The Electric Company
Rating: 7.3 · 1971 · Comedy, Family · USA · 6 sns
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 1971
- Genre
- Comedy, Family
- Country
- USA
- Seasons
- 6
- TMDB
- 7.3
- IMDb
- 7.3
Cast
- Morgan Freeman — Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
- Rita Moreno — Carmela
- Mel Brooks — Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)
- Gene Wilder — Letterman (voice)
- Joan Rivers — Letterman Narrator (voice)
- June Angela — Julie - Member of the Short Circus
- Judy Graubart — Winnie /Jennifer of the Jungle /Julia Grown-Up /The Witch
- Jim Boyd — Andy /J. Arthur Crank /Paul the Gorilla /The Blue Beetle /The Wolfman /Loreli Loverly /Max /Steve Awesome the $6.39 Man
- Zero Mostel — Spell Binder (voice)
- Luis Ávalos — Roberto / Dr. Doolats / Igor / Pedro
- Hattie Winston — Sylvia / Valerie the Librarian
- Bill Cosby — The Milk Man
- Skip Hinnant — Boy (Love of Chair)
- Lee Chamberlin — Brenda /Vi /Madame Rosalie /Gladys the Glow-Worm
- Todd Graff — Jesse - Member of the Short Circus
- Bayn Johnson — Kelly - Member of the Short Circus
- Réjane Magloire — Samantha - Member of the Short Circus
- Ken Roberts — Announcer (Love of Chair)
- Denise Nickerson — Allison - Member of the Short Circus
- Irene Cara — Iris - Member of the Short Circus