This is one of those tunes from your childhood that will never be forgotten.

Those days are never coming back...

@raposofan

6 жыл бұрын

Heather Ferreira: "Challenge Accepted"

@heatherferreira4225

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@heatherferreira4225

6 жыл бұрын

Well, folks, we did it! We're written and cast and are in production! Series title: Firecracker Factory. 1970's style comedy skits, 2D cel animation, Scanimate words swirling around, Joe Raposo-style music and a kid group called The Bottle Rockets. Stay tuned! Expected premiere spring 2019!

@jonathanwhite1265

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for remembering the impact this show had on many of us. I am in my 40s also and shows like the Electric Company are needed.

@jonathanwhite1265

6 жыл бұрын

Please keep us posted! I'm excited.

Such an era! The Electric Company was one of the golden stigmas of children's television in the 70's. I wish from the core of my soul they'd release more of it on DVD. If not, rerun it on TV somewhere. I miss this wonderful show!

Best version of the theme song. Always looked forward to when these episodes came around just to hear the jam at the end. :)

@charlessmith263

7 жыл бұрын

I am guessing that since Chuck Mangione was the hottest star in flugelhorn in the 1970s, I think he was the trumpeter. The backup band likely is either members of the backup band of The Fifth Dimension or probably the Bar-Clays (the best studio television musicians in the 1970s).

@You-Toober

6 жыл бұрын

YES! The horn and the bass!! YES!!

@quasimodo5405

2 жыл бұрын

Correction: this is 2nd best version of this song. The best version was from the year before that had the Spiderman images in it, and with the voice of Morgan Freeman at the end of it, saying "The Electric Company gets it's power from...."

@kenrutherford1109

Жыл бұрын

I love the music heard during the funding credits. The last bars remind me of driving past the abandoned Funland Amusement Park on West Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa in 1984 after they closed down and seeing the abandoned pool where the spiral water slide used to be

@k.t.5405

10 ай бұрын

Gosh darn did I love this show when I was a little kid...

Man I miss these days. If PBS would stream this old content, 3-2-1 Contact...whew!

@michaelglickman1300

8 күн бұрын

As well as "Square One TV" and "Ghostwriter."

When I watch this,I get a slight case of goosebumps.

@Emanistan

8 жыл бұрын

+George Master Me too. Someone in an essay a few years back called this show the "Proustian Madeleine" of our generation.

@ackamack101

4 жыл бұрын

George Master Me too! From that fantastic trumpet playing!

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

The music following the closing credits gives me goosebumps too. I love that music! I especially love it when they repeat the logo animation following the credit roll. That's the same animation they use at the end of the show's intro.

@davidmaupin2513

3 жыл бұрын

I REMEMBER NOVEMBER 10 1971 WHEN IT AIRED ON PBS

@pardyhardly

2 жыл бұрын

Because this is good music, a thing that is becoming increasingly rare.

Pure GenX magic!

I loved it when the Electric Company logo shook and the bg faded to black as Rita Moreno shouted "HEY YOU GUYS!!!"

Has a much jazzier score than the opening credits, sounds way better....AWESOME =)

The good old Children's Television Workshop!

@kenrutherford1109

10 ай бұрын

It's Sesame Workshop now

I love this! it brings back such wonderful memories! THANKS for posting

@davidmaupin2513

3 жыл бұрын

I can REMEMBER WATCHING THIS WONDERFUL SERIES WHEN I WAS A TODLER

The famous Friday show end credits.

jim boyd,lee chamberlin & luis avalos are no longer alive,jim boyd died on january 2,2013 at age 79,luis avalos died on january 22,2014 at age 67,& lee chamberlin died on may 25,2014 at age 76.

0:57 - 1:04 my favorite part. Watching the actors getting ready to go out there and have almost as much fun putting on the show as we had watching it.

