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Wanted: Old Sesame Street episodes

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ssetta

As some of you may already know, I am a huge fan of classic Sesame Street. I have several episodes on tape from 1992-1995, all taped from the 4 PBS stations in the Boston area (WGBH, WGBX, WENH, and WSBE). Many of the tapes include the end of the previous show (Nightly Business Report for some of them, with the old theme by Edd Kalehoff), several station IDs, and promos for upcoming shows. I also have a rather heavy load of episodes that I've gotten in trades from people from the 80s and early 90s. I have a bunch from WNET and WLIW, and those also have promos on them. One of them has an old Prevue Guide clip, and even a channel surfing portion.

Anyways, I am always looking to expand my collection of SS episodes. I am mostly interested in episodes prior to 1992, since that was when they changed the theme song they had been using since Day 1 back in 1969. So, if anyone has any old episodes of Sesame Street on tape from years ago, feel free to post, or contact me about it, because I would love to trade for them.
 
I believe they now have early episodes of Sesame Street out on DVD....and with a parental warning no less! Mainly because some of the things that seem sweet and innocent back then no longer are considered sweet and innocent anymore.
 
I remember watching the very first episode. The original Gordon walking a little girl down the street and meeting Big Bird, who said he had laid an egg. Then he introduced Oscar. I was only 5 at the time but it definitely left an impression.
 
YEKIMI said:
I believe they now have early episodes of Sesame Street out on DVD....and with a parental warning no less! Mainly because some of the things that seem sweet and innocent back then no longer are considered sweet and innocent anymore.
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I have both Old School 1 and 2. I wasn't talking about that, I was asking if anyone had old episodes recorded off PBS back in the 80s or early 90s.
 
Okay, okay, fine, I take it nobody has any. I think I've figured out the reason why old SS episodes are so hard to find. You can feel free to call me weird for this. Sesame Street has always been a very big part of my life, and I sometimes feel like I can't live without it. And this is because I never knew that there was an age limit on it, I always thought it was for anyone. At least in the old days, it was. Beginning in the late '90s, they started to change things, and it's a completely different show than it used to be, showing hardly any classic clips at all. I'm saying this because they reran sketches from as far back as 1969 in the mid '90s. Now, if they have anything the slightest bit outdated, they just won't use it.

But anyways, I have gotten a lot of flak for my interest in Sesame Street, and most people have told me that I have to give it up, because it isn't age-appropriate. And I think that most people feel that Sesame Street is only for preschoolers, and I don't think many preschoolers know how to work the VCR to record. In fact, they usually don't even control the TV, their parents do. So, I guess this really is the reason why old SS episodes are so hard to find.
 
I'm 37 and have the old "Gimme Five" sketch saved on my youtube account! It has Bob, Luis, Gordon and David, clearly knocking off "Float On", the late 1970s hit from The Floaters.
 
ssetta said:
Okay, okay, fine, I take it nobody has any. I think I've figured out the reason why old SS episodes are so hard to find. You can feel free to call me weird for this. Sesame Street has always been a very big part of my life, and I sometimes feel like I can't live without it. And this is because I never knew that there was an age limit on it, I always thought it was for anyone. At least in the old days, it was. Beginning in the late '90s, they started to change things, and it's a completely different show than it used to be, showing hardly any classic clips at all. I'm saying this because they reran sketches from as far back as 1969 in the mid '90s. Now, if they have anything the slightest bit outdated, they just won't use it.

But anyways, I have gotten a lot of flak for my interest in Sesame Street, and most people have told me that I have to give it up, because it isn't age-appropriate. And I think that most people feel that Sesame Street is only for preschoolers, and I don't think many preschoolers know how to work the VCR to record. In fact, they usually don't even control the TV, their parents do. So, I guess this really is the reason why old SS episodes are so hard to find.
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This is where those ratings for TV shows ( EX.."TV-G" ) people tend to take too seriously. Far too many people assume when a show is "TV-G" then its strictly for kids and adults should not be watching them unless of course they have a kid beside them. Like the few movies out there that get a rating of Rated G. The other week I was working out at the gym and the club I was at offered a bunch of channels on their TVs including Boomerang. I turned on the Flintstones only to have some 20 something year old woman walk up to me and SCREAMED that as an adult I had no business watching the Flintstones, its a kids show, rated "Tv-G" and that I "should grow the hell up"..whatever !!! She went on telling me that I MUST watch Law & Order or My Name is Earl since "..those shows are for people our age". Seems like everything in life now as this sort of age limit, so stupid !!!

You Tube might be your best bet to catch those classic skits of Sesame Street since I have been told many of those clips seem to pop up there on a daily basis and PBS unlike the other networks ( and even the local commercial stations ) seems they don't have a cow whenever someone uploads a clip there either.

