Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Family | Jan. 1, 1986

Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories

Family | Jan. 1, 1986

Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Bedtime Stories & Songs is a 1986 Sesame Street direct-to-video compilation, released on VHS as part of the My Sesame Street Home Video label. The video was re-released with different segments under the new title of Sleepytime Songs & Stories in 1996, and on DVD in 2005. The framing story involves Big Bird speaking to the audience, offering advice on the best ways to fall asleep. A Honker and her baby stop by, and Telly arrives for a sleepover with heaps of cuddly toys that he couldn't sleep without. Buster the Horse demonstrates how to fall asleep standing up and Susan comments from her apartment window.
Producers
Original title Sesame Street: Sleepytime Songs & Stories
Directors Jon Stone
Writers Norman Stiles, Sara Compton, Luis Santeiro, Ray Sipherd, Judy Freudberg

Cast

Caroll Spinney

as Big Bird (voice)

Jim Henson

as Ernie / The King (Bedtime Stories & Songs) (voice)

Frank Oz

as Bert / Grover (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Cookie Monster (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Tallest and Smallest People (Bedtime Stories & Songs) (voice)

Jerry Nelson

as Count von Count / Smartest and Fastest People (Bedtime Stories and Songs) / Moonshine Singer (Sleepytime Songs & Stories) (voice)

Martin P. Robinson

as Telly Monster / Snuffy / Buster the Horse (voice)

Sonia Manzano

as Maria Rodriguez

Roscoe Orman

as Gordon Robinson

Loretta Long

as Susan Robinson

Ossie Davis

as Anansi the Spider (Sleepytime Songs and Stories) (voice)