A Summer to Remember

A Summer to Remember is a 1985 TV movie centering on the friendship between Toby, a deaf boy, and Casey, a trained orangutan who speaks sign language but wanders loose after her van overturns. Further complications ensue when a circus gorilla is also let loose. 
The Sesame Street theme song is a recurring motif in the soundtrack. Dr. McKeever, the scientist who raised Casey, tells Sheriff Pierce that Casey responds to music from Sesame Street because it's her favorite record, "Especially that Bert and Ernie song 'I Love My Rubber Duckie.'" Later, a helicopter plays the theme song over a loudspeaker in hopes of attracting Casey, and the sheriff reassures the doctor, concerned about locals bringing out guns, that "we'll give Bert and Ernie a try again tomorrow."
Two scenes later, Toby's younger sister Jill puts the Sesame Street album Sesame Street Sing-Along! on a children's record player, playing the theme. On the morning before the family goes to the circus, Jill turns the TV on playing the same theme and showing clips from the Season 16 intro.
A subsequent playing of the Sesame record attracts the orangutan (who the children have already befriended outdoors and in their treehouse) into the house. Hearing the record, stepfather Tom tells his wife, "Jeannie, if I hear Sesame Street one more time, you're going to have to put me away."
==Connections==
*Louise Fletcher played Dr. Dolly McKeever
*Alice Spivak was the dialogue coach and played a deputy
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