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"Classic Sesame Street Boxset" Out in October

post #1 of 132
5/23/06 at 7:24am
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post #2 of 132
5/23/06 at 8:28am

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Great news!! I loved alot of the old animation stuff. I read some of it was supposedly done by Harvy Kurtzman. I would love to see that!
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post #3 of 132
5/23/06 at 9:05am

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That's the coolest news in a long time!!! I'm really hoping they include when Kermit the Frog was at the site of "Hickory Dickory Dock" for Sesame Street news. That was one of my favorite skits.
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post #4 of 132
5/23/06 at 10:39am

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I wonder if they'll include any of the "banned" segments (Don Music, Roosevelt Franklin, etc.), segments that have been out of rotation for decades
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post #5 of 132
5/23/06 at 10:53am
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post #6 of 132
5/23/06 at 2:48pm

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It's about time this came out. For once they're releasing the stuff people actually want to see.
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post #7 of 132
5/23/06 at 4:06pm

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The mind reels at the decades worth of material they will have to sort through.
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post #8 of 132
5/23/06 at 5:25pm

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Hey,

Maybe that thread we started a year or two ago actually came to fruition?

I hope they release them by characters....That way we can avoid any Elmo material they may consider 'classic' and sneak in there
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post #9 of 132
5/24/06 at 5:55am

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I think it should be complete episodes, not a compilation. A complete "very first episode" ought to be a no-brainer.
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post #10 of 132
5/24/06 at 2:39pm

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This is one of my holy grails- now let's get a set of Every TV Commercial And Public Service Announcement Ever Made During The 1960s And 70s!

It'd be cool to see the first few complete shows, but they repeated so many segments ad naseum that there wouldn't be much point to release ALL of them, unless they had unlimited space to do it. I'll be happy if they just include all of the individual segments that made up the shows during that time. In fact, the constant repetition was what led me to stop watching the show, besides my being "too old" for it
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post #11 of 132
5/24/06 at 4:11pm

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Complete episode sets are an impossibility. One 130-episode season of shows that run approximately an hour each would need about 43 discs if you had 3 episodes on DVD-9s, and DVD-18s could cut them in half. A blu-ray disc or two could hold a whole season, seeing as the show is on tape.

And in the first season, Big Bird is not the character we know now; he was a very slow adult with a voice vaguely like Bullwinkle the moose. Oscar the Grouch is orange.

But there are some key episodes that should be shown in their entirety.

The repetition was intended, because they thought children would remember things better if they were repeated constantly.

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now let's get a set of Every TV Commercial And Public Service Announcement Ever Made During The 1960s And 70s!

How many discs would THAT take up? And finding acceptable copies to boot. I'd probably buy it, though.
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post #12 of 132
5/24/06 at 8:21pm

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And in the first season, Big Bird is not the character we know now; he was a very slow adult with a voice vaguely like Bullwinkle the moose. Oscar the Grouch is orange.

See the Character Evolution section of the Muppet Wiki for more info.
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post #13 of 132
5/24/06 at 9:14pm

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I'd been wondering about something like this. I grew up watching Sesame Street.
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post #14 of 132
5/24/06 at 10:33pm

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Excellent news. I wonder what classic tidbits will be contained within...

I'd also like to see complete DVD collections of themed sketches, starting with every single Ernie & Bert sketch ever made...then Super-Grover/Grover the Waiter...then Guy Smiley...Muppet News Flash...This Is Your Life...etc. etc. etc.

Plus, Vol. 2 of THE ELECTRIC COMPANY is on its way!!!
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post #15 of 132
5/25/06 at 5:26am

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Complete episode sets are an impossibility. One 130-episode season of shows that run approximately an hour each would need about 43 discs

I wasn't suggesting season set, I was simply saying that this collection ought to have complete episodes on it. Like someone else said, perhaps "key" episodes (like the first one, the revelation of Snuffy, etc.). Yes, I'm aware that many segments were repeated over the years and yes, I'm aware a "season" was a lot longer than is practical. I'm just saying that this set shouldn't just be one big "clip show."
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post #16 of 132
5/25/06 at 7:48am

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Having a few complete episodes might be cool, but I think a better approach would be to have four discs -- one with the educational cartoons, one with muppet skits, and two with the plot segments (the Snuffleuppugus arc, etc.).

