• 1971
  • TV-G
  • 28m
The Electric Company

Summary A comedy variety show that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes. View more details

  • 1971
  • TV-G
  • 28m

The Electric Company

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Morgan Freeman Jim Boyd Skip Hinnant Judy Graubart

All cast & crew

8.1

Details

Genres : Comedy Family

Release date : Oct 24, 1971

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Sesame Workshop

Language : English

Filming locations : Reeves TeleTape Studio, 81st St. & B'way, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Children's Television Workshop (CTW)

Summary A comedy variety show that teaches basic phonetic and grammar concepts using live-action sketches, cartoons, songs, and Spider-Man episodes. View more details

Details

Genres : Comedy Family

Release date : Oct 24, 1971

Countries of origin : United States

Official sites : Sesame Workshop

Language : English

Filming locations : Reeves TeleTape Studio, 81st St. & B'way, New York City, New York, USA

Production companies : Children's Television Workshop (CTW)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 24, 1971
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Episode 2 • Oct 25, 1971
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Featuring: Mel Mounds, Easy Reader and Love of Chair
Episode 3 • Oct 26, 1971
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The third episode of The Electric Company starts out with the short vowel U as Morgan Freeman and assistant Stephen Gustafson spell out three words containing a U in the middle - fun, bun, and but. Rita Moreno then chimes in with four more - bus, bug, tug, and tub, all four of which she writes on a bus stop sign. She later sings the song "Unbutton Your Heart", a lovelorn rock song filled with "un" words like "unkind" and "unzip". Skip Hinnant's character Norman Neat, Man on the Street makes his very first appearance (his first four, in fact!) interviewing passersby about their favorite words. Another first: John and Faith Hubley's cartoon "True Blue Sue" makes its debut to introduce the topic UE to the show. Freeman shows up with another UE word: "glue", in big white letters which he glues to the wall. But perhaps he was a little careless with the glue - he winds up with his hands stuck to his workbench! Next, Freeman and Hinnant don sweaters with letters and recite a short poem about the letters Q and U. The QU sound returns in a game show setting - Wild Guess, featuring announcer Ken Kane (Bill Cosby) and host Bess West (Rita Moreno). Following that is more of the letter U, albeit its long sound, found in words like "dude" and "cute". You'll hear plenty of those kinds of words in the song "An E on the End", which introduces The Electric Company to one of its most popular topics - Silent E. While Tom Lehrer's famous song doesn't show up in this episode, two other famous animations do - one sees the Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voiced by Mel Brooks) perform his "I am Cute Very" routine ("Who's the dummy writing this show?") and the other tells the story of a talking dog named Spot. Scanimate words include "pup" and "quake" and the last word is "quiet".
Episode 4 • Oct 27, 1971
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Episode 5 • Oct 28, 1971
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Featuring: Easy Reader, J. Arthur Crank, and the song: "I Love You -ING"
Episode 6 • Oct 31, 1971
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Episode 7 • Nov 01, 1971
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Episode 8 • Nov 02, 1971
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Episode 9 • Nov 03, 1971
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This show starts off with the short vowel A as gloved hands spell words like "ran" and "fan". The short A sound returns (to share the stage with the CT blend and the hidden word "act") as Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman build a monster but find themselves in need of a fact book, a contact, and a reactor. Freeman works his magic on the TH blend and challenges an off-screen Rita Moreno to read the sentence "Thirty thirsty thinkers think through thick and thin". TH also starts the sight word of the day: "that". Mel Brooks' Blond-Haired Cartoon Man reads the sentence "That doesn't swing" but knocks the "that" with his hand, making it swing back and forth. "Perhaps I was wrong!" That's not all - next it's the ALL sound! Lee Chamberlin interviews baseball player Glue-Glove Smith (Freeman) during the All-Star Game, where the tall and the small play together. Next, Moreno plays one of her most famous characters - Otto the Director - bossing around her star actor Cosby, who can't seem to remember the line "All for one and one for all!" (Look out for Morgan Freeman laughing the fourth time he gets it wrong.) If there's one thing the Electric Company knows, it's that consonants can change the way a vowel sounds. The Short Circus demonstrates this in their "He Ho Hi" song, in which the titular three words become "hen", "hot", and "hit" with the application of an ending consonant. After that, it's right back to the A sound as Fargo North (Skip Hinnant) is visited by Pandora the Brat (Moreno), who needs help deciphering a coded message from her friend in which "candy" is replaced by "furpo". To close the show, Easy Reader (Freeman) reads sentences containing topics learned throughout the episode, with the help of his magic paper bag. The last word is "fall".
Episode 10 • Nov 04, 1971
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Episode 11 • Nov 07, 1971
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Episode 12 • Nov 08, 1971
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Episode 13 • Nov 09, 1971
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Featuring: Rita and Lorelei, Mel Mounds, and the song: "Sneaver Song"
Episode 14 • Nov 10, 1971
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Featuring: Haunted House, Mmm, and Letterman
Episode 15 • Nov 11, 1971
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Episode 16 • Nov 14, 1971
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Episode 17 • Nov 15, 1971
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Episode 18 • Nov 16, 1971
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Episode 19 • Nov 17, 1971
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Episode 20 • Nov 18, 1971
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Episode 21 • Nov 21, 1971
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Episode 22 • Nov 22, 1971
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Episode 23 • Nov 23, 1971
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Featuring: The Giggle Goggle Girls, Fargo North Decoder, and Julia Grown-Up
Episode 24 • Nov 24, 1971
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Episode 25 • Nov 25, 1971
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Episode 26 • Nov 28, 1971
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Topics of Show 26 include the consonant B, the BR blend, and OW as in brown. In this show, Millie the Helper learns about the word "bottle", Mel Mounds and J. Arthur Crank cross paths, Broadway Bob treads the vaudeville stage, and Winnie sings "How is Howard". "Love of Chair" sees the boy taking a step and the last word is "barber".
Episode 27 • Nov 29, 1971
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Episode 28 • Nov 30, 1971
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Episode 29 • Dec 01, 1971
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Episode 30 • Dec 02, 1971
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Episode 31 • Dec 05, 1971
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Episode 32 • Dec 06, 1971
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Episode 33 • Dec 07, 1971
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Episode 34 • Dec 08, 1971
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Episode 35 • Dec 09, 1971
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Episode 36 • Dec 12, 1971
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Featuring: Fargo North Decoder and Enough is Too Much
Episode 37 • Dec 13, 1971
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Episode 38 • Dec 14, 1971
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Episode 39 • Dec 15, 1971
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Episode 40 • Dec 16, 1971
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Featuring: the Giggle Goggle Girls and Mad Scientist
Episode 41 • Dec 19, 1971
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Episode 42 • Dec 20, 1971
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Episode 43 • Dec 21, 1971
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Episode 44 • Dec 22, 1971
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Episode 45 • Dec 23, 1971
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Episode 46 • Dec 26, 1971
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Episode 47 • Dec 27, 1971
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Episode 48 • Dec 28, 1971
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Episode 49 • Dec 29, 1971
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Episode 50 • Dec 30, 1971
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