVD publisher before opening the preorder page; the question is, was the DVD publisher giving a realistic estimate? I think Sony Wonder was being overly optimistic and will have to announce a new date one of these days.

[Fozzie Bear]

I pre-ordered!! Anybody else?

[The Count]

Not yet Foz... In response to worries/fears that the DVD won't be released on 10/24...

Ah, how good it feels to have people worrying/afraid about roll-back release dates. Takes me back to when we were anxiously anticipating the next new members of the family to be immortalized in plastic form.

Good times.

[Fozzie Bear]

I miss Palisades TMS figures.

[giovannii]

Have they released what will be on this yet? I'll pre-order it once I know wats on it.

John

[minor muppetz]

Have they released what will be on this yet? I'll pre-order it once I know wats on it.

John

No, they still haven't.

[BillKal]

Have they released what will be on this yet? I'll pre-order it once I know wats on it.

John

Yeah, Same with me. Of course, they might not announce it until it's released or last minute.

[BillKal]

I'll probably buy it anyways no matter what's on it.

As long as there's no Elmo on it and it's not just short little clips where it gets interrupted (ie. like the Best of Johnny Carson/Tonight Show DVDs) I'll buy it.

[Ziffel]

I'm sure I'll buy it too but I haven't yet pre-oredered it. I'm surprised that we still don't have any details (other than what we can surmise from titles like "Old School" and now "First Fiv" for the dvd set, and the running time being 300 minutes). I would think for a product scheduled for release Oct. 24th that they would want to clearly spell out what it consists of. I would think that would cause pre-order sales to increase all the more. Perhaps it will end up getting pushed back a few months as some have wondered. But I'm sure whatever the content is it WILL be all classic SS and it WILL be released and for that I am happy. I plan on not only ordering it for myself but also for my niece for Christmas. She's only a year and a half but soon she'll be at the age where she can comprehend, enjoy, and appreciate them.

[minor muppetz]

I know that some of us have been able to e-mail/ contact Sesame Workshop. I have tried e-mailing SW a few times but every time I have, I get a response saying that the e-mail is not available at that time, or something like that. I think a few other members have mentioned this happening to them, too. But if anyone can get ahold of SW, it would be great to ask what the set is supposed to be.

[Fozzie Bear]

A friend of mine with ways to get information got this:

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL742/3120815/6345768/182843108.jpg

[ssetta]

A friend of mine with ways to get information got this:

http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL742/3120815/6345768/182843108.jpg
I SEE it says "1969-1974", and that WOULD be the first 5 seasons! So now we know it can't POSSIBLY be the first 5 episodes! Maybe it will be the first 5 season premieres, or maybe it will just be clips. But whatever it is, it should be good.

[MuppetDude]

I like that they used a classic picture for the cover and design, and dubbing it "Old School"--how appropriate!. I figured that they'd most likely use the season premieres since it showed how the series evolved. What I'm hoping for is that there will also be a "skit compilation" for each season in addition to the episode--a sort of "best of" grouping. In my opinion, that would make a great DVD set--5 disks, one episode on each, a compilation per disc, a brief description on how the show has evolved/supporting characters and educational concepts, as well as some bonus features spread throughout.

How about that--a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, not quite.

:excited: :excited: :excited:

[chpoof]

Thanks, Fozzie Bear. :) Well, little by little it looks like we're getting glimpses into what will finally appear on this box set. As long as the debut episode is included in its entirety, I'll be a happy camper. Everything else is just icing on the cake. :excited:

I must admit I'm still baffled why there's no press release on this yet though. I visit Sesame Workshop's home page almost daily, and so far there's no mention of it yet.

[Big Bird Fan]

That confirms what I saw on another site selling this. However I was hoping it was wrong as I'd much rather have the first five episodes. But this could still work out, as Vol. 1 indicates we could get more episodes from the first five seasons.

[Taco Monster]

Or it could mean that we'll see seasons 6-10 on Vol. 2, seasons 11-15 on Vol. 3, and so forth. I wouldn't protest to that.

