Episode 1
To the Queen
Among the concepts highlighted: the consonant Y and the consonant blend sp-.
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The Electric Company
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The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 1977 to 1985, the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in Manhattan, the first home of Sesame Street. The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately, the humor was more mature than what was seen there.
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Synopsis
The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 1977 to 1985, the result of a decision made in 1975 to produce two final seasons for perpetual use. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in Manhattan, the first home of Sesame Street. The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately, the humor was more mature than what was seen there.
Cast, crew and production details
About The Electric Company
Cast
Bill CosbyThe Milk Man
Morgan FreemanMark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
Rita MorenoCarmela
Mel BrooksBlond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)Skip HinnantBoy (Love of Chair)
Denise NickersonAllison - Member of the Short Circus
Hattie WinstonSylvia / Valerie the Librarian
Gene WilderLetterman (voice)Production details
- Status
- Ended
- Series type
- Scripted
- Episodes
- 780
- Original language
- English
Networks & production
PBSUnited States
Children's Television WorkshopUnited States
Season 4 episodes
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Episode 28
Read
The consonant F leads to the consonant blend fr-. Also featured are the vowel digraph ou and the suffixes -ed and -est.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 63
Tight
The sounds featured in this episode are ou, gr-, and -ight.
Guest stars Mel Blanc
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Episode 112
Not Good
The consonant blend gr-, the vowel pair oa, and the suffix -ing are highlighted.
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