![]() All of these releases were themed around song sketches. In 1990, Random House started releasing another video series, Sesame Songs Home Video. Also, in this video series, words appeared on-screen as Big Bird narrated. Also, while Caroll Spinney, Frank Oz, and Fran Brill provided voices to the Golden Video releases, only Caroll Spinney provided voices to this video series, narrating the videos as Big Bird, and also providing voices of all other characters. These were similar to the Golden Video releases, being that they featured still images from various storybooks, but unlike those videos, the Start-To-Read videos did not include any animation. Around this time Random House also released another series of videos, Sesame Street Start-to-Read Video. In 1987, Random House started releasing Sesame Street television specials on video, with the first specials released on video being Big Bird in China, Don't Eat the Pictures, and Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. These videos also originally came with special activity booklets. ![]() The first collection of Sesame Street videos from Random House was My Sesame Street Home Video, which were approximately 30 minutes long (as opposed to an hour, like the average Sesame Street episode). Most collections of videos featured a number in the "proof of purchase" box on the side panels. The back covers didn't include any pictures, just a summary and usually a listing of other Sesame Street videos available on Random House Home Video. The packaging for these usually featured an image in a border on the cover. I wonder why this one video was re-edited while other ones weren’t.In 1986, Random House Home Video started releasing Sesame Street videos. It’s rerelease is titled Sleepytime Songs and Stories, and replaces a few segments. It would have been great if it featured one of Kermit’s two news reports on Sleeping Beauty, or one of his two reports related to “The Princess and the Pea”.įor some reason, this is the only Sesame Street video that was altered when it was rereleased by Sony Wonder (though the “My Sesame Street Home Video” and “Sesame Songs” were cut from many rereleases). ![]() Grover imagines he’s on the moon, Snuffy teaches Gordon “The Snuffle Lullaby”, we get the classic song “Everybody Sleeps”, and Maria reads a bedtime story, “The King’s Problem”, which is technically the only story featured in this (and the story doesn’t even involve sleep). Cookie Monster sings “If Moon Were Cookie”, There’s also The Count counting sheep, but unfortunately, it cuts out all the parts with Ernie and Bert (I guess it’s not so unfortunate to those scared by Ernie’s sleep-deprived appearance in part 2). The video is bookended by two Ernie and Bert segments, “Dance Myself to Sleep” and “Imagination”. Not much to the linking plot, but that’s okay, I’m usually more interested in the clips provided.Īnd there are a lot of great segments. There’s also an amusing scene where Buster and Susan discuss the fact that horses sleep standing up. The linking footage involves Big Bird getting ready for bed, only to be joined by Telly Monster, whom Big Bird invited for a sleep-over, and ends up bringing a lot of stuffed animals that can’t “sleep” without another stuffed animal (and the last one can’t sleep without Telly). Michael Wermuth Jnr – Bedtime Stories and Songs is a Sesame Street video from 1986, themed around segments relating to bedtime.
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