SESAME STREET {MILES'S ADOPTION} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of educational children's programs that teaches numbers and the alphabet, along with social and cultural concepts, to pre-schoolers. Set on the fanciful urban block of Sesame Street, the series features Jim Henson's live-action Muppets, animation, short films, and a cast of adults and children. In this program, Zoe learns about adoption as Susan, Gordon, and Miles celebrate Miles's adoption day with a party. Other highlights include: an operatic ode to the letter L; a song about paper clips sung by Bert; a song titled "Shake Your Rattle and Roll" sung by three Muppet babies; an animated demonstration of the concepts "light" and "heavy"; an animated segment about being a big kid; a game that asks what sound a duck makes; an animated segment in which a child raps a song about the number Fifteen; a demonstration of the word surprise by Elmo and Tim Robbins; a phonics lesson with the ending "un"; a "News Flash" with Kermit the Frog; a demonstration of "front" and "back" by girls on a playground; a segment about a girl in the circus; a clip about a girl and her grandfather; and an animated segment in Spanish. This program is sponsored by the letter L and the number Fifteen. As the show concludes, Big Bird presents coming attractions of the next episode.

Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 2000.

Details

NETWORK: PBS
DATE: February 5, 1997 11:00 AM
RUNNING TIME: 0:58:46
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T:51499
GENRE: Children's; Education/Information; Animation
SUBJECT HEADING: Adoption; Children's programs; Puppets
SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1969 -
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Loretta Long … Cast, Susan
Roscoe Orman … Cast, Gordon
Carroll Spinney … Cast, Big Bird
Tim Robbins … Guest