Sesame Street: Old School Volume Three, 1979-1984 (one episode each from seasons 11 through 15, plus bonus segments). Big Bird learns about the world.
Created by Joan Ganz Cooney. Directed by Lisa Simon (seasons 13-15), Robert Myhrum (11), Jon Stone (12) & Emily Squires (14). Written by Norman Stiles (seasons 11-15), Sara Compton (11-15), Judy Freudberg (11-15), Tony Geiss (11-15), Emily Perl Kingsley (11-15), Luis Santeiro (11-15), Ray Sipherd (11-14), John Glines (11-13), Joseph A. Bailey (13-15), Tom Dunsmuir (13-15), David Korr (13-15), Peter Swet (11-12), Jeffrey Moss (14-15) & Gary Belkin (15). Starring Caroll Spinney.
Concept: 3/4 (Good)
Story: 0/4 (Terrible)
Characters: 3/4 (Good). Sesame Street has some of my favorite characters of all time, but you don't see much of them here.
Dialog: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 3/4 (Good)
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 3/4 (Good). Weirdly, they cut out the theme song. Did they not want to pay royalties or something?
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, 3/4). I'm hugely disappointed in this DVD set. The Muppets featured in the story segments of these episodes are limited to Big Bird, Snuffleupagus and Oscar - and 90% of it is just Big Bird. Meanwhile, there are only five bonus sketches included per season. In all, there are probably only about 25 Muppet sketches total in the entire set, including a few that were already in volumes one and two. Those volumes had something like three times as much Muppet. Still, it's classic Sesame Street, and I love classic Sesame Street, so even a small cross section of it is better than nothing.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.3/4 (Okay)
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