[Fozzie Bear]

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!

[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. :p :( :grouchy:

[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. :p :( (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. :smirk:

[Phillip Chapman]

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.

[ssetta]

Well, I now see that it's going to be 3 DVDs, but 300 minutes long. I'm afraid something tells me that it will be a compilation of clips, and not entire episodes. I mean, it gives a little more information, but not that much.

[minor muppetz]

If each episode is close to 60 minutes, then 60 times five is 300, so the set could include five hour-long episodes. I don't know if the running timke counts features (if there are any). That could get us one episode each from the first five seasons.

[Taco Monster]

I think there will be full episodes. If they were only going to release a compilation of clips, then it would probably only be one disc.

But I do find it strange that they're being so secretive about this set, and yet they've released all the details about the new Electric Company set that comes out about a month later.

[jeffkjoe]

Well, it's two different companies handling each set:

Shout Factory is doing Electric Company and Sony/Wonder is doing Sesame.

[Barry Lee]

And plus SW doesn't really release much info on any of there dvd's until the last minute.

[Phillip Chapman]

Here's some additional info on the Sesame Street Old School box set (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000H6SY8C/muppetcentral/)...

Five complete episodes from the series's first five years are included in a three disc set. Features appearances by James Earl Jones, Jesse Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Jackie Robinson, plus such fondly remembered segments as "Rubber Duckie" and "C Is for Cookie." 7 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

So it sounds like we're getting around five hours of complete episodes with two hours of segments and clips and/or bonus material.

[The Count]

Thanks for the information Phil. This, along with both seasons of FR and The Electric Company are definites on my B-Day/X-Mas list this year.

[Boober_Gorg]

Five complete episodes from the series's first five years are included in a three disc set. Features appearances by James Earl Jones, Jesse Jackson, Johnny Cash, and Jackie Robinson, plus such fondly remembered segments as "Rubber Duckie" and "C Is for Cookie." 7 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English.
I don't see those words anywhere in the Amazon description.

UPDATE: I did find that passage on Movies Unlimited (http://www.moviesunlimited.com/musite/product.asp?mscssid=34PCXVSPQWNB8MM036DTUPRVFSKB1V S9&sku=D69181). Mystery solved.

[TashAndMe]

Good, so that question has been answered. However, Amazon says the set is 300 minutes long. Looks like we may have another mystery to solve.

[Taco Monster]

I'm guessing that Amazon only counted the combined running times of the actual episodes.

[TashAndMe]

I hope the five episodes that will be on the set are good. I was going to try to list the ones I would pick, but there's too many good ones to pick just five.

[ssetta]

Somehow I'm guessing the 5 episodes will be the 5 season premieres: 1, 131, 276, 406, and 536. That's what seems the most appropriate.

[minor muppetz]

This is great news.

[TashAndMe]

Yeah, the season premieres would make sense. I would like to see the other 4, especially since one of them has Hal Miller's first appearance as Gordon.

[minor muppetz]

If/ when more volumes get released, I wonder if they will still focus on the years 1969-1974 or if they will expand, perhaps to 1976 or 1979, or perhaps focus on years after 1974 (1974-1979, etc). Or if they will be themed differently (like "Sesame Street in Hawia", featuring the hawiai episodes, or "Big Bird goes to Camp Echo Rock", focusing on.. oh, you know...).

I was thinking recently that it would have been great if Sesame Workshop decided to put out releases of all season premiers, starting with the first five, and then making sets for the seasons 6-10 premiers, season 11-15 premiers, and so on. Of course, the season premiers for seasons 33 and 34 have already been released on DVD (and if you count The Street We Live On as an episode as opposed to a stand-alone special, then we've got the season 35 premier on DVD as well).

[minor muppetz]

I just noticed that the guest stars listed have J as their first initials. Coincidence? It's interesting that Rubber Duckie and C is for Cookie are both going to be included, as those have been released on video and DVD many times in the past (unless the version of Rubber Duckie that's included will be the one from the test pilots, which hasn't been released on video or DVD).

