The Electric Company is an educational American children’s television series which was produced by the Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop) for PBS in the United States. PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of six seasons, from 1971 to 1977. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns until 1985. CTW produced the show at Reeves Teletape Second Stage in Manhattan. The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help children of elementary-school age develop their reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW’s flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately enough, the humor was also that much more mature than what was seen there. The original cast included Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno (it was Moreno who screamed “Hey, you guyyyyys!!” to open the show in seasons two, five, and six and first screamed the phrase in episode 19), Bill Cosby, Judy Graubart, Lee Chamberlin, and Skip Hinnant. Most of the cast had done stage, repertory, and improv work, with Cosby and Moreno already well-known from film and television. Ken Roberts, who was best known as a soap-opera announcer, was the narrator of some of the segments during the first season. Jim Boyd, who was strictly an off-camera voice actor and puppeteer in the first season, began appearing on-camera in season two, mostly in the role of J. Arthur Crank. Luis Avalos also joined the cast at that time. Bill …
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Hello Youtubers! This is my new favourite series. Okey not really new, because I’m fall in love with the other two season, and this third one is absolutly awesome! About the story of my fan video: Freddie fall in love with effie of course, but effie choose cook at the first time. Later she see that there is something really interesting in freddie. Okey 😀 continue!! COMMENT GUYS! just comment! 😀 Song: Tradinig yesterday: One day film by: Mira’s production aaaand : I am actually licensed by Channel 4 to use this content.