Hey Roger! Unfortunately, we've been hunting for the Truth Ruth air date ourselves for over a year now. We know it ran on The Electric Company because it's been confirmed by reliable sources, but no luck yet on the exact date (whereas we've been able to confirm David's Cool Pool Fool and True Blue Sue shorts as 1971).
Hey Roger! Unfortunately, we've been hunting for the Truth Ruth air date ourselves for over a year now. We know it ran on The Electric Company because it's been confirmed by reliable sources, but no luck yet on the exact date (whereas we've been able to confirm David's Cool Pool Fool and True Blue Sue shorts as 1971).
Hey Roger! Unfortunately, we've been hunting for the Truth Ruth air date ourselves for over a year now. We know it ran on The Electric Company because it's been confirmed by reliable sources, but no luck yet on the exact date (whereas we've been able to confirm David's Cool Pool Fool and True Blue Sue shorts as 1971).
Right now, the best we've got is proof that the short existed by 1975, when it appeared at a MOMA show. So, that's a four-year window from the start of The Electric Company to then: https://www.moma.org/momaorg/shared/pdfs/docs/press_archives/5314/releases/MOMA_1975_0099_81.pdf
If you're ever able pinpoint the date closer than that, please let us know!
Wow! I would've never guessed this was a big mystery at all.
I'm also gonna assume TEC DVDs probably don't include this clip.
Sesame St has So much background info that's easily found but so little for TEC.
Absolutely -- it's so strange. Surely there's some kind of internal document at CTW that has these details. Maybe we'll get to see it one day.
You've already long ago tried contacting the people at PBS about it?
Actually, we haven't tried that yet! Maybe it's worth a shot?
Absolutely! There HAS to be an archival dept.