Crap TV Flashbacks: Electric Company

Author: The Troll

Unless you are about 50 you saw these shows as re-runs probably when you were a kid. Maybe you never saw them at all, but I remember them because they had “The Amazing Spiderman” on the show. Apparently I was a big Spiderman nerd when I was little.

The Electric Company is an educational American children’s television series that was produced by the Children’s Television Workshop (now called Sesame 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 1977-1985. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in Manhattan. No watching this on a Samsung HDTV that’s for sure.

This show was like a competitor to Sesame Street I guess. Obviously it was never as popular, but I did watch the re-runs. It claims to be the place that kids went after they graduated from Sesame Street.

Think this show wasn’t cool? Look at the cast:

The original cast included Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby, Judy Graubart, Lee Chamberlin, and Skip Hinnant.

Yeah…2 legends in Cosby and Freeman.

Electric Company Theme (Far out man…)