This show sucks I hate it big time I had to watch it with my little sister one & I am like shut up dang it.

The Electric Company was a great childhood show. They used to have Spider Man which was my favorite. I also slightly remember the kid superheros that they featured like Diaper Boy (I think that is correct) and the other heros. I would love too see some of these again.

This show was the reason why Morgan Freeman started his being famous

I wish the shows were on DVD too. I heard it was canceled because it used too much "slang". I have been calling PBS for years begging them to bring it back and I was surprised to see it re-done. I heard there was a re-make of it in the 80's and if there was I missed it. I was in high school and wasn't watching much PBS then...lol. Now our 13 year old daughter and 9 year old son watch the new version and I like it too. It speaks to their generation, but I still miss the original and I think they might like it too...well, at least my daughter anyway and I know my 20 year old daughter would think it was hilarious!.

I know man. I loved the electric company. And I loved Spidey!! yeah, maybe it was strange that he didn't talk, but he was cute and friendly,ok..

OMG I loved that show when I was a little kid!
HEY YOU GUYS!!!

yeah so do i

HEEYYYY YOOOOUUUU GUUUUYYYYYS! This should be out on dvd season 1,2,3,4,5,ect,not just the best of.

HEEEYYYYY YOOOOUUUUU GUUUUYYYYYYS!
Please put this back on the air-even if it is just re-runs! I'm 40 years old and I spent more than a couple of years watching and loving it! When my kids were young, I wish they could have watched it too ! They're 18,19,& 20 yrs. old now, but I would still watch it myself!

I loved the Letterman segment,and the Sillouette,They made fun of it on The Family Guy.I also liked Easy Reader.Spider-man was creepy,I liked a spider-man who talked.

oh, yeah, I remember the Electric Company real well! what a happening show that was!

we used to watch this show when i was in grade school.HEEEEYYYYYY YOU GUUUUYYYSSSS...

I used to watch this show all the time. However, I thought the most famous person from this show was Rita Moreno. She has the grand slam of entertainment awards: The Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony. Only eight other people have done so.

another show they need to put back on the air the so call kid stuff they got on now is nothing but junk let them learn and have fun at the same time like we did

Easy Reader was a hip dude! I've got all these on DVD now for the kiddo. She thinks their groovy too.

you missed MELANIE HENDERSON in your cast list of THE SHORT CIRCUS.

Easy Reader that's my name.. uh,uh,uh! Silent E, Boy in chair,Spider-Man were just a few in many skits I liked. The show made learning easy and fun. "Azzzz Izzzzz''

I totally still think of the consonants as masculine and vowels as feminine! The part with the puppets always stuck out most to me. Thank goodness for DVD releases!

The Electric Company was one of my favorite shows on PBS! I was so disappointed when it ended. 3*2*1 Contact was put in its place. I loved that show too, but I wanted my EC! I loved the Spidey episodes. I especially liked the ones with Dr. Fright, Dracula, The Yeti, and The Spoiler. I got a kick out of the Letterman segments. Remember when Letterman broke the Spellbinder's wand? The Spellbinder cried like a little boy and went, "He bent my little wand!" Priceless, lol! Remember when Dracula(Morgan Freeman), Frankenstein's Monster(Skip Hinnant), and The Wolfman(Jim Boyd), did an eerie tribute to Silent E? That was one of my favorite and most remembered EC skits. In fact, where I'm into monsters, I loved all the EC skits involving the Monsters. I always got a huge kick out of Crank. What a character! Rita Moreno was great. She always cracked me up as The Director. She would whack the cue card that Morgan Freeman was holding and scare the hell out of him. :-D Another wonderful EC memory is the LY Song cartoon. I always liked the ending part of it with Dracula. I wish I could see it all again! I saw some of my favorite skits when Noggin aired EC, but I didn't get to see them all before it got cancelled. Oh well. Can only hope that the DVD sets have all the great memories I miss. I'm definitely getting them for me and my daughter!

I remembe the second introduction, and when I had a satelite TV the channel "Noggin" had shown some earlier episodes, and an introduction which I had never seen, and one that is not shown here. But going back to The Electric Company I never knew till recently that Rita Moreno was the blonde baby girl lol. I knew that Morgan Freeman as well as Rita Moreno and Bill Cosby was a part of the show, and the fast talker as well (whose name I can not place)But I also recall that we used to watch it in school every tuesdays and thursdays (I always looked forward to that day just to get out of math class lol)

Wish I had been around to see it during it's original run on PBS. (I was born in 1987, the same year Full House debuted on ABC) But now, I have the "Best of the Electric Company" DVD box set for this series. Well, volume 1 anyway. Out of all the actors on that show, Bill Cosby is my favourite. This is mainly because he was also on The Cosby Show on NBC from the mid 80s to early 90s. Oh, and Retrotrev, the station that used to play this show in the middle of night is Noggin. Unfortunately, that and the other CTW programs that were on there (examples: Square One TV and Sesame Street) were taken off Noggin in 2003 after Sesame Workshop sold it's share of the network.

Hey guys, yeah, i was also surprised it was Morgan Freeman, even though I saw this so many times it never occured to me. Rita Moreano was also a big star from this. I guess they really got their talents worth. That cute asian girl June Angela from Short Circus is still around. She hasn't changed much, she still does voice overs and cartoons these days. Junes personal site is www.juneangela.com

WE WATCHED THIS IN SCHOOL EVEY DAY!!

So many people my age think the "HEY YOU GUYS" catch phrase was originated from the character "Sloth" from the "Goonies"

This show is a little blurrier. I remember Lilly Tomlin mostly sitting in a big rocking chair, saying "my mom made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwhich".

OH MAN...I remember watching this show when I was just a little kid...my 3rd grade teacher used to let us watch this in class if we finished our classwork on time! :-)

I so loved this show--just watching the intro was amazing. The stuff you think you've forgotten...

Morgan Freeman was known as the Easy Reader...he was the Man even back then..

Oh yeah that's the stuff from my childhood.

I remember my brother and I woke up early one morning and jacked the volume on the opening "HEY YOU GUUUUUUUUUUUUUYYYYYYYYYYYYYSSSSSSS!"
My heart felt like it skipped a beat--it was so loud.
Needless to say my parents were beating on the wall.
hahahaha

These 70s programs are WEIRD! Disco pants and afros! DISCO FEVER, BABY! LET'S WATCH THE ELECTRIC COMPANY! OW!

Hell, yeah,
Bring me the power baby!
I even remember an episode where a cold weather dog(costume) is smashing these ice cream cones by setting on them. the police were going to arrest him, but spider man stopped them bubbling that he was just home sick, and needed to be someplace cold.

I wish I was around to see this show I was born in 1983

lol....omg....the way i remember it.....if you were what eventually became a 80s prep, lol, you watched seasme street....but if you were "hip", oh man THIS show WAS THE BOMB!!!!....tell me, lol, you think very many 20 yr olds would find Morgan Freedman in there?....one only imagines.....

I guess I'll be the first to comment on this great show. I remember this show when I was about 4 and I learned alot from it. This show had actors who actually wound up being legendary(Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno, Morgan Freeman) and show a fun way of learning. A perfect compliment to Seseme Street in which the show followed, then along came Zoom. And on top of all that, it had Spider-man (although he couldn't talk, he would express his comments through cartoon bubbles that would appear over his head) so this show, along with Schoolhouse Rock were perfect learning tools for the time. I wonder if shows like that were around today what impact would it have on our youth? I also wonder what happened to the Short Circus kids, particularly the asian one, June.