You younger people probably will have no idea what I'm talking about here, but...

I want this box set so badly!



This program was wonderful. I watched it every day when I was a kid, and loved it more than Sesame Street. It was a great show because it taught the essentials and basics of grammar, spelling, and phonics in a fun way -- with lots of music, skits, and many talented people (like Morgan Freeman, Mel Brooks, Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno Joan Rivers, Irene Cara and Gene Wilder). I truly credit The Electric Company with having helped me, as a child, acquire the basic fundamentals of grammar and English, and instilling in me a love & appreciation of reading and language which has stayed with me my entire life.

Some of my favorite memories of EC are:

J. Arthur Crank
Easy Reader
Fargo North, Decoder
Molly Lick a Lolly
Love of Chair
The Blue Beetle
the silhouette thing where words would be sounded out to music, syllable by syllable
The Silent E song (one of my absolute favorites) and the -LY song
Letterman
Spiderman

Anybody else remember and love The Electric Company?

u forgot "the Short Circus"

the Electric Company was Sesame street for the Hip Kids.man how i had a crush on "Carmella"( Rita Moreno). in the words of my man The DJ " Righteous and Outta Sighteous"

IAintTheOne said:

Oops, I did forget the Short Circus!

Rita Moreno was so great.

My thread is bombing impressively.

Hmm. I will comfort myself with the notion that nobody can read it very well, as they did not watch The Electric Company regularly when they were a child.

i want this.

Gotta get it!

"w"_____"ant"===== "WANT"
"th"_____"is" ===== "THIS"
"n"_____"ow"===== "NOW"

PurpleJedi said:

yeaaaaah.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Easy Reader was cool as hell. i loved this show when i was a kid.

no one cared for my original thread BEFORE it came out.

http://www.shoutfactory.c...railer.wmv

superspaceboy said:

I never saw your thread - I would've cared!

What year(s) was this show?

Yes indeed! My crush on Rita Morena started here.

CinisterCee said:

it started in '72, and i'm pretty sure it ran through the early '80s and played in reruns for a few years after that. i remember growing up on that show when i was a little one, around '74 - '77.

I grew up in the 70s,but I don't recall watching this show.However,I always watched "Sesame Street" and "New Zoo Revue"

i used to go nuts for the episodes where spidey super stories would be on...and i used to get the electric company spidey comics all the time, too.
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I want this too!!! I still need to get "The Muppet Show" DVDs too.

I loved Letterman and the Evil Spellbinder!