Sesame Street - Ending theme to episode # 179

Here is my 20th and final post from my B&W "episode 179" ebay tape. I only skipped a couple of boring segments, including a "Roosevelt Franklin" muppet segment. I remember the character from my childhood but the segment wasn't that great. I would love to get some of these in color someday!

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[lcirej71]

My biggest question about the street in SESAME STREET, is where DID they tie the other end the tire swing?

[mstatz]

Hey, that's a very good question! I never thought of that. There doesn't seem to be a tree around.

[AllisonTheSNLGuru]

Wow! Great video. I'm 26 years old, so I can definitely say any of my earliest Sesame Street memories aren't from before 1984 or 1985. Unfortunately, I was about 3 months old when Mr. Hooper died, so I can't tell you I remember that, but it's something I've always heard about. I am, however, old enough to remember Jim Henson's passing (I was 7 in the summer of 1990).

Thanks for posting this!

[mstatz]

I remember Sesame Street in the early 70's (I was born in 1968) and it was NOTHING like it is today. It is like another TV show now (and it stinks). I was almost 22 and in the army when Henson passed away. It went down hill from there. It stayed relatively the same from 1969 to 1989 but it got worse quickly from there.

[neddx]

Dude! don't take Roosevelt Franklin lightly. Seeing sketches with him is rare these days. He was actually my favorite character when I was 4. Now I think it's Cookie Monster

[mstatz]

I just checked out your age and considering that the Roosevelt Franklin character was phased out about 10 years before you were born, I seriously doubt you remember him...unless, of course, you just blatantly lied about your age for some reason!

[BrittnayMarie22]

Oscar Looks So Scary At The End He Gives Me Fricken Goosebumps lol.

[A1l2l2e2n4]

@mstatz

When Jim Henson died, "Sesame Street" had 20 years' worth of Muppet sketches accumulated. Assuming that "Sesame Street" DID indeed recycle some of those sketches, it's possible that neddx might have seen sketches with Roosevelt Franklin.

[trev358]

@SeanElGatoTelevision Actually, this episode is from 1971, not 1974. I'm sure most of you know that color television was introduced in the U.S. in the mid 1950s, and became the standard by the 1970s, although even then there were still some black-and-white TV sets existing.

[3KNOCKS]

I DID AND STILL DO LOVE THE OLD SESAME STREET AND I MISS IT TOO.

IT IS JUST NOT THE SAME TODAY.

[plateshutoverlock]

@mstatz Maybe to a beam+pulley used to haul cargo up to the upper floors of the warehouse like building behind them.

(course reality it would just be the sound stage rafters :)

[kaiclay2]

Which Year Was That Taken ?

[SeanElGatoTelevision]

@plateshutoverlock: Well into the mid-1970s, some public TV stations were still broadcasting in black and white so PBS sent black and white kinescope copies of its programming (including this 1974 Sesame Street episode) to stations that hadn't yet upgraded their facilities to color broadcasting.

[ENTERTAINMENT35]

is that patty doitch talking in the closing credits

[torontonian1978]

hahahahaha i remember i used to cry when they started to play this music, it meant i had to go to kindergarten!

[Melcat96]

Just so you know, that's Little Bird announcing the sponsors.

[itofficer02]

was it actually aired in Black and White?