Sesame Street - Old School Volume 1. DVD 1969-1974 / 3 DVD SET / With appearances by Bill Cosby, Jackie Robinson, JAmes Earl Jones, Johnny Cash / Over 7 hours of classic Sesame Street material

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Total Runtime: 440 minutes

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Sesame Street: Old School, Volume One: 1969-1974 DVD

Were some of your first friends named Grover, Mr. Hooper, and Bob? Do you remember the Ladybug Picnic? How about Pinball Number Count? Sesame Street Old School is a time capsule of the early days of the ground-breaking series you grew up on. Take a trip back in time with Bert, Ernie, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus. Sing along with classics like “C is for Cookie,” “I Love Trash,” and “Rubber Duckie.” Bring back the music, memories, and mayhem from Sesame Street’s first five seasons which can be enjoyed again and again.

When the Children's Theater Workshop's Sesame Street first aired on television in 1969, it was a revolutionary new show aimed specifically at preschool children--an audience previously untargeted by television programming. Exhaustively-researched and tested on real audiences of preschoolers, this "experiment in kid programming" aimed to teach preschoolers the alphabet, numbers, body parts, rhyming, and basic reasoning skills while thoroughly entertaining them. Through the use of humor, the amazing puppetry of Frank Oz and Jim Henson, animation, the incredibly catchy music of Joe Raposo and Jeffrey Moss, and a fast-action pace borrowed from the television commercial format, Sesame Street was, and still is, more successful at educating and entertaining children than anyone initially imagined. What's more, the lessons learned by generations of preschoolers went far beyond simple school-readiness skills to include values like acceptance, cooperation, and inclusiveness because the urban Sesame Street was a place populated by people and monsters young viewers could identify with, where anything could happen, and where every ethnicity, generation, and species co-existed and interacted harmoniously.

Sesame Street: Old School Volume 1 1969-1974 offers a sampling of the first five seasons of Sesame Street and includes the first episode of each season in its entirety as well as a large selection of classic segments from each season highlighting some of the most memorable sketches ("Bein' Green," "Rubber Duckie," "Whistle a Happy Tune," and Super-Grover in "Telephone Booth"), favorite human characters like Bob and Mr. Hooper, and guest appearances by celebrities like Bill Cosby, Lena Horne, Jackie Robinson, Carol Burnett, and Jesse Jackson. Adult viewers will be transported back in time as they witness Bert's frustration with his ever-noisy roommate Ernie, chuckle at the antics of Grover and his demanding customer in Grover's Restaurant, and wonder if Snuffleupagus will ever show himself to someone besides Big Bird. Other well-remembered moments include pinball number count, the baker who inevitably tumbles down the stairway with a handful of cream pies, the ever-munching Cookie Monster, "Here is Your Life" segments, Bert "Doin' the Pigeon," and the inevitably grumpy Oscar the Grouch. Post-Elmo preschoolers and their parents will laugh, learn, grow, and connect with one another as they share this classic compilation of Sesame Street moments. Bonus features include the original sales pitch reel (introduced by Joan Ganz Cooney and hosted by Kermit the Frog and Rowlf the Dog) and a thick booklet rich with history, trivia, and a pullout activity section for children. (Ages 2 and older) --Tami Horiuchi

Disc 1

• Episode 1 (1st season premiere)
• Season 1 Classic Cuts

• Bein' Green (First: Episode 0087)
• Rubber Duckie (First: Episode 0136)
• Counting With James Earl Jones (First: Episode 0005)
• ABC-DEF-GHI (First: Episode 0096)
• I Love Trash (First: Episode 0095)
• Alphabet With Jackie Robinson (First: Episode 0054)
• Batman Crosses The Street (First: Episode 0090)
• Swinging Gibbon (First: Episode 0009)
• Big Bird Meets Little Bird (First: Episode 0028)
• Alphabet with Lou Rawls (First: Episode 0043)
• I've Got Two (First: Episode 0152)
• Alphabet Soup (First: Episode 0004) (Sound effects added)
• Season 1 Credit Crawl

• Sesame Street Pitch Reel (Version 2)
• Easter Eggs: original drawings and behind-the-scenes photos

Disc 2

• Episode 131 (2nd season premiere)
• Season 2 Classic Cuts

• King Of Eight (First: Episode 0225)
• Over Under Around & Through (First: Episode 0258)
• S – Superman (First: Episode 0136)
• Astronaut Drawing (First: Episode 0193)
• Counting : Listen My Brother
• I Love Being A Pig (First: Episode 0572)
• Season 2 Credit Crawl

• Episode 276 (3rd season premiere)
• Season 3 Classic Cuts

• C Is For Cookie (First: Episode 0372)
• Ladybug Picnic (First: Episode 0416)
• Martians' Telephone (First: Episode 0398)
• Mumford's Magic Trick (First: Episode 0407)
• Alligator King (First: Episode 0411)
• J Friends (First: Episode 0339)
• A Special Day (First: Episode 0352)
• I Am Somebody
• Would You Like To Buy An O? (First: Episode 0364)
• Harvey Kneeslapper (First: Episode 0283)
• Breathing Song (First: Episode 0347)
• I In The Sky (First: Episode 0368)
• My Favorite Letter: P (First: Episode 0322)
• My Martian Beauty (First: Episode 0316)
• Mad Painter (First: Episode 0343)
• Season 3 Credit Crawl

Disc 3

• Episode 406 (4th season premiere)
• Season 4 Classic Cuts

• Kermit News: Rapunzel (First: Episode 0409)
• Bread, Milk And Butter (First: Episode 0408)
• Lost Paper Clips (First: Episode 0443)
• Witches Cooperate (First: Episode 0407)
• Song Of The Count (First: Episode 0469)
• Bert’s Bust (First: Episode 0463)
• First / Last With Beetle Bailey (First: Episode 0666)
• Season 4 Credit Crawl

• Episode 536 (5th season premiere)
• Season 5 Classic Cuts

• At The Movies (First: Episode 0538)
• Nasty Dan & Johnny Cash (First: Episode 0558)
• Prairie Dawn's Pageant (First: Episode 0578)
• Going To The Zoo (First: Episode 0603)
• Jazz Alphabet (First: Episode 0615)
• Hamburger Bun Factory (First: Episode 0615)
• Madrigal Alphabet (First: Episode 0615)
• Three Wishes (First: Episode 0634)
• Telephone Booth (First: Episode 0647)
• Season 5 Credit Crawl

Sesame Street: Old School is the title of a series of DVD releases produced by Sesame Workshop, featuring episodes from the early years of the PBS series, Sesame Street, plus highlights from that era. The first volume, "1969–1974", was released by Sony Wonder in Region 1 (North America) on October 24, 2006. The second volume, "1974–1979," was released by Genius Entertainment on November 6, 2007. The third volume, "1979–1984", was released by Warner Home Video on November 6, 2012. Each set featured 3 discs in a box set, with the exception of the third set, which instead features 2 discs.