The Electric Company 1973 | S.2 E.119 | PBS 4/5/73 | Windy, Witch, The Corner Song, Subway | Noggin

Show 249 (Season 2, Episode 119) of the original The Electric Company which first aired on PBS on 4/5/73. Recorded from Noggin in 2003 via Comcast Cable in Eugene, Oregon.
Episode contains:
Cold Open
A police officer (Morgan Freeman) comes across a random person (Jim Boyd) holding up a wall. When the cop tells him to let go of the wall, he does so, but it ends up falling on both of them soon afterwards.
Stop Motion W Shirts
Cast Mark (in voiceover) narrates J.J., Roberto, and Andy moving in pixelization form with shirts reading "wax," "wag," "wig," "wit," and "wet."
It Sure Is Windy
Cartoon A man comments on how windy it is today, causing another man’s clothes to fly away from him and for him to say "Chilly too!"
I Love the Wind
Cast/Song "I Love the Wind"
A Witch Ate a Sandwich
Cartoon/Film Rebus: A witch ate a sandwich
Witch Switch
Scanimate animation Witch/switch word animation
(Non) Silhouette Blends SW
Silhouettes "sw/itch/switch" (with visible faces)
The Sweet Roll Incident
Cartoon A man tells a waitress that he wants a sweet roll with whatever he orders it with, but the waitress tells him that they are out of sweet rolls. The more the man says whatever he wants with a sweet roll, the lady gets more and more annoyed and angry at him, until she loses it and exits the room.
Norman Neat Swim
Cast Norman Neat inquires a swimming athlete (Jim Boyd) about his favorite word: "swim."
Sweep
Cartoon Sweeping "SW" and "EEP"
Nobody Loves the Subway
Cast/Song Mark and Brenda sing about how "Nobody Loves the Subway."
The Needle Finding Contest
Cast Mr. Crambletree participates in The Needle Finding contest finals by finding the needle in a haystack in 20 seconds.
OR words
Scanimate animation Lorelei reads "OR" words like "fork," "corn," "horse," and "north."
The Corner
The Short Circus "The Corner" song
Jim fixing or
Cast Winnie watches Andy fix an or for his neighbor.
Morgan keeps saying or
Cast Morgan keeps saying "or" over and over again.
Jim forms FOR for neighbor
Cast Andy forms "for" for his neighbor.
The Electric Company is an American educational children's television series produced by the Children's Television Workshop (CTW, now known as Sesame Workshop). It was co-created by Paul Dooley, Joan Ganz Cooney, and Lloyd Morrisett. The series aired on PBS for 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971, to April 15, 1977. The program continued in reruns until October 4, 1985. The Electric Company later reran on Noggin, a channel co-founded by the CTW, from 1999 to 2003. Noggin also produced a compilation special for the show.
The original cast included Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby, Judy Graubart, Lee Chamberlin and Skip Hinnant. Most of the cast had done stage, repertory, and improvisational work, with Cosby and Moreno already well-established performers on film and television. Ken Roberts (1971-1973), best known as a soap opera announcer (Love of Life; The Secret Storm), was the narrator of some segments during season one, most notably the parody of the genre that had given him prominence, Love of Chair.
Jim Boyd, who was strictly an off-camera voice actor and puppeteer during the first season, began appearing on-camera in the second season, mostly in the role of J. Arthur Crank. Luis Ávalos also joined the cast at that time.
Cosby was a regular in season one, and occasionally appeared in new segments during season two, but left afterward. Segments that Cosby had taped for the first two years were repeatedly used for the remainder of the series run. Similarly, Chamberlin was a regular for the first two seasons, and her segments were also repeatedly used throughout the show’s run. As a result, they were billed as cast members throughout the whole series run.
Added to the cast at the beginning of season three (1973-1974) was Hattie Winston, actress and singer who later appeared on the sitcom Becker. Beginning in season four (1974-1975), Danny Seagren, a puppeteer who had worked on Sesame Street and also as a professional dancer, appeared in the role of Spider-Man; Marvel Comics published Spidey Super Stories that tied into Seagren's appearances as Spider-Man in character, who never spoke aloud or unmasked himself.