The Best Version of the theme song was from the year before. This show was THE SHOW for me growing up in Grade School. Morgan Freeman was a very big influence on me in leaning reading, punctuation, sentence structure, etc. Always wanted to meet him to let him know that.

Skip Hinnant is also known for another role in the 1970's as the voice of Fritz the Cat in two animated movies.

Jim Boyd was a funny, funny fellow.

@You-Toober

6 жыл бұрын

Yes! I loved him on the Electric Company (along with Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno). One of my favorites he did: the "Lemon and Lime" sketch. Dammit i can't find it anywhere on the 'Tube.

@frankney8284

Жыл бұрын

Arthur J Crank was a character, that's for sure. He also wore the gorilla suit.

@pernelldh

2 ай бұрын

@@frankney8284 Yes, he was Paul the gorilla.

WHILE CREDITS ROLL FOR ELECTRIC CO., WE SEE “ THE SHORT CIRCUS” STROLL ALL AROUND NY, AND THE CAST OF REGULARS PREPARE FOR THE NEXT SHOW. COSTUMES ARE MADE, THE CAST GETS INTO THEM AND SKITS GET PREPARED. WHEN EVERYTHING IS ALL SET, ALONG WITH THE CONTROL ROOM, A HAND SIGNAL IS MADE FOR THE SHOW TO BEGIN “ THE ELECTRIC COMPANY” LOGO APPEARS. ( FADE OUT ) A LOT OF HARD WORK HAPPENS WHENEVER A CHILDREN’S SHOW GETS PRODUCED. KENNETH HUANG 3/13/23.

Love the ending

Is this Maynard Ferguson on the trumpet? This may be the best version of the closing theme the series had.

@You-Toober

6 жыл бұрын

Don't know who it is, but I love that trumpet! And the bass, too!!

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

I love the voice of the announcer who says "The Electric Company gets its power from The Children's Television Workshop."

@pardyhardly

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenrutherford1109 Jim Boyd

My TV speaker was crummy. I had no idea back then how good that BASS was! To paraphrase Cheech Marin, It is so git-down funky it’ll move in next door to you and your lawn is gonna die, ya dig?

Anyone remember an extended music video the Short Circus did at New York's Central Park called "Smile on a Happy Day"? It ends with the kids releasing balloons into the sky! I've been looking for that clip forever!

@MomLAU

3 жыл бұрын

I don't remember ever seeing that, but I've been looking for a couple of "Electric Company" songs--"Broadway Bob" and "I Love the Sea" (the latter was an entire skit that took place on a beach).

@pernelldh

3 ай бұрын

Actually, the music video was shot at Six Flags Great Adventure in New Jersey.

Those were the days in my elementary school years before my troubles with the kids. We use to watch Electric Company as part educational knowledge. The ending brings back memories on Fridays in school.

A long time ago I had a dream that the closing credits featured moving shoes from black stockings with black boots, red shoes, and brown stockings with white boots

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

Speaking of which, I had a dream that I was watching the closing credits to "The Bob Newhart Show" and they featured a still picture of a man holding a cat by its head, and I also dreamed that I was watching the closing credits to The Flintstones, and when the Flintstones and the Rubbles got home, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm had sad looks on their faces

Strange cob-webby memories just from the way the words "The Electric Company" bend and twist at the 1:30 mark. I was nearly a preschooler when this first aired. Life was no more complex than the graphics and KICK ASS bass line you hear throughout the theme...

0:32 Loved that June Angela! I had such a crush on her when I was a kid and I often use to dream about her. I had it bad.

@playsbass1969

8 жыл бұрын

+RatBatSpiderCrab mee to she is ten years older than me

@Alan.Bishop

6 жыл бұрын

If you watch "Brothers & Sisters" on "Free to be...You & Me" you'll see June Angela in an uncredited cameo.

This brings back memories. I can actually smell my second grade classroom.

The year my middle school opened in Waco (1976) It was a high school at that time.

The Electric Company gets its power from...the Children’s Television Workshop.

