While all of those songs would have multiple performances on the show over the years, the last two would have many different versions during this season.ĭuring the first season, many segments had some sort of connection with each other. The season introduced many original songs that have gone on to become beloved Sesame Street classics, including " Rubber Duckie", " I Love Trash", " Bein' Green", " The People in Your Neighborhood" and " One of These Things". Animated segments and live-action inserts featured in the season included Alice Braithwaite Goodyshoes, Jazz Numbers, Speech Balloons, Alphabet Bates and Numerosity, most of which continued to air many years later. Cartoon segments aired more frequently than Muppet segments, and as such, some of the original illustrated promotional material featured the cast and Muppets interacting with animated characters, who also appeared in advertisements of the show. While the Muppets would eventually become the biggest stars of the show, they did not appear as frequently as the cast. For example, in the first episode, Ernie once addresses the audience as those in "TV land". With time, the Street-scenes became more natural with a definite plot thrust, with less breaking of the fourth wall. The original episodes had a much more literal, almost lecture-like tone to the Street scenes, closer in style to its original contemporaries like Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or Captain Kangaroo.
(Many of these pieces are available for viewing at, and continue to be shown in various international co-productions.) Many of the Muppet scenes and films were created so that they could be replayed over and over (at least one segment would be repeated within any given episode) some of the segments made in 1969 would continue to be rebroadcast into the 1990s. Sesame Street's format as established in 1969 would remain virtually unchanged for decades live-action street scenes would alternate with Muppet comedy skits, musical numbers and short film segments, all known collectively as "inserts". The season also featured live-action segments starring Buddy and Jim, a human comedy duo that failed at such tasks as hanging a picture and making a sandwich. Bob, originally a shop teacher, would later teach music, and by the end of the first season Susan would become a nurse. Like the Muppets, the human characters would change over time.
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Hooper, who died in 1982, the other original characters were still with the series until casting changes for Season 46, making them some of the longest continually-running non- soap opera characters in American entertainment. Hooper, Gordon, and Susan were the original human cast members. Monsters, who would become core characters by the second season, had fierce teeth, often destroyed anything in their path, and didn't have consistent names.īob, Mr. Oscar, who would still retain much of his grouchy demeanor almost 40 years later, had orange fur. Big Bird had a much more naïve voice and a smaller head with fewer feathers, and was written as a sort of dopey adult character.
Many of the Muppet characters had designs and/or character traits that would be changed or dropped later on. During this first season, Oscar the Grouch and Big Bird were the only Muppets to appear regularly in Street scenes, while most of the other Muppets debuted in separate segments.
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