[JaniceFerSure]

I've been waiting forever and a day to see the retro classic SS clips.Happy to see one of my dreams coming true.:excited:

[Grover]

It's interesting that Rubber Duckie and C is for Cookie are both going to be included, as those have been released on video and DVD many times in the past (unless the version of Rubber Duckie that's included will be the one from the test pilots, which hasn't been released on video or DVD).


I was thinking the same as well. Hopefully we'll get more information about this set around mid September. I have mixed feelings about this set until I hear the skits and bonus features that are going to be included.

[ssetta]

Well, see, the thing is: Classic clips like "Rubber Duckie" and "'C' is for Cookie" might not be that special to us, but they could be very special for some other people. I would not be surprised if the 5 episodes that will be included will be some of the same ones that were on Unpaved on Noggin. And the clip compliation could very well be sketches we already have. But you have to realize that most people don't have this enormous collection of SS episodes like some of us do. So, for them, 5 episodes and the classic clips that are on there will really be a miracle to them.

[Janice & Mokey's Man]

Aw man, I didn't want full episodes...well, hopefully they're really good episodes, and hopefully the other 2 hours have TONS of classic clips! :D

[minor muppetz]

It is neat that Herry Monster is on the cover, and great that an early 1970s photo is being used as opposed to a new photo. It looks to me like a few photos of the characters were photoshopped togetehr to form a collage, similar to the Muppet puzzle from 2003. It would have been great if Herbert Birdsfoot, Mr. Snuffleupagus, The Count, Guy Smiley, Sherlock Hemlock, Roosevelt Franklin, Sam the Robot, Prairie Dawn, and Lefty were all on the cover. Well, theres always volume two (hopefully).

Regarding the fact that Rubber Duckie and C is For Cookie are the only skits announced so far, and that they have been released many times. I know that a lot of casual fans might not have them. I remember seeing them as a child but then not seeing them for a long period of time, and then suddenly seeing a lot of specials featuring clips from these (The Muppets: A Celebration of Thirty Years, Stars and Streets Forever, The World of Jim Henson) and wanting to see the whole clips again, especially since all specials with these clips showed the same verses, and then beign happy when I got videos with the entire songs. These are two of my favorite songs from the show, and despite having them on video, I am happy to be having them on the set. I have made a few posts here and on other Muppet message boards listing segments that I'd like to have included on such a release, and usually including these skits.

At Muppet Wiki, this was mentioned on the main page, and there was a quote about these that I have been expecting for a long time. It says, "Also expected on October 24: many new additions to the wiki based on what's on this set".

[DTWolf]

Well I'll be happy to be proven wrong about thinking they wouldn't make an Oct. 24 release date.

And as for including "C Is for Cookie" and such--well of course they're going to. If they didn't, they'd have thousands of people saying "What?!? Where's 'C Is for Cookie' [or "Rubber Duckie" or whatever]?!? How could they NOT include that?!?" And personally I don't have these skits on DVD. I've been avoiding those endless short Sesame DVDs because they have so much fluff (read, "Elmo and Zoe nonsense") and not enough classic material per disc to make them worth the money. Those short discs have lots of skits I'd like to own, but not enough on any one disc.

This new box set should give me just what I want.

[EasyBeinGreen]

Don't know if its been posted anywhere else but here is a link to the full details and cover art from TVshowsonDVD

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6386

I can't wait!

[minor muppetz]

I really like that info. By "the original pilot", does that mean the promotional piece with Rowlf, the first of the test pilots, or the first episode (if the latter, then shouldn't that be considered part of the main content?)? It's interesting that there will be 45 features. I guess thats counting every short bonus skit as seperate features (would that mean that there wont be a clip compilation?). I saw mention of a few specific skits that will be included. Too bad that I didn't see "The Baker Films" or "The Jazzy Spies" listed.