The Electric Company gets its power from The Children's Television Workshop.

@Wellch

2 жыл бұрын

No, its power.

0:20 starts the instr theme

Great childhood memories. Even the old PBS logo is here. Kid's TV sucks today. They teach the children NOTHING! The current illiteracy rate is a crime. We need more shows like the ORIGINAL Electric Company and less crap.

My mother hyped up The Electric Company to me when it first came out. I would have been about 9 years old & like my peers was a big fan of Sesame Street. I remember watching a few episodes but it didn't really connect for some reason. i remember it being interesting & rewatching these clips now -the energy is there for sure. The missing ingredient......muppets.

I know what you mean I grew up watching electric company since I was a kid.

from 1975 remember this like it was yesterday. Well, more like yesteryear

PBS had shows that stuck to specific subjects. 70s: electric company: English 80s: square one: math 90s: carmen sandiego: geography and history

I remember Rita Moreno playing a film director who always had to deal with flubs on a movie set…and that got her very exasperated. She slams down her megaphone in disgust! Now look at Rita Moreno NOW! She recently did a film called 80 FOR BRADY. Kenneth Huang 2/25/23.

@kevinpayton2664

Жыл бұрын

She's amazing.

CLASSiC!!

@You-Toober

6 жыл бұрын

2:02 - And i can't even explain how that spot - the music and the art, used to intrigue me as a yungin'.

jim boyd didn't become visible on the electric company until season 2,he was the voice of j.arthur crank on the telephone in season 1.

@Alan.Bishop

8 жыл бұрын

+michael thomas He was also Loreli and Maurice the Guard Plant.

@Alan.Bishop

8 жыл бұрын

So Preston's Prized Pretzels was on somewhere in the second to 6th seasons but Buddy introduced it.

In a sketch referring to "Fiddler on the Roof", someone pronounced "Fiddler" like "Fiedler"-the Boston Pops conductor at the time. I consider that one of CTW's many hat-tips to other PBS content.

@14DaveHunter

2 жыл бұрын

"Fiddler on the Chair"

@floydjohnson7888

2 жыл бұрын

@@14DaveHunter That's the one :)

0:52 More cowbell please!

I think so, too!

Nice song

Any clips with Loreli in color or b/w available (season 1 Jim Boyd)?

This program was on the air for a long time bf it finally got canceled.

@jonathancreveling5658

3 жыл бұрын

It got a reboot in 2009

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

@@jonathancreveling5658 The new Electric company isn't as good as the old Electric Company

Jim Boyd did this voice-over I believe.

"My fantasy is the electric-company season#5 tune-in next-time when you hear the toughguys says this spells DANGER rolling friday end-credits" 🇺🇸🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻📺🎥.

THE ELECTRIC COMPANY WEEKDAYS AT 5:30 PM ON ‘GBH 2 BOSTON, KENNETH HUANG 2/27/23.

Anybody have the daily closing credits w/o Jim's v.o.? I heard that June Angela (Julie) did a daily credits v.o., too.

Film Producer EDITH ZORNOW Studio Producer WIBBY RITCHEY Associate Producers KATHLEEN CORKETT JOAN LUFRANO Assistant to the Producer ALETA OLIVI

it was jim boyd who did the voiceover.

Reminds me of the Bealtle's A Hard Day's Night.

Why didn't they include Bayn Johnson or Stephen Gustafson in the credits for Short Circus? They gave non season 5 credits for the missing adults! (Bill Cosby, etc.)

Which seasons had Gregg Burrgess as Dwayne?

I had a HUGE crush on her.

"I think of my walk to schiel's family-market on hanover-street in wilkes-barre luzerne-county pa 2/4/2019".

Don't give any Frieda Lipp to the production supervisor!

@MomLAU

3 жыл бұрын

LOL! Also, I've read that the catchphrase "What about Naomi?" referred to someone who either worked on the show or at PBS.

