Lost Episode of Sesame Street, Season 21, Episode 2688, Gina and Mike practice driving (Lost Media)
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Here are recordings from Sesame Street, Season 21, Episode 2688, which is surprisingly lost. Despite Sesame Street is one of the most iconic and successful children’s shows of all time, there have been pieces of lost media from the show’s history such as sketches, and even episodes. And while the lost sketches are well known, there are lost full episodes that you can’t watch anywhere online. And no it isn’t just the Wicked Witch of the West or Snuffy’s Parents Get a Divorce, those are more like lost controversial episodes more than anything. There’s other episodes past the 1970s that are lost as well. It seems nearly impossible to watch every episode of Sesame Street at its full length without switching to watch street scenes and original sketches that at the very least aired on television.
Not even archive.org has every single episode of Sesame Street available to watch in full. It also doesn’t help that HBO MAX removed over 200 episodes from every season of the show prior to Season 39. However it has been confirmed that nearly 4,500 episodes have been archived by The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, so the master tapes (besides the lost 55 episodes from 1969-1974, and one from 1977) do still exist.
Anyway one of the earliest uploads of the episode was posted by CZcamsr Sesame Maniac on September 22, 2014. The description of the video says, “I don't know the episode number...but if anybody has any info on the number, or happens to have the full show (at least street scenes), I'd love to see it... I had VCR problems and I taped over part, and then the tape ran out of room :(But, I'd still like to share what I have anyway…” Which this episode, seemed to be not documented at the time, as the recording of the episode is incomplete.
By doing some research, the scenes from the incomplete vhs recording seem to be from Episode 2688, which aired on February 21, 1990, called Gina and Mike practice driving. As on the Muppet wiki page of the episode, there’s screenshots that matches to what’s shown on the incomplete vhs recording of the episode, as well as the Kermit sketch, and the Caribbean Air song that were made exclusively for this episode.
Uploads of the Sesame Street Flash News sketch of Kermit the Frog reporting Old Macdonald’s Health Resort for his animals, were posted prior to the 2014 upload but the other sketch of the episode is a song called Caribbean Air, sung by the three Caribbean Anything Muppets. Which that sketch didn’t get found until November 24, 2017, by CZcamsr I’mThisGuy, but only a cam recorded recording of it was available, which an actual recording of the song didn’t get found until April 23, 2023, by CZcamsr arQivisT.
So we have all the original sketches made for the episode but the street scenes are missing. Which these three recordings are the only available material of this episode that’s available online, unless Sesame Workshop blocked an upload of this episode as well as other scenes of Gina graduates High School. Other than this recording, the Kermit sketch, and the Caribbean Song, only screenshots of this episode is available online, which the rest of it is lost.
Another thing to note about of Season 21 is that this was the last season that Jim Henson was involved with, before he passed away on May 16, 1990. So you can’t even watch this season in full anywhere online. So until more material of this episode, or Season 21 in general, and the rest of the episodes from other seasons of Sesame Street that’s not available to watch fully online will surface, these pieces of Sesame Street history remains completely lost.
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Did i just stumble upon lost media by CZcams recommendations? Is this episode documented anywhere?
Muppet Wiki has the info. It's not lost media
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Gee, this looks familiar...oh yes, I posted this around 10 years ago on my channel. I've since gotten the full episode in master tape quality
czcams.com/video/sUhCHSHAyq4/video.htmlfeature=shared
Cool..
Jesus Sesame Street does a terrible job at preserving their media to make sure it doesn’t get lost! Don’t tell me Sesame Street also did tape wiping Doctor Who/BBC style too.
I wouldn’t say it’s that bad as that. At the very least nearly all the master tapes of all episodes of Sesame Street do still exist. I would say they do suck at preserving their media to the public, Sesame Workshop does a good at preserving Sesame Street history.
Yeah it sucks that 200 episodes were removed on streaming but that’s not their fault that’s Warner Bros Discovery’s fault, you can thank David Zaslav for that.
And to be fair, most actual lost Sesame Street episodes are from the 1970s, which only 55 are considered completely lost whether to the public or in Sesame Workshop’s archives. And it was the 1970s after all, home video releases was completely unheard of at the time. So I wouldn’t say it’s that bad as how the BBC treated their preservation for Doctor Who.
this isnt lost media
Are you sure though? It seems like there’s no way to watch the full episode online. It’s not even available on archive.org. And if it is available somewhere online, do you happen to have a link of the episode or at the very least the street scenes for proof.
@@raretendo6879This one isn't hard to find if you search the right places
@@sesamemaniac855 Well i don’t know I can’t seem to find the episode anywhere online. It’s possible it was available online at one point but likely got blocked by Sesame Workshop. The only link I found is one from the AAOPB. And that says it’s only available at the Library of Congress. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-530-0k26971275
So maybe the episode is not particularly lost but it’s not publicly available online either.
Do you happen to know any site that has this episode besides the AAOPB site cause I don’t know.
@@raretendo6879 Just because it isn't readily available to watch online doesn't mean it's lost. All Sesame episodes are well documented on the Muppet Wiki which should infer that these episodes aren't in much danger of being lost either.
@@abagelmuppetstuff I know the master tapes of them still exist and the episodes are documented. I meant it’s lost because there’s no way to watch the episode publicly online. There are tv shows that even if the master tapes still exist and a good amount of info of those episodes, you can’t watch the episodes from that show if they are not available online, cause the general public can’t access that episode easily either because it wasn’t officially released on home video or it’s no where available to watch anywhere online, which is why an episode is considered lost because it’s not easily available for the public to watch. For example, Bear in the Big Blue House had a lot of episodes that were lost, until nearly all of them were officially released on Disney Plus. lostmediawiki.com/Bear_in_the_Big_Blue_House_(found_Playhouse_Disney_puppet_series;_1997-2006)