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I remember loving to watch this program as a child. My daughter, while watching a fund-raising episode on public television, saw a few episodes. She was laughing and quoting parts of the show. I decided to surprise her with the dvd set and our family of 6 has had a great time watching and learning!
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Only in the '70s... !
Sesame Street and Electric Company ran up back to back. Sesame Street was unique for its multi-cultural and multi-racial cast, however, when it came to downright cool, groovy, urban groovyness, Electric Company hit the spot... What's even more amazing, not only did it make phonics so fun, entertaining and memorable, in my mid-thirties (like many other people) I find the episodes so wild to watch... Sure, Irene Cara (member of the SHORT CIRCUS for a season or two) was just a baby back then... however Hattie Winston with that huge afro of hers and cutting edge 70's looks was Pam Grier/Tamara Dobbs bad... and Bill Cosby and Morgan Freeman were remarkably young and jivey... and the sets and musical numbers were so... trippy, vangard 70's and out there... not to mention good (Especially when Rita Moreno was involved.... and considering the show's top notch creative team.) - - Oh yeah, and what about spidey... the Adventures of Letterman and the sillouettes that would say one word and finish the other and all those other wierd and trippy segments... (The show was famous for its unique visual graphics - - both technology and design wise.) Overall... cult TV where you'd least likely espect it... especially in an era where Children's TV was supposed to be corny...
All in all, a show like ELECTRIC COMPANY that really DID teach people of my generation to read, yet was so hip and countercultural will probably never happen again... the TIGGERS and BARNEY's have taken over... and now look what's happening... Our kids are on crack.. and atleast 49% of the registered voters voted for the wrong guy... Pity, pity!
As a foot note, keep an ear out for Skip Hinnant, the voice of Fritz the Cat... (The most amazing thing though is to see a young LIKEABLE Bill Cosby, or remembering Morgan Freeman when he had an afro and wore bell bottoms.) - - hard to believe that most of the adult cast are now in their early to late '60s !
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Children will surely love watching all the episodes of this educational, yet at the same time, entertaining TV series!
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I grew up watching this and the kids love it also. It's fun singing the same songs and telling them Mommy and Daddy grew up on this .
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I am fairly controlling about what my kids watch (no broadcast TV, only dvd's that we preview). Since I grew up with the Electric Company, I got a copy from our library and my kids (8 and 5) love it. It has been a great investment to have our own copy from Amazon. We take a portable DVD player on flights,and it is wonderful use of the time to have the kids learning reading skills while they are laughing out loud. Both kids have quizzed us with things that they have learned on the electric company, such as "Mom, do you know some words that have the letter c with both the sounds of c?" Our preschooler sounds out words as she has seen on the show. And all the fun styles and mannerisms of the 70's are fascinating to watch! So, "get it together" and get the Electric Company!
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