1977 television series endings The Electric Company, The Magic Roundabout, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Emergency!, Dad's Army, Roots, Sanford and Son, Number 96, Porridge, CB Bears, Warship, Treasure Hunt, Survivors, Clue Club, The Secrets of Isis, The New Avengers - new book

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 113. Chapters: The Electric Company, The Magic Roundabout, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Emergency!, Dad's Army, Roots, Sanford and Son, Number 96, Porridge, CB Bears, Warship, Treasure Hunt, Survivors, Clue Club, The Secrets of Isis, The New Avengers, The New Adventures of Batman, Ivor the Engine, All That Glitters, Dynomutt, Dog Wonder, The Fantastic Journey, Phyllis, The Tom and Jerry Show, Celebrity Sweepstakes, NBC Mystery Movie, Man from Atlantis, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Kids From C.A.P.E.R., The Duchess of Duke Street, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, The Streets of San Francisco, The Mumbly Cartoon Show, La Venganza, Second Chance, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Yanks Go Home, Wonderama, Double Dare, How Do You Like Your Eggs?, Just William, Blansky's Beauties, Big John, Little John, Holmes & Yo-Yo, Poldark, Escrava Isaura, Break the Bank, The Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club, The Oddball Couple, Czterdziestolatek, The Jacksons, The Box, Storybook Squares, Monster Squad, The Richard Pryor Show, The Sanford Arms, Beryl's Lot, It's Anybody's Guess, Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!, Professor Balthazar, Odd Man Out, Rich Man, Poor Man Book II, Arrows, New Zoo Revue, Police Story, Shoot for the Stars, Pro-Wres no Hoshi Aztecaser, The Red Hand Gang, Lanigan's Rabbi, Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Dolly!, The Better Sex, Most Wanted, Fernwood 2 Night, Code R, The Fosters, The Oregon Trail, Best Sellers, Way Out Games, Who Pays the Ferryman?, Corazón salvaje, A House Is Not a Home, A Year at the Top, PBA on KBS, Young Dan'l Boone, The Squirrels, Mundo de juguete, All's Fair, Hickory House, Wings, Chiller Thriller, Rina, Hotel, Muggsy, The Adventures of Rupert Bear, It's Your Move, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Bleep and Booster, A Way Out, Rafferty, Delvecchio. Excerpt: The Electric Company is an educational American children's television series that was produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame 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. After it ceased production that year, the program continued in reruns from 1977-1985. CTW produced the show at Teletape Studios Second Stage in Manhattan, the first home of Sesame Street. The Electric Company employed sketch comedy and other devices to provide an entertaining program to help elementary school children develop their reading skills. It was intended for children who had graduated from CTW's flagship program, Sesame Street. Appropriately, the humor was more mature than what was seen there. 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, best known as a soap-opera announcer, was the narrator of some segments during Season One. Jim Boyd, who was strictly an off-camera voice actor and puppeteer during Season One, began appearing on-camera in Season Two, mostly in the role of J. Arthur Crank. Luis Ávalos also joined the cast at that time. Bill Cosby was a regular in Season One, and occasionally appeared in new segments during Season Two, but left afterward. Nevertheless, segments that Cosby had taped in the first two years were repeatedly used for the rest of the run, and Cosby was billed as a cast member throughout. Similarly...