The Electric Company - Season 1 - Eps 16: Show 15
About The Electric Company
Title: The Electric Company
First Air Date: 1971-10-25
Last Air Date: 1977-06-01
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.087/10 (from 23 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 7
Total Episodes: 780
Network: PBS
Genres: Comedy, Family
Production Companies: Children's Television Workshop
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Bill Cosby
The Milk Man
Mel Brooks
Denise Nickerson
Lee Chamberlin
Irene Cara
Iris - Member of the Short Circus
Todd Graff
Hattie Winston
Gene Wilder
Rita Moreno
Carmela
Zero Mostel
