The Electric Company remains the best, most effective, teaching tool on television for young viewers. Nothing that Sesame Workshop (formerly the Children's Television Workshop) has produced since then (including Sesame Street) comes anywhere near to actually working as a teaching method for kids. It is, quite simply, the best educational show ever produced. Sesame Workshop is notorious for not getting their lesser known shows on video for parents who are both eager and desperate to provide their kids with high quality educational viewing - they prefer to flog their flagship show, Sesame Street, for every dime they can scrounge. For those fans who truly adore the show and have been posting clips on the web - Sesame Workshop responds with heavy handed legal tactics to shut them down. This show deserves to be seen - and not just on the barely-subscribed-to Noggin satellite channel. If Sesame Workshop can't get their best show on video they could at least acknowledge the support of fans who want to share the wonderful experience of The Electric Company with a new generation of young viewers. Let them know you want the show and perhaps they will finally be shamed into releasing it as a DVD collection.
Review of The Electric Company
