Happy and You Know It Sesame Street

Sesame Street
Exploration of D words, the number 2, animals, and newspapers
Air appointment	July 21, 1969

"The following program is from NET, the public television network."

Sesame Street Test Show i was the starting time of five pilot episodes broadcast in July 1969 to test the show's educational value and appeal to children. The shows were broadcast at 10AM over five days on the Philadelphia UHF station WHUY Aqueduct 33, which was operated by the Cyberspace affiliate, WHYY. Researchers from the Children's Television Workshop tested children earlier and later on the week of broadcasts.^[1]

Picture	Segment	Description
	Theme	The full version of the Sesame Street Theme, sung past Bob, is played over film footage of a little boy and girl getting directions from the people in their neighborhood.
	SCENE one	The camera pans beyond Sesame Street, starting at the famous sign. Two boys pass by Susan, who spends most of the show sitting at the window, not doing much of anything, apart from reading a book. We finally see Gordon (played by Garrett Saunders) repairing a cement tier. He greets the audience: "Oh, hello—I'k glad you constitute Sesame Street. Information technology's not the easiest place in the world to get to." He spots two boys, Donald and David, and thinks they desire their initials in the cement. He draws ii Ds in it.
	Cartoon	A small homo and his banana, Dudley, attempt to demonstrate both the capital and lower-case letter D.
	SCENE 2	Gordon leads the boys over to a door (in the expanse which would soon atomic number 82 to Big Bird's nest), and gives them some chalk to write Ds with.
	SCENE two cont'd	Bob passes by Gordon and says hello, then walks by the camera. Gordon says it'south important to know how to print letters, and we fade to the next piece—–
	Celebrity	Listen My Brother sings "You Gotta Learn."
	SCENE 3	Susan: "We'll be right back afterward this of import bulletin."
	Cartoon	"The D Commercial:" Two boys notice a D, saying it looks fatty. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it'south the letter of the alphabet D. This leads to a jazzy story about a dog who digs for die, wins a duck, and buys a dinosaur with a dime. Moral: "If yous dig a dinosaur, drib your duck for a dime." Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert
	Ernie and Bert	The photographic camera zooms out to reveal the aforementioned cartoon beingness played on a TV set in a pocket-size apartment. A Muppet, Ernie (whose undeveloped voice resembles Rowlf's at this point), loves the drawing that nosotros just saw, and asks to see it one more fourth dimension. He gets his wish as it plays once again.
	Drawing	"The D Commercial" (repeat)
	Ernie and Bert	Ernie, now joined by another Muppet, Bert, asks to see the D flick one more time, and again gets his wish.
	Drawing	"The D Commercial" (repeat)
	Ernie and Bert	When Ernie asks for the D flick to be played again, Bert promptly shuts his mouth. Ernie realizes they're not going to show it once again and, forth with Bert, feasts his eyes on the next segment.
	Insert	A magician (James "The Amazing" Randi) produces a series of D cards from the palm of his manus and sticks them on his chest.
	Cartoon	Superman, carrying a door-like shield, charges towards a giant ape and uses it to block the ape's rut-vision. He punches the ape, knocking it to the ground, and rescues Lois from the ape's manus. The camera then cuts to Superman exclaiming "D!"
	Insert	The magician, at present wearing a tuxedo, tears a paper into smaller pieces. So, by magic, he puts it back together and opens it to reveal a big letter D!
	Drawing	A fiddling girl sings "The Alphabet Song," while continually admonished by an adult in vocalism-over. The catastrophe, in which the girl is informed "you may consider yourself unemployed," is not present in this version. Studio: Ken Snyder
	Celebrity	Mind, My Brother sings their own version of the Alphabet Song.
	SCENE 4	Gordon remarks to Susan that taking care of 123 Sesame Street can go on him busy—right now, he'south building a bookcase. Susan asks him to build one for her, simply he says possibly he will next calendar week. And so he introduces the viewer to—–
	Movie	Film footage of a ane-day-old baby reindeer taking its first steps. Music: Joe Raposo
	SCENE 5	Gordon points out that "deer" is a D word. Afterward a pause, Bob offers to help Gordon with the bookcase, but Gordon says he doesn't need any help—not afterward the fourth dimension he asked Buddy and Jim for assist—–
	Cast	Buddy and Jim hang a picture.
	SCENE 6	Gordon is now DONE with the bookcase. "Done" is some other D discussion.
	Cartoon	A modest homo and his banana, Dudley, effort to demonstrate both the capital and lower-example letter D. (repeat)
	SCENE 7	With a groovy rhyme, Gordon invites the audience to trip the light fantastic toe along with him, Susan, Bob, and the kids to some corking Joe Raposo music.
