Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Age rating
- G
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Big Bird is sent to live far from Sesame Street by a pesky social worker, who thinks it would be better for him to live with other birds. Unhappy, Big Bird runs away from his foster home, prompting the rest of the Sesame Street gang to go on a cross-country journey to find him.
- farm
- friendship
- airplane
- airport
- waitress
- flying
- police
- gas station
- social worker
- key
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Caroll Spinney
Big Bird / Oscar the Grouch / Bruno the Trashman (voice)
Jim Henson
Kermit the Frog / Ernie (voice)
Frank Oz
Cookie Monster / Bert / Grover / Additional Muppets (voice)
Richard Hunt
Gladys the Cow / Feathered Friends Owl / Additional Muppets
- Kathryn Mullen — Feathered Friends Magistrate / Grouch Diner Patron / Little
- Jerry Nelson — Count von Count / Herry Monster / Additional Muppets (voice)
- Paul Bartel — Grouch Cook
- Sandra Bernhard — Grouch Waitress
- Waylon Jennings — Truck Driver
- Laraine Newman — Mommy Dodo (voice)
- Eddie Deezen — Donnie Dodo (voice)
- Sally Kellerman — Miss Finch (voice)
- Cathy Silvers — Marie Dodo (voice)
- John Candy — State Trooper
- Chevy Chase — Newscaster
- Directed
- Ken Kwapis
- Written
- Tony Geiss, Judy Freudberg
Production
- Rating
- 6.4 / 10 · 92 ratings
- Studio
- Henson Associates, Warner Bros. Pictures, Children's Television Workshop
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
