The Electric Company

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.

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  Morgan Freeman

  Mark /Easy Reader /Mel Mounds /Count Dracula /Mad Scientist /The Cop /Marcello
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  Rita Moreno

  Carmela
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  Mel Brooks

  Blond-Haired Cartoon Man (voice)
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  Hattie Winston

  Sylvia / Valerie the Librarian
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  Gene Wilder

  Letterman (voice)
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  Joan Rivers

  Letterman Narrator (voice)
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  Zero Mostel

  Spell Binder (voice)
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  Todd Graff

  Jesse - Member of the Short Circus
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  Luis Ávalos

  Roberto / Dr. Doolats / Igor / Pedro