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The best of The Electric Company / Sesame Workshop ; Children's Television Workshop ; Public Broadcasting Service ; produced by Lorrie Shapiro ; head writers, Paul Dooley, Tom Whedon ; writers, John Boni ... [and others] ; directors, Henry Behar, Bob Schwarz.
LIBRA DVD 003 914 disc 1-4 + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reading (Early childhood)--Juvenile films.
- Reading (Early childhood).
- English language--Grammar--Juvenile films.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar.
- Genre:
- Educational television programs.
- Children's television programs.
- Television series.
- Children's films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 4 videodiscs (approximately 630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (21 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm)
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory ; New York : Sony BMG Music Entertainment, [2006]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- A cultural phenomenon in the '70s, this wildly popular educational television show with big laughs had a bigger message: teaching children basic reading and grammar skills with the emphasis on fun. The best episodes are here in true nostalgic glory.
- Contents:
- Disc 1: Episode 1 (October 25, 1971) ; Episode 10 (November 5, 1971) ; Episode 14 (November 11 1971) ; Episode 21 (November 22, 1971) ; Episode 26 (November 29, 1971)
- Disc 2: Episode 109 (March 23, 1972) ; Episode 131 (October 23, 1972) ; Episode 181 (January 1, 1973) ; Episode 285 (November 23, 1973) ; Episode 321 (January 14, 1974)
- Disc 3: Episode 279 (April 3, 1974) ; Episode 386 (April 15, 1974) ; Episode 391 (October 21, 1974) ; Episode 437 (December 24, 1974) ; Episode 453 (January 15, 1975)
- Disc 4: Episode 491 (March 10, 1975) ; Episode 72A (January 27, 1976) ; Episode 110A (March 19, 1976) ; Episode 79B (February 3, 1977) ; Episode 130B (April 15, 1977).
- Participant:
- Luis Avalos, Jimmy Boyd, Lee Chamberlin, Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart, Rita Moreno, Irene Cara, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder, Mel Blanc, Zero Mostel.
- Credits:
- Editor, Diana Wenman; art directors, George McWilliams, Jason Ko and Todd Gallopo; musical director, Joe Raposo
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of selected episodes of the television series originally broadcast between 1971 and 1977.
- Special features: Disc 1: Rita Moreno remembers; outtakes; Joan Ganz Cooney "Then and Now"; Disc 3: "Silent E" karaoke; the creative team remembers ; Disc 4: June Angela ("Julie") remembers.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0738933562
- 9780738933566
- OCLC:
- 62869202
- Publisher Number:
- 826663512199
- D4D 35121 Shout Factory
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