Sesame Street: Old School Season 2
DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:
As much as I absolutely love Sesame Street, especially the older episodes, these DVD collections are disappointing. We bought all 3 volumes. Each volume only includes one episode per season, and sadly they reuse so many sketches. It would seem that if you only get 5 episodes to cover 5 seasons, you might not see the same song 2-3 times. Some of the sketches even show up again in other volumes. While I understand that repetition is good for children and their language development, when we bought these disks, the plan was definitely to watch it multiple times, so we don’t need to see Ladybug Picnic or Jimmy John saying Up and Down on every disk. Honestly, I feel a little cheated.-g
I grew up watching Sesame Street in the 1980s. I was hoping this would be like the Sesame Street I remember (not completely Elmo-centric, but very kid friendly with lots of Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Oscar the Grouch, Grover, Ernie and Bert, etc..). It’s not. It’s like a mix between sketch comedy and some educational bits. Interesting to see how the show originated and to see life in the 1970s, but not what I was looking for and not what I remember from the 80s.Also, each disc only has one full episode. And the disc starts with a warning that it’s for adults and not appropriate for today’s preschoolers. I haven’t noticed anything inappropriate, per se, but as mentioned above it’s just not as kid-focused as the show was when I grew up or is now.-S. Trick
You can’t do better than the old school Sesame Street episodes. This is literally how I learned to read at four years old, all on my own, no help from adults whatsoever. I started kindergarten reading at a third grade level, thanks to these episodes back in the 1970s. Today’s Sesame Street is almost useless for educational purposes, but the old episodes are great for learning to read and count. Totally worth the price.-DesertBlossom
DVD Wholesale Main Features:
Actors: Various
Directors: Various
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: WarnerBrothers
DVD Release Date: January 5, 2010
Run Time: 489 minutes
ASIN: B000UNYJTK
