Old School Sesame coming to DVD October 2006

Me too Kevin. I would love it to be just like the Electric Company DVD that came out a couple months ago. I would buy it know matter what.

so awsome! thanks for that link with with cover art kev! it REALLY made my day! i love how it looks 70ish. This i am DEF picking up and FR S2. (to bad we have NO BIG bird smilie, lol)

I noticed that that cover called it "Old School Vol. One" instead of "Nostalgia Set: First Five", like how Amazon has listed it. I'm not sure if that was an old cover that wasn't changed, or what.

Does it really say 1969-1974? I thought it said 1969-1979.

This would make a great layout for the set:

Disc 1:
Season 1 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Joan Ganz Coony, Loretta Long, and Bob McGraph)
Season 2 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 1
The Best of Season 2
Sesame Street Promotional Film

Disc 2:
Season 3 premier (with commentary by Caroll Spinney, Sonia Manzano, and Jerry Nelson)
Season 4 premier
bonus features:
The Best of Season 3
The Best of Season 4
Test Pilot #1

Disc 3:
Season 5 premier
The Best of Season 5
Sesame Street Unpaved

the "best of" season compilations would be an average of 12-22 minutes each.

And here are what skits I'd include for the best of season compilations. I hope I am right about the years of certain sketches, but these are my best guess. I also hope that I don't accidently list anything that was cut from the Noggin broadcasts of the premier episodes (I am going by how Muppet Wiki lists the skit orders).

The Best of Season 1:
Ernie and Bert split jellybeans
I Love Trash (original version, assuming this was performed in the first season)
Let's Sing a Song of One
Jazzy Spies #4
ABC-DEF-GHI
Ernie and Cookie Monster share a pillow
Pick Your Pet
Near and Far
Sing
Kermit's Milk Lecture
The People in Your Neighborhood
Big Bird meets Little Bird
Let's Sing a Song of Nine
a Buddy and Jim skit
James Earl Jones recites the alphabet
Kermit and Grover talk about the word "In"
Ernie eats Bert's cake
Oscar recites the alphabet
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a U
Everyone Likes Ice Cream
Goin' for a Ride
Ernie stands on the ceiling and pours milk
Proffessor Hastings lecture on body parts
an Alice Braitswaithe Goodyshoes skit that was not included in The Sesame Street Book of Puzzles (if all three skits from that book were her only appearances, then include the one where she talks about wet and dry)
Jazzy Spies #8
Ernie and Bert's sandbox game
Kermit's rectangle lecture
monsters whisper C
One of These Things
first and last
Lulu's Back in Town

The Best of Season 2
Ernie and Cookie Monster talk about hope
What's My Part?: Foot
Herbert Birdsfoot and Grover count to 20
Lefty attempts to sell Ernie a stop sign
Cookie Monster and the word Amour
a Ralph and Wally skit
X Marks the Spot
Ernie meets Simon Soundman
Roosevelt Franklin's Days of the Week
The King of 8
Mad
Admiral Big Bird
Ernie replaces Bert's cowboy hat with a pan
another Ralph and Wally skit
Harvey Kneeslapper: Do you know where I wanna B?
The Amazing Mumford's disapearing cookie act
Bert accuses Ernie of eating his cookies
Up and Down

The Best of Season 3:
Beat the Time: Cookie Monster
a Jasper and Julius skit
A quart of milk, a loaf of bread, and a stick of butter
Kermit draws a triangle
Grover the Waiter: Hamburger
Funny Farm
The Banana Sketch part 1
Everybody Eats
The Banana Sketch Part 2
Roosevelt Franklin talks to his class about africa
Sesame Street News: The Tortose and the Hare
Penny Candy Man
a Larry and Phyllis skit
Ernie puts the radio knob on Bert
Typewriter Guy: A-Airplane
Grover the Elevador Operador: five people in an elevador
Sesame Street News: Rupunzel
a Larry and Phyllis skit
The Golden An
The Alligator King
Ernie paints a picture of Bert

The Best of Season 4:
Grover the Waiter: no spoon
Sesame Street News: The Count counts Three Little Pigs
Ernie and Bert at the Movies: Ernie gets emotional
The Ballad of Casey McPhee
Beat the Time: Grover
Caveman Sherlock Hemlock invents a toothbrush for Caveman Ernie
Herry Monster and John John count to 20
Grover tries to sell Kermit a pair of earmuffs
Proud
To Tell a Face
I Want a Monster to Be My Friend
Grover the Waiter: The Count
Ernie eats Berts ice cream

The Best of Season 5:
Headball
The Song of The Count
Super Grover: Haircut
Sesame Street News: Alice in Wonderland
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 1
Kermit, Shala, and Fanny demonstrate "next to"
Count it Higher
The Count stays over at Ernie and Bert's apartment part 2
Four
Let's Make a Face
Kermit talks about feet
Believe in Yourself

Right now, the only thing that I am worried about is why SW isn't giving us any detail about what is on the disc set, like what episodes, bonus features, etc. I just hope that we will find out soon enough. Does anyone know how or where we can get this info?

Does anybody know if Don Music was around during any of the first five season (my guess would be the fifth season, if he was around during these years)? It would be great to see Don included.

Another thing that I wonder is if this set will have a "preview other Sesame Street DVDs feature". And once this is released, I wonder if other Sesame Street DVDs will include a clip from this set in the "Preview" section.

Well I think the cover looks great, but i'm still iffy about this... maybe they wanna keep this a surprise of the content.

I'm glad they've finally released some more info, and I'm loving the cover art. Lots of good dvds coming out soon, but this one will be the top of my list. I actually really like the name "Old School" for the dvd set--it keeps it from feeling dated or too precious in the way that "Nostalgia" might. There's just enough edge there.

Well, I now see that it's going to be 3 DVDs, but 300 minutes long. I'm afraid something tells me that it will be a compilation of clips, and not entire episodes. I mean, it gives a little more information, but not that much.

If each episode is close to 60 minutes, then 60 times five is 300, so the set could include five hour-long episodes. I don't know if the running timke counts features (if there are any). That could get us one episode each from the first five seasons.

I think there will be full episodes. If they were only going to release a compilation of clips, then it would probably only be one disc.

But I do find it strange that they're being so secretive about this set, and yet they've released all the details about the new Electric Company set that comes out about a month later.

Well, it's two different companies handling each set:

Shout Factory is doing Electric Company and Sony/Wonder is doing Sesame.

And plus SW doesn't really release much info on any of there dvd's until the last minute.

I don't see those words anywhere in the Amazon description.

UPDATE: I did find that passage on Movies Unlimited. Mystery solved.

Good, so that question has been answered. However, Amazon says the set is 300 minutes long. Looks like we may have another mystery to solve.

I'm guessing that Amazon only counted the combined running times of the actual episodes.