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The Electric Company

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About Me


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 Grammy.
Targeting children ages 6 through 10, The Electric Company aimed to teach basic reading and grammar skills to the young viewers. The show's cast of skit players helped teach these concepts through the use of skits, songs, cartoon and blackout segments and regular features; all of them revolved around sound clusters (e.g., sh-, -ly, -oo-), contractions, punctuation marks, etc. The series provided material for elementary schools, as CTW published a biweekly TEC Teacher's Guide detailing program contents.
A total of 780 episodes of The Electric Company aired from 1971 to 1977 on PBS; reruns of the final two seasons aired through the fall of 1985. Programs always ended with one of its cast members stating:
The Electric Company gets its power from The Children's Television Workshop.
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Member Since: 5/21/2006
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The Cast:
Luis Avalos, Jimmy Boyd, Lee Chamberlin, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart, Skip Hinnant, Rita Moreno, Danny Seagren, Hattie Winston
The Short Circus:
June Angela, Gregg Burge, Irene Cara, Todd Graff, Douglas Grant, Melanie Henderson, Bayn Johnson, Steve Gustafson, Rodney Lewis, Réjane Magloire, Janina Mathews, Denise Nickerson

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