The Letter People
Debut: March 13, 1974
Ended: February 25, 1976

First produced in 1972, The Letter People was an Edutainment Show created by the St. Louis PBS station KETC and was based on a phonics program for children that featured a cast of anthropomorphic letters. Using primitive puppets and simplistic backdrops, interspersed with Non Sequitur animated sequences, each episode would either introduce a Letter Boy or Letter Girl, or explore a new phonetic principle, such as "silent e" or the "ing" sound. Every Letter Person had his or her own special sound, demonstrated by their outfits and Mad Libs Catch Phrases. Living alongside the Letter People were the other denizens of Letter People Land, ranging from the Purple Peekaboo Palooklas to Game Show Host Monty Swell, who hosted the Show Within a Show, "The Catching Game", in which contestants sounded out words and won prizes that relate to them. The popularity of the series came from the fact that every character had a different personality. This meant that they had a lot of chemistry and even went through some character development as the series progressed. Since it first aired it has been seen in some form or another on TV or online.

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Mr T: "I'm Mr. taaaallllllll T."
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