The Electric Company 1976 | Episode 84A | PBS 2/12/76 | Flower Power, "All" Animation | Short Circus

Episode #84 A of the original The Electric Company which first aired on PBS on 2/12/76. I recorded this episode in the late 1990s but have yet to recall from where---will edit when I have more info to share as I delve deeper.
Episode contains:
Teaser “Today on The Electric Company, the man sings about… (flower power).”
Morgan OW
Cast Mark hurts himself in the thumb while hammering and saying “OW.”
Kathy OW objects
Cast Kathy displays objects with the OW sound in them.
OW words
Cartoon A man discusses the “OW” sound in words (like “cow” and “bow wow”). Moments later a giant tall guys bashes him with a “p,” leading the giant guy to say “POW!” after hitting him with it.
Up and Down
Cartoon The words "up" and "down" do what their respective meanings do.
Winnie hangs a picture up
Cast Winnie hangs a picture “up” then it falls “down.” When she hangs it up again the person in the picture has fallen.
Flower Power song
Cast/Song "Flower Power"
Letterman Bigger Than Life
The Adventures of Letterman Bigger Than Life
Skip and Judy FL
Cast Floyd and Florence are at a restaurant having a conversation with FL words.
Flower
Cartoon A colorful dedication to the word “Flower.”
Five Seconds Flower
Timed Word "Jennifer and Paul have 5 seconds to read the next word they see. Can you read it before they do?"
Flip
Skit The word “flip” flips on someone’s palm.
Flabby at a carnival
Cast Roberto as a carnival barker offers to sell an Flabby toy to Jennifer and Paul.
Skip and a fly
Cast J.J. is bothered by a “fly” which turns out to be the word itself.
I'm a fly I'm a frog
Cartoon A fly comes across a frog who wants to eat him. The fly then decides to pretend to be a frog by hopping like one as a way to not be eaten by the frog.
Don't flop on the flowers
Cast A dog waiting for Rover reads a sign that says "Don't flop on the flowers" but ends up arrested by the cop (Morgan Freeman).
Scanimate flute
Scanimate animation Flute word animation
Doing the Fling
Cast Winnie can't dance since J.J. asked her to go to the dance, so The Short Circus teaches her how to do the “Fling.”
ALL in Space
Monolith Cartoon An old man notices the “all” sound in space and climbs on it.
(Animated by Fred Calvert)
Fall Fell
Scanimate animation "Fall/fell"
Hattie in a hospital
Cast Sylvia is taken to a hospital from falling off a wall that was 30 feet tall.
Bob is Tall
Mel Brooks Cartoon “Bob is Tall”
(Animated by Cliff Roberts)
All for One and One for All song
Cast/Song “All for One and One for All”
SSS Spidey Up Against the Wall
Spider Super Stories Spidey Up Against the Wall
You drive me up the wall
Cartoon A housewife tells Gordon, “You drive me up the wall.” So Gordon takes her on a ride around the house.
Next time on Episode 85A
Teaser "Tune in next time when we watch the game show... (Who)."
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.