The Electric Company
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyBBC & Children's Television Workshop
startedApr
1975
ended20th Jun
1977
last rpt23rd Jun
1977
3 school years
episodes30
duration20 mins
subject
📚English
languageenIn English
The Electric Company is a BBC schools TV series from the 1970s, covering English for primary and secondary school pupils.
- selected programmes from the American series The Electric Company: 12 episodes in summer 1975 and another 18 in spring and summer 1977
- there were provisional plans to show a further selection of episodes from The Electric Company in summer 1978, or alternatively to show an edited version of the BBC's adult education literacy series Your Move, but due to financial restrictions neither was shown
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