Episode 1
Show 1A
The consonant blend sw- is among this episode's concepts. This episode's Spider-Man story: The Old One-Two.
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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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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
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Episode 18
Are You Happy?
Among the concepts in this episode: the vowel y as in happy.
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Eyeball
The sight word eye becomes the basis for longer words.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 21
Show 21A
The vowel pair ee, the consonant digraph ch, and the suffix -tion are featured.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 27
Yankee Doodle
Y as a consonant, the suffix -ed, and the two sounds of ie are featured. This show has a sight word: you.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 35
Knock Knock Rock
The vowel pair -ck, and the vowel digraph sh are featured. Today's Spiderman story: ""The Birthday Bandit.""
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 57
Silver Sipper
The consonant blend gr-, the short I, and double consonants are featured. Punctuation marks are featured next to today's sight word: stop.
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Episode 60
Jelly Belly
Among the phonetics concepts in this program are the consonant blend pr- and the vowel digraph ow as in cow. This show has a sight word: stop.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 77
Light
The consonant B, the vowel digraph oy, and the ending -ight are featured. This episode has a sight word: and.
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Episode 80
Creepy Creature
The consonant digraph sh, the consonant blend cr, and the vowel digraph ow as in grow are highlighted.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 84
Flower Power
The vowel digraph ow and the consonant blend fl are highlightedd.
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Episode 105
Mr. Vinton's Pants
Among the concepts in this program: the possessive contraction 's.
Where to watch The Electric CompanyEpisode 110
The Sports Monster Will Bowl
Preview: sports monster will bowl sn Bo Peeps sings: sneak a snack ll Spidey Meets the Blowhard the sports monster will bowl ow ly Snowball and the 6 dwarves
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Episode 122
Think Tank
Igor and monster nk The Adventures Of Letterman: shrunk Spiderman: Spidey Meets the Prankster Junkers is pure junk oi Greystone the magician
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