I'm almost 58, and this show was instrumental in my development as a younger reader. Categorically, the Electric Company will forever remain a hugely important and deeply formative part of the indelible soundtrack of my life.
I know what you mean. Because of TEC, by the time I hit kindergarten, my pronunciation level was at a senior high level and my comprehension was at a junior high level.
what a delight to find these, we used to watch the show, I think we were in middle school/junior high, and loved Love Of Chair and Fargo North, Decoder, all of it! The word play was such fun for older kids who were already strong readers.
I was born in 2004, and the New Electric Company was what helped me learn how to read. It's nice to see the origins of where all that came from. It's actually more entertaining than I thought it would be, lol
@@troyc4250 But the New version with its cast playing Superheroes and Supervillains (ala Cops and Robbers) is becoming something forgotten. I know where you are coming from with the focus on both shows being on reading and literacy. The NewEC had its moments with its songs and then some (had its own Silent E song along with Two Ways to say C, and Pocketful of H's with Jimmy Fallon). It did jump the shark too quickly in the third season. The original did not do the shark jump in spite of using celberty cameos in season two, adding SpiderMan in the fourth season and even having Chuck Jones producing Road Runner shorts for TEC. In the end it was not being able to make money that ended the show in 1977 while Sesame Street was solid gold. However TEC stayed popular into the mid 1980's and age caught up with it.
This brings me back to ages 5-9.....thanks Electric Company ....Thanks Rita, Morgan, Skip and the rest for helping me become a better reader. I even had their record album
One for the money Two for the show Three to get ready It’s time for the Electric Company Yo🎉🎉🎉!!!! Memory lane here. One show that helped me get and stay several grades higher than the other kids. I could read and write 4-5 grades higher than the other kids. Thank You Electric Company 🎉❤😊😁😀
I was a preschooler in Nova Scotia watching The Electric Company on WGBH out of Boston. I honestly think this show was more important than anything I learned at least till grade three or four.
This show probably taught me to read. It's amazing how many classic bits are in this very first episode. Also, note the heavy use of Scanimate (analog electronic video animation--that's what's being used to do the opening theme effects and to make letter shapes wiggle and distort). 1971? This was cutting-edge technology at the time.
Where's Ice Cream? It's filmed outside in a park where Paul Dooley the ice cream vendor is calling "Ice Cream" and Rita Moreno hears it across the park and comes running for it and needing it bad, until she she consents to Ice Cream and the venor puts an unwrapped Fudgsicle in her mouth all to the ethereal music of Joe Raposo with a male chorus singing "Ah" in unison. It's from Season 1 of The Electric Company and probably my favourite sketch. I 1st saw it when I was about 21 months old and I could relate to loving ice cream.
A gen z here! Scrolling around the archives. This seems fun. (Always scrollin' good archives stuff following actors to actors) Also, can any of you tell me who is SpellBinder? (I think that's just some sort of narrator or something, but I'm following an actor right now and I can't seem to understand who SpellBinder is)
@@lucasjohnson6507 Wow.....way too many years ago, but it was a catchy tune about living in an part of town with lots of noise going on around it and they'd focus in on some of it during the song. Could it have been Sesame Street instead? They watched the Electric Company far more though.....
That bicycle scene was not funny I called that girl to meet me up at the comedy club and I told her to go up inside walk up on stage and go tell her stupid jokes to someone else
