Season 5 (1973-1974)

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Sesame Street Season 5 aired from November 19, 1973, to May 17, 1974.
==Overview==
The curriculum for Season 5 focuses on "affect behavior, which includes lessons on emotions and feelings. Children will be able to recognize feelings and emotions including pride, love, fear, anger, surprise, happiness, and sadness taught through the human hosts, the Muppets, and animated films."The Virgin Islands Daily News: Sesame Street Back In Its Fifth Season With this in mind, specific subjects include self-esteem and coping with failure, exemplified by songs such as Joe Raposo's "Trying Song." The practice of entering social groups is also discussed, notably when Lena Horne teaches Grover that a simple "How Do You Do?" can be enough to meet new people. Other topics include covering complex geometric shapes.Truglio and Fisch. G is for Growing. p. 31
==Characters and segments==
This season introduces new Muppet characters including the Twiddlebug FamilyThe Virgin Islands Daily News: Sesame Street Back In Its Fifth Season who try to solve problems such as the quickest way to get to the zoo, though they don't always come to the most practical solutions. Construction worker Sully joins his partner Biff, who was introduced in the previous season.The Deseret News: 1...2...3...4...5 for Sesame St. Rock musicians Chris and the Alphabeats (later known as Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats) make their debut with "Count It Higher," with the lead singer being voiced by songwriter Christopher Cerf.
Several established characters are given recurring segments. Grover has two new alter egos: Marshal Grover, partnered with the much wiser Fred the Wonder Horse, and Super Grover, a bumbling but well-meaning superhero. Prairie Dawn plays piano and hosts the first of her Sesame Street pageants with the help of her friends, and Maria begins to portray the silent-movie legend Charlie Chaplin in pantomime sketches. The short Sand Alphabet segments by Eliot Noyes, Jr. frequently appear, as well as a film series starring a man who displays animals in the form of shadow puppets that children offscreen identify. Artist Etienne Delessert also provides ten animated segments to teach affective skills."Sesame Street Opens 5th Season Monday for Kiddies." The Lima News. November 18, 1973
==Episodes==
Episodes 0536 - 0665 (130 episodes)
* Episode 0536 -- 5th season premiere; Just another quiet day on Sesame Street
* Episode 0537 -- Sam the Robot demonstrates next to and away from
* Episode 0538 
* Episode 0539 -- Big Bird plays hide-and-seek
* Episode 0540 -- There's a fire in Hooper's Store
* Episode 0541 -- Oscar's horse; The Count counts things in Gordon and Susan's kitchen
* Episode 0542 -- Sam the Robot counts to 10 when he's mad
* Episode 0543
* Episode 0544 -- Oscar plans a Grouch picnic
* Episode 0545 -- Big Bird is stuck in his nest area; Biff buys six softballs
* Episode 0546 -- Bad Barney causes trouble for Big Bird
* Episode 0547 -- Cookie Monster and the number 2
* Episode 0548 
* Episode 0549
* Episode 0550 -- Oscar enters the Trash Can Derby
* Episode 0551 -- Oscar tricks Gordon
* Episode 0552 -- Sam the Robot demonstrates near and far; The Count counts in his sleep
* Episode 0553 -- Oscar installs a doorbell on his trash can
* Episode 0554 -- Gordon and Susan's new car
* Episode 0555 -- Big Bird calls for people to meet Snuffy
* Episode 0556 -- Big Bird imagines himself as David; Sam the Robot plays a rhyming game with David and the kids
* Episode 0557 -- Maria needs $5 to pay back Luis
* Episode 0558 -- Johnny Cash visits
* Episode 0559 -- Maria guards Cookie Monster's cookie
* Episode 0560 -- Big Bird tells the shortest and longest stories ever told
* Episode 0561 -- Oscar's sticky lid; Big Bird imagines what he'll be when he grows up
* Episode 0562
* Episode 0563 -- Oscar's can-opening device; Big Bird delivers a radio for Luis
* Episode 0564 -- Big Bird's surprise
* Episode 0565 -- Sam the Robot demonstrates opposites
* Episode 0566 -- Everyone buys "fantastic machines"; Big Bird accidentally locks Gordon in the garage
* Episode 0567 -- Luis plays the conga drum
* Episode 0568 -- Oscar's country cousin visits
* Episode 0569 -- Letter O scavenger hunt; Oscar adds three tiers to his trash can
* Episode 0570 -- Cookie Monster finds a job
* Episode 0571 -- David's poem about Maria / Oscar argues with his voice recording
* Episode 0572 -- Goldilocks and the three ... ?
