The Gordons

Hey all,
Just got my Old School Sesame Street DVD set. * sings * Memories! Well, sort of. It seems the episodes were all from the year before I was born as I don't recall ever seeing firsthand, Gordon with the fro ( 'cept for a flashback I saw (( or dreamed )) of him & Susan tying the knot ). Anyhoo, obviously there were at least 2 different Gordon actors but I'm wondering if there was a third. I always thought that the 1969 Gordon was also the bald Gordon I've always known. Is it?

Keep in mind that I'm more of a fraggle dork so I don't know all of the common factoids about The Street.

Nick

The first two are on the SS DVD Set, the third (Roscoe Orman) still is on the show today (he's the bald one)

There are in fact four Gordons. There was one on the test pilot. But I forget his name.

Really?!!?

Thanks Gordon Fans

Hee hee. If only I'd've flipped through the DVD booklet, I wouldn't have had to bug ya. That's why beer & Sesame Street don't mix.... well... sort of.

Nick

Is the test pilot on the DVD?

There have been three Gordons:

Matt Robinson - Season 1 to Season 3 (1969-1972)
Hal Miller - Season 4 (1972-1973)
Roscoe Orman - Season 5 - present (1973-present)

More information here: http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Gordon

Yeah, On the Sesame Street Biorgarphy On Te Hstory Channel, They show footage from the test pilot, and there was another person playing Gordon before Matt Robinson. It's from 1968. I have that special on video.

So, the DVD set only has the normal pilot but not the test pilot?

I thinik so.

I met Gordon 3

I always liked Roscoe Orman best, but Matt Robinson is the original, so he deserves to be praised as well.
Just as a side note...in the summer of 1991 I went to a now closed amusement park in Rhode Island called "Rocky Point" where on this day, Roscoe was giving a sort of "Kiddie Concert". He sang songs from SS of course as well as some others. I got to meet him after the show, and told him what a fan I was (and still am) of his and of SS. He was gracious, polite and an all around good guy.

I wouldn't expect anything less from him. He seems like a wonderful man. I'd like to get his book and read it.

I read in usa weekend that Roscoe Orman did the tap dancing for Happy Feet. At one point He was moving his feet so fast that it made a buzzing sound but didnt look like it was moving. They put the Penguins image over Roscoe Ormans tap dancing to make it look like the Penguin tap danced.

I have his book and it's a really good read!

I met Roscoe at a mall in the mid 90s

Savion Glover did the tapdancing for Happy Feet. Wrong Sesame Street cast member lol.