Thanks Martini! As one of the OG Latchkey kids I can’t tell you how many HOURS I spent with the Electric Company - and how I thought the characters we *so cool*
I LOVED the Electric Company!! I was 11 when it came on the air which was a little old for the show but it was so funny and clever that I kept watching until the series ended. I already loved Rita Moreno so it wasn't hard to love the show. I still think of EZ Reader when ever I see Morgan Freeman. Thanks, Martini. This tabs gif was Out of Sight.
"Anybody of a certain age knows that once you hear Rita Moreno shout “Hey, you guys!” that the program is about to start. But did you know that the show didn’t originally start with the series intro catchphrase? The line is from a sketch that first aired November 1, 1971, the 6th episode of the first season."
I AM of THIS certain age. I was born in 1967, and I got to see THE ELECTRIC COMPANY at school when it was nearly brand new. It is one of the many, many strokes of undeserved good fortune that showered upon me as a child of the Nineteen Seventies. (I was only an INFANT of the Sixties, but I was a child of the Seventies.) The biggest stroke of ILL fortune, for people of my generation, was that our developing brains were all mildly poisoned by lead dust, an effect of leaded gasoline, which peaked in the mid-Seventies before it was phased out. But we Seventies kids had CULTURE. We got to live through the tail-end of a progressive age, just before Reagan came and it was lights-out in America.
I was too young for the original run of the show, but I got the gist of things listening to the soundtrack album on vinyl. It's since been revived on DVD, which gives me a chance to catch up...
Thank you Martini! As somebody who was born in 1965, parents who were born in the 20s, it's a refreshing reminder that working-class jobs were very much represented in TV of the 60s & 70s. Regular people doing regular jobs with regular aspirations. Your work is brilliant, look forward to it every day - cheers from LA, Amelia
Thanks Martini! As one of the OG Latchkey kids I can’t tell you how many HOURS I spent with the Electric Company - and how I thought the characters we *so cool*
I LOVED the Electric Company!! I was 11 when it came on the air which was a little old for the show but it was so funny and clever that I kept watching until the series ended. I already loved Rita Moreno so it wasn't hard to love the show. I still think of EZ Reader when ever I see Morgan Freeman. Thanks, Martini. This tabs gif was Out of Sight.
"Anybody of a certain age knows that once you hear Rita Moreno shout “Hey, you guys!” that the program is about to start. But did you know that the show didn’t originally start with the series intro catchphrase? The line is from a sketch that first aired November 1, 1971, the 6th episode of the first season."
I AM of THIS certain age. I was born in 1967, and I got to see THE ELECTRIC COMPANY at school when it was nearly brand new. It is one of the many, many strokes of undeserved good fortune that showered upon me as a child of the Nineteen Seventies. (I was only an INFANT of the Sixties, but I was a child of the Seventies.) The biggest stroke of ILL fortune, for people of my generation, was that our developing brains were all mildly poisoned by lead dust, an effect of leaded gasoline, which peaked in the mid-Seventies before it was phased out. But we Seventies kids had CULTURE. We got to live through the tail-end of a progressive age, just before Reagan came and it was lights-out in America.
I was too young for the original run of the show, but I got the gist of things listening to the soundtrack album on vinyl. It's since been revived on DVD, which gives me a chance to catch up...
Thank you Martini! As somebody who was born in 1965, parents who were born in the 20s, it's a refreshing reminder that working-class jobs were very much represented in TV of the 60s & 70s. Regular people doing regular jobs with regular aspirations. Your work is brilliant, look forward to it every day - cheers from LA, Amelia
Delightful throwback to my childhood. Thank you!!
Ta, Martini. I never saw this; I'm an elder who never had kids. Watching Bill Cosby assault Rita Moreno was not fun.