And for special features, they should have a tribute to Mr. Hooper.
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post #17 of 132
5/25/06 at 9:03am

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I remember the pinball segments, which I recently saw a parody of it, on an episode of Family Guy. Boy, that really took me back in time!

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12
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post #18 of 132
7/4/06 at 5:32am
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post #19 of 132
7/4/06 at 5:46am

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"C" is for "COOKIE", that good enough for me!
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post #20 of 132
7/4/06 at 8:59pm

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It's A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood ! Oh, wrong show.
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post #21 of 132
7/5/06 at 4:38am

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For me, the most classic era was around 1970, when I was in kindergarten and the show caught on in a big big way!!! That's when all the "classic" songs were on the show, like Rubber Ducky, Not Easy Being Green, etc. I have the foggiest memory of those songs being on a primetime SS special. I think I recall seeing "I Love Trash" as well on that special, or maybe I'm just trippin'. Was it maybe the Julie Andrews special? Or Sandy Duncan, or??? Hard to recall THAT far back...lol! I had the original SS cast album, and all those songs are on there, and a lot of other memorable ones. I honestly recall seeing most of those same songs on the show, however, and since we didn't have cable quite yet, it must have been a primetime special. Anyone have a better memory than me/??
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post #22 of 132
7/5/06 at 9:14pm

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I have a feeling that this will end up looking a lot like the Electric Company set, with several entire episodes from different seasons being mixed together. That's fine, as long as they do a good job of picking episodes that don't overlap segments and that showcase many of the segments that we remember fondly.

I will probably pick this up, but I would be most enthusiastic about a set that just contained the live-action and animated short films presented in the shows. The short little "documentaries" with children visiting a factory or taking the camera on a little tour of their neighborhood used to fascinate me, and I suspect that they still hold a certain charm. David Gordon Green has talked about how the style of these docs (especially the narration) influenced his filmmaking - something that is readily apparent in the wonderful George Washington.
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post #23 of 132
7/5/06 at 10:26pm

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My name is Roosevelt Franklin (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

A must is the watershed episode discussing the loss of Mr. Hooper (Will Lee).
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post #24 of 132
9/5/06 at 9:25am
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post #25 of 132
9/5/06 at 9:50am

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Amazon has it for $29.99(Out 10/24). We know whats on the 3 disk now as well. 5 complete hour long episodes. Plus 2 hours of sketches from 1969-1974. Sesame sketches were normally not much longer than 2 minutes so you can expect 50 or so sketches outside the ones on the 5 hours of complete episodes.

I'll add this to the first post as well.


Hey, no Elmo on the front cover! The original characters actually get first billing? Absolutley amazing . I'm gettin' it.
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post #26 of 132
9/5/06 at 9:53am
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post #27 of 132
9/5/06 at 12:48pm

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Who is this "Elmo" you speak of?
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post #28 of 132
9/5/06 at 6:15pm

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I've waited my whole life for this news!


I'll buy every single volume released!!!
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post #29 of 132
9/6/06 at 12:03am

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This may sound terrible, but I will get these in hopes of getting my kids to watch, so that we can go through the Mr. Hooper passes away episode later.

I know that sounds bad, but there is very little childrens programming out there that deals with loss and death, etc. and the Mr. Hooper episode was handled so well that while I cried, I understood the basic point.

There are very few moments in television of any sort that were as powerful as that episode. Period.
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post #30 of 132
9/6/06 at 1:16am

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Well Elmo didn't join the cast till 1985 so there is no way he'd appear on the first(or second and third) volume of these dvd's.

I think Elmo's first appearance was somewhere around 1979, actually. . .
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