@michaelglickman1300

8 күн бұрын

​@@MomLAUIt's a reference to associate producer Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, mother of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

The PBS ending!

Love this! But where are the band members? That's Danny Epstein and Steve Little (percussion), possibly Bob Crenshaw on bass? Wally Kane on flute, might be Jim Mitchell on guitar, Mel Davis on trumpet, and not sure at all who's playing electric piano if Raposo had left already.

@michaelglickman1300

8 күн бұрын

It's Dave Conner.

This makes me sad when I watch it

So did I, but, I felt that she was a bit old to wear her hair in those 2 ponytails on the sides of her face.

😭😭

Notice they show a little bit of behind the scenes stuff with the actors and skits?

Where's Stephen Gustafson now?! Hello?!

😥😭

What is Mortimer O'Brien's relationship to Chet O'Brien (Mr. McIntosh) from Sesame Street?

@michaelglickman1300

9 жыл бұрын

+Alan Bishop He's his brother.

@Alan.Bishop

9 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Michael.

Was Maurice the Guard Plant the only puppet on Electric Company since Loreli is animated in 1st season (#1-130)

@LoneWolf1974

7 жыл бұрын

Probably. Unless you count the guest appearances by Big Bird, Oscar and Grover from Sesame street.

@Alan.Bishop

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I had forgotten about Big Bird & Furpo (Fargo), Oscar and Crank, and Grover & Vi & Morgan.

I was going to speak company of zé hg 🤣🤣🤣

Episode 110A Season 5 (1976)

@jamesmcclelland1414

Жыл бұрын

March 19, 1976, to be precise, Matt. And furthermore, Happy 😂 New Year 🎊🎆🍾!

That music makes me wonder what ever became of Harry Reems?

The electric company season 5 end credits

"The electric-company get's it's power's from the children's television workshop © 1975-1976 children's television workshop all rights reserved" 🇺🇸🧑🏿‍🤝‍🧑🏻📺🎥.

@Wellch

2 жыл бұрын

Its power

What do you mean like keep the Hey You Guys yell but change the show around? Most of the Short Circus people are in plays writing books and basically retired now. Don't forget Gregg Burge who died from AIDS years ago.

😢😭

no,the "new" electric company didn't work that is why it was cancelled after just 2 seasons 2009-2011.

@Wellch

4 жыл бұрын

michael thomas they should have repeated the old and better one.

who is the announcer

seasons 3 & 4.i think.

Anybody know whatever happened to the pretty Janina Mathews?

for your information,june angela is not korean.

@raposofan

8 жыл бұрын

You are correct. She is Italian/Japanese.

Toldja we'd do it. It's ready. Competing with The Electric Company, ladies and gentlemen, we bring you... FIRECRACKER FACTORY. You can buy episodes now. The Link! vimeo.com/322364519/d3cfbf66f2

Mouse

But rules were rules Dinnertime Mom would say and we'd watch this show from half to partway

Ah, such sweet childhood memories. I don't see why they can't re-run these old EC shows for today's children. Lord knows they'd do a hell of a better job at tgeaching kids grammer and such than today's PBS puke shows! Also, you'll notice the credits mentioned "U.S. OFFICE of Education". Not Department. We DO NOT need this incompetent, useless bureaucracy overseeing our schools. DISBAND the Dept of Education, bring BACK the OFFICE of education. At least THEY permitted LOCAL control over schools

they are all still alive. You have a great idea, but it is a different time today. The new one seems to working for the times of today.

I like the old Electric Company better. I don't like the new episodes.

New Nickelodeon cartoon fézdáhg and friends

Who is the announcer

@The_Kitchen_Table

5 жыл бұрын

Zachery Alderton Series regular Morgan Freeman (yes, THAT Morgan Freeman)

@timepoet77

3 жыл бұрын

Jim Boyd

Quite sure I saw the word "PEDO" on one of the names

Seasons 3 and 4 were better

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