Episode
Sesame Street: Dr. Price invents the square ball
Overview
At the crack of dawn, Ferlinghetti Donizetti drums a rhyme in the yard waking everyone up in the neighborhood. Big Bird leads the kids in a class for how to be pretend cars. Sponsors: I, L, 12
Details
- Series
- Sesame Street
- Season
- Season 17
- Episode
- Episode 33
- Air date
- 1986-01-01
Episode context
Dr. Price invents the square ball is Episode 33 in Season 17 of Sesame Street. It aired on 1986-01-01.
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Episode 32: Episode 2127
"Explorer Jones" and the kids pretend to be explorers. They're looking for the alphabet, but Forgetful doesn't know what it looks like. After identifying it as Maria's hot plate and Bob's shovel, he finds it in the direction of the viewer.
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Episode 34: Forgetful Jones loses his numbers
Bob walks outside of his apartment and greets the viewer. He's just happened to receive his mail, and decides to go through it as he strolls down a busy Sesame Street.
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Episode 37: Episode 2132
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Episode 38: Episode 2133
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