Anyway, it sounds like an exciting set.

[MuppetDanny]

I can't wait for these DVDs :crazy: :excited:

[minor muppetz]

I have just noticed that the 1 in "volume 1" looks like it is designed after the 1 in the Baker film series. SWEET!

I figured that this set would come with some sort of booklet, especially since the Electric Company set came with one. Then again, I also expected The Muppet Show: Season 1 to come with a booklet.

When it lists classic animation that parents will remember, and it lists Pinball Number Count, I wonder if that means that all 11 of those skits will be included, or will it just be one of them?

The set listed guest appearances that parents will remember, moments that parents will remember, and animations that parents wil remember, and listed specific moments without adding "and more". I wonder if those are all the bonus skits to be included, or if there are more that aren't listed.

[The Count]

Hey MinorMuppets... Could you plese elaborate a little on what you meant by the number 1 on the boxset being like the one from the Baker series?
Thanks.

[minor muppetz]

Hey MinorMuppets... Could you plese elaborate a little on what you meant by the number 1 on the boxset being like the one from the Baker series?
Thanks.

Okay, on the title, it says "Old School Vol. 1". The 1 in the title is designed similar to the 1 seen in the opening for the Baker films. I'm not too good at describing these numbers. Maybe somebody else can.

It is good that a better quality picture of the cover was used, though it would be good if a picture of the cover facing the full front of the camera was shown, as opposed to an angle that shows a little bit of the side (unless that side bar is actually part of the cover).

Count, I am not sure if you are wanting a description of the box, but here it is. This is going from memory right now, so parts of it could be wrong. The background is part of the street (I think it shows Big Bird's doors). Big Bird is in the main center. In front of Big Bird are Cookie Monster, Oscar, and Grover. Standing on the right of Big Bird is Ernie, and on the left of Big Bird are Bert and Herry. I forget where the Sesame Street logo is, but on the bottom of the cover is a green bar which says "Old School Vol. 1", with the one designed like in the baker films. Underneath te "Old School" part is "1969-1974".

[minor muppetz]

I just looked at the border again, and I was a bit wrong. There is a border that has a small yellow line and a big green border. The characters are standing in front of the part of 123 Sesame Street that has the window that goes into Ernie and Berts apartment. Bert is actually behind Herry Monster. The Sesame Street logo is near the top right, above Ernie, and "Old School" is written underneath the logo (and in case you are wondering, the sign has "123" written on it, instead of "CTW"). At the botton, under the picture, it sasy "1969-1974 Vol. 1". The side of the packaging can be seen, and on the top is an upside-down image of Big Bird.

I've noticed that Pinball Number Coutn is listed as one of the skits included, yet that skit wasn't around during the first five years. It premiered in 1977. I wonder if there will be any more bonus skits from later.

[The Count]

Thanks for all your help MinorMuppets. Understand why its 1-2-3 instead of CTW... Will definitely have this one on my wishlist, just hope I can get home from my evening class on 10/24 in time to watch the special airing of the international SS documentary as well.

[Barry Lee]

I dont think it will be the pitch because it says it's the pilot which is a difference, and plus all the characters in the pitch were basically muppets owned by Disney except for Beautifal Day Monster which is both ways.

[Squigiman]

Hey gang,
Long time, no post. I had to pass this on: http://www.muppetcentral.com/news/2006/090606.shtml

Cover art, full details, including: 7 HOURS OF CLASSIC SESAME- 69-74. ORIGINAL PILOT,CLASSIC ANIMATION-LADYBUGS, PINBALLS, & AT LEAST TWO WHOLE KINGS!. I couldn't be more excited. October 24th can't come soon enough. Aside from the eventual release of all the TMS seasons (Get a move on, Disney! It better be worth the wait and super-packed with extras like these and FR's!), I can't think of a cooler thing for Muppet fans to have access to. Okay, maybe full-on, non-poser replicas, but that's it. All this, AND it's VOLUME 1, indicating possibilities of future releases, which I'm guessing sales will yield. My one worry is that it'll be totally Kermit-free. But I hope and pray a deal was worked out. We need Q-R-S-T-U-Cookie Monster!

