And THAT my friends, is the letter 2! I LOVE watching these old episodes. Back when kids were allowed to go outside without being wrapped in a plastic bubble and glued to a cell phone.
@bluegoth - omg that little white girl is so over bearing. WTF -
Over bearing? Uh, notice how the caucasian child out thinks, out plays and out talks all the other minority kids on the block. And she´s half their age!
@bluegoth - omg that little white girl is so over bearing. WTF -
Over bearing? Uh, notice how the caucasian child out thinks, out plays and out talks all the other minority kids on the block. And she´s half their age!
Hahaha. It's hilarious when they are making the letter S. The guy asks "what letter is that" a kid says 2.
Kids in the past used to get outside more. Today's kids are glued to technology all the time. Sad how back then they were more free thinkers where today fads take more influence.
"And you must be kidding me, this is the same guy who always had a shaved head? Oh my he looks so different with hair, but just as awesome :) "
It's the same character, but not the same actor.
Gordon was played by two different people before the bald guy came along. The man seen here is the second one. Bald Gordon came along in 1974 (six years in) and he's been there ever since.
They must have mixed different clips for different seasons. I can swear I remember the clip of the one kid helping the other kid drink from the soda bottle from the time period when I watched, (probably from about 1976-1980 or so), but most if it is different. I did recognize a couple of the other children as well, but I think they were different clips.
They shot a bunch of opening scenes in 1972 (the fourth year) and basically just used those in different combinations for the next fifteen years or so. I don't think they updated it with new scenes until around 1988.
Huh, I don't remember the little animated opening bits at all, and I'm sure by this time in my life I was watching this as well as The Electric Company; I would've been 4. I don't remember this Gordon either.
This is way before my time. The only time I have ever seen Gordan was when he had a shaved head. Did he purposely shave it or did it fall out?. That's an interesting do he has hear. Interesting to say the least.
Yes, you are right. I remember Matt Robinson of course as the first Gordon, it's Hal MIller that I vaguely remember. And Roscoe Orman has played Gordon the longest, so he
wow! I didn't know gordon had been on the show that long it's great our children can actually watch a great show we grew up watching, my three year old who is learning to name all the characters and is learning to count and his alphebet cookie monster is our f0av000orite.
Goshdarnit! When Big Bird was in the cart with the horse, he was LAUGHING! I sure hope Jim Henson was a vegetarian, maybe not but he wouldn't be because he has big bird whipping a horse!!!!!!!
Oh, no! Big Bird and some kids were abusing animals! HOW CRUEL OF THEM!? U know why? well, Big Bird was whipping a horse and those kids were chasing a cow! How cruel!
Tell that to all the people back then who won Oscars in the Best Editing category. :]
That's just how this show used to work at times--they'd run the camera on some kids and see what happened. If they felt the footage was useful, in it went.
It's just a bunch of media bull crap. It depends on the parent what they see suitable for their children. They have no right to tell other parents what's suitable for their kids or not. So if they wanna put their mind in the gutter saying earny and bert are gay, or oscar the grouch had untreated depression issues, or that the cookie monster was going on diabetes, they need to look at things in a simpler sense. If they wana see crap, they should look at Disney stuff.
LOL. No, that "warning" is just on those DVDs because of hyper-paranoia.
The concern isn't that anyone thinks this old stuff would be BAD for kids, exactly, but that the approaches and techniques used in this 30+ year-old material would be alien and confusing to preschoolers conditioned on different kinds of approaches in educational media today.
It's complete nonsense, of course, but it shows how super afraid everyone is of lawyers. :)
I suspect there's also some sarcasm from the producers of the boxed set. "Why don't we have television like that today? Because the censors won't let us."
It's got nothing to do with....CENSORS. (lightening crash, sinister laughter). Just a combination of evolving educational research, a constantly changing media environment, and a self-imposed, wishy-washy kind of political correctness. Nothing sinister or mysterious about it. Just regrettable.
