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Villa Alegre (1973)
Does anybody else remember it?
This was a really good TV show, with a short run.......teenagers with OBVIOUSLY 70's dress. They were bi-lingual, and taught me to count to 10 in Spanish, say hello, goodbye and goodnight. I was out with some friends, and NOBODY knew what I was talking about. (Okay, so I grew up in San Jose, California where white is the minority, and in the small Oregon town I am in now, one friend never saw an African American until she was 15, but still.....)
The more I talked about it, one person vaguely recalled it, but not well.........and now, when I checked IMDB, they have it listed, with no details! HELP!!!
The Electric Company (1971)
I'm glad to see that SOMEBODY remembers it!
I was out for pizza with 7 other people, ranging from 19 to 32 (I was born the same year as Electric Company) and none of my friends remembered the show. One person, also born in 1971, swears that everything that happened on Electric Company was REALLY Sesame Street. That comment was made after I mentioned that "yeah, I like Sesame Street, but I like "The Electric Company" and "Villa Alegre" more. The 32 year old vaguely remembered The Electric Company, but no one had heard of Villa Alegre (which is mentioned on IMDB, with absolutely no details). These shows are what helped my sisters and I learn to read, and the children I know do not read, and I think that Electric Company and Villa Alegre should be brought back. PBS should be a learning tool, for reading, language, and counting, not just to animate the books I devoured 20 years ago.