Sunday, January 15, 2012

Aesop & Son

Aesop & Son was a supporting feature from the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. It was similar to Fractured Fairy Tales, complete with the same theme music, except it deals with fables instead of fairy tales.
A typical episode consists of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son subverts the fable's moral with a pun.
The opening titles, which showed Aesop painstakingly carving his name in marble using a mallet and chisel and then his son, with a jackhammer and raising a cloud of dust, appending "& Son."
From: Wikipedia.org


Aesop & Son opening video


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Saturday, January 14, 2012

The Electric Company

The Electric Company was an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop for PBS in the United States.

PBS broadcast 780 episodes over the course of its six seasons from October 25, 1971 to April 15, 1977.
The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their grammar and reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street.

The original cast included Morgan Freeman, Rita Moreno, Bill Cosby, Judy Graubart, Lee Chamberlin and Skip Hinnant.

Each show ended with one of the cast members announcing, "The Electric Company gets its power from the Children's Television Workshop." After the copyright notice, the list of corporate sponsors would be flashed on the screen.
From: Wikipedia.org


The Electric Company opening & closing video


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