Anyways, the "Around The World" doc looks cool, too, though the advertising on the cover seems a little strange. "From the people that brough you the scary truth of how global warming is destroying the planet, and how communists are hiding amongst your communities... comes a sweet look at how an educational program with lovable puppets has influenced the way children the world over learn their ABC's and 123's." Crazy. Well, just can't wait! Take it easy, everyone.


-Squigiman

[Ilikemuppets]

Sounds great! I'll have to get it one of these days!

[zns]

:) :excited: ;) It just gets better and better. October 24th just won't come soon enough. Oh well, patience is a virtue. All I know is, after the release, we'll never want to watch our old tapes again.

[CommanderD]

I love how it's being released on my birthday! I know what to spend my birthday money on. :D

[minor muppetz]

I dont think it will be the pitch because it says it's the pilot which is a difference, and plus all the characters in the pitch were basically muppets owned by Disney except for Beautifal Day Monster which is both ways.

Then I wonder what the pilot would be (oh, yeah, test pilots...).

I've noticed the features listing referring to "celebrity appearances that parents will remember", "Songs that parents will rememebr", and "Animations that parents will remember". If there is a volume two, I wonder if these features will be included, or if maybe there will be different skit compilations, like "Ernie and Bert moments that parents will remember", "Grover moments that parents will remember", "Sesame Street News Flashes that parents will remember", etc.

[D'Snowth]

Oh my freaking goodness, this is so cool! Awesome cover art, but I'm a little disappointed that there's only five episodes on there.:smirk:

[theprawncracker]

AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME!!!! I totally LOVE the cover art! AMAZING! And all the bonus features, WOOT! I possitively cannot wait for October 24th! A.) Because of course the DVD set, and B.) Day after my birthday, and C.) The day I can get my driver's license! :excited: But enought about me...YAY SESAME STREET!!

[BEAR]

This is so beautiful!! I have been waiting so long for this you have no idea!!! I've never gotten to see the complete pilot episode. I wonder what the other 4 episodes are. I wish there was more, but I still can't complain. This is amazing!!! Love the cover too! I'm gonna have to force myself not to buy it so that I can have it to put on my Christmas/birthday list. It'll be hard but I'll do my best.

[Erine81981]

It would proubley be more episodes.

[CookieCountDawn]

It sounds and looks terrific! I can't wait till October 24th! :excited:

[gbrobeck]

This is so beautiful!! I have been waiting so long for this you have no idea!!! I've never gotten to see the complete pilot episode. I wonder what the other 4 episodes are. I wish there was more, but I still can't complain. This is amazing!!! Love the cover too! I'm gonna have to force myself not to buy it so that I can have it to put on my Christmas/birthday list. It'll be hard but I'll do my best.

Well, there will be 6 shows on the set counting that pilot.


Greg

[LadyVader]

I would not wait if i was you. It took a long time to get them to put this out, and i'll bet if you get a vol. 2 will depend on how well this sells. and i bet the first ones out could be very hard to find.

[Phillip Chapman]

Now that the official details have been announced, let's move all Old School DVD discussions here...

http://forum.muppetcentral.com/showthread.php?t=28776

[MJTaylor]

I suppose no one knows when it comes out down under? It would sure make a great Christmas or birthday present for me.

[Big Bird Fan]

And this is why I pre-ordered it the second Muppet Central put up the link. In hopes it was something this great. :D It looks like everyone got what they wanted. Those that wanted episodes got that, and those that wanted clips got that.

I'm glad the cover art is pretty much the same as the one Fozzie Bear posted. (Though I wish the grownups had been included.) I really wish they'd tell us which five episodes are included. We've known there are five episodes on it for awhile now.