Me, I find it odd how programming for very young kids has gotten tame and sanitized in recent years, while shows for older kids have gotten wild and outrageous beyond anyone's dreams.
Since Sitcom71 closed his account can you post Herbert Birdfoot's "ET" lecture and the sketch where Bert tries to write to Mr.Roger's but Ernie keeps the fan blowing?
Mstatz, why aren't you uploading "Pick Your Pet" (game show featuring Sonny Friendly), Kermit demonstrating between with two poles, and a transistion clip where a black circle tries to roll up a steep incline yet?
Did the Big Bird-in-the-horse-cart-sequence at 00:24 air before 1974? I hate sounding like those snarky purists who like to comment here, but I don't recall ever seeing the Bird in the cart before then... but I could be wrong!
I think they just shot a bunch of opening scenes in 1972 and used them (in various arrangements) until about 1988 when they finally replaced them. For sixteen or so years it was always that 1972 footage. (The 1969 film footage having only lived for three years)
That was a good one. You don't see too many clips with Hal Miller as Gordon these days. You also don't see too many of those ad-libbed scenes with the adults interacting with children. I'd like to see more scenes from around that time.
they really should of left the intro alone
joebulls1 5 months ago
I used to wonder why that kid at :48 was drinking out of a gerbil's water bottle. .
mikper7 8 months ago
He says something about a greenscreen at 0:04.
loveforlogos 8 months ago
The opening looks nice and bright does NOT look from the 70s looks like from late 90s or early 2000s
Sw499erB0iZ 11 months ago
And THAT my friends, is the letter 2! I LOVE watching these old episodes. Back when kids were allowed to go outside without being wrapped in a plastic bubble and glued to a cell phone.
freakyguru 1 year ago
My dad was 18 when this aired! And I wasn't even born yet!
brettfoshager 1 year ago
I don't think I was born when this first aired yet!
muppetfan33 1 year ago
Look at the big fro on Gordon LOL
sanoriley 1 year ago
@0:26, you can see Big bird in the classics
Lovegamebaby2000 1 year ago
omg that little white girl is so over bearing. WTF
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Over bearing? Uh, notice how the caucasian child out thinks, out plays and out talks all the other minority kids on the block. And she´s half their age!
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Over bearing? Uh, notice how the caucasian child out thinks, out plays and out talks all the other minority kids on the block. And she´s half their age!
RideMyBMW 11 months ago
Does anyone else think Hal Miller looks an awful lot like O.J. Simpson?
WindowshadeCure 2 years ago
@WindowshadeCure HAHAHAHA! i always thought OJ looked like Martin Luther King
NukeIt2Bdone 1 year ago
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bazrichi 2 years ago
"what letter is that everybody?"
"...2!"
"No thats a number"
bentheone1 2 years ago 8
Hahaha. It's hilarious when they are making the letter S. The guy asks "what letter is that" a kid says 2.
Kids in the past used to get outside more. Today's kids are glued to technology all the time. Sad how back then they were more free thinkers where today fads take more influence.
PanZheXin 2 years ago 2
children wore so dear. And they still are. They'er the real stars of sesmae street.
evertte87 2 years ago 3
How long was this version of the theme used for? My guess would be longer than the others.
dwtsgirl750 2 years ago
Little kids with huge Afros are so cute!
70s80s 2 years ago
Damn, I remember this show!
luckyvet 2 years ago
back then sesame street let kids think for themselfs, now they tell them what to say and keep recording untill they get it right lol
luv2scam 2 years ago 2
From Sesame Street Season 5, which ran from 1973 to 1974.
kungfujiapple 2 years ago
These are the most wonderful children EVER.
Addiction747 2 years ago
Haha the little girl is SO cute.
And you must be kidding me, this is the same guy who always had a shaved head? Oh my he looks so different with hair, but just as awesome :)
Addiction747 2 years ago
you mean that's GORDON?!?!?!
ekimzaga 2 years ago
"And you must be kidding me, this is the same guy who always had a shaved head? Oh my he looks so different with hair, but just as awesome :) "
It's the same character, but not the same actor.