	SCENE 7 cont'd	Mr. Hooper notices everyone dancing later on he puts upwards a sign that reads "DONUTS TODAY." Ernie claps his hands (despite visible puppet sleeves), and Bert does a fancy fandango.
	SCENE seven cont'd	The music fades out, and Gordon points out another D give-and-take: Trip the light fantastic.
	Cartoon	Speech Balloon: D -- Canis familiaris (function reversal between man and dog)
	SCENE 8	Bob gathers the kids on the steps of 123 Sesame Street, and reads a volume to them: "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. The kids effort to read along with him. cutting from the DVD version
	SCENE 9	Subsequently Bob finishes the book, Susan sings "If You're Happy and You lot Know It" to some of the same kids from the previous segment. During the "mad" verse she quickly notices, "Oh, nosotros're making so much noise—Mother'll turn off the Television set. Let's go to the next verse...." and continues.
	SCENE 9 cont'd	Later on the vocal, Susan points to a circle and makes certain the kids know what shape it is. They get on to proper noun every bit many round things as they tin can, which leads to --
	Flick	"Round": A live-action moving picture set to a lively soundtrack shows circles in every-day life, including Coca-Cola bottle caps, moving wheels, yo-yos, bubbles, and balloons.
	SCENE x	When the flick finishes, Susan and the kids try to think of things that are triangular. Susan knows a story nigh a triangle and a foursquare.
	Cartoon	A male person vocalization narrates a story of a jazzy triangle who loved to trip the light fantastic toe, and a square square. The triangle likes beingness flexible, but the foursquare would rather exist stiff and foursquare.
	SCENE 11	Gordon checks on how the Ds in the cement are doing and decides to even them up.
	Drawing	Jazz #2
	SCENE 12	Bob points out some of the things people have ii of.
	Film	Two Song (Vocal of Ii)
	SCENE 13	Susan introduces another pic.
	Moving-picture show	A montage of moving-picture show clips with pairs of zoo animals, such as parrots, monkeys, tigers, and penguins. Music: Joe Raposo
	Cartoon	Jazz #2 (repeat)
	Ernie and Bert	"Let'southward see," says Ernie. "Nosotros've got ii eyes, and two ears, and two noses..." "Hey, you ding-a-ling!" Bert interrupts. "Y'all've just got 1 nose." Ernie promptly pulls Bert'south nose off, sticks it to his ain face up, and keeps counting. "2 noses, and two optics, and 2 ears ... also bad!"
	Film	Two Song (Song of Two) (echo)
	Cartoon	Rocket inaugural: The rocket blows upwards in a shower of soot.
	Celebrity	Carol Burnett: "Well, back to the ol' cartoon board!"
	SCENE 14	Bob goes to Mr. Hooper's store, buys a paper, and reads it in front of the doorway where Mr. Hooper is sweeping. He tells Bob to stand away from the door and then that customers tin can come up in his store. Gordon wants to see the sports scores section of the paper, then Bob gives it to him. He and then proceeds to hand out ane newspaper section after another: he gives the Ladies' Page to Susan, and the comics page to 2 boys (though he rips off "Batman" and hands information technology to Gordon). Just then, Mr. Hooper says that the terminal paper initially belongs to him, and demands it be given to him—"At present! Not side by side yr!" He gets his wish—or does he?
	Ernie and Bert	Ernie wants to lookout Batman, only Bert wants to watch The Man from Alphabet. A quarrel ensues, merely then Batman himself starts speaking to them from their Television screen, asking what they watched the mean solar day earlier. Since they watched Batman yesterday, it's only fair that they watch The Man from Alphabet today.
	Film	The Man from Alphabet is commissioned by his teacher to assistance solve a series of crimes involving stolen newspapers. The culprit turns out to be Digby Dropout, who, along with his sidekick, Dunce (played past Jim Thurman), hides the papers in his secret hideout, a warehouse. Dropout knows that if no 1 reads the paper, they won't know what he and Dunce are upward to. MFA converses with H.B. the paperboy and concludes information technology was Dropout who done it. Acting on the advice of H.B., MFA looks up the word "bloodhound" in the Alphabet Book and decides to seek the assistance of one—with the odor of a spare newspaper he had lying around, the dog is sure to track down the crooks. The secret hideout is establish, and MFA and the bloodhound force Digby and Dunce to return all the newspapers they stole.
	SCENE fifteen	During the last few minutes of the show, Gordon and the kids watch a baby raccoon consume grapes out of a food dish. The raccoon wanders away, and Gordon says farewell to the audition.
	SCENE xv cont'd	Susan announces the sponsors, and the book read on today's show. Susan'southward mention of the volume was cut from the DVD release.
	Closing SIGNS	The endmost scene pans to a close-upwardly to the Sesame Street sign and fades to the CTW sign on a blueish background.