Big Bird Builds a Rocket (Lost Sesame Street Episode)

Information
Big Bird Builds a Rocket is the 270th Episode of Sesame Street. Street Scenes — Cleavon Little as Pete; Big Bird builds a moon rocket. Foreign dub — some of the street scenes survive dubbed in German from Sesamstrasse Folge 0029. This episode was from Season 02 of Sesame Street in 1971.

Plot
Pete (Cleavon Little) stops by Big Bird's nest, where Big Bird is putting together a rocketship to go to the Moon. Pete is unsure about the prospect of actual space travel, but he and the kids help Big Bird build the rocket by following a diagram. Big Bird realizes he can't go to the Moon just now... Big Bird returns with a bag of birdseed, but Pete tells him that the rocket is merely a model and can't actually fly. Big Bird knows this and intends to reach the Moon using his imagination. He envisions himself riding on the rocket through space, as he flies over a star and under a planet. He passes the cow from "Hey Diddle Diddle," indicating the Moon is near. Sure enough, he sees it approaching, flies over it, then makes his return back to Earth. Big Bird proposes they continue imagining by doing a rocket countdown. As they reach the end, the model rocket actually takes off into the sky. Pete says that Big Bird has a terrific imagination. Gordon has different types of footwear set out - flippers, rubber boots and snowshoes. He asks the kids to identify what pairs they would need in certain circumstances. Pete sings a song about imagination to the kids and Oscar the Grouch. Bob sings two rounds of "Here Are Some Things" - one about things that fly in the sky, and another about things that make light. Gordon and Susan say goodbye as the kids play around in the yard.