You are right, Sesame Street today isn't the same show as it once was. I am sure the changes behind that were the result of some young consultant telling CTW/PBS "..hey if you want to compete with Nickelodeon...you gotta change and be more like NICK". Another example why TV has gone down the tubes in recent years.
 
Sesame Street used to be a show that the kiddies loved, but the parents didn't hate to watch along with them. It started to go downhill about the time they added Elmo to the cast of Muppets...Noggin used to air a few years ago old episodes of Sesame Street under the title "Sesame Street Unpaved." Perhaps someone got some of those on tape - check eBay or Craigslist. I still love Cookie Monster and Oscar the Grouch - they are timeless pieces of my childhood.

I still like to pull up the 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12 song on YouTube sung by the Pointer Sisters with the animation of the Pinball Machine.
 
ssetta said:
...I have several episodes on tape from 1992-1995, all taped from the 4 PBS stations in the Boston area (WGBH, WGBX, WENH, and WSBE). Many of the tapes include the end of the previous show (Nightly Business Report for some of them, with the old theme by Edd Kalehoff)...
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So "Sesame Street" used to be on the air at, like, 7 PM?
 
DToTheJ said:
ssetta said:
...I have several episodes on tape from 1992-1995, all taped from the 4 PBS stations in the Boston area (WGBH, WGBX, WENH, and WSBE). Many of the tapes include the end of the previous show (Nightly Business Report for some of them, with the old theme by Edd Kalehoff)...
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So "Sesame Street" used to be on the air at, like, 7 PM?
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No, WGBH used to air NBR from the previous day at 6:30 AM, just before SS.
 
DToTheJ said:
So "Sesame Street" used to be on the air at, like, 7 PM?
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Where I live, my PBS station (WITF Harrisburg) actually *does* air it at 7pm and has done so for the past 20-odd years...9am and 7pm daily..
 
And add WUSF to the "early-evening" list-I think the secondary PBS station in Tampa airs it at 6PM. I thought that was weird-because by 6 or 7pm, three year olds are having their dinner and going to sleep.

-crainbebo
 
ssetta said:
As some of you may already know, I am a huge fan of classic Sesame Street. I have several episodes on tape from 1992-1995, all taped from the 4 PBS stations in the Boston area (WGBH, WGBX, WENH, and WSBE). Many of the tapes include the end of the previous show (Nightly Business Report for some of them, with the old theme by Edd Kalehoff), several station IDs, and promos for upcoming shows. I also have a rather heavy load of episodes that I've gotten in trades from people from the 80s and early 90s. I have a bunch from WNET and WLIW, and those also have promos on them. One of them has an old Prevue Guide clip, and even a channel surfing portion.

Anyways, I am always looking to expand my collection of SS episodes. I am mostly interested in episodes prior to 1992, since that was when they changed the theme song they had been using since Day 1 back in 1969. So, if anyone has any old episodes of Sesame Street on tape from years ago, feel free to post, or contact me about it, because I would love to trade for them.
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I take it your not going to use those episodes to attack a fellow name Willard are you?

Sesame Street Episodes, I doubt it, my grandfather only recorded War, History, and Gardening off of PBS.

When I was young before age 5 I would watch Sesame Street at my Maternal Grandmother's house who never owned a VCR, had analog tuning wheel rotating channel set hooked up to a Jerrold Box with a transformer on the back of the TV to convert the 2 wire screw in antenna input to Coax Cable.

The other set was the same type as well along with a non addressable Archer Converter that allowed tuning past channel 13. We had one of the first wireless remotes that would click as you changed the channel. Plus they voted for Mondale, and supported Clinton (If they lived past August 1992) My paternal grandparents is where I got my VHS collection from, they owned 2 VCR's, 2 TV sets, and had both of them hooked up to Warner addressable Pioneer Cable boxes, along with all the channels at one time. They were Republican all the way.

Sesame Street along with Politics brings back the memories, sorry I am ranting like I am getting senile.

I do however, have some Inspector Gadget, and 1 episode of "You Can't Do That on Television" I would have had more, but something like this would happen, I would take my tapes to my Paternal Grandparents house, and forget to take them back, What happens? My Grandfather decides to erase over it because Wings couldn't wait.

I am still damn proud of my 641 VHS tape inheritance, even though my mom begs me to haul them off.

I have the 1993 Paragon Cable Prevue guide from San Antonio somewhere on here. I think it is on my tape where I recorded Bob Newhart Better Living though Bob Nick At Nite special back in 1993.
Also had Saget Funk Dat Music Video off of BET.
 
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