They’re gonna turn it on! They’re gonna bring you the power! They’re gonna release “The Electric Company” on DVD today! If you were a kid or a parent in the ’70s, you should be humming along by now.

If “The Electric Company” was your childhood PBS TV favorite, you’ll have to wait until Feb. 7, 2006, to get your fix. That’s when Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop) will ...

“The Electric Company’’ was a ’70s spinoff of “Sesame Street” aimed at slightly older kids with songs and comedy skits that taught you to read. But whether you saw it at the time or you’re coming to ...

Jim Henson trained him to be a puppeteer, and he also worked on ‘Sesame Street' and appeared as Big Bird on ‘The Ed Sullivan ...

Like “Zoom,” “The Electric Company” was another CTW/PBS TV show, created to appeal to kids after they grew out of “Sesame Street.” The show’s main goal was to teach reading, which the cast did in ...

When the educational sketch series "The Electric Company" debuted on PBS in 1971, viewers experienced something completely new -- a funky sound inspired by Motown, skits drawing on "The Carol Burnett ...