The Man From Alphabet
If Sesame Street was as big a part of your childhood as it was mine, I think you’ll find this interesting….
From Muppet Wiki:
The Man from Alphabet was a series of four five-minute film segments made for the Sesame Street pilot episodes in July, 1969. Created by Sesame executive producer David Connell, the segments referenced such tongue-in-cheek spy series as Get Smart and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. The series starred the Man from Alphabet (played by Gary Owens), a bumbling spy in a trenchcoat who, with the help of a young paperboy called H.B., tried to catch the villainous Digby Dropout and his henchman Dunce using clues from H.B.’s “Alphabet Book.” Initially, the Man was also to have had a chief, “Teacher.”
The segments were eventually cut after test audience studies showed that no one was actually learning anything from The Man From Alphabet.