* Episode 0573 -- Gordon and the kids make rope letters; Oscar fakes having a cold; David loses his class ring
* Episode 0574 -- Big Bird learns about what other birds eat
* Episode 0575
* Episode 0576 -- Big Bird tries to find a rhyme for "turtle"
* Episode 0577 -- Mr. Hooper gives David a hat for a gift; Big Bird the Grouch
* Episode 0578 -- A witch curses Oscar with a nose
* Episode 0579 -- Mr. Hooper leaves Big Bird in charge of Hooper's Store
* Episode 0580 -- Mr. Snuffleupagus wears a mask to a ball
* Episode 0581 -- Big Bird plays airport; Officer Krupky looks for Maria
* Episode 0582 -- David and Luis swap jobs
* Episode 0583 -- Simon Soundman at Hooper's Store; Big Bird tries to pack things in Gordon's car
* Episode 0584 -- Cookie Monster's cousin Apple Monster visits Sesame Street; Oscar creates an elevator
* Episode 0585 -- Sam the Robot talks to a mailbox; Snuffy's balloons
* Episode 0586 -- Big Bird borrows David's scale; the cast demonstrates "beso"
* Episode 0587 -- The Little Theatre of the Deaf visits
* Episode 0588 -- Oscar is blown up a tree
* Episode 0589 -- Big Bird tries to put leaves back on a tree
* Episode 0590 -- Big Bird and the pretend-Snuffleupagus; Sam the Robot and the leaking fire hydrant
* Episode 0591
* Episode 0592 -- A cold day on Sesame Street
* Episode 0593 -- Heavy snow falls on Sesame Street
* Episode 0594 -- Grover's icy love / snowball fight
* Episode 0595 -- Maria prepares to go skiing
* Episode 0596 -- Snow directions / Oscar's slippery scenario / Luis and Maria sing "Snow"
* Episode 0597 -- A snowy day on Sesame Street
* Episode 0598 -- Sherlock Hemlock tries to help Luis find his pencil / Oscar shows David his grouchy winter hat
* Episode 0599 -- Building a snowman / gloves for snowballs
* Episode 0600 -- Big Bird forgets to not mail a snowball / Oscar's "Dial-a-Grouch" phone service
* Episode 0601 -- Everyone keeps warm
* Episode 0602 -- Big Bird eliminates snow without shoveling
* Episode 0603 -- Maria tries to get her hat back from Oscar
* Episode 0604 -- Cookie Monster tries to eat in peace
* Episode 0605 -- Oscar plays "Simon Says" with the kids
* Episode 0606 -- Biff goes to Hooper's Store to buy gifts; Big Bird plans to paint his mailbox
* Episode 0607 -- David has trouble taking a telephone message for Maria
* Episode 0608 -- Big Bird learns the difference between open and closed
* Episode 0609 -- Big Bird and the Kids draw Mr. Snuffleupagus
* Episode 0610 -- Maria acquires an old rocking chair
* Episode 0611 -- Pete Seeger and Jimmy Collier visit
* Episode 0612 -- Bert's amnesia
* Episode 0613 -- Oscar decides to move his trash can
* Episode 0614 -- Oscar's giant trash can.
