Episode 0074

Picture	Segment 	Description
 	SCENE 1 	Gordon sees Big Bird reading a book of magic spells. They don't believe the spells would really work, but they try one just for fun; it ends up conjuring a giant letter R in the middle of the sidewalk! Big Bird and Gordon try to remove the R from the premises (using lots of R words as they do) but it won't budge, and there doesn't seem to be a spell to get rid of it. Big Bird thinks they can use it to tell stories, like …
 	Cartoon 	R is for Rooster, and Robber, and Rake ... Artist: Fred Calvert
 	Cartoon 	A man explains the letter R with a radio. Once he starts singing, the radio decides to turn him off by tweaking his nose.
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: R - rabbit
 	SCENE 2 	Gordon and Big Bird are still puzzling over the R. Susan enters and they explain to her what happened, and that there is no spell in the book for removing the letter. Susan looks through the book and discovers that there is a spell for changing giant letters into something else. Susan casts a spell which makes the R disappear, but then it pours rain!
 	SCENE 2cont'd	Susan casts a rhyming spell which makes the rain disappear, replacing it with a plane. She and Gordon look up and see Alphabet Bates skywrite the letter R .
 	SCENE 2cont'd	Since the rain is gone, Susan walks over to the yard to read Maybe a Monster by Martha Alexander. She then wonders out loud what Ernie and Bert are up to.
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	"The J Commercial:" Two boys scrutinize a J, saying it looks like a fish-hook. A resonant voice (Gary Owens) informs them that it's the letter J. This leads to a jazzy story about Joe. Moral: "Don't jive a judge by jamming a junebug."Studio: Ken Snyder; Director: Fred Calvert
 	Muppets 	An Anything Muppet sings "Minute Waltz."
 	Cartoon 	Jazz #6
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)"
 	SCENE 3 	Gordon has given the magic book back to Big Bird, and explains what it means to hand something to someone.
 	Film 	There Once Was a Hand: Skip Hinnant narrates the story of an unhappy hand that wishes he could make a noise.
 	Film 	"Seven Song (Song of Seven)"
 	Cartoon 	A boy counts while erasing things and people.
 	SCENE 4 	Gordon plays a "touching game" with Renee and Troy where he asks the girls to blindly feel what he's holding behind a cutout box with a curtain so they can identify the item.
center 	Muppets 	Tony sings "Windy" to his girlfriend, Beautiful Day Monster.
 	Cartoon 	A song about a rolling OAnimation by John and Faith Hubley
 	Film 	The “unsung beauty of manhole covers” is explored.
 	SCENE 5 	Susan plays a rhyming game with Oscar the Grouch about family roles. Oscar's guesses don't quite match up with what Susan has in mind, so he attempts to make a nonsensical rhyming couplet of his own.
 	Muppets 	Big Bob hosts "Can You Guess?", the first-ever Sesame Street game show. Billy Monster must guess which of three (non-monster) panelists is the mother. Billy can't get the right answer because his own mother possesses monster traits.
 	Film 	"Six Song (Song of Six)" (repeat)
 	Film 	How milk is made, featuring the song "Hey Cow."
 	Muppets 	
 	Cartoon 	Speech Balloon: R - rabbit (repeat)
 	Cartoon 	R for Radio (repeat)
 	Celebrity 	Listen My Brother sings their own version of "The Alphabet Song."
 	Song 	Sesame Street Animal Films: Joe Raposo sings George Gershwin's "Funny Face."
 	SCENE 6 	Gordon asks the viewer to come back as he joins the kids for a game of basketball. Big Bird announces the sponsors and today's book.
 	CLOSING SIGNS	Gordon holds the Sesame Street sign, and a bunch of Muppet hippies hold the Children's Television Workshop sign.
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Category:Magic
Category:Sesame Street Episode Season 1