I'm very excited to see the original pilot. :excited: That should be interesting. I was hoping for commentary/interviews from the cast/crew, but I guess we wont be getting that. :( Maybe that stuff will be in the liner notes booklet.

[BEAR]

Maybe we can get commentary/interviews from the cast on future DVD sets. I would especially love to hear from Joan Ganz Cooney, Bob McGrath, Loretta Long, Sonia Manzano, Caroll Spinney, Fran Brill, Jerry Nelson, and (if we're lucky) Frank Oz.

[chpoof]

This is excellent news indeed. It appears whoever compiled this set is considering those of us who prefer full-length episodes and those who prefer skit compilations. This should make pretty much everybody happy. :)

I wonder, though, which five full-length episodes will be included on the set? I'm really crossing my fingers for the very first episode. Surely that one will be on there (I hope!). :concern:

[minor muppetz]

I saw that the article mentioned 45 bonus skecthes. At first, I mistakenly thought that it said 45 bonus features.

Lets see. We know that it will have appearances by James Earl Jones (the article pretty much confirmed that the sketch where he counted to 10 will be included), Johnny Cash (the article pretty much says that Nasty Dan will be on there), Jesse Jackson, and Jackie Roberts, and it will have Rubber Duckie, I Love Trash, C is For Cookie, Pinball Number Count (not sure which one, or if its more then one, or if its all of them), the King of 8, The Alligator King, and the Ladybug Picnic. That is 11 sketches (22, if all of the Pinball Number Count skits are going to be included). That leaves 34 more skits to be included outside of the episodes.

I am going to make a list of 34 skits that I hope to see included as bonus skits (and of course I don't know what episodes will be included, so if any of the following skits listed are going to be included, then thats a bonus in itself)
1. The Banana Sketch part 1
2. The Banana Sketch part 2
3. Proud of Me
4. Ernie makes a clay sculpture of Bert
5. Lets Sing a Song of One
6. Lets Sing a Song of Nine
7. Everyone Likes Ice Cream
8. Super Grover: Hair Cut
9. Sesame Street News: The Tortose and The Hare
10. Sesame Street News: Rupunzel
11. The Count counts The Three Little Pigs
12. Sesame Street News: Pinnocchio
13. Harvey Kneeslapper: Do you know where I wanna B?
14. Grover attempts to sell Kermit earmuffs
15. Grover attempts to sell Kermit a nose warmer
16. Kermit demonstrates "next to" with Shala and Fanny
17. Kermit and a boy demonstrate "Exit"
18. Grover talks about the number 2
19. Grover talks about the number 2 part 2
20. Grover talks about the number 2 part 3
21. Roosevelt Franklins Alphabet
22. The Amazing Mumfords disapearing cookie trick
23. Monsterpiece Theater: Upstairs, Downstairs
24. Monsterpiece Theater: Chariots of Fur
25. Beat the Time: Grover
26. Beat the Time: The Count
27. The Ballad of Casey McPhee
28. any Buddy and Jim sketch
29. Windy
30. Typewriter Guy: P-Pencil
31. The Nobel Ostrich
32. Kermits Milk Lecture
33. Ernie talks about his day at the zoo
34. Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a letter U

I realize that some of those skits are from later than season 5, but I think the Pinball Number Coutn sketches are from season 8.

[minor muppetz]

Well, I e-mailed Sesame Workshop regarding the original pilot listed as a feature. It sure was hard to find a contact section at the official Sesame Workshop website. I hope that I get a response soon. I asked if the "original pilot" is one of the test pilots or the promotional piece with Rowlf, or something else entirely. I didn't ask any other questions about the set (I.E., I didn't ask what specific episodes would be included, or if there would be any additional features that haven't been announced yet).

In case I don't get a response, I would advise other users to e-mail Sesame Workshop about what the pilot is, exactly. Perhaps we should also e-mail Sony Wonder.

