Starring the cast of TV's Sesame Street. Oscar, Bert, Ernie, Cookie Monster plus other members of the Sesame Street family join Big Bird in a cross-country adveture. A meddling social worker sends poor Big Bird off to Ocean View, Illinois, for the comforts of family life with his "own kind," the Dodos. But Big Bird is a disaster as a Dodo and, lonely and homesick, he soon sets off on foot for Seasame Street. Can his old friends find him before he runs "afowl" of trouble en route? Featuring guest stars Chevy Chase, Sandra Bernhard, John Candy, and Waylon Jennings.