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Show 118B. Among the concepts of this episode: the vowel pair "AY" as in "day." Kelly sings "Today is My Favorite D ay " to Julie and Duane.
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The Electric Company was a live-action series produced by...
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On the heels of its fabulously successful Sesame Street, the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) created The Electric Company. With its roots in Motown Sound, Broadway and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Electric Company drew attention for six years as the most popular instructional television show. It would win an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series, and its soundtrack album earned a ...
118B: Directed by Robert Schwartz. With Luis Avalos, Jim Boyd, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart.
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Episodes
1. Episode 131, from October 23, 1972 1. Fargo North, Decoder (played by Skip Hinnant), the detective who specializes in deciphering scrambled messages, receives a visit at his office from Big Bird. Big Bird repeatedly refers to Fargo as Mr. Furpo (in reference to the bird's mangling of Mr. Hooper's name). Big Bird recalls how he absentmindedly ripped up a message (and as he demonstrates, Fargo tears up a dollar bill). Fargo is eager to help, but keeps thinking he's seen the yellow fowl somew...
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1. Miss Piggy appeared on the cover of an issue of The Electric Company Magazine (perhaps contributing to the misnomer that she appeared on Sesame Street). 1. Mr. Hooper appears in issue #9 of the show's spin-off comic book Spidey Super Stories, based on the recurring sketch of the same name (co-produced with Marvel Comics). 1. Sam the Robot appears in Spidey Super Stories #31 (Star Jaws). 1. The Electric Company Guide Activity Book 2 mentions Sesame Street and Muppets several times, and Bert...
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1. Sesame Street Episode 0637 features appearances by Rita Moreno as Millie, uttering her ear-piercing catchphrase from the show, and Morgan Freeman as Easy Reader. The latter appears reading newspapers referencing events from The Electric Company, including headlines regarding Paul the Gorilla, "Naomi" (the oft-alluded to character from the "Love of Chair" sketches), and Julia Grownup. 1. In 1974, the Electric Company cast joined with the Sesame Street Muppets in the prime-time special Out t...
In a Wally and Ralphsegment, the duo attempt to write something with a pencil and paper, but in a more complicated manner. The sentence they write is "The boy is sitting," in reference to the commo...
In a sketch appearing in the final aired episode, the Mad Scientist (Morgan Freeman) calls his assistant Igor (Luis Avalos) a "misshapen little Muppet."
Shout! Factory released 3 DVD sets of The Electric Company. In February 2006, The Best of The Electric Companywas released on DVD as a 4-disc boxed set. The visits from Big Bird, Oscar, and Grover were all included—Big Bird on Disc 2, Oscar on Disc 3, and Grover on Disc 4. In November 2006, a second 4-disc volume, The Best of The Electric Company V...
Clark Gesner, author of You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, wrote "The Sign Song" and several others for The Electric Company. Sung over film footage of New York City street signs, the popular lyrics...
In addition to the regulars mentioned above, other Electric Company alumni worked on Sesame Streetor Muppet/Henson projects 1971 series 1. June Angelaplayed Julie of the Short Circus 2. Bob and Rayvoiced animated segments 3. Victor Borgeappeared in a filmed segment, performing his famous Phonetic Punctuation routine. 4. Mel Brooksvoiced a recurring...
The series was produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame 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.
The Electric Company: With Jim Boyd, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart, Skip Hinnant. A comedy variety show that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes.
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The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett.