[SesameStreetFan]

I am definetley buying this the day it comes out. I'm just wondering if it's gonna be the first 5 Season premires, or if it will be a selection of 5 random episodes that were never on Noggin. Also I wonder if the 2 hours of classic clips will include any on the street inserts from the early 70's. There's a lot to wonder about that. It will Rock to finally be able to see the pilot. I hope instead of them putting on Noggin episodes a lot of us already saw before, they will air some more important episodes, Like The episode when Big Bird visits the White House, or when David decides to be a lawyer, or mabye some episodes that feature the Monster Family with the original Elmo as Baby Monster. There's a lot of possibilities here, but we will just have to wait and see what comes about.

[chpoof]

In the description it mentions Wanda the Witch. Was that clip only shown on the very first episode? (I believe that's when it was introduced.)

[minor muppetz]

In the description it mentions Wanda the Witch. Was that clip only shown on the very first episode? (I believe that's when it was introduced.)

It was probably in other episodes as well. It was in the video The Alphabet Game.

[minor muppetz]

I am definetley buying this the day it comes out. I'm just wondering if it's gonna be the first 5 Season premires, or if it will be a selection of 5 random episodes that were never on Noggin.

There are a few other alternatives as well. It could be five random episodes that were on Noggin, or five random episodes, including some that were on Noggin and some that weren't, or maybe a few season premiers, a few episodes that were on Noggin, and a few that weren't on Noggin.

[chpoof]

Thanks, minor muppetz. Ultimately I guess we just won't know until they announce it, which I hope will be before the DVD set gets released. I assumed that surely the debut episode would be on there, but now I'm not so sure. I must admit I'll be really disappointed if it isn't.

[Mickey Moose]

I think this is a great compromise for fans who wanted complete episodes and fans that just wanted clip compliations. I am under the impression the "pilot" they are referring to is the debut episode(the one where Gordon opens up the show with that little girl introducing her to Sesame Street). But I guess we'll find out soon enough.

[minor muppetz]

I think this is a great compromise for fans who wanted complete episodes and fans that just wanted clip compliations. I am under the impression the "pilot" they are referring to is the debut episode(the one where Gordon opens up the show with that little girl introducing her to Sesame Street). But I guess we'll find out soon enough.

The pilot is listed as a special feature. It would be odd to release the first episode as a bonus feature, as opposed to being part of the main program. Also, it said that the pilot has never been available anywhere before. I'm not sure if that applies to TV or just home releases. If Sesame Workshop wanted the press release to say that the first episode will be included, then they shoudl have worded it differently, such as saying "Includes five episodes from the first five seasons, including the very first episode!"

I wonder what masters will be used. It would be great if the original master tapes were used and remastered, like what was done for The Muppet Show's first season, but I have also read that Sesame Workshop has remastered every episode every few years whenever a new type of digital technology comes out, and I know that these masters were not used on Noggin. Since Sesame Workshop spent a lot of money remastering every episode, it would make sense to use the most recently remastered copies for a big release.

[minor muppetz]

I wonder if there is a certain budget regarding the number of episodes that can be released on an Old School set regardless of how many discs are included and what the lenght/ amount of features are. After all, I've read that for the Looney Tunes Golden Collection DVDs, Warner Brothers only has a budget to restore 60 cartoons or less for each set, regardless of the number and lenght of bonus features. I wonder if Sesame Workshop or Sony Wonder would be willing to release future sets with more episodes, either by eliminating some features or adding an extra disc.

[Big Bird Fan]

I don't see why he wouldn't. I heard SW has the rights to the old Kermit clips, but they have to have Disney's permission for him to be in anything new. He was in the "Friends to the Rescue" DVD that came out last year, so there shouldn't be any problem.

[BEAR]

I think this is a great compromise for fans who wanted complete episodes and fans that just wanted clip compliations. I am under the impression the "pilot" they are referring to is the debut episode(the one where Gordon opens up the show with that little girl introducing her to Sesame Street). But I guess we'll find out soon enough.


Yeah, it will be interesting to see the pilot and seeing a young Holly Robinson (Peete), Matt Robinson's real life daughter.