Bedtime Stories & Songs

Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005.
The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep, with many characters stopping by throughout the video.
==Segments==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	FRAME 1 	Big Bird welcomes the viewer from his nest, and he touts his sure-fire technique of getting comfortable and falling asleep. He tries settling into positions that prove not to be very comfy, and only work for birds. He then demonstrates a simpler method, which works so well, he falls asleep himself.
 	Muppets 	Ernie sings "Dance Myself to Sleep."
 	FRAME 2 	Mrs. Honker interrupts Big Bird's slumber because her baby can't sleep. Big Bird recommends a popular sleeping method: counting sheep. However, the baby Honker doesn't know how to count yet, so Big Bird suggests that they imagine the Count counting sheep.
 	Muppets 	The Count imagines a fence and counts sheep jumping over it.Edited from part one of the two-part Ernie and Bert sketch where the Count sleeps over.
 	FRAME 2 cont'd	To the mother's relief, the baby Honker has fallen asleep. She blows a kiss to Big Bird, who has also dozed off, and leaves.
 	Muppets 	Grover gets under his blanket, pretending that he is on the moon.New sound effects added
 	FRAME 3 	Big Bird is woken up again by Telly Monster, who reminds him about the sleepover they had planned. Telly hopes there's enough room in the nest, and Big Bird assures him that it'll just be themselves, plus Radar (in pajamas). Telly proceeds to fill the nest with a menagerie of stuffed animals that help him get to sleep.
 	Muppets 	Cookie Monster sings "If Moon Was Cookie."
 	FRAME 4 	Telly finally reaches the end of his stuffed animal supply, which now buries him and Big Bird up to their necks. Big Bird segues to the "find-something-soft-to-cuddle-up-with" method, and dozes off again, as does Telly.
 	Muppets 	Maria tells the story of "The King's Problem."
 	Insert 	Snuffy and Gordon sing "The Snuffle Lullabye."
 	FRAME 5 	Buster the Horse is bewildered at the way Big Bird and Telly are sleeping. Susan comes to the window, and Buster informs her of how a horse like him sleeps. Despite Susan's doubts, Buster falls asleep while standing up on all fours.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps."
 	Muppets 	Ernie and Bert sing "Imagination."
 	FRAME 6 	Big Bird observes that he and the viewer are the only ones up. He decides to restart his talk on sleeping methods, but he quickly drops off to sleep before he can finish. A lullaby version of the theme plays as the credits roll.
==Alterations==
Picture	Segment 	Description
 	Title card	This is the replacement title card used on the later releases of the video, with new music and a re-dubbed voiceover by Caroll Spinney as Big Bird.
 	Cartoon 	Jerry Nelson sings "Moonshine."This song replaces the Grover segment on later releases.
 	Cartoon 	Anansi the Spider tells the story of how the sun and the moon came to live in the sky.This cartoon replaces "The King's Problem" story on later releases.
 	Song 	Joe Raposo sings "Everybody Sleeps." (re-filmed version)This version replaces the original on later releases.
==Notes==
*The back cover of the original video release mentions Kermit the Frog among the list of featured characters, though he doesn't appear in the actual video.
==Releases==
Image:Origbedtimevhs.jpg|1986Random House Home Video88309
Image:Noimage-big.png|Random House Home Video88308ISBN 039488308X
Image:Video.bedtime.jpg|1992Random House Home Video88309Reissue cover
SleepytimesongsandstoriesSonyVHS.gif|1996Sony WonderLV 51228
Image:Sleepytime.jpg|2005Sony Wonder (front)LVD 51228
SleepytimeSongs&StoriesDVDbackcover.jpg|2005Sony Wonder (back)LVD 51228
Dvdset-storiesgamessongs.jpg |2005Sony Wonder3 disc set with Play-Along Games and Songs and Big Bird's Story Time
File:Newsleepytimesongs.jpg|Genius Entertainment
Sleepytime quiet time dvd.jpg|Warner Home VideoDouble feature with Quiet Time
==International releases==
Bedtimestoriesandsongsgettingreadyforschool.jpg|UK, 1988The Video CollectionDouble feature with Getting Ready to School
Bigbirdsstorytimeukvhs.jpg|United Kingdom, 1991The Video CollectionVC 1218Double feature with Big Bird's Story Time
BedtimeSandSt Aus VHS.jpg|Australia, 1992VDI
Sleepytimesongsandstories-disney.jpg|UK, 1998Walt Disney Home VideoDouble feature with Quiet Time
BedtimeSandSt HVN VHS1.jpg|MalaysiaBerjaya HVN
Bedtimestoriesandsongsasianvcd.jpg|Singapore and MalaysiaBerjaya HVN1998144008
Sleepytimesongsandstoriesasianvcd.jpg|Singapore and Malaysia (Re-release)Berjaya HVN1998365005
Bedtimevideojp.jpg|JapanSony
Bedtimestoriesandsongs Taiwan Vhs.jpg |TaiwanLadder Publishing
==Cast==
*Starring Caroll Spinney as Big Bird
*Jim Henson's Muppets:
**Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson, Richard Hunt, Martin P. Robinson, Kevin Clash, Pam Arciero, Bryant Young
*Susan: Loretta Long 
*Maria: Sonia Manzano
*Gordon: Roscoe Orman
==Credits==
*Writers: Sara Compton
**Judy Freudberg, Luis Santeiro, Ray Sipherd (archive material)
*Songs by Joe Raposo, Jeffrey Moss, Christopher Cerf, Stephen Lawrence, Luis Santeiro, Norman Stiles
*Directed by Jon Stone
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Category:Sesame Street Video
Category:Sleep