Roscoe's Rules (1960s)

[Music] [Music] these boys and girls are just like friends of ours we're going to get to know some of them here's the best Hopscotch player in the second grade her name is Debbie that's Jeff up on top he really likes re says a lot Brenda likes spelling best but the Teeter totters are fun [Music] too and there's Mike he has fun no matter what he does this is Miss Stewart their teacher and officer [Music] Dan he visits the school often and all the boys and girls like him [Music] [Music] Miss Stewart asks us if we remember the safety rules we've been learning about crossing the street a lot of those rules have signs and signals to help us remember them like the walk signal that tells us when it's safe to cross and the lines painted on the street to show us where the crosswalks are well today officer Dan is going to tell us about four special safety rules that don't have any signals they're so important that officer Dan has brought along a special visitor who's going to help us remember these rules and here he [Music] is this little fellow is a friend of Smokey the Bear does anyone know who Smokey the Bear is sure everybody does he helps us to remember the safety rules about fire well this is Rosco and he's going to help us remember our four special safety rules the first Special Rule [Music] is we always go straight home from school and we always go the way we've been taught to go our mothers know how long it should take us to walk home that way and they'll worry for late the second rule is we never get into a car without our parents' permission the driver might be a very bad driver we never take gifts from anyone without our parents' permission not even a piece of candy our parents always know what's best for [Music] us we never walk or play in lonely places we might get lost or hurt and no one would find us and so these are Rosco's four special rules if we remember them we'll always be safe and we'll all see what a really good friend Rosco can [Music] be later on school is over for the day and it's time for everybody to go home [Music] Mike lives nearby so he usually walks [Music] home hi [Music] Mike come on and play with [Music] us we always go straight home from school Mike will go home and ask his mother if he can come back to play with his [Music] Friends next morning Jeff is on his way to school he has to start early because it's a long [Music] walk want to ride to school I'm going that way we never get into a car without our parents' permission it's always polite to say no thank [Music] you that afternoon when school is out Debbie walks home too [Music] hi there have some [Music] candy we never take gifts from anyone without our parents' permission Debbie also knows it's polite to say no thank [Music] you the park is a great place to play and on Saturdays Debbie Jeff Mike and Brenda often play there [Music] together their favorite game is Follow the Leader and it's lots of fun [Music] they always play together in a group and never alone and they know that the playground area is the best and safest place to play in the whole [Music] park but today Brenda's mother has told her to be home early and it's time for her to leave [Music] say I wonder if there's a shortcut down this [Music] way we never walk or play in lonely places I guess I'd better go the way I'm sure [Music] of and so the next time officer Dan visits the school Rosco comes with him again he asks if we remembered the four special rules that Rosco taught us Mike remembered didn't he come on and play with us we always go straight home from school I have to go home first and Jeff remembered too want to ride to school we never get into a car without our parents' permission no thank you Debbie did exactly the right thing want some candy we never take gifts from anyone without our parents permission no thank you and Brenda was smart too I wonder if there's a shortcut we never walk or play in lonely places I better go the way I know so let's be sure that all of us always remember Rosco's rules both officer Dan and Rosco want to help us to be safe because they're our friends [Music]