* Episode 0615 -- Prince Charming has a cold; Grover plays a sound game with Oscar
* Episode 0616 -- Maria tries to get Oscar to say "please"; Big Bird needs help demonstrating subtraction
* Episode 0617 -- David tells the Count to find words that rhyme with tree
* Episode 0618 -- Piano troubles
* Episode 0619 -- Snuffy's eyesight
* Episode 0620 -- Big Bird wonders where Mr. Macintosh is
* Episode 0621 -- Dancing on Sesame Street
* Episode 0622 -- Letter S Hunt
* Episode 0623 -- Big Bird tries to remember how to pronounce Mr. Hooper's name
* Episode 0624 -- Mr. Hooper and David have an argument
* Episode 0625 -- Big Bird watches a nature program on TV; Oscar changes his name to "George the Grouch"
* Episode 0626 -- Rafael moves to Sesame Street; Big Bird helps Susan inflate her bike tire
* Episode 0627 -- Prince Charming looks for Sleeping Beauty
* Episode 0628 -- Mr. Hooper loses his glasses, finds Mr. Snuffleupagus
* Episode 0629 -- The Count plays "Blind Man's Bluff" 
* Episode 0630 -- Luis has Biff put up a DANGER sign; Sam the Robot is too big to enter Hooper's Store; Big Bird's home movies
* Episode 0631 -- Big Bird makes an "Abierto" sign
* Episode 0632 -- Big Bird writes a giant note to Snuffy; The Count has chickenpox
* Episode 0633 -- Big Bird tries to run away
* Episode 0634 -- Waldo Woodpecker visits Big Bird
* Episode 0635 -- Big Bird's family album; Oscar's book of Grouch poems
* Episode 0636 -- Everyone looks for things that rhyme with "toot"
* Episode 0637 -- The Electric Company meets Sesame Street
* Episode 0638 -- The Count waits at the bus stop; Big Bird, Snuffy, and the kids play a pretending game.
* Episode 0639 -- Sam the Robot's paintings; Oscar makes popcorn
* Episode 0640 -- Biff buys ping-pong balls; a hipster describes things on the street; Big Bird's block tower
* Episode 0641 -- Sam the Machine wants to go to the movies
* Episode 0642
* Episode 0643
* Episode 0644 -- A rainy day on Sesame Street
* Episode 0645
* Episode 0646 -- Oscar moves into a dirtier trash can
* Episode 0647 -- A day of surprises
* Episode 0648 -- Jimmy Collier visits
* Episode 0649 -- Oscar disguises himself as a baby; Big Bird gets a postcard from Poco Loco
* Episode 0650 -- Oscar and the sanitation worker; Big Bird tries to order birdseed; Big Bird eats his birdseed sundae for a long time
* Episode 0651 -- Snuffy eats some, more, and the most spaghetti
* Episode 0652 -- A blackout on Sesame Street
* Episode 0653
* Episode 0654
* Episode 0655
* Episode 0656
* Episode 0657 -- Scary Street
* Episode 0658 -- Big Bird plans to run away
* Episode 0659 -- Snuffy's hiccups
* Episode 0660 -- Big Bird is proud of riding a unicycle / Oscar sabotages David and Maria's date
* Episode 0661 -- Little Theatre of the Deaf
* Episode 0662
* Episode 0663 -- Luis can't stay awake
* Episode 0664 -- Grover, Safety Monitor
* Episode 0665 -- 5th season finale
==Notes==
* This is the last season to feature Hal Miller as Gordon.
* This is also the last season to use the illustrated credit crawl which was introduced during season 3. Starting with Episode 0640, a new credit crawl is introduced featuring a drive through the countryside. Although the previous sequence would be re-used one last time in the 5th season finale, this credit crawl would be used up until season 9.
* After this season, Joe Raposo left the show to work on other projects. He would return to his original role as music director in season 15.
* This is also Jeff Moss's final season on the writing staff until season 14.
