Morgan Freeman

Morgan Freeman plays Easy Reader and more on The Electric Company, CTW’s 1970s reading hour as sketch comedy. Hey, you guys: phonics that slap, Rita Moreno, literacy variety for kids who had already graduated from Sesame Street. Freeman’s Easy Reader is cool as a teaching tool — syllables like stand-up on PBS, a face that makes a lesson feel like a bit.

Morgan Freeman supplies Easy Reader / Various to The Electric Company without asking the magazine for a second show. Morgan Freeman is the temperature PBS actually had to cast for the 1971–1977 run. File him as work: Easy Reader / Various across the 1971–1977 run, a face the premise cannot fake. The Electric Company's house style only works if Morgan Freeman keeps showing up as Easy Reader / Various.

Morgan Freeman begins where the hour begins, s01e01. Show 1 opens CTW's reading hour as sketch. Literacy variety for kids past Sesame: phonics that slap, a cast that later looked like a prestige reunion, syllables as stand-up on PBS. Morgan Freeman does not wait on a finale; s02e130 is the turn. Show 260 is a second-season tail stake. Mega-list landmark: hundreds of phonics sketches in, Easy Reader weather already a generation's joke, Moreno still doing syllables like a headliner. Morgan Freeman's stamina check is s03e01: It's the Teeth is a named third-season door. Sketch-literacy still the brief: the hour teaching reading by pretending to be a variety show, because that was the only way it would work.

A cast that later looked like a prestige reunion, doing the alphabet as craft. Freeman sells the sketch as a school. On TV Flash he is 1970s catalog spark — the Easy Reader who made phonics feel like a show, and the reason the hour still photographs as comedy instead of a worksheet.