{"id":2176628,"date":"2025-11-25T15:59:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2176628"},"modified":"2025-11-25T15:59:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:59:54","slug":"celebrities-who-got-their-start-teaching-kids-to-read-on-the-1970s-pbs-show-the-electric-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/celebrities-who-got-their-start-teaching-kids-to-read-on-the-1970s-pbs-show-the-electric-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Who Got Their Start Teaching Kids to Read on the 1970s PBS Show &#8216;The Electric Company&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Electric Company (1971): 15 Weird Facts You Didn&#039;t Know\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O2m-YgrMt3A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@RememberWhenHQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Remember When<\/a>\u00a0shared 15 really interesting facts about the classic 1970s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=PBS\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">PBS<\/a> kids show <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Electric_Company\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">The Electric Company<\/a>, specifically regarding the famous celebrities who got their start by teaching kids to read. This list includes such stars as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/theritamoreno\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Rita Moreno<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Morgan+Freeman\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Morgan Freeman<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Giancarlo+Esposito\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Giancarlo Esposito<\/a>, and the late <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/irenecara.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Irene Cara<\/a>. Other famous names behind the scenes include <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tomlehrersongs.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Tom Lehrer<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Chuck+Jones\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Chuck Jones<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pauldooleyactor.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Paul Dooley<\/a>, and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/muppet.fandom.com\/wiki\/Joe_Raposo\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener\">Joe Raposo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>PBS tried to make reading cool by basically screaming the alphabet song at you through a television set? Relive the retro magic of the tec with Bill Cosby, Rita Moreno, Morgan Freeman, and Easy Reader. These kids shows made learning fun and even influenced Sesame Street!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1130\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Famous-Faces-of-The-Electric-Company.jpg?w=1130\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Famous Faces of The Electric Company\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Famous-Faces-of-The-Electric-Company.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Famous-Faces-of-The-Electric-Company.jpg?resize=300,171 300w, https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Famous-Faces-of-The-Electric-Company.jpg?resize=768,437 768w, https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Famous-Faces-of-The-Electric-Company.jpg?resize=750,427 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1130px) 100vw, 1130px\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-morgan-freeman-on-the-electric-company\"> Morgan Freeman on \u2018The Electric Company\u2019<\/h2>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\">Related Posts<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source laughingsquid.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember When\u00a0shared 15 really interesting facts about the classic 1970s PBS kids show The Electric Company, specifically regarding the famous celebrities who got their start by teaching kids to read. This list includes such stars as Rita Moreno, Morgan Freeman, Giancarlo Esposito, and the late Irene Cara. Other famous names behind the scenes include Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2176629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2176628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Celebrities-Who-Got-Their-Start-Teaching-Kids-to-Read-on.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2176628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176630,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2176628\/revisions\/2176630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2176629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2176628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2176628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2176628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}