==Cast==
;Cast
:Northern Calloway, Loretta Long, Will Lee, Bob McGrath, Emilio Delgado, Sonia Manzano, Hal Miller, Joe Ponazecki, Paul B. Price; Linda Bove (Uncredited: Recurring guest) 
;Jim Henson's Muppets
:Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt (Uncredited: Fran Brill, Jane Henson)
;Guest Stars
:Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Jimmy Collier, Morgan Freeman, The Harlem Globetrotters (including Marquis Haynes and Meadowlark Lemon), Lena Horne, Krazy Kat, Rita Moreno
===Characters===
;Humans
:David, Susan, Mr. Hooper, Bob, Luis, Maria, Gordon, Wally and Ralph, Willy, Mr. Macintosh, Linda, Officer Krupky
;Muppets
:The Amazing Mumford, Anything Muppets, Baby Breeze, Bad Barney, Bad Bart, Bart, Bert, Biff, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bird, Big Jeffie, Bip Bippadotta, Cookie Monster, Count von Count, Ernie, Farley, Fred the Wonder Horse, Gladys the Cow, Grover, Guy Smiley, Hardhead Henry Harris, Harvey Kneeslapper, Herry Monster, Kermit the Frog, Lefty the Salesman, Little Bird, Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats, Little Jerry and the Monotones, The Martians, The Mudman, Oscar the Grouch, Prairie Dawn, Prince Charming, Roosevelt Franklin, Sam the Robot, Sherlock Hemlock, Simon Soundman, Smart Tina, Mr. Snuffleupagus, Sully, Suzetta Something, The Three Little Pigs, Twiddlebugs
==Credits==
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*Executive Producer: Jon Stone
*Producer: Robert Cunniff
*Directors: Jon Stone, Robert Myhrum, Stan Lathan, Emily Squires
*Writing Supervised by: Jon Stone
*Head Writer: Jeffrey Moss
*Writers: Norman Stiles, Emily Perl Kingsley, Ray Sipherd, Joseph A. Bailey, Denise James
*Special Muppet Material by: Jerry Juhl
*Music Director: Joe Raposo
*Puppets and Costumes: Donald Sahlin, Kermit Love, Caroly Wilcox, John Lovelady
*Supervising Film Producer: Edith Zornow
*Film Producer: Shyrlee Dallard
*Associate Producer: Dulcy Singer
*Director of Operations: Ronald L. Weaver
*Production Supervisor: Lynn Klugman
*Music Coordinator: Danny Epstein
*Assistant Music Director: David Connor
*Special Songs: Jeffrey Moss, Joe Raposo (Uncredited: Christopher Cerf)
*Film Production: M.M. Murphy, Ann Burgund
*Post Production Supervisors: Ozzie Alfonso, Selvin Evans
*Assistants to the Producer: Lisa Simon, Shelley Herman
*Production Assistants: Amy Hutchings, Janet Caldwell, Selvin Evans, Judy Freudberg
*Art Director: Alan J. Compton
*Costume Designer: Mostoller
*Vice President of Research: Edward L. Palmer, Ph.D.
*Director of Research: Girvin Kirk, Ph.D.
*Associate Director of Research: Patricia Hayes
*Chairman, Board of Advisors: Gerald Lesser, Ph.D.
*Graphics: Gerri Brioso
*Illustrations: Janice Carden
*Senior Scenic Artist: Victor DiNapoli
*Production Stage Manager: Chet O'Brien
*Stage Manager: Jimmy Baylor
*Property Coordinator: Nat Mongioi
*Associate Directors: Emily Squires, Ozzie Alfonso, Jimmy Baylor
*Unit Manager: Glenda Jones
*Technical Director: Ralph Mensch
*Technical Supervisor: Walt Rauffer
*Lighting Director: George Riesenberger
*Sound Effects: Barbara Wood
*Audio: Art Rosalin, Bryan Keen
*Video: Bob Squittieri
*Videotape Editors: John Hutchison, Vincent Sims, Bryan Keen
*Make-Up: Phyllis Grens Sternick
*Hair Stylist: Mickey Lawrence
*Wardrobe: Ruby Howkins, Grisha Mynova
*Curriculum Coordinator: Robert Emerick
*Vice President for Production: David D. Connell
*Recorded at Teletape 81 st. Studio
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