Gordon was played by two different people before the bald guy came along. The man seen here is the second one. Bald Gordon came along in 1974 (six years in) and he's been there ever since.
Marbles471 2 years ago
the letter 2 =) haha aww soo sweet.
ChanelBrown 3 years ago
They must have mixed different clips for different seasons. I can swear I remember the clip of the one kid helping the other kid drink from the soda bottle from the time period when I watched, (probably from about 1976-1980 or so), but most if it is different. I did recognize a couple of the other children as well, but I think they were different clips.
fluffysue 3 years ago
They shot a bunch of opening scenes in 1972 (the fourth year) and basically just used those in different combinations for the next fifteen years or so. I don't think they updated it with new scenes until around 1988.
Marbles471 3 years ago
Huh, I don't remember the little animated opening bits at all, and I'm sure by this time in my life I was watching this as well as The Electric Company; I would've been 4. I don't remember this Gordon either.
murielsartre 3 years ago
This is way before my time. The only time I have ever seen Gordan was when he had a shaved head. Did he purposely shave it or did it fall out?. That's an interesting do he has hear. Interesting to say the least.
DJtim86 3 years ago
Apparently he was played by a different guy back then. But yeah, Gordon with an afro. Just not right.
GingerGilligan 3 years ago
There were actually two Gordon's throughout the show.
BaileySEA 3 years ago
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1RichardHunt 2 years ago
Yes, you are right. I remember Matt Robinson of course as the first Gordon, it's Hal MIller that I vaguely remember. And Roscoe Orman has played Gordon the longest, so he
s typically regarded as Gordon.
BaileySEA 2 years ago
And it's funny, but I remember that very eposode. I saw it first-run in 1974.
BaileySEA 2 years ago
Show 666? Oh oh, he might possibly be the antichrist.
sclock2 2 years ago
No, no, no! I meant Roscoe started playing Gordon in the 666th episode.
Sure, I know the superstition about 666 being the devil's number. But really, that has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
1RichardHunt 2 years ago
wow! I didn't know gordon had been on the show that long it's great our children can actually watch a great show we grew up watching, my three year old who is learning to name all the characters and is learning to count and his alphebet cookie monster is our f0av000orite.
crystalgail2582 3 years ago
I can tell Gordon was disappointed that it was just another "O" at the end. That little girl should be ashamed of herself.
kirkenbunken 3 years ago
i was 5 years old when this came out!!! oi!!
nuckgirl16 3 years ago
That's the same age I was. I probably saw this episode that day when I got home from kindergarten.
mstatz 3 years ago
Goshdarnit! When Big Bird was in the cart with the horse, he was LAUGHING! I sure hope Jim Henson was a vegetarian, maybe not but he wouldn't be because he has big bird whipping a horse!!!!!!!
Americanautistic 3 years ago
Oh, no! Big Bird and some kids were abusing animals! HOW CRUEL OF THEM!? U know why? well, Big Bird was whipping a horse and those kids were chasing a cow! How cruel!
Americanautistic 3 years ago
I hope you're being sarcastic!
mstatz 3 years ago
I guess they hadn't quite perfected the concept of editing back then.
magicpig 4 years ago
Tell that to all the people back then who won Oscars in the Best Editing category. :]
That's just how this show used to work at times--they'd run the camera on some kids and see what happened. If they felt the footage was useful, in it went.
Marbles471 4 years ago 2
Did that guy give his kid a beer?
sophiecat07 4 years ago
Is it true that the old episodes wasn't ment for today kids to watch cause of its writing production?
genestarwindjf 4 years ago
It's just a bunch of media bull crap. It depends on the parent what they see suitable for their children. They have no right to tell other parents what's suitable for their kids or not. So if they wanna put their mind in the gutter saying earny and bert are gay, or oscar the grouch had untreated depression issues, or that the cookie monster was going on diabetes, they need to look at things in a simpler sense. If they wana see crap, they should look at Disney stuff.
BlaqTiger 4 years ago 5
LOL. No, that "warning" is just on those DVDs because of hyper-paranoia.
The concern isn't that anyone thinks this old stuff would be BAD for kids, exactly, but that the approaches and techniques used in this 30+ year-old material would be alien and confusing to preschoolers conditioned on different kinds of approaches in educational media today.
It's complete nonsense, of course, but it shows how super afraid everyone is of lawyers. :)
Marbles471 4 years ago
I suspect there's also some sarcasm from the producers of the boxed set. "Why don't we have television like that today? Because the censors won't let us."
Julian9ehp 4 years ago
It's got nothing to do with....CENSORS. (lightening crash, sinister laughter). Just a combination of evolving educational research, a constantly changing media environment, and a self-imposed, wishy-washy kind of political correctness. Nothing sinister or mysterious about it. Just regrettable.
Me, I find it odd how programming for very young kids has gotten tame and sanitized in recent years, while shows for older kids have gotten wild and outrageous beyond anyone's dreams.
Marbles471 4 years ago
Since Sitcom71 closed his account can you post Herbert Birdfoot's "ET" lecture and the sketch where Bert tries to write to Mr.Roger's but Ernie keeps the fan blowing?
wattamack4 4 years ago
that kid took 10 minutes to do the leter o! WOW...
ZidaneDaMan10 4 years ago
I only remember seeing Gordon as a bald man.
Great video for nostalgia reasons :)
I think Bob is the only original left on sesame street now after nearly 40 years.
holicman 4 years ago 2
Did Susan leave?
mstatz 4 years ago
no she still shows up not as much. but you'll see every now and then. she does more public speaking now
doodoo2468 4 years ago
@mstatz she's still on the show, but now she only appears in about one episode per season. The same goes for Bob.
classicssmfan 1 year ago
because 3 people at least played gordon the original one was (i forgot his name) the one with the afro hairstyle
simpsonzlover32 4 years ago
What year did this episode first air in?
HartCourtMonopoly 4 years ago
January 9, 1974.
mstatz 4 years ago
Mstatz, why aren't you uploading "Pick Your Pet" (game show featuring Sonny Friendly), Kermit demonstrating between with two poles, and a transistion clip where a black circle tries to roll up a steep incline yet?
Deanmo23 4 years ago
That is the letter....2. LOL There's a smart kid. hehe sarcasm.
kll510 4 years ago
That kid wasn't stupid, just silly. I think we all thought a number could also be a letter because letters and numbers seem alike.
cbsteffen 4 years ago
I never tire hearing this version of the Sesame Street theme! :)
70s80s 4 years ago
One question - why is there mid and late-Seventies video footage in such an early episode?
raposofan 4 years ago
How do you know it's mid to late 70's footage in this opening sequence?
mstatz 4 years ago
Did the Big Bird-in-the-horse-cart-sequence at 00:24 air before 1974? I hate sounding like those snarky purists who like to comment here, but I don't recall ever seeing the Bird in the cart before then... but I could be wrong!
raposofan 4 years ago
I think they just shot a bunch of opening scenes in 1972 and used them (in various arrangements) until about 1988 when they finally replaced them. For sixteen or so years it was always that 1972 footage. (The 1969 film footage having only lived for three years)
Marbles471 4 years ago
Joe Raposo wrote the short segments like the music that starts this. BMI has registered it all! BMI rawks!
raposofan 4 years ago
That was a good one. You don't see too many clips with Hal Miller as Gordon these days. You also don't see too many of those ad-libbed scenes with the adults interacting with children. I'd like to see more scenes from around that time.
Daffyfan2006 4 years ago
Pretty much just letting the camera run on an actor and a bunch of little kids is kind of a crapshoot, but it sure is fun to watch.
Marbles471 4 years ago
C is for Classic, that's good enough for me!
ISNorden 4 years ago
"Let's turn it and C."
